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A Look at ePrescribing Adoption in the UK vs the US
While primary care physicians in the UK have been using e-prescribing technology for quite some time, hospitals in the NHS are still relatively behind, despite having what appears to have relatively mature IT infrastructure otherwise. That is why the news that the NHS is still rolling out digital prescribing as of this month may come […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 3, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System DrFirst e-prescribing ePrescribing Loy Lobo National Health Service NHS Trusts UK ePrescribing Source Type: blogs

Health Care 101 Continued: The allocation problem
We often hear sentiments to the effect that human life is infinitely precious, that you can ' t put a price on human life. While most people probably think this instinctively, it is conservatives, and particularly religious conservatives, who are most likely to try to apply the concept in reality. Do you remember the ravings about " death panels " when the Affordable Care Act passed? Of course there ' s nothing in the ACA that could conceivably be construed that way, but the scary meme was imported from arguments about single payer or, as in the UK, socialized medicine schemes.To put this in the simplest and starkest terms...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 23, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Advancing maternal justice on both sides of the Atlantic
Positive pregnancy and birthing experiences go beyond merely having a healthy mother and baby — so, too, does maternal justice, a term that encompasses broad goals. Affordable, timely, high-quality, equitable, and dignified care during and after pregnancy is essential for all birthing people. Maternal justice is a model of culturally sensitive care that aims to dismantle inequities in maternity care and maximize maternal health and well-being. It rests on human rights and requires us to chip away at racism entrenched in health systems. How do race and ethnicity affect pregnancy and birth? Globally, Black, indigenous, and...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Isioma D. Okolo, MBChB, MRCOG, DTMH Tags: Adolescent health Health care disparities Parenting Pregnancy Women's Health Source Type: blogs

Delivering a ‘net zero’ National Health Service
This report provides an account of the NHS ’ modelling and analytics underpinning the latest NHS carbon footprint, trajectories to net zero and the interventions required to achieve that ambition. It lays out the direction, scale and pace of change. It describes an iterative and adaptive approach, which will periodically review progress an d aims to increase the level of ambition over time.ReportNHS England - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 1, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs

Age Barriers in Healthcare
Rachel Horton (University of Reading), Age Barriers in Healthcare, 13 Erasmus L. Rev. 1 (2020): Age limits, minimum and maximum, and both explicit and ‘covert’, are still used in the National Health Service to determine access to a range of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 25, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

What we can learn from England about universal health care
It’s winter in Oxford, and I’m biking to the John Radcliffe Hospital, the flagship medical center of England’s National Health Service. It’s raining, and the chain on my bike keeps slipping off the gear.“Figures— I shouldn’t have bought a bike from an antique shop.” Back in December, my school had offered to send […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 30, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/naveen-kumar-reddy" rel="tag" > Naveen Kumar Reddy, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs

The community health center crisis
Federally qualified health centers, most of which are in a category called community health centers, are vital health care infrastructure. They are non-profit community based organizations that receive federal support to provide primary care services in medically underserved areas, and to serve the uninsured and underinsured. Most of their income is from Medicaid and Medicare, and they charge on a sliding scale (going to zero) for people who are uninsured. They typically provide pre-natal care, may have dentistry and other specialty care, and substance abuse and mental health treatment. Right now they are in crisis. T...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 20, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

It Is Hard Not To Think That There Are Some Deep Seated Problems In The ADHA Leading To High Staff Turnover And Loss.
This appeared a day or so ago. Senior digital health bureaucrat resigns to join former boss By Shannon Jenkins Friday August 7, 2020 Another senior public servant has resigned from the Australian Digital Health Agency. National health chief information officer Ronan O ’Connor has left the agency to take on a role at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society — the same not-for-profit organisation that Tim Kelsey joined after departing his role as ADHA CEO late last year. Kelsey and O’Connor worked together at the United Kingdom ’s National Health Service before they were appointed to the A...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 11, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: From UK ’ s National Health Service, “ Your COVID Recovery ”
By David Tuller, DrPH In the UK, the National Health Service has launched a website called “Your COVID Recovery,” part of its strategy for coping with the after-effects of the coronavirus pandemic. This effort is geared toward “supporting your recovery after COVID-19.” In other words, it appears to be targeting the “long-haulers,” as those experiencing […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 5, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller ME/CFS National Health Service post-covid syndrome Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: A Letter to Mahana ’ s NHS-Linked Business Adviser
By David Tuller, DrPH One of Mahana Therapeutics’ business advisers is Dr Harpreet Sood, identified as the National Health Service’s associate chief clinical information officer. (Actually, Mahana seems to have it wrong; it looks like Dr Sood is still be at the NHS but moved on a while ago to another position. I guess accuracy […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 30, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller ME/CFS Source Type: blogs

Oxford ’s Emergency Ventilator Project Steaming Ahead
The University of Oxford and King’s College London have teamed up to develop and are now testing a new emergency ventilator that consists of devices that commonly exist in clinical spaces and scientific laboratories, and a few simple parts that can be created through 3D printing. Bringing together these devices allows the team to create so-called OxVent ventilators that don’t look like conventional ventilators, but which are sufficient to help with the current COVID-19 emergency. The UK government has given the team quick authorization to proceed with safety testing and Smith & Nephew has been put in th...
Source: Medgadget - April 3, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Materials Public Health Source Type: blogs

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Trauma changes people. It can also change nations. In the United States, the Great Depression produced the first national social safety net, in the form of Social Security, unemployment insurance, and a raft of other programs. In England, World War II yielded the country’s beloved National Health Service. Will the coronavirus pandemic change us now? (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - March 27, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David Blumenthal, M.D. Source Type: blogs

To screen, or not to screen (for dementia), that is still the question
A leading group of medical experts on Tuesday declined to endorse cognitive screening for older adults, fueling a debate that has simmered for years. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said it could neither recommend nor oppose cognitive screening, citing insufficient scientific evidence of the practice’s benefits and harms and calling for further studies. The task force’s work informs policies set by Medicare and private insurers. Its recommendations, an accompanying scientific statement and two editorials were published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The task force’s new position c...
Source: SharpBrains - March 11, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Judith Graham at Kaiser Health News Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Alzheimer’s Disease Annual Wellness Visit cognition cognitive decline cognitive-abilities Cognitive-impairment cognitive-screening dementia geriatric psychiatrists geriatricians JAMA Jou Source Type: blogs

Productivity of the English National Health Service: 2017/18 update
This report updates the Centre for Health Economics ’ time-series of NHS productivity growth for the period 2016/17 to 2017/18. Between 2016/17 and 2017/18, NHS productivity grew by 1.26 per cent when using the mixed measure of NHS input growth, which includes a direct (volume) growth measure for NHS staff and an indirect (based on expenditure data ) growth measure for materials and capital. The report also considers a range of alternative scarios including using a fully indirect measure of growth inputs.ReportCentre for Health Economics - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 25, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs

Leading Mental Health Platform on DTx Reimbursement, Scaling | Ken Cahill, SilverCloud Health
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Digital mental health platform SilverCloud Health is the digital-therapeutic-of-choice for mental health services in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and serves nearly 250 healthcare organizations around the world, racking up 1.5 million therapy hours and 5 million clinical interactions. CEO Ken Cahill stops by to catch us up on SilverCloud Health’s impressive clinical outcomes and how he’s tackling challenges around reimbursement that are common for many digital therapeutics startups. His unique approach (spoiler alert: he partners with providers to approach payers for excepti...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Grishma Reddy Tags: Health Tech Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Berlin digital therapeutics dtx Frontiers Health Ken Cahill Mental Health SilverCloud Health UK Source Type: blogs