Health Tech Start-up Spry Secures New Investment to Further Strengthen Its Omnichannel Patient Management Platform for Physical Therapists
The round was led by Eight Roads Ventures with participation from F-Prime Capital and Together Fund.
Funds will be used to accelerate the company’s mission to build the future of practice management for physical rehabilitation
Spry, an end-to-end patient and practice management SaaS platform for physical therapists, today announced that it has successfully completed a new round of funding to accelerate its mission to build the future of practice management for physical rehabilitation. With this new round, the company has raised over US $10 million to date. The round was led by Eight Roads Ventures, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Brijraj Bhuptani Carl Byers Dr. Prem Pavoor EHR Funding Eight Roads Ventures F-Prime Capital Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Manav Garg Physical Therapy Practice Managemen Source Type: blogs
The added stress of chronic pain on life
For a minute, I’d like you to grab an ice-cube. If you don’t have one handy, try this at home or when you’re having your next gin and tonic. Hold onto that ice-cube. Keep holding onto it. Put a cloth underneath if it’s going to melt, but keep holding it. Now do your grocery shopping list. Or balance your accounts. While holding the ice-cube.*
Now add some exercises. Exercises you don’t care for, but feel like you have to do “because they’ll help you get better”.
Keep holding onto the ice-cube. Oh, it’s melted?! Fine – go grab another. Hand too cold to pick ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 19, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Psychology Therapeutic approaches biopsychosocial pain management Source Type: blogs
TWiV 905: COVID-19 clinical update #117 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #117, Dr. Griffin discusses duration of virus shedding, association between pre-exposure to steroids and infection outcome, post-infection subtypes, rehabilitation for post-acute infection, Tixagevimab/Cilgavimab for infection prevention, antibody prophylaxis and vaccination in kidney transplant recipients, remdesivir and bebtelovimab fact sheets for providers, the updated guidelines on treatment with Famotidine, Paxlovid rebound symptom characterizations, antigen test positivity duration, viral dynamics of variants and isolation, association of inflammation in CS fluid, and transmission dynami...
Source: virology blog - June 4, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation Long Covid monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern viruses Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Interview With Mt Sinai ’ s David Putrino
By David Tuller, DrPH David Putrino is a neuroscientist and physical therapist at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. He runs a research lab and a rehabilitation center that quickly became a magnet for patients grappling with what has come to be known as long Covid–what the US National Institutes of Health calls post-acute sequelae […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 12, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Long Covid Mt Sinai post-exertional malaise Putrino Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: An Interview With Mt Sinai ’ s David Putrino About Long Covid, ME/CFS, and Related Issues
By David Tuller, DrPH David Putrino is a neuroscientist and physical therapist at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. He runs a research lab and a rehabilitation center that quickly became a magnet for patients grappling with what has come to be known as long Covid–what the US National Institutes of Health calls post-acute sequelae […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 12, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Long Covid Mt Sinai post-exertional malaise Putrino Source Type: blogs
Women, partner violence and pain
As the potential for greater repression of women’s autonomy grows (Afghanistan, United States, Mexico), along with racist and misogynist statements from business leaders (DGL CEO Simon Henry) it’s timely to look at pain in women. We already know that more women than men present with persistent pain (Blyth, n.d.), while women who are seen for their pain are more often misdiagnosed, offered psychiatric medication or psychological intervention only and have their experiences dismissed as “hysterical, fabricated, or nonexistent” (Samulowitz, et al., 2018). My daughter, when attending Emergency Departmen...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - May 8, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Professional topics Research Science in practice biopsychosocial gender Health pain management partner violence Source Type: blogs
Netsmart Expands the CareFabric Platform to Support Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation and Wellness Providers
Netsmart announces the addition of TheraOffice®, an industry-leading practice management platform for physical therapy and rehabilitation practices to the Netsmart portfolio. This addition expands the Netsmart CareFabric® platform to deliver workflows for therapy providers to better connect to all venues of healthcare. “Therapies are delivered in coordination with the continuum of provider markets Netsmart has historically supported,” said […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT CareFabric Dan Morrill EHR Acquisitions Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Mike Valentine Netsmart Ryan Havlick TheraOffice Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: PACE Team Stages a Comeback Tour
By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/31347 Professors Peter White, Trudie Chalder and Michael Sharpe seem to have embarked on what could be called the PACE Rehabilitation Tour. […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 11, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized chalder White Source Type: blogs
From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare
Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. These new ‘colleagues’ will definitely make a difference in every field of medicine. Here’s our overview to understand robotics in healthcare better so that everyone can prepare for the appearance of mechanic helpers in medical facilities.
Metallic allies for the benefit of the vulnerable
While there are concerns for machines replacing people in the workforce, we believe there are adv...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Robotics digital health Healthcare Hospital medical nanotechnology Surgery pharmacies future of hospital blood telemedicine social companion social companion robot telemedical medical rob Source Type: blogs
Rehab Fails: What goes wrong in rehab 4
It’s not hard to choose rehab fails, the problem is more about when to stop! I tell a lie, it’s more about how to make changes so these things don’t happen.
Today’s #rehabfail is all about attempting to carve bits of a person off so each profession gets “their” bit to do with what they will. Oh boy, this is a doozy, and it comes to me off the back of seeing the return of the age-old argument about whether pain is “all about the bio” or whether the person gets a look-in. Cuz if it’s all bio then we just treat that bio and be done with it, right? It’s a question ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 10, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Interdisciplinary teams Pain Pain conditions Professional topics biopsychosocial Chronic pain Health healthcare pain management Research Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Rehab Fails: What goes wrong in pain rehabilitation 3
I’m beginning to think this series could grow into a monster – so many #rehabfails to pick from!
Today’s post is about rehabilitation that doesn’t fit into the person’s life. Or that the person hasn’t been supported to fit the rehabilitation into their life. THEIR life, not ours!
You know what I mean: for six to twelve weeks, this person has been coming along to their treatment sessions, doing the things the therapist suggests. They make progress and it’s time to end the programme. “Good bye patient” the therapist says. And the patient skips off into the sunset, f...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 3, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Clinical reasoning Coping Skills Coping strategies Interdisciplinary teams Occupational therapy Pain conditions Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Resilience/Health Science in practice Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
From Organ Designers To Telesurgery VR Planners: Healthcare Jobs in 2040
In this study, the researchers employed the VR prototype for surgical planning using a standard VR setup in two real cases of patients with liver tumours who were scheduled for surgery at a University Hospital for Visceral Surgery. Surgeons used the VR prototype before the surgery to plan the procedure in addition to their regular planning process. They used semi-structured interviews before and after the surgery to explore the benefits and pitfalls of VR surgical planning.
Within 20-30 years, AR/VR operation planners will help surgeons in the preparation for very complex surgical interventions. While the medical pr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 31, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast E-Patients Future of Medicine Medical Education Science Fiction digital health healthcare jobs future jobs Source Type: blogs
What goes wrong in pain rehabilitation (2)
One size does not fit all. Cookie cutter treatments fail to take into account the huge variability each person brings into a clinical encounter, particularly when the person is living with persisting pain. Not really earth shattering news, is it?!
Let me unpack this one.
When we’re treating a person with an acute musculoskeletal injury, let’s say a lateral ankle sprain, I’m going to hazard a guess that most of the recovery occurs without our assistance (don’t shoot the messenger – go read Chen et al, 2019). In essence, we’re creating an environment that supports tissues to do what...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 27, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Interdisciplinary teams Motivation Pain conditions Professional topics Research Science in practice Health healthcare pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit
Conclusion
We do not propose this performance framework as a regulatory guide for state or federal authorities. Rather it is presented as a voluntary alternative for managements and Boards seeking to demonstrate the community benefits created by their institutions.
At their best, large health systems can deliver sophisticated, complex care to their communities. But they can also play a key role with community partners in addressing the social determinants of health, thus reducing per capita health cost. Large multi-billion health systems are here to stay. The conversation about how to enhance the health ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Hospitals Health Systems Ian Morrison Jeff Goldsmith Source Type: blogs
Rehab fails: What goes wrong in pain rehabilitation (1)
Well obviously I’m not going to cover everything that goes wrong – and certainly not in one post! But inspired by some conversations I’ve had recently, I thought I’d discuss some of the common #fails we do in rehabilitation. Things that might explain why people with pain are thought to be “unmotivated” or “noncompliant” – because if the rehab doesn’t ‘work’ of course it’s the person with pain who’s at fault, right? So for today, here goes.
Starting at the wrong intensity
One of the main things that happens when someone’s in pain...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 20, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Cognitive behavioral therapy Cognitive skills Motivation Occupational therapy Pain conditions Physiotherapy Psychology Resilience/Health Science in practice biop Source Type: blogs
