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Health IT Or Digital Health? The Gary-Rule Helps!
When it’s difficult to draw a line between health IT and digital health, the “Gary-rule” as a general rule of thumb could help. It means that any tech-related issue in a healthcare setting that Gary, the IT guy can solve belongs to health IT. On the other hand, problems in the medical-technological universe, which cannot get resolved without the involvement of other stakeholders of healthcare constitute the terrain of digital health, writes Dr. Meskó in his article published in the latest edition of the Journal of Clinical and Translational Research. The Gary-rule It’s hard to draw a definitive line between health...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 11, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Digital Health Research Policy Makers Researchers digital technology future health IT Healthcare online security wannacry Source Type: blogs

Raj of the NHS – How doctors from India and Pakistan saved the NHS
By ROHIN FRANCIS India and Pakistan celebrate 71 years of Independence today. The British National Health Service owes them a debt of gratitude. Great Britain’s national dish is famously chicken curry, but South Asia’s impact on this sceptred isle extends far beyond food. It is a testament to how ingrained into the British psyche the stereotypical Indian doctor has become that in 2005 a poll of Brits found the doctor they’d most like to consult is a 30-something South Asian female. In 2010 the BBC even ran a popular TV series simply entitled ‘The Indian Doctor’ following a story played out across the UK in the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: NHS Source Type: blogs

What Profit Is There To Be Found In One Pediatrician's Two Decades Of Wandering - And A Hospital's Downfall?
I ' ve not blogged in a very long time. But it does seems to be TIME to pick the pen back up.Twenty years ago, executives running my hometown hospital (Randolph Hospital in Asheboro, North Carolina) fired me just two weeks after I answered the call of a terrified charge nurse and intervened in a " bad-baby " case being managed by a Cone-Healthcare-employed Family Practitioner. After I stabilized the baby and shipped her to North Carolina Baptist/Brenner Children ' s Hospital, the doctor I " rescued " trashed me to the baby ' s parents - falsely alleging that I had somehow caused her harm - when, in fact, by ALL...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - July 17, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

National Health Service Pay Review Body: 31st report 2018
This report sets out the NHSPRB ’s analysis of evidence provided by relevant organisations and makes observations on the pay of NHS staff paid under Agenda for Change for 2018 to 2019.ReportDepartment of Health - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 28, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

Google ’ s Masterplan for Healthcare
Verily, Calico, Deepmind, more than 150 patents in life sciences and countless collaborations with pharma companies. The search engine’s parent company, Alphabet takes its move into healthcare and medicine seriously. We looked thoroughly at what Google in healthcare looks like. My Apple health chatbot referred me to the Amazon hospital where I got Google drugs It’s 2030, a rainy Tuesday morning in downtown Seattle. While my self-driving car is taking me to a digital health symposium, I’m working on my keynote speech. Suddenly I receive a notification from my Apple health chatbot, Miri. The sensors measured my blood...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 19, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Genomics AI calico digital health genetics google google deepmind Healthcare Innovation longevity research tech technology verily Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: A Curriculum for Treating CFS with CBT
By David Tuller, DrPH Ten years ago, the National Health Service began rolling out across England a program called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, or IAPT. This program arose out of the notion that many people were suffering from untreated depression, anxiety and other psychiatric disorders. In parallel with that, research suggested that treating these […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 14, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

IBM Watson Health Layoffs Suggests AI Strategy Isn ’t Working
IBM Watson Health is apparently making massive cuts to its staff, in a move suggesting that its healthcare AI isn’t working. Watson Health leaders have argued that AI (which Watson Health leaders call “cognitive computing”) as the solution to many of the healthcare industry’s problems. IBM pitched Watson technology as a revolutionary tool which could get to the root of difficult medical problems. Over time, however, it’s begun to look like this wasn’t going to happen, at least for the present. Among other high-profile goofs, IBM Watson has struggled with applying the supercomputing tech to oncology, which was o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 6, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Chatbots EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Health Care Healthcare Healthcare AI HealthCare IT Mobile Apps Mobile Health Care Cognitive Computing DeepMind Health Google IBM Watson Health IBM Watson Hea Source Type: blogs

The Top 12 Health Chatbots
Meet Molly, Eva, Ginger, Replika, Florence, Izzy – your new chatbot friends aiming to make your life better. In the last years, smart algorithm-powered, text or voice-based interfaces have multiplied, and they are also taking their place in healthcare. The Medical Futurist believes they will ease the burden on doctors in primary care and help patients learn to take care of their health responsibly. Do you want to try one? Check out the following health chatbots! The age of chatting algorithms is coming Last week, Google stunned the world with the latest feature of the Google Assistant, Duplex, that was able to make ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 25, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: imported AI artificial intelligence chatbot chatbots digital health future health chatbot Innovation List medical Medicine Personalized medicine technology Source Type: blogs

Britain to Invest Heavily in AI for Medicine
British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that the United Kingdom will invest heavily into artificial intelligence technology to improve healthcare. The details are not clear, but UK’s National Health Service has been compiling data on millions of patients for many years and it may prove to be a great resource to train artificial intelligence systems to spot diseases and to do the epidemiologic analysis. The Guardian newspaper published some interesting thoughts from its readers regarding this news, some of which raise interesting points that need to be considered. Read on: The revolutionising potential of med...
Source: Medgadget - May 24, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Informatics Medicine Public Health Society Source Type: blogs

Why I Think Conservatives Have the Alfie Evans Case All Wrong
Conservatives arerailing against dual decisions by the British government to prevent Alfie Evans ’ parents from transporting him to Italy for further treatment, and to order Alfie’s doctors to withdrawal life support from Alfie, which they did, and which soon led to Alfie’s death. Conservatives are claiming this is what you get under socialized medicine: heartless government will override parental rights to pull the plug on your children. My thoughts on Alfie’s case are still tentative, but I think that’s a total misreading. The tragic case of Alfie Evans had almost nothing to do with socialized medicine. As ho...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 3, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs

Designing for the Whole Patient Journey: Lumeon Enters the US Health Provider Market
Lots of companies strive to unshackle health IT’s potential to make the health care industry more engaging, more adaptable, and more efficient. Lumeon intrigues me in this space because they have a holistic approach that seems to be producing good results in the UK and Europe–and recently they have entered the US market. Superficially, the elements of the Lumeon platform echo advances made by many other health IT applications. Alerts and reminders? Check. Workflow automation? Check. Integration with a variety of EHRs? Of course! But there is something more to Lumeon’s approach to design that makes it a si...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 23, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Health Care Healthcare Healthcare Interoperability HealthCare IT Medical Economics Automating Processes Care Team Collaboration Clinical Workflow Design EHR Data Sharing Health Care Communications Health Data Sharing Longitudinal A Source Type: blogs

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Progress Across the Pond
By TIM WILLIAMS & DAVID INTROCASO This past October CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the agency’s “Meaningful Measures” initiative.[1] Ms. Verma launched the initiative because, she admitted, the agency’s current quality measurement programming, widely criticized for years by MedPAC and others, ran the risk of outweighing the benefits. Under “Meaningful Measures,” CMS will, Ms. Verma stated, put “patients first” by aligning a smaller number of outcome-based quality measures meaningful to patients across Medicare’s programs. Since “the primary focus of a patient visit,” Ms. Verma...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

London Doctors Stage Protest Over Rollout Of App
We all know that doctors don’t take kindly to being forced to use health IT tools. Apparently, that’s particularly the case in London, where a group of general practitioners recently held a protest to highlight their problems with a telemedicine app rolled out by the National Health Service. The doctors behind the protest are unhappy with the way the NHS structured its rollout of the smartphone app GP at Hand, which they say has created extra work and confusion among the patients. The service, which is run by UK-based technology company Babylon Health, launched in November of last year. Using the app, patients can eith...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 18, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare Healthcare AI HealthCare IT iPhone mHealth Mobile Apps Mobile Health Care Smart Phone Healthcare Smart Phones Telemedicine Babylon Health GP at Hand Nati Source Type: blogs

Could ride-hailing platforms 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