Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expectancy gains. Adding four more ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 9th 2023
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Source: Fight Aging! - October 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – October 7, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
How Technology can Address Clinician Shortage and Burnout. We are facing an estimated 900K deficit of registered nurses by the end of this decade. This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. Technology can be a great solution to help ease that burden off of your staff so they aren̵...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
' Equity' in the Pandemic Treaty: The False Hope of ‘Access and Benefit-Sharing '
Abbie Rose Hampton (King ’s College), Mark Eccleston-Turner (King’s College), Michelle Rourke (Griffith University), Stephanie Switzer (University of Strathclyde), ‘Equity’ in the Pandemic Treaty: The False Hope of ‘Access and Benefit-Sharing’, Int’l& Comp. L.Q. (forthcoming): During COVID-19 the international community... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 7, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The New Pandemic: Burnout Threatens to Wipe Out a Generation of Providers
The following is a guest article by Amanda Ford, Executive Vice President of Operations at ScribeAmerica
For care teams across the nation, provider burnout isn’t a buzzword, it’s a reality. And while some by-products of the pandemic are expected to disappear with time, burnout seems to be staying. If anything, the issue is getting worse. Increased workloads, difficult-to-navigate EHRs, documentation processes, administrative tasks, and more challenging work-life balance. Doctors are stuck spending more time working, but less time with patients.
The issue plagues every specialty in every state. And as providers grap...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Administrative Burden AI Scribes Amanda Ford Medical Scribes Patient Documentation Physician Burnout Provider Burnout ScribeAmerica Source Type: blogs
Viruses and Bats
by Gertrud U. Rey Remember the series of flashbacks in the ending of the movie “Contagion,” which reveal where the virus originated and how the pandemic started? As a tree is cut down, a colony of bats flies out of the tree to seek new shelter. While in flight over a nearby farm, one of … Viruses and Bats Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 5, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey ACE2 bat bats contagion coronavirus emergence emerging virus furin cleavage site host range outbreak pandemic reservoir reservoir host SARS SARS-CoV SARS-CoV-2 spillover surveillance zoono Source Type: blogs
Revisiting Canada ’s Access to Medicines Regime in Response to COVID-19: A Review of the Legislation and its Underlying Objectives
Muhammad Zaheer Abbas (Queensland University of Technology), Revisiting Canada ’s Access to Medicines Regime in Response to COVID-19: A Review of the Legislation and its Underlying Objectives, 34 Intell. Prop. J. (2022): The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the significance of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 5, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
AI Will Help Bridge Gaps in Canadian Healthcare
This study will look for practical ways that AI can be deployed in various healthcare settings and may include pilot implementations that will put AI theory into action.
Robert Fox, Chief Executive Officer of OntarioMD, shared details of this study in an interview with Healthcare IT Today (interview coming!)
AI Prominently on Display at OntarioMD Conference
The exhibit hall at the OntarioMD Conference featured many interesting startups alongside digital health veterans. Most of the exhibitors were touting their use of AI technology.
AI powered chatbots and patient automation was on display by Phelix
Ambient voice for cli...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System #OMDDHC23 Ambient Clinical Voice Andre Picard DoctorCare Healthcare AI Healthcare Billing OntarioMD patient communications Source Type: blogs
How Queuing Technology for Pharmacies Can Improve Safety & Efficiency
The following is a guest article by Yoni Lavi, Founder and CEO at Qtrac
Few things should take priority over access to necessary medications, particularly prescriptions. However, managing your prescription medications at the pharmacy isn’t always easy. Staff shortages, constantly changing regulations, and growing demand make it difficult to keep up with optimizing procedures and protocols.
Often busy environments, pharmacies are notorious for long waits, overworked employees, and frustrated customers. To make matters even more complicated, many new programs, including one recently announced by Walmart, are expanding pha...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Digital Front Door Digital Queuing Healthcare Queuing Patient Experience pharmacy Pharmacy Challenges Pharmacy IT Ph Source Type: blogs
Modestly Increased Physical Activity Reduces the Age-Related Increase in Blood Pressure
The difference between lesser and greater degrees of modest exercise is sizable when it comes to effects on measures of cardiovascular health, such as blood pressure. The raised blood pressure characteristic of aging and a lack of physical fitness is damaging to delicate tissues, speeds the development of atherosclerosis, and is associated with a raised risk of mortality. A sizable proportion of the mortality reduction that attends greater physical activity in later life may be mediated via effects such as lowered blood pressure.
A study sought to determine if older adults with hypertension could receive these ben...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 3, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
8 Practical Predictions For The Near Future Of Healthcare
This article aims to bridge that gap, providing a condensed overview beneficial for healthcare professionals and users alike.
1) Patients will become the point of care
In the pursuit of more streamlined and patient-centric healthcare, traditional hospital frameworks are under reassessment. The stereotypical scenes of long waiting lines, overwhelming paperwork, and sterile, uninviting corridors symbolize a dated workflow. The evolution towards modernity beckons a shift from this conventional setup, ushering in an era where patients, armed with digital health tools, become the focal point of care, reducing the dependen...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence digital health Source Type: blogs
How Technology can Address Clinician Shortage and Burnout
The following is a guest article by Kim Howard, Chief Client Officer at Nomad Health
The U.S. healthcare system faces an estimated national deficit of more than 900K registered nurses by the end of the decade. Hospital CEOs agree that workforce challenges are the biggest issue they face, with 90% saying nursing shortages are the most pressing – a trend driven by the 4.7M healthcare workers retiring by 2030. The “silver tsunami” is also to blame, with 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage daily, placing even further strain on the situation.
Fewer nurses, a slowed education pipeline, and more patients in need o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Caregiver Clinician Burnout clinician shortage job satisfaction Job Searching Kim Howard Nomad Health Nurse Hiring Nurse Job Boards Nurse Shortage Nursing Traveling Nurs Source Type: blogs
Case Western Reserve University School of Law Presents Dr. Amy Acton, MD, Phd with the Schroeder Lecture; " The Leader We Wish We All Had Is YOU: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic "
4:30PM – 5:30PM on Thursday, October 5th, 2023. Dr.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 2, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: David Putrino on New Nature Study of Long Covid Immune Profiling
By David Tuller, DrPH I’ve posted two past interviews with David Putrino (here and here) about long Covid, ME/CFS, and related issues. Dr Putrino, a neuroscientist and physical therapist, is director of rehabilitation innovation at the Mt Sinai Health System in New York. Early in the pandemic, he began seeing patients with prolonged symptoms following … Trial By Error: David Putrino on New Nature Study of Long Covid Immune Profiling Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 29, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Iwasaki Long Covid nature Putrino vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
