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Ride-Hailing Platforms Could Solve The Problems of Transportation in Healthcare
Patients living in rural, suburban or urban areas with poor infrastructure often don’t have the proper means to get to the doctor’s appointment on time. In extreme cases, they could even wait for emergency situations so they can call an ambulance and receive care in a hospital. In the last months, both giant ridesharing companies, Uber and Lyft announced non-emergency medical transportation services, while start-ups, such as Circulation also promise to deal with the issue. Could smartphones and networked services solve transportation in healthcare? Why is getting to the doctor such a hassle? There is a little village i...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 17, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Hospital lyft medical transportation patient ride-hailing startup uber Source Type: blogs

How physicians dress matters. Here ’s why.
Anybody who has ever been to Europe, knows that fashion trends and the way people dress are very different from the United States, and generally more formal and fashion conscious (not to make a generalization — but it’s true). Growing up in England, every school has a uniform from an early age. (There are pictures of me wearing a tiny little shirt, tie, blazer, and hat to preschool when I was only four years old!) In medical school, it was mandatory for males to wear a shirt and tie on clinical rotations, and females were advised to wear professional business-like attire. Therefore, dressing up in the morning was a...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 11, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/suneel-dhand" rel="tag" > Suneel Dhand, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Productivity of the English National Health Service: 2015/16 update
Centre for Health Economics - This paper provides an update on the productivity growth of the NHS in England over 2014/15 to 2015/16. It finds that there has been a significant growth in NHS activity over this period, accompanied by a growth in staff. Whilst the rate of productivity in this period has also grown the report finds that from 2014/15 onwards, productivity growth has failed to outpace that of the economy.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 3, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs

Shulkin Out at VA
President Donald Trump hasdismissed Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. David Shulkin amid disagreement within the administration over the future of thebeleaguered Veterans’ Health Administration, a single-payer health system whose closest analogue is the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. In afarewell printed in the New York Times, Shulkin criticizes proposals to improve health care for veterans by privatizing the VHA:The private sector, already struggling to provide adequate access to care in many communities,is ill-prepared to handle the number and complexity of patients that would come from closing or do...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 29, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs

Digital Health Best Practices For Policy Makers: A Free Report
Where should the line be drawn when deciding whether or not to adopt disruptive technologies? As digital health brings up plenty of ethical questions, legal issues, and safety concerns, The Medical Futurist Institute decided to collect the best examples of how governments worldwide tried to adopt digital health. We hope it inspires other policy-makers to take the first steps in shaping their healthcare regulations. Our common goal is to arrive at a better future of healthcare Disruptive technologies spread around like wildfire, but healthcare systems are crumbling under the pressure of problems and changes. So, The Medical...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 1, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Digital Health Research Healthcare Policy digital health strategy digital innovation future health policy Medicine technology Source Type: blogs

Congress Repeals Medicare Therapy Caps and Lifts Limits on Speech-Generating Devices
Congress has permanently repealed Medicare Part B therapy caps and permanently extended the Steve Gleason Enduring Voices Act, which authorizes the purchase of speech-generating devices (SGDs). The measures were included in a continuing resolution passed yesterday that funds the federal government for the next two years. Medicare Part B Therapy Cap The resolution permanently eliminates the hard cap on how much outpatient speech-language, occupational and physical therapy each Medicare beneficiary is allowed per year. Congress has allowed an exceptions process in most of the past 20 years, but this permanent fix repeals the...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 9, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jeffrey Regan Tags: Advocacy Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Augmentative Alternative Communication Technology Source Type: blogs

Health care debates could use a healthy dose of ideal theory
In early September, the New York Times Upshot published a bold piece titled “The Best Healthcare System in the World.” The article brought together prominent health economists and physician experts to judge the health systems of the world in a head-to-head tourney to determine which health system deserved the prestigious title. The article, published at a time of intense policy debate concerning the U.S. health care system, helped the average American become more educated on how health care operates internationally and what different experts value when judging the successes or failures of a certain system. While it hel...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 30, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ishaan-shah" rel="tag" > Ishaan Shah < /a > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs

What If Amazon Ran Hospitals?
What if Dr. Alexa offered you the next appointment with your doctor in the Amazon Clinic? What if you could buy your prescription drugs in Amazon’s online pharmacy? What if you could get your personalized plaster cast from the 3D Printing Department? In light of the recent moves of Amazon and other tech giants in the healthcare field, we imagined what it would look like if Amazon operated an entire hospital. Tech giants move into healthcare Facebook, Google, and Amazon are aiming for new horizons. The playfield must be too small for them solely on the technology markets. They certainly have the capacity to move into n...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 30, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design 3d printing amazon artificial intelligence digital health digital technology Innovation Personalized medicine wearables Source Type: blogs

England Is in the Throes of an Interventional Radiologist Shortage
The United Kingdom ’s National Health Service (NHS) is suffering from an extreme lack of interventional radiologists. According toThe Guardian, as a result of the shortage, many patients are forced to undergo unnecessary procedures that result in permanent and unwanted physical repercussions.According toThe Guardian, there are 44 percent fewer interventional radiologists than NHS hospitals require. The NHS needs 735 specialists in order to provide 24/7 service; however, according to data from the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), there are only 414.As a result of this tremendous deficit, women who have recently given ...
Source: radRounds - January 19, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

For One Of The First To Speak Out About What Corporate Medicine Does To Good Doctors, The Journey Ends With A Single Step . . . Off The Beaten Path Where She Was So Mercilessly Beaten
In January 2013 . . . after eight years of " citizen journalism " in the " progressive " Greensboro N.C. ether . . . after all of the political flame-wars and even getting cyber-stalked . . . I stopped blogging. Regular posting stopped. The Twitter feed was also deactivated. As of January 2018, all of Dr. J ' s Housecalls has been archived for reference purposes.In 2013, I reworked the blog ' s sidebar over and over again - trying to figure out how much I wanted to say about the decision to stop. All I wound up doing was was telling the story onemore time. This post is that sidebar - it ' s as good as way a...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - January 12, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Alcohol and Cancer, Explained
"Alcohol and endogenous aldehydes damage chromosomes and mutate stem cells"Juan I. Garaycoechea, Gerry P. Crossan, Fr édéric Langevin, Lee Mulderrig, Sandra Louzada, Fentang Yang, Guillaume Guilbaud, Naomi Park, Sophie Roerink, Serena Nik-Zainal, Michael R.Stratton& Ketan J. Patel Nature doi:10.1038/nature25154This pay-walled article, published in "Nature," presents fresh evidence that alcohol can damage chromosomes and cause mutations. If you don't have a zillion dollars to spare, The American Cancer Society has put together a layman's version of the subjecthere.Here's an explainer from Britai...
Source: Addiction Inbox - January 7, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs

Good work, wellbeing and changes in performance outcomes: illustrating the effects of good people management practices with an analysis of the National Health Service
This report illustrates the effect of good people management with an analysis of the NHS. It found Trusts that made the most extensive use of good people management practices were over three times more likely to have the lowest levels of staff sickness absence and at least four times more likely to have the most satisfied patients. They were also more than twice as likely to have staff with the highest levels of job satisfaction compared to NHS Trusts that made least use of these practices, and over three times more likely to have staff with the highest levels of engagement.What Works Centre for Wellbeing - publicati...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 19, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

The 10 Most Exciting Digital Health Stories of 2017
Gene-edited human embryo. Self-driving trucks. Practical quantum computers. 2017 has been an exciting year for science, technology – and digital health! It’s that time of the year again when it’s worth looking back at the past months; and list the inventions, methods and milestone events in healthcare to get a clearer picture what will shape medicine for the years to come. 2017 – Amazing year for science and healthcare Scientists, researchers, and innovators come up with amazing breakthroughs every year, and that was no different in 2017 either. No matter whether we look at physics (proving the existence of gra...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 13, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing artificial intelligence digital health genetics genomics Healthcare Innovation Personalized medicine robotics technology wearables Source Type: blogs

Mastering Intensive Care 021 with Martin Bromiley
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogMartin Bromiley – Turning tragedy into safer healthcare with attention to human factors (DasSMACC special episode)Are we truly making healthcare safer?Do we adequately understand human factors in how we work in hospitals?How would you respond if your partner died from a “routine operation”?These are just 3 of the questions you are likely to ponder as you listen to this interview with Martin Bromiley OBE from the United Kingdom on the Mastering Intensive Care podcas...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 2, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Intensive Care Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies human facotrs Martin Bromiley patient safety routine operation Source Type: blogs