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Physician Workforce Trends And Their Implications For Spending Growth
Controlling the growth rate of health care spending is central to the success of the Affordable Care Act or any subsequent reform. Because labor represents more than 50 percent of health care costs and the clinical workforce drives use and prices, the size and composition of the health care workforce has important ramifications for spending growth. We set out to understand the trends underlying the growth in the clinical workforce and their potential implications for health care spending, health policy, and health system design. A large literature establishes a link between primary care–oriented health systems and lo...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Christopher Barbey, Nikhil Sahni, Robert Kocher and Michael Chernew Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Health Professionals Organization and Delivery nurse practitioners physician’s assistants Primary Care Source Type: blogs

The New England Journal Of Medicine Looks At The Risks To Health And Health Services From IT Issues.
This article appeared last week:Threats to Information Security — Public Health ImplicationsWilliam J. Gordon, M.D., Adam Fairhall, A.L.M., and Adam Landman, M.D., M.I.S., M.H.S. July 12, 2017DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1707212In health care, information security has classically been regarded as an administrative nuisance, a regulatory hurdle, or a simple privacy matter . But the recent “WannaCry” and “Petya” ransomware attacks have wreaked havoc by disabling organizations worldwide, including parts of England’s National Health Service (NHS) and the Heritage Valley Health System in Pennsylvania. These events are just two...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 21, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

The Top Medical Specialties with the Biggest Potential in the Future
Some say technology will replace 80% of doctors in the future. I disagree. Instead, technology will finally allow doctors to focus on what makes them good physicians: treating patients and innovating, while automation does the repetitive part of the work. While every specialty will benefit from digital health, some will especially thrive due to these innovations. Here, we enlisted the medical fields with the biggest potential for development in the future. No More Repetition – Doctors of the Future Will Treat and Innovate Artificial intelligence, wearable sensors, virtual reality, medical robots – these disrup...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 11, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine AI artificial intelligence gc4 Healthcare IBM Innovation medical technology wearables Source Type: blogs

Be Careful When Sharing Images on Chat Apps
The world ’s most popular chat service Whatsapp, with more than 1.2 billion active users, is regularly used by medical professionals within England’s National Health Service. Although sending patient information through messaging platforms is strictly prohibited by British authorities, practitioners claim that web-based apps streamline time-sensitive information faster than the approved method, fax or pager.Reports show that physicians rely on messaging apps to exchange and disseminate pertinent patient information. Georgie Gould, MD, conducted a study at St Peter ’s Hospital in Cherstey, Surrey and found that 30 per...
Source: radRounds - July 11, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

Community Hospitals: A Traditional Solution to Help Today's NHS?
There is potential for community hospitals to be better integrated into the current healthcare system in England and they can play an important role in the middle of the patient journey between the home and the hospital and the hospital and the home. If done correctly, community hospitals could be a traditional solution to help address some of the modern day challenges of the National Health Service. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 11, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Emma Pitchforth; Edwin van Teijlingen; Ellen Nolte Source Type: blogs

Common Sense
The various affluent countries around the world have somewhat different ways of organizing and financing their universal health care systems, but they all cover everybody, and they spend about half as much or less than we do. Right now the British system happens to be under strain because the conservative government is underfunding it. Vote Labor back in and they ' ll put in enough money to fix it.But I want to talk about rationing. It just seems bizarre to me that people argue against universal health care schemes on the grounds that they require " rationing " or denying some services to some people on the grounds of cost...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 30, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Time to Secure Your Implantable Medical Devices from Hackers
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In the last few weeks, a major malware attack (WannaCry) paralyzed computers around the world, including electronic health records at the UK’s National Health Service and at hospitals throughout the world. Hacking is a growing problem that can cripple computer systems and even household appliances. Consider that in October 2016, an internet attack came from web-enabled residential devices (cameras, refrigerators, virtual assistants, thermostats, all of which are part of the internet of things) that crippled major websites.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 31, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: Featured Posts Informed Consent Privacy biosecurity cybersecurity implanatable medical devices Source Type: blogs

Massive ransomware cyberattack in U.K. Hits 16 Health Institutions, many doctors reported that they could not retrieve their patients ’ files, but not to worry - no patient information was looked at or compromised
Perhaps doctors and nurses are clairvoyant? Who needs records, anyway?Cyberattack in U.K. Hits 16 Health InstitutionsNew York Times DAN BILEFSKY and RAPHAEL MINDER MAY 12, 2017https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/world/europe/uk-national-health-service-cyberattack.html LONDON — An extensive cyberattack hit Britain’s National Health Service on Friday,blocking doctors from gaining access to patient files, causing emergency rooms to divert patients and stoking fears about hackers ’ ability to wreak havoc on vital public services.Spanish and Portuguese companies, including Telef ónica, Spain’s large...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 12, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: cyberattack healthcare IT risk healthcare IT utopianism NHS no information was looked at or compromised Patient care has not been compromised ransomware Source Type: blogs

Restoring Equity To The Health Law Debate
Millions of Americans suffer every day because we sidelined one word from our health reform debates: equity. They endure health systems that treat them as second-class patients. They undergo partial procedures because it is all they can afford. They seek emergent treatment years after preventive therapies were indicated. They die waiting for undelivered care. The public debate around the American Health Care Act (AHCA) is the latest reminder that health care is, well, complicated. Care is delivered by many practitioners. Costs march inexorably upward. Change one part of the system, and it affects many other parts of our fr...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Abraham Nussbaum Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Health Equity Insurance and Coverage Population Health Public Health Quality American Health Care Act Archie Cochrane Colorado Health Reform Source Type: blogs

The 3 Tesla Prisma Promises Benefits Unmatched by Other MRIs
New super charged MRI technology is being implemented in London hospitals that could expedite scanning and treatment for diseases in the heart and brain. The 3 Tesla Prisma, scheduled to be operational next month, is turbo charged with supplementary Siemens software that will enhance MRI processing power. According to theExpress, the 3 Tesla Prisma can produce scans for around 6,000 patients a year.Tesla (T) is not only the name of a self-driving car, it ’s also a unit of measurement calculating the strength of a magnetic field. This cutting-edge MRI is financed by the Queen Square Enterprises (QSE) and the University Co...
Source: radRounds - April 22, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

Pontifications About Health Care Reform Written by Insiders Who Benefit from the Status Quo - Worse Than We Think
Perceptions that the US health care system is dysfunctional and needs major reform go way back. Atimeline from the Tampa Bay Times noted President Theodore Roosevelt ' s proposal for a national health service in 1912. Nonetheless, as we have discussed endlessly, most attempts at reform failed, and health care dysfunction seems to be getting worse.One big problem may be that we don ' t understand how much discussion of health care reform is driven by those who benefit from the status quo. A Personal AnecdoteWhen I began my academic career in 1983, I was often in the audience for talks about how to fix healt...
Source: Health Care Renewal - April 17, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Amgen conflicts of interest deception health care reform Institute of Medicine Mayo Clinic Merck National Academies public relations Source Type: blogs

Chatbots Will Serve As Health Assistants
Chatbots, intelligent personal assistants, artificial intelligence supported messaging apps or voice controlled bots are forecasted to replace simple messaging apps soon. In healthcare, they could take off the burden on medical professionals regarding easily diagnosable health concerns or quickly solvable health management issues. Here is the evolution of bots as health assistants. Imagined conversation with a health chatbot Hi Viola, how can I help you? I have a mild fever, headache, I feel dizzy. What could it be? What is your temperature at the moment? 38C. For how long have you been feeling the headache? In the l...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 13, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Telemedicine AI chatbot digital health gc4 Innovation intelligent personal assistant machine learning Source Type: blogs

Scholarships from National Health Service Corps
“You can apply to the Scholarship Program if you are committed to primary care and accepted to or enrolled in an accredited U.S. school in one of the following primary care disciplines: Physicians (MD or DO) Dentists Nurse Practitioners (post graduate degree with clinical practice focus) Certified Nurse-Midwives Physician Assistants The scholarship pays tuition, fees, other educational costs, and provides a living stipend in return for a commitment to work at least 2 years at an NHSC-approved site in a medically underserved community.” Find more information and access the application on the National Health Se...
Source: BHIC - March 27, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: Scholarships and Grants Source Type: blogs

How to fix the NHS. And what the United States can learn from it.
I grew up in the United Kingdom and have friends and family who rely on the National Health Service. I’ve written previously how I believe that, despite the idea of a completely free at the point of use health care system sounding very noble — and there are certainly many great things about the NHS — it’s not a model that has been copied in any other country. As someone who also has lots of friends and former colleagues working in the NHS, I regularly hear stories about how that system is completely at breaking point. The British media also regularly communicate this message, and the NHS undoubtedly relie...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 25, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/suneel-dhand" rel="tag" > Suneel Dhand, MD < /a > Tags: Policy Health reform Source Type: blogs