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Return to McAllen: A Father-Son Interview
By IAN ROBERTSON KIBBE You are going to hear a little more about McAllen, TX on THCB Shortly. And before we dive into what’s happened there lately, I thought those of you who weren’t here back in the day might want to read an article on THCB from July 2009. Where then THCB editor Ian Kibbe interviewed his dad David Kibbe about what he was doing as a primary care doc in McAllen–Matthew Holt By now, Dr. Atul Gawande’s article on McAllen’s high cost of health care has been widely read. The article spawned a number of responses and catalyzed a national discussion on cost controls and t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized David Kibbe Ian Robertson Kibbe McAllen Physicians TX Source Type: blogs

The link between investing in health and economic growth
NHS Confederation - This analysis finds that growth in healthcare investment has a clear relationship with economic growth. The analysis brings together longitudinal data from multiple sources linked at the local level across all of England. It shows that for each £1 spent per head on the NHS, there is a corresponding return on investment of £4 – showing an economic benefit to investing in our national health service.AnalysisPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 19, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Reimagining health: a framing paper
Reform - In its early years, the National Health Service proved visionary. It provided high-quality care to meet the dominant needs of the population it served: timely, universal access to episodic, acute treatment. However, the structures and institutions designed to meet the challenges of the post-war world are not equipped to deal with current and future health challenges. Reform's new programme of work on'Reimagining health' seeks to explore how to transform our approach to health. This framing paper sets out the case for change and identifies areas Reform wishes to explore in its research programme.P...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 26, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Healthcare ’s Sustainability Problem And The Solutions Tech Can Provide
The following is a guest article by Melissa Powell, COO at Genesis HealthCare. Healthcare’s future is smart and sustainable, led by tech-driven solutions and human ingenuity. One great success story of sustainable healthcare that combines those forces begins with a nurse who sews. Tami Ochs, an RN at New Jersey’s Overlook Medical Center, helped the facility repurpose 15,000 pounds of surgical blue wrap that was being discarded annually. She began sewing shopping bags from the non-biodegradable material used to cover sterile equipment, a project that blossomed into a goal to replace 100,000 plastic bags patients use eve...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AMA Boston Medical Center Circular Healthcare Cisco Genesis Healthcare Healthcare Facilities Healthcare Without Harm Melissa Powell Overlook Medical Cent Source Type: blogs

Repeat Prescription? The NHS and Four Decades of Privatisation Paranoia
Kristian Niemietz (Institute of Economic Affairs), Repeat Prescription? The NHS and Four Decades of Privatisation Paranoia, SSRN (2022): In 1980, an article in The Times predicted that over the next five years, the National Health Service (NHS) would be privatised... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 23, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – August 7, 2022 – Patients like digital health but have security concerns, healthcare leaders optimistic “ seamless ” care is coming, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News and Studies Research from security vendor Utimaco showed that 63% of U.K. residents would use digital services to access healthcare. However, only 46% consider the information they send to the National Health Service to ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Security and Privacy Adventist Health Aetion Allison Partners Avel eCare Bamboo Health Brave Health Clarify Health Commure Strongline Dandelion DrFirst Evio ExtraHop H1 Health 4.0 Health Catalyst Healthcare Source Type: blogs

We must disrupt harm
In the mid-1980s, with the AIDS epidemic on the horizon, austere conservative Margaret Thatcher sanctioned the first needle exchanges in the U.K. to prevent the budgetary burden that HIV might otherwise have become on the National Health Service. Nearly forty years later, New York City opened its first supervised injection sites in November of 2021, Read more… We must disrupt harm originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 6, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Julie Craig, MD Tags: Meds Pain Management Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – July 24, 2022 – OCR resolves 11 HIPAA enforcement actions, ONC releases USCDI v3, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News The HHS Office for Civil Rights resolved 11 investigations as part of its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative, issuing fines ranging from $3,500 for a Massachusetts psychiatric consultant to $240,000 for the 17-hospital Memori...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features Source Type: blogs

The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
The objective most consistent with recent operations is to conquer Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson, with a view to their eventual annexation and Russification. But not only are they some way from achieving that (w ith much of Donetsk still in Ukrainian hands and the Russia position in Kherson highly contested) it would also require an explicit Ukrainian surrender for it to serve as the basis for a declaration of victory. That will not be forthcoming.-----https://www.afr.com/world/europe/how-britain-giggled-its-way-into-crisis-20220710-p5b0giHow Britain giggled its way into crisisBoris Johnson has exposed the costs of Britain...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Artificial Intelligence (AI) meets Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Wysa raises $20M to scale up mental health chatbot
Wysa raises $20 million to expand its therapist chatbot into a wider set of mental health services (TechCrunch): Wysa, a popular mental health app originally founded in India around an AI chatbot that helps users talk through their feelings, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round to expand its business on the heels of hitting 4.5 million users in 65 countries. The all-equity round is led by India’s digital health-focused venture capital fund HealthQuad, with participation also from British International Investment (BII), the U.K.’s development finance institution. The plan will be to use the money to double...
Source: SharpBrains - July 19, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation AI chatbot British International Investment CBT cognitive-behavioral-therapy digital therapeutics HealthQuad mental health app therapist WhatsApp Wysa Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Sometimes Good Things Happen Quickly, Even When It Involves the UK National Health Service
By David Tuller, DrPH The new ME/CFS guidelines from the UK’s National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, published last October, reversed the agency’s previous recommendations for graded exercise therapy and (curative) cognitive behavior therapy. While this change presented a welcome repudiation of the research and claims emanating from the GET/CBT ideological brigades, many regional […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 3, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Charles Shepherd ME Association Source Type: blogs

Cinahl strategy for finding studies from the UK
This is based on the Medline filter in Ayiku, L.et al.(2017) ‘The Medline UK filter: development and validation of a geographic search filter to retrieve research about the UK from OVID Medline’,Health Information and Libraries Journal 34(3), pp.200-216. That filter isdiscussed in another post.I have tested it to see if it results in error messages (it does not) but it is not yet validated. The Medline filter it is based on has been validated - see the article referenced above for details.This Cinahl filter does not specify fields, so searches all fields. In line S4, gb with no punctuation and g.b. wi...
Source: Browsing - June 23, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: CINAHL literature searching Source Type: blogs

E ‑Cigarettes as Harm Reduction for Pregnant Tobacco Smokers
Jeffrey A. SingerLast week U.K. researchers published a study providing more evidence of the harm ‐reduction potential of nicotine containing e‑cigarettes—this time for pregnant women who smoke tobacco.The randomized controlled trial, begun in 2019, included 1,140 participants from 24 UK hospitals. Pregnant women who smoked were placed on either nicotine patches or refillable nicotine e ‑cigarettes to replace tobacco. The researchers found both replacement methods to have an equal safety profile. However, low birth weight was less frequent among the e‑cigarette arm of the study compared to the nicotine pa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 25, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs

The Reckoning: What Happens to Digital Health After COVID?
By JEFF GOLDSMITH and ERIC LARSEN It has been a rough year so far for digital health. After an astonishing $45 billion poured into new digital health companies in 2020 and 2021, and an early 2021 peak in market valuations of publicly-traded digital health providers, valuations and multiples have collapsed. Once high-flying Teladoc, which traded at an eye-watering 42x revenues and commanded a $45 billion market capitalization, is now trading around 2.7X at about $5.7 billion. AmWell, the next largest telehealth player, has seen its stock drop more 90% from its high. Nor is the evaporation in market value is co...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech digital health Digital health investing Eric Larsen Healthcare bubble Jeff Goldsmith Source Type: blogs