TPGi Enables Healthcare Teams to Empower All Patients with Digital Accessibility
We’ve all been there: you arrive at a healthcare provider for an appointment, and there’s no one available at the check-in area. You might just see a kiosk to check in. Imagine, now, how frustrated you’d feel if that kiosk was out of order. Or its software is frozen.
For people with disabilities, any healthcare kiosk that isn’t fully digitally accessible may as well be out of order every single time.
TPGi’s Business Development VP Matt Ater is blind, and he says patients like him face this problem regularly. Patients may be blind or have low vision. They may have problems clicking buttons because of coordinatio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Digital Front Door Disabilities Disabled Healthcare Accessibility Health Source Type: blogs
Self-management, coping – or living with?
After a weekend relaxing by the beach, I’m once again pondering the nature of how people live well with persistent pain. It’s called variously ‘self-management’ or ‘coping’ or, in my life, ‘living with’ pain, and as I pointed out last week, it’s not well-defined. I’m not even sure that people with pain get a look-in at what to call these ‘ways of living’ because it’s typically an academic discussion that excludes the very people who are expected to comply with them!
That gripe aside, what’s wrong with the terms ‘coping’ or &#...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - October 8, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping strategies Pain conditions Resilience/Health biopsychosocial pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
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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
This year’s Customer Forum and Innovation Summit from Avel eCare will double as a celebration of their 30th anniversary!
PEP Health’s AI-powered Patient Experience Platform releases its first report offering qua...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Healthcare IT 9amHealth Accelecom Amazon Web Services Artisight athenahealth Atropos Health Avel eCare AVIA Banner Health BJC Healthcare Boston Children's Hospital Children's Mercy Kansas City Cottage Health DrFirst Emma Smit Source Type: blogs
Gardner Treadmill Protocol
Gardner Treadmill Protocol, also known as Gardner-Skinner Protocol was described in 1991 [1]. It is used mainly in the evaluation of peripheral arterial disease. The seminal article evaluated the effect of handrail support on claudication distance. Handrail support reduces energy cost of treadmill walking, and can affect claudication distance and hemodynamic responses in persons with peripheral vascular disease. Reliability of tests may also be reduced unless same pressure is applied to the handrails over repeated tests.
Gardner treadmill protocol is a symptom limited one with progressive graded workload having constant s...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 6, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Optical Strain Sensors for Rehab
Researchers at Pohang University of Science & Technology in South Korea have developed a durable strain sensor that can detect complex body movements. The technology will be useful for patients undergoing physical rehabilitation, allowing physical therapists to assess their movements in significant detail and measure progress. Conventional strain sensors are often affected by heat and humidity, making them less durable as a wearable, and they typically detect only biaxial strain, providing less detail than these new sensors. The new technology uses computer vision, whereby an algorithm reviews digital images of the sen...
Source: Medgadget - September 29, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Rehab 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
Virtual Reality Headset Takes EEG Measurements
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed an electroencephalogram (EEG) sensor that is incorporated into a virtual reality headset. The technology can measure brain activity while someone is undergoing an immersive virtual reality experience. The device may assist in enhancing medical virtual reality interventions, such as those used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder or phobias, by revealing brain activity during different tasks or experiences that help clinicians to tailor treatment plans to maximize efficacy. The electrodes are soft and spongy, which makes them comfortable against the head, an...
Source: Medgadget - September 26, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Neurology Source Type: blogs
Dancing around the hexaflex: Using ACT in practice 6
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can be slippery to describe. It’s an approach that doesn’t aim to change thought content, but instead to help us shift the way we relate to what our mind tells us. It’s also an approach focused on workability: pragmatic and context-specific analysis of how well a strategy is working to achieve being able to do what matters. Over the next few posts I want to give some examples of how non-psychologists (remember ACT is open for anyone to use it!) can use ACT in session.
Actions: It’s what we’re about
You know the old saying “All talk, no action”? The...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - September 24, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Occupational therapy Pain conditions Physiotherapy Psychology Science in practice acceptance and commitment therapy biopsychosocial Chronic pain Clinical reasoning pain management Therapeutic app Source Type: blogs
Dancing around the hexaflex: Using ACT in practice 5
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can be slippery to describe. It’s an approach that doesn’t aim to change thought content, but instead to help us shift the way we relate to what our mind tells us. It’s also an approach focused on workability: pragmatic and context-specific analysis of how well a strategy is working to achieve being able to do what matters. Over the next few posts I want to give some examples of how non-psychologists can use ACT in session (remember ACT is open for anyone to use it!).
Values: Qualities of living
Oh so much has been written about values…Values bring meaning to what w...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - September 17, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Coping strategies Occupational therapy Pain conditions Psychology Science in practice acceptance and commitment therapy Clinical reasoning Health pain management Therapeutic approach Source Type: blogs
Dancing around the hexaflex: Using ACT in practice 5
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can be slippery to describe. It’s an approach that doesn’t aim to change thought content, but instead to help us shift the way we relate to what our mind tells us. It’s also an approach focused on workability: pragmatic and context-specific analysis of how well a strategy is working to achieve being able to do what matters. Over the next few posts I want to give some examples of how non-psychologists can use ACT in session (remember ACT is open for anyone to use it!).
Values: Qualities of living
Oh so much has been written about values…Values bring meaning to what w...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - September 17, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Coping strategies Occupational therapy Pain conditions Psychology Science in practice acceptance and commitment therapy Clinical reasoning Health pain management Therapeutic approach Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – September 16, 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.
Optimize Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience. Simply collecting patient data and giving it to providers isn’t enough any more. Clinicians can practice better when they get real-time access to a longitudinal patient record and the insights that come from it, John Lynn learned from a conversation with Scott Alderman at CyncHealth. R...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Xealth: Connecting Hospitals and Health Systems to Patient Apps and Health Information
Accelerated innovation is affecting health care in several ways. For instance, it’s increasingly important to offer services and monitoring to patients in the home, because those interventions are key to managing chronic conditions as well as rehabilitation after surgery or other medical procedures. Furthermore, a wealth of home-based solutions are being offered by a range of IT companies. Xealth boosts the clinicians’ ability to take advantage of remote digital therapeutics.
The SMART-on-FHIR open platform allows clinicians to offer third-party apps in a standard manner. Xealth makes it easy to add apps to a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring FHIR Healthcare Apps Healthcare Information Healthcare IT Video Interviews Patient Po Source Type: blogs
Dancing around the hexaflex: Using ACT in practice 4
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can be slippery to describe. It’s an approach that doesn’t aim to change thought content, but instead to help us shift the way we relate to what our mind tells us. It’s also an approach focused on workability: pragmatic and context-specific analysis of how well a strategy is working to achieve being able to do what matters. Over the next few posts I want to give some examples of how non-psychologists can use ACT in session (remember ACT is open for anyone to use it!).
Willingess (Acceptance) – Choosing to experience it all
Do you remember the poignancy of a beloved ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - September 10, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Coping strategies Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Science in practice acceptance and commitment therapy pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Dancing around the hexaflex: Using ACT in practice 4
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can be slippery to describe. It’s an approach that doesn’t aim to change thought content, but instead to help us shift the way we relate to what our mind tells us. It’s also an approach focused on workability: pragmatic and context-specific analysis of how well a strategy is working to achieve being able to do what matters. Over the next few posts I want to give some examples of how non-psychologists can use ACT in session (remember ACT is open for anyone to use it!).
Willingess (Acceptance) – Choosing to experience it all
Do you remember the poignancy of a beloved ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - September 10, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Coping strategies Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Science in practice acceptance and commitment therapy pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Why It Is Important To Understand Multimodal Large Language Models In Healthcare
The future of medicine is undoubtedly inextricably linked to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Although this revolution has been brewing for years, the past few months marked a major change, as algorithms finally moved out of the specialized labs and into our daily lives.
The public debut of Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT which became the fastest-growing consumer application of all time, has been a roaring success. LLMs are machine learning models trained on a vast amount of text data which enables them to understand and generate human-like text based on the patterns and structures they̵...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine large language models multimodal AI multimodal large language models multimodal LLM Source Type: blogs
