Wound Care Education for Medical Doctors: Filling the Gap
Whenever I ask a group of doctors, “How many of you have had any training in care and treatment of chronic wounds?” it is the rare person who raises their hand. Despite the urgent need for medical doctors to know how to assess and treat pressure injuries and chronic wounds, there is no formal medical or surgical specialty in wound care. This has resulted in a gap in education, training, and research, with extensive variation in clinical practice. The medical education establishment has simply not caught up to the realities of care for the chronically ill patient. Filling the education gap in wound care is one of my pro...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - March 18, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: An Aging World Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care Pressure Injuries & Wound Care Risk Management aging skin bedsore bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer end-of-life care geriatrics Healthcare Quality Improving Medical Care Jeff Lev Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Letter to BMJ Seeking Correction in Study of Long Covid Physical-and-Mental Rehabilitation Program
By David Tuller, DrPH Last month, The BMJ published a study of a rehab intervention for Long Covid in which the authors made claims that were not borne out by the data. The study was called “Clinical effectiveness of an online supervised group physical and mental health rehabilitation programme for adults with post-covid-19 condition (REGAIN … Trial By Error: Letter to BMJ Seeking Correction in Study of Long Covid Physical-and-Mental Rehabilitation Program Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 11, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized BMJ Long Covid mcgregor warwick Source Type: blogs

From paralysis to possibility: an unexpected awakening [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Join us as we sit down with Olivia Ong, a pain and rehabilitation medicine physician based in Australia, as she opens up about her incredible journey of resilience and self-discovery. In 2008, Olivia experienced a traumatic spinal cord injury that left Read more… From paralysis to possibility: an unexpected awakening [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 4, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Orthopedics Source Type: blogs

Putting the ‘value’ in value-based payments
By JOSH SEIDMAN Like Matthew Holt, I have also been ranting about the fact that “We’re spending way too much money on stuff that is the wrong thing.” As Matthew said, “it’s a rant, but a rant with a point!” And that’s a lot better than most rants these days. In addition to having a point, I’m also bringing a lot of data to my rant. More specifically, we’ve known for a long time that clinical care only drives 20% (maybe less) of health outcomes, yet we continue to spend more and more on it. We do that despite the well-documented fact that the U.S. performs worse than most OECD countries despite sp...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy clubhouses Josh Seidman SDoH Serious Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: New Long Covid Exercise-and-Therapy Study Claims Success Despite Clinically Insignificant Findings
By David Tuller, DrPH A new study of an online group physical and psychological rehabilitation program for Long Covid confirms once again that people given an intervention purporting to help them are more likely to tell investigators that they feel better than those given nothing of the kind. People, this is not a surprising result! … Trial By Error: New Long Covid Exercise-and-Therapy Study Claims Success Despite Clinically Insignificant Findings Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 20, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

The difficult balance between evidence-based healthcare … and person-centred self-management
For decades I’ve been an advocate for evidence-based healthcare because the alternative is ’eminence-based healthcare’ (for healthcare, read ‘medicine’ in the original!). Eminence-based healthcare is based on opinion and leverages power based on a hierarchy from within biomedicine (read this for more!). EBHC appealed because in clinical practice I heard the stories of people living with chronic pain who had experienced treatment after treatment of often invasive and typically unhelpful therapies, and EBHC offered a sifting mechanism to filter out the useless from the useful. Where has EBHC...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - February 18, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping strategies Pain conditions Professional topics Research Science in practice pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs

A people-first approach to cardiac rehabilitation
How do you change the paradigm in a rigid system? When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, my team and I didn’t have a choice. We had built our hospital’s in-person cardiac rehabilitation program from the ground up, but this was a moment of reckoning. Our program would need to incorporate virtual care. Completing cardiac rehabilitation Read more… A people-first approach to cardiac rehabilitation originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 7, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Guarding and flow: an observational study
This study is an observational study of physiotherapists watching videos of people with chronic low back pain doing movements. The movements are pretty decontextualised (ie they’re not integrated with everyday life activities) but they are the kinds of movement that people can find difficult. They were: reaching forward with arms horizontal in standing position (reach forward), bending down towards the toes in standing position (forward-bend), standing from sitting stand), and sitting from standing (stand-to-sit). The videos were of 10 people with low back pain, and were chosen from a larger set of 16 people all perf...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - February 4, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping strategies Low back pain Physiotherapy pain management Research Source Type: blogs

Is the Future of Healthcare Modular?
When most of us think of modular buildings, we picture those trailer-like structures on construction sites – the ones with panel walls and the electrical wire that dangles outside. Modern modular buildings are a far cry from those flimsy seventies-era trailers. Modern modular buildings are marvels of technology and engineering. To learn more, Healthcare IT Today went to visit Fero International, a company that fabricates advanced modular buildings for the healthcare, education and municipal markets. We sat down with Fero’s CEO, Sabrina Fiorellino to learn more. Modular Buildings for Healthcare For healthcare providers,...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Fero International Healthcare Buildings Healthcare Construction modular clinics modular construction modular OR Sabrina Fiorellino Source Type: blogs

The words we use to talk about pain
Are you a ‘pain sufferer’? A ‘pain warrior’? A ‘pain victim’? Do you ‘ache’ or is it a ‘stabbing’ pain? Do you even know what ‘lancinating’ means? And let’s add in: are you a ‘catastrophiser’? Has your pain been developed through ‘chronification’? Is your body ‘unbalanced’ or ‘asymmetrical’? Do you ‘comply’ or ‘adhere’? Are you ‘motivated’? The ways we talk about pain are weird! We blithely use words, us clinicians and researchers (and yes, people with pain)...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 21, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Professional topics Resilience/Health Science in practice biopsychosocial healthcare Source Type: blogs

XRHealth Secures $6 Million in Funding Led by Asabys Partners and Welcomes NOVA Prime as a New Investor
Funding will Support Development of AI Clinician, Using Spatial Computing XRHealth, the leading healthcare platform in Spatial computing, announced today that the company secured $6 million in funding led by Asabys Partners, with the participation of NOVA Prime Fund, a venture capital fund created by global innovator LG Electronics and Clearbrook, LLC., and XRHealth’s current investors. Marking the completion of the merger between XRHealth and Amelia Virtual Care, the funding supports the growth of the combined entities. The funding will also further the development of an AI-based clinician that can treat patients for m...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ali Diallo Amelia Virtual Care Asabys Partners Clearbrook LLC. Eran Orr Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment LG Electronics NOVA Prime Fund XRHealth Source Type: blogs

The Future Of Cognitive Health: This Is How Digital Health Can Help
According to this study, digital healthcare technologies offer ways to manage and slow down the progression of conditions like dementia and mild cognitive impairment. However, choosing the right technology is difficult because there’s no comprehensive review that covers the various types of digital technology for cognitive impairment, including their effects and limitations. The goal of the study was to identify different types of digital health technologies used for dementia and mild cognitive impairment and evaluate how the results are measured and aligned with their intended purposes.  A total of 13...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF cognitive health Source Type: blogs

Concerted Effort to Define Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare is Sorely Needed
The following is a guest article by Amy Hester, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Chairwoman and CEO at HD Nursing The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) across a number of industries, particularly in healthcare, has shown both great promise as well as cause for alarm.  A perfect example of not only misusing AI, but also continuing to use a model to make decisions affecting individual care that can be error-prone involves a recent class-action lawsuit filed against one of the nation’s largest health plans and its subsidiary.  Both companies stand accused of illegally using an algorithm to deny rehabilitation care to seriousl...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Artificial Intelligence Dr. Amy Hester Ethical AI HD Nursing Healthcare AI Healthcare Automation responsible AI Source Type: blogs

Self monitoring – focusing on pain too much? or an essential part of living with pain?
I was just a tiny bit surprised when I looked at the results of my self-management strategy survey: self monitoring was smack bang in the middle of the list! Take a look yourself – Self monitoring is not something we discuss much in pain management circles. It’s like ‘Oooh if you keep noticing your pain you’re fixating on it and that’s bad!’ and yet I suspect it forms part of the background interoceptive awareness that most of us do whether we live with pain or not. Let’s take a deeper look at it. The ‘definition’ I used was ‘noticing your pain i...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - December 17, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Coping Skills Coping strategies biopsychosocial Chronic pain interoception pain management Research Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 more stories
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News and Studies ONC announced the launch of the USCDI+ Platform, the single place where datasets for all USCDI+ domains will be located. Clinician shortages, virtual care partnerships, and weight loss medications are the majo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AdvancedMD Airstrip Amenities Health athenahealth b.well Brent Dover Brooks Rehabilitation Carta Healthcare DUOS eClinicalWorks Ensemble Health Partners Epic EHR FDB Vela GE Healthcare Healthcare IT Today Bonus Source Type: blogs