Vynca Secures $30 Million in Funding to Expand Integrated Palliative Care Platform
Growth Capital to Expand Footprint Nationally and Accelerate Technology Development Vynca, a leading technology-enabled provider of holistic care for those with serious illnesses, raised $30 million in growth capital. The investment was led by Questa Capital with participation from existing investors including Generator Ventures, First Trust Capital Partners, 4100 Group and OCA Ventures. Vynca partners with healthcare providers, payers and […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 4100 Group Aabed Meer Advance Care Planning Brad Sloan First Trust First Trust Capital Partners Generator Ventures Health IT Funding OCA Ventures Questa Capital Ryan Van Wert Vynca Source Type: blogs
What shared journeys to the afterlife teach about dying well and living better
An excerpt from At Heaven’s Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better. What brings you here? I ask this question of every person who steps through the door because they have come to talk about death —the most universal of all human experiences yet the most difficult to discuss.Read more …What shared journeys to the afterlife teach about dying well and living better originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 31, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/william-peters" rel="tag" > William Peters < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Palliative Care Primary Care Source Type: blogs
TearCare System for Meibomian Gland Dysfunction: Interview with Reay H. Brown, CMO of Sight Sciences
Sight Sciences, a medtech company based in California, specializes in devices to treat glaucoma and dry eye disease. The company has recently announced FDA 510(k) clearance for the TearCare System, a device designed to treat meibomian gland dysfunction.
Meibomian glands are present near the rims of our eyelids and they secrete a clear oily substance called meibum that helps to lubricate the eye and reduce the evaporation of tears. When these glands get blocked, as they do in cases of meibomian gland dysfunction, they can no longer secrete meibum. Such blockages are a leading cause of dry eye disease.
The TearCare Sys...
Source: Medgadget - January 27, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
The Annual Assembly and COVID
by Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair)Last week, many hospice and palliative care clinicians and advocates received the unfortunate news that the 2022 Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care (#hapc22) was moving from hybrid (both in person and virtual) to virtual only. The board of directors of AAHPM and HPNA " considered the current strain on health care systems, personnel and their families " when making the decision. And then one week later, many presenters found out their presentations were not going to be in the virtual-only assembly. That is immensely disappointing. I received notice that my talks - on which coll...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 24, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Tags: AAHPM conference HPNA sinclair Source Type: blogs
Difficult Conversations About Racism
This article differs from other important work like the 2016 NEJM article Paul-Emelie, Smith, Lo and Fern ández, "Dealing with Racist Patients." Most articles focus on what to do about the care of the patient now and in the future if they ask to be reassigned. That is important to consider as well, but what I appreciate about McKillip and Moss ' work is that it focuses on the team, and the role we all must have in working towards a more caring and supportive community at work.COI: Peer-to-peer mentorship - Mckillip, Bazelak*Friday Chalk Talk is a great weekly resource. I need to write about that too!For morePallimed posts...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 17, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Tags: bias ethics JPSM race racism sinclair Source Type: blogs
Cloaked Suffering
by Lyle Fettig (@FettigLyle)The suffering in our hospital is cloaked by tinted windows and shiny new steel, a serene architectural specimen which betrays the internal chaos of each person who experiences illness behind each door.Even for people who work there, it is sometimes surreal to approach the building in its beauty with the dissonant knowledge of what can happen in all manner of disease in between the walls. It ’s the perfect place to hide the devastation of a pandemic.Were the death and agony in the streets for all to see, perhaps the choices that are obvious to you and me would be obvious to all. How could a per...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 3, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Tags: covid fettig Source Type: blogs
Say No! More - A Video Game Review
by Matthew Tyler (@pallidad)Consider the last time you said “Yes” to something when you would have preferred to have said “No.” Maybe you worried saying “No” would damage a relationship. Or maybe you didn’t want to put your job at risk. InStudio Fizbin ’sSay No! More you assume the role of a corporate intern on a quest to reclaim their lunch stolen by upper management. You go to battle with your manager, the C-suite, and beyond, wielding the power of a word never-before spoken within the walls of your office.Say No! More demonstrates in an over-the-top fashion how being able to say “No” can be a positiv...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - November 30, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: game media tyler video games Source Type: blogs
When you die: a poem
I will tell you exactly And only the facts. You are trapped a little for a time And unhappy Then your face hollows and it has a death mask As the soul withdraws from the body And you look at me and tell me who you see It is always someone, Sitting there like me,Read more …When you die: a poem originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/drea-burbank" rel="tag" > Drea Burbank, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
The Limits of Advance Care Planning
by Michael Pottash (@mpottash)Several luminaries of palliative care – writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association– recently outlined a strong case against advance care planning, referring specifically to advance directives and the efforts to plan for a future illness state. Planning for the end of life and documenting preferences was meant to improve “goal-concordant care” by providing a road map of a pe rson’s wishes for the end of their life when they can no longer communicate for themselves.When the Unitde States Supreme Court ruled against the family of Nancy Cruzan, they effectively placed a l...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - November 22, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: acp advance care planning pottash Source Type: blogs
It ’s not an easy thing to unlearn how to save a life
For the last couple of decades, I was trained to save lives. I sat shoulder to shoulder with others who drilled this in me when I was green, sometimes even through humiliation. I learned to perceptively read patient cues, develop quick reflexes, and think on the spot in critical moments, wherever and whenever life wasRead more …It’s not an easy thing to unlearn how to save a life originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/roxanne-almas" rel="tag" > Roxanne Almas, MD, MSPH < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
CareCentrix CEO on Walgreens Taking Majority Stake, How Post-Acute Care Will Fair in Retail Health
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
The same day Walgreens announced its $5.2B investment in VillageMD to snag a majority stake in the growing primary care clinic, it ALSO revealed it had made a $300M investment in CareCentrix that scored 55% of that company and another opportunity to expand its reach beyond the pharmacy – this time into the home.
CareCentrix’s CEO John Driscoll takes us behind the deal, which lands Walgreens into the world of post-acute care (home nursing, hospital discharge recovery, home infusion, palliative care, etc.) which he describes as the “long-form sexy-cool” segment of the healthcare m...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa WTF Health CareCentrix John Driscoll post-acute care Walgreens Source Type: blogs
It's November So Be Aware! Celebrate Alzheimer ’s, Palliative and Hospice Care, and Family Caregivers
Alzheimer's and other dementias. Palliative care and hospice. Family caregivers. These are topics that all overlap since many of us are or have been involved in all areas. Still, they deserve to be celebrated separately, as well.
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Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories.“I hold onto your book as a life preserver and am reading it slowly on purpose...I don't want it to end.” ...Craig William Dayton, Film Composer
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Source: Minding Our Elders - November 1, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
You can ’t fix what is already broken
It’s one of the last weeks in December. If it was any other year, I would have realized that Christmas is around the corner, the air would be filled with a different, radiant, joyful kind of energy, and most of us would be focused on all the lessons this year has taught us. Unfortunately, thisRead more …You can ’t fix what is already broken originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 24, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/serene-selli" rel="tag" > Serene Selli, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
If Falls Are a Problem, Look At Medications As a Possible Contributor
Falls are a big fear for older adults because they can be disabling or even fatal. Therefore, looking for reasons behind the falls - other than just age - is important. One potential risk factor is medications, either on their own or in combination. If falls are an issue, it's time to check with the doctor.
Read more on Egosancares for other reasons for falls, as well:
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Source: Minding Our Elders - September 22, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Roger Chou ’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity
by Chad D. Kollas MD, Terri A. Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy“I ' m present. Uh … I do have a conflict. I receive funding to conduct reviews on opioids, and I ' ll be recusing myself after the um, director ' s, uh, um, um, uh … update.”- Dr. Roger Chou, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) Meeting Friday, July 16, 2021.IntroductionFor those familiar with the controversial relationship between the anti-opioid advocacy group, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP, recently renamed, He...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 17, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas lewis opioid pain schechtman Source Type: blogs
