Why I Wouldn ’ t Take Google ’ s Depression Test
At the end of August, Google decided to make available directly on its site (through a “knowledge panel”) the ability to take a depression screening quiz. We know a thing or two about online depression screening quizzes, because I put one of the first interactive depression screening quizzes online back in 1996, long before Google even existed.
Here’s the thing… Depression screening tests — like the PHQ-9 that Google is now offering on its website — are super helpful tools to give a person a little more insight into the possibility of having a serious mental illness. The problem with Goo...
Source: World of Psychology - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Depression Disorders General Policy and Advocacy Technology depression quiz Depression Test Dr. Google google health search Source Type: blogs
Will Harvey Reform Flood Insurance?
In July, my Cato colleague Ari Blask and I wrote astudy critiquing the National Flood Insurance Program.We made what —to us—seem like obvious critiques of a broken program: it doesn’t charge an actuarially fair price for many homeowners who live in flood plains, and those who get the best deal seem to be the wealthy. It also fails to use updated maps that detail the current geography and risks to homeowners, and generally doesn’t charge enough to cover the costs of major catastrophes. The result of this is that we have too much development in the flood-prone areas of the country.After the report came out I appeared...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 31, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Ike Brannon Source Type: blogs
A Primer For Conservatives: Health Insurance is not Really Insurance
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD
Is health insurance a plan to help healthy people mitigate against an unexpected illness, or an income subsidy to help the sick pay for medical care?
Conservatives ought to have a clear answer to that question. Not long ago Congressman Morris Brooks from Alabama did not and found himself on the receiving end of liberal ridicule.
By suggesting that those who take better care of themselves should pay lower health insurance premiums, Brooks implied that health insurance is indeed a type of insurance arrangement. After all, the risk adjustment of premiums is a practice proper to all other kinds of insurance...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
HxRefactored 2017 Day 1: Purpose Driven Design, Health Equity, and the Clinician Experience
Welcome to Medgadget‘s coverage of HxRefactored taking place this week in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now in its seventh year, HxRefactored, a Health 2.o and Mad*Pow event collaboration, brings together healthcare designers, practitioners, and technologists to learn about and discuss opportunities to improve health experiences through human centered design and technology. Over the event’s couple of days, HxRefactored is bringing together a combination of keynote speakers and breakout sessions to dive into the creative intersection of healthcare and design thinking.
Matthew Holt
Earlier this morning, prior to ...
Source: Medgadget - June 22, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Financial Tips for Recent CSD Grads
Congratulations! You’re the owner of a newly minted degree giving you access to a great career in speech and hearing sciences. Now what? The transition from college to a full-time career is exciting, a bit liberating and often overwhelming. Let’s talk about two financial areas where you should focus your attention as you job hunt this summer.
Employee Benefits
Put thought into your benefits enrollment! Sure, you can just breeze through the signup, but properly maximized employee benefits often offer a head start on a good financial foundation.
One underused tool is the Health Savings Account (HSA) option for health ins...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 22, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jacob Parish Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
New Gene Testing a Threat to Insurance Companies; How They Might Respond
New technology and science often serves as a challenge for preexisting institutions and practices. For example, genetic testing and advances in predictive medicine may provide consumers new insights about diseases that theymay develop in the future. This can cause a problem for the insurance industry that encompasses health, life, disability insurance, and long-term-care insurance. This topic is the focus of a recent article in the New York Times (see:New Gene Tests Pose a Threat to Insurers). Below in an excerpt from it:Ms. [Pat] Reilly found that she had inherited an ApoE4 gene that increases the risk of developing Alzhe...
Source: Lab Soft News - June 21, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Insurance Lab Industry Trends Lab Processes and Procedures Medical Consumerism Medical Research Source Type: blogs
Is Moving On After Cancer A Myth?
I am approachingmy ten year anniversary of the ten year mark after my breast cancer diagnosis. Am I supposed to celebrate? I think so but I am not sure how much of a celebration it is. It doesn ' t mean I can say it is gone for good. It just means that in the ten years since I was diagnosed with breast cancer and I am still here.Now I do know that is a good thing. But am I supposed to celebrate? But I don ' t feel like celebrating. I am not sure that I should celebrate. I certainly won ' t be having a party.The last ten years have been a growing time for me emotionally (and for my waistline). I have had many new experience...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 29, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: living with cancer Source Type: blogs
The Humanity In End-Of-Life Care
Health care is personal, especially when it comes to caring for someone as they approach death. However, half of Americans feel they have too little control over end-of-life medical decisions.
As the industry moves toward a more holistic approach to care delivery, health care organizations are beginning to rethink how they treat patients and starting to embed end-of-life care plans into the overall approach earlier on, sometimes before people even become ill. In a recent report on end-of-life care by the Aspen Health Strategy Group, several principles are discussed that take a broader view around caring for seriously ill p...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 19, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Susan DeVore Tags: Costs and Spending End of Life & Serious Illness Long-term Services and Supports Payment Policy Quality advance care planning Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
A Health Plan CEO Daydreams
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD
Jim was at his desk, looking weary.
The last few weeks had been brutal. Despite working twelve-hour days, he felt that he had little to show for it. His annual board meeting was to take place the next day, and he expected it to be tense.
With a replacement bill for the ACA about to be voted on, and with Trump in the White House, the situation seemed particularly precarious. The board members had asked him to present a contingency plan, in case things in DC didn’t go well.
As CEO of a major health insurance company, Jim was well aware that business as usual had become unsustainable in his l...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized AHCA health reform MICHEL ACCAD repeal and replace Source Type: blogs
Life Insurance and Diabetes: Moving Past Denial
Today we hear again from Rachel Kerstetter, a longtime T1D who's a PR pro in Ohio and works with us here at the 'Mine on our Twitter feed (look for initials 'RK'). Rachel has spent some time researching the tricky topic of life insurance options w... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - May 4, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Authors: DiabetesMine Team Source Type: blogs
5 Steps to Rethinking Success
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Success if defined by the individual that is pursuing it. Unfortunately, too many people settle for less than their full potential and struggle with regrets later in life. I have found that many people do not take the necessary time to identify what success means to them. If you have not defined success for yourself, you will most likely borrow another person’s definition of success and spend your life comparing yourself to t...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 4, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sten Morgan Tags: featured self improvement success best self-improvement blogs how to be successful motivation pickthebrain rethinking success Source Type: blogs
Wrong Lessons from Canada's Private Currency, Part 2
(Editor ’s note: This is the second installment of a three-part article.)Intervention or Private Initiative?As I argued inmy previous post addressingFung et al. ’s article on Canada’s private banknote currency, the imperfections of that currency appear, on close inspection, far less substantial than Fung et al. suggest. Moreover, what blemishes there were didn ’t imply any market failure, or a need for more government regulation, for the simple reason that “imperfect” doesn’t mean “inefficient.” On the contrary: the facts suggest that heavy-handed government interventions aimed at correcting the supposed ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 22, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
#They ’ llnevercare. Insurance Is Not the Problem. It ’ s Also Not the Solution
By JOSEPH WOOD
Most everyone is talking about Healthcare lately and I just can’t take it anymore and had to send out a primer, because there is so much bad information being floated. I don’t like the ACA replacement because the idea is still based on the premise that you can give-away insurance as an entitlement program. The problem is that you can’t “give-away” insurance, it’s an oxymoron, if there is no skin in the game for the insured they’ll never care.
I’m an insurance guy and Trump voter. I only point this because I want you to know that my healthcare recommendation is he...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
In This Next Phase Of Health Reform, We Cannot Overlook Long Term Care
It is becoming apparent that President Trump and the 115th Congress cannot start over with health care reform. Whether you love, begrudgingly support, or fervently hate the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a clean slate is not possible. First, ACA implementation is well underway and has benefited many patients and providers alike. Second, it is unlikely that Republicans in Congress can fully repeal the ACA without a 60 vote, filibuster proof super majority in the Senate. Starting over entirely with health reform is just not feasible.
Trying to address every problem facing the health care system at once is a tall—if not im...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 16, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Everette James, Walid Gellad and Meredith Hughes Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Long-term Services and Supports Medicaid and CHIP Medicare ACA repeal and replace family caregivers long term care insurance Long-Term Care National Family Caregiver Support Program Source Type: blogs
