Looking at EHR Internationally
Today, I’m sitting in my hotel room in Dubai (Check out my full health IT conference schedule) looking out over this incredible city. This is the 3rd time I’ve come to Dubai to teach an EHR workshop and so I’ve had a chance to fall in love with some many things. Not the least of which is the people that come to participate in the workshop. Each time is a unique perspective with people coming from around the middle east including countries like Saudia Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, and of course Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the UAE to name a few.
There’s something incredible about coming to a place that is ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 24, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare HealthCare IT Dubai EHR EHR Conferences Healthcare IT Conferences Middle East EHR Saudi Arabia EHR Source Type: blogs
Tahcheen-e Esfenaj (Baked Persian Rice Cake with Lamb, Spinach & Prunes)
I must apologize for the infrequency of my blog posts over the past year. My new position at the medical school has kept me much busier than I’d ever imagined. Now, a year later, things are finally settling in and I’m hoping to bring this blog thing back to life, if only because the act of writing truly grounds me.
One of the better parts of my new position has been getting to know our Qatar-based medical school faculty and staff, who sent me the most amazing Persian cookbook – Saraban: A Chef’s Journey through Persia by Greg and Lucy Malouf. (Thank you Shahrad and team!)
This is a cookbook tha...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - August 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Lamb Rice Cake Spinach Tachchin Tah-Chin Tahcheen Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs Forum: Global Health
Please join us on Tuesday, June 14, when Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will host the next in a series of fora spotlighting the journal’s work in the field of global health and a multi-year partnership with the World Innovation Summit for Health.
Building upon our September 2014 thematic issue, “Advancing Global Health Policy,” and the April 2013 volume, “The Triple Aim Goes Global,” the program on June 14 will explore major issues confronting the global health community. A highlight of the event will be a discussion of international health policy—led by Weil—among Victor...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Tracy Gnadinger Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs cancer care Global Health Health Affairs events Innovation Patient Safety universal health coverage Source Type: blogs
“The players — carpenters, drivers and masons — in the...
"The players — carpenters, drivers and masons — in the 4-year-old Workers Cup are just a fraction of the thousands of migrant workers who are actively building Qatar into a modern state for the 2022 @fifaworldcup. Some dream of playing professionally. Others claimed to have already played top-tier #soccer in Africa or Asia but said they decided to come to #Qatar to drive buses and build high-rises for the regular paychecks. The Workers Cup kicked off in mid-March with 24 teams, but now only 2 teams remain. The photographer Olya Morvan captured fans of Gulf Contracting celebrating the team's semifinal victory last Frida...
Source: Kidney Notes - April 26, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
April Man of the Month: Vice Adm. C. Forrest Faison III
Throughout the nation’s health care continuum, policymakers and clinicians are searching for ways to eliminate health disparities, improve cost-efficiencies, and achieve better patient outcomes. An organization making important strides in this area is the U.S. military, and a particular leader who warrants our attention is Disruptive Women in Health Care’s Man of the Month, Vice Adm. C. Forrest Faison III, Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
A pediatrician by training, Faison is experienced in providing high-quality, patient-centered care to large, geographically dispersed populations. As co...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Source Type: blogs
International Women’s Day 2016
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, Qatar University in cooperation with the Protection and Social Rehabilitation Center will organize an event “Empowering Women for What You Deserve” on 8 March 2016. Dr Khalid Al Ali, Associate Vice President … Continue reading → (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 7, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Network Tags: Health Care syndicated Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Syrian Civil War Just Became Even More Complex
Just when you thought the Syrian civil war couldn’t get any messier, developments last week proved that it could. For the first time in the armed conflict that has raged for nearly five years, militia fighters from the Assyrian Christian community in northern Iraq clashed with Kurdish troops. What made that incident especially puzzling is that both the Assyrians and the Kurds are vehement adversaries of ISIS—which is also a major player in that region of Syria. Logically, they should be allies who cooperate regarding military moves against the terrorist organization.
But in Syria, very little is simple or straightf...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 19, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Researchers and Advocates Push to Change the WHO Vision for Aging Research and Treatment
The World Health Organization (WHO) position on aging is, as noted a few months back, well-written, incoherent, bureaucratic garbage. In essence it is a call to do nothing meaningful to treat the causes of aging, produced by people distant from the research community, who disregard the last decade of work and current scientific views on aging and longevity. This is unfortunately par for the course for large governmental organizations of this nature. Some researchers and advocates, such as those involved with the International Longevity Alliance, are keen on using the WHO as a megaphone to amplify advocacy for the treatment...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 18, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States Have Accepted Many Syrians
Many more Syrians are living in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States than at the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011. The World Bank reports that 1,000,000 Syrians resided in Saudi Arabia in 2013, a whopping 795 percent increase over 2010. There were 1,375,064 Syrian migrants living in the Gulf States in 2013, a 470 percent increase over 2010. Excluding Oman, the 2013 Syrian population in every Gulf State has increased dramatically since right before the beginning of the Syrian civil war.
Syrian Population Residing in Each Country
2010
2013
Increase Since 2010
Saudi Arabia
111,764
1,000,000
794...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 1, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Russia Follows U.S. Script to Intervene in Syria and Embarrass Washington
Vladimir Putin opened a new game of high stakes geopolitical poker, backing Syria’s President Bashir Assad. But Washington has no complaint. America has been meddling in Syria’s tragic civil war from the start.
Russia’s dramatic backing for Syria’s beleaguered Assad government formally buries any illusion that “what Washington says goes,” even in the Middle East. Moscow has begun bombing regime opponents. Sounding almost like the George W. Bush administration, the Putin government insisted that it was fighting terrorism and there really wasn’t a “moderate opposition.”
In contrast, Russia’s intervention ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 5, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
A Covert Escalation of U.S. Involvement in Syria?
Officials often try to implement dubious or controversial initiatives over weekends or holidays, when journalists and the public are likely to be less vigilant than normal. Three-day holiday weekends are especially popular candidates for such maneuvers. It is perhaps unsurprising that there were indications of a significant change regarding U.S. policy toward Syria on the Sunday before Memorial Day. Turkey’s foreign minister announced that his country and the United States had agreed in principle to provide air protection for some 15,000 Syrian rebels being trained by Ankara and Washington once those insurgents re-...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 2, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Hold Politicians Accountable for Debacle in Libya
Doug Bandow
Will America ever again be at peace? Pressure is building for the U.S. again to intervene in Libya.
Less than three years after Libya’s civil war the country has ceased to exist. This debacle offers a clear lesson for American policymakers. But denizens of Washington seem never to learn.
The administration presented the issue as one of humanitarian intervention, to save the people of Benghazi from slaughter at the hands of Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy.
Although he was a nasty character, he had slaughtered no one when his forces reclaimed other territory. In Benghazi he only threatened those who had taken ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 26, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
World Innovation Summit for Health 2015 policy reports
World Innovation Summit for Health 2015 -The second World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) took place on 17-18 February 2015 at the Qatar National Convention Center. Eight Forums have been established for WISH 2015, each chaired and led by a recognised expert in the topic. Each Forum has published a report, aimed at policy makers and healthcare innovators.
Diabetes
Dementia
Patient safety
Communicating complex health messages
Mental health and wellbeing in children
Universal health coverage
Delivering affordable cancer care
WISH 2015 - full summit details (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 19, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health NHS measurement and performance Patient involvement, experience and feedback Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Biden Should Not Have Apologized
Ted Galen Carpenter
Vice President Joe Biden has reportedly apologized to the leaders of Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and other Middle East countries for his previous comments that they had, perhaps inadvertently, supported Sunni extremists in the Syrian civil war. The uproar occurred because Biden had stated that Turkey, Qatar, and the UAE had given “billions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons” to Syrian Sunni fighters seeking to overthrow Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Those governments, he charged, had been willing to give aid to “anyone who would fight Assad. Except that the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 7, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
