Drug Diversion – Can AI Monitoring Solve This Growing Issue?
The following is a guest article by Claire Reilly, Director of Clinical Operations at Imprivata and former Emergency Room Charge Nurse.
Although often overshadowed by major news and events, drug diversion – the rerouting of medications intended for patients by healthcare staff and is actually theft – has been a persistent problem in all healthcare settings. Pharmacies, doctors’ offices, hospitals, and care homes are all places drug diversion can occur if prescribing is not carefully monitored and managed.
In recent years, multiple factors have combined to create a perfect storm for drug diversion. Healthcar...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Healthcare IT Regulations Adderall Alcohol Abuse Artificial Intelligence Big Data Technologies Claire Reilly COVID-19 Drug Abuse Drug Diversion Drug Overdoses EHR Electronic Hea Source Type: blogs
What ’ s the relationship between pain intensity and functional limitations?
This question comes up from time to time as some commentators strive to “find the cause and fix the problem at all cost.” The argument is that if pain was gone, the person would simply return to their old life just as they were. And for what it’s worth, there’s certainly a relationship between pain intensity and disability, and pain intensity and distress – but it’s not simple.
One of the earliest papers I read when I was beginning my pain management career is one by Waddell, Main, Morris, Di Paola & Gray (1984). Gordon Waddell was an orthopaedic surgeon with an interest ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 15, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Pain Research Science in practice biopsychosocial Clinical reasoning pain management Source Type: blogs
My family ’s disastrous experience with a growth-driven long-term care company
by “E-PATIENT” DAVE DEBRONKART
Continuing THCB’s occasional series on actual experiences with the health care system. This is the secondin a short series about a patient and family experience from one of America’s leading ePatients.
I’ve been blogging recently about what happens in American healthcare when predatory investor-driven companies start moving into care industries because of, as Pro Publica puts it, “easy money and a lack of regulation.” The first two posts were about recent articles in The New Yorker on companies that are more interested in sales and growth than caring.
My mother...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care ePatient Dave Patient Experience Respite care Source Type: blogs
The time is ripe for virtual care solutions in COPD
There’s a burgeoning crisis taking hold in the COPD management space; there are simply not enough pulmonologists, respiratory therapists, or pulmonary rehabilitation facilities to treat the growing number of COPD patients. This has left our field with an urgent window of opportunity to implement digital innovation into traditional treatment paradigms. Ironically enough, it was a
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The time is ripe for virtual care solutions in COPD originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 26, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Brian Gelbman, MD Tags: Conditions Mobile health Pulmonology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 19th 2022
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Association of LDL-Cholesterol with Mortality
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/12/association-of-ldl-cholesterol-with-mortality/
Researchers here report on a study of LDL-cholesterol and mortality risk in older people. As they note, data on this topic is conflicted once one moves beyond the matter of cardiovascular disease. Over a lifetime, higher LDL-cholesterol makes it easier to reach the tipping point at which cholesterol deposited in blood vessel walls produces e...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 18, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – December 17, 2022
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.
MedAware’s Mission: Medical Alerts That Make Sense. Alert fatigue is so pervasive because it’s a symptom of bas design, John Lynn learned in his conversation with Dr. Gidi Stein at MedAware. That’s why the company focuses on optimizing alerts by analyzing data from relevant patient records and medical devices to ensure alerts are releva...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
The Struggle to Deal with the Presently Incurable Issues of Aging
The struggles and sufferings of the old are largely conducted behind the curtain, not talked about all that much in the public sphere. How does one manage the last phase of life for a failing, complex machine that cannot be repaired, only coaxed into a slightly slower decline? As it turns out, a fair amount of not thinking about it is involved: on the part of younger people, and particularly on the part of research and development institutions that do not wish to be burdened with the very complex, interacting nature of late life age-related diseases. New treatments and adjustments to the standard of care are rarely formall...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Therapy Brands Acquires New Hampshire-Based The Echo Group
Acquisition Expands Therapy Brands Capabilities as a Provider of High-Value Software for Therapists
Therapy Brands, a leading health-care technology partner for mental, behavioral, and rehabilitative therapy practices, announced today that it has acquired New Hampshire-based The Echo Group, the creators of EchoVantage EHR, a visual-based EHR for behavioral health. This acquisition will allow Therapy Brands to expand its capabilities and offer complimentary solutions to its growing product portfolio.
“With this acquisition of The Echo Group, we begin an exciting time at Therapy Brands to expand our enterprise capabilities...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Allan Normandin behavioral health EchoVantage EHR Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jeffrey Shoreman Nicole Lininger The Echo Group Therapy Brands Visual-Based EHR Source Type: blogs
On making things easier … Occupational therapists and ‘ compensatory ’ approaches
If there is one part of occupational therapy practice that gets more of my middle-aged grumpiness than any other, it’s occupational therapists using compensatory approaches for managing pain. And like anything, it’s complicated and nuanced. So here’s my attempt to work my way through the quagmire.
Compensatory approaches consist of a whole range of interventions that aim to “make up for” a deficit in a person’s occupational performance (see Nicholson & Hayward (2022) for a discussion of compensatory approaches in “functional neurological disorder”). The rationale for c...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - December 4, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping Skills Coping strategies Occupational therapy Pain conditions Professional topics Research Science in practice compensatory strategies pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
3 Standout Innovators at #HLTH2022
The annual HLTH conference is a smorgasbord of healthcare innovation. There are startups offering cutting-edge solutions alongside well-established health IT companies introducing their latest transformational products. Standing out from all the incredible technologies at the conference is difficult, but there were three companies that did just that: Wambi, HyIvy Health, and NuraLogix.
Patient Voices to Uplift & Inspire
Wambi is a recognition and culture transformation platform that elevates the voice of patients as well as peers and provides their positive feedback directly to staff. Getting a “Wambi” means receiv...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Alexandra Coren Anura cervical cancer HyIvy Health NuraLogix patient engagement Source Type: blogs
Avoiding Red Flags: Finding the Right Productivity Balance
The following is a guest article by John Wallace, PT, OCS, Senior Vice President of RCM at WebPT.
When it comes to the number of patients providers can see in a day, some might think that more is more. After all, more patients should generate more billable services—and thus, more payments. But as organizations balance productivity goals with payer policies, sometimes their version of “enough” patient volume is actually too much.
The number of Medicare TPEs and commercial payer take-back audits alone is skyrocketing. Providers who have timed codes for billing may be putting themselves at risk if they do not optimize ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Regulations Revenue Cycle Management ADR Advanced Document Request Audit CMS Department of Labor John Brickley John Wallace Medicare MedStar Health Physical Therapy OIG Payer Audits Payers providers Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – November 15, 2022 – News from Amwell, Epic, Google, MEDITECH, Microsoft, and more, plus the dates for HLTH Europe
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.
This edition is a special dispatch from HLTH 2022. There have been a lot of new research reports, new products, and news partnerships announced at the event. We wanted to try and cover as many announcements for the Healthcare IT...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Accolade AMA Amwell ApoWiser Bamboo Health Bayer BioT Medical Capital Rx Carenostics Commure Consensus Cloud Solutions COTA e-Psychiatry Ellisis Source Type: blogs
For Those Who Wondered We Have A Winner For “Brilliant Women In Digital Health”!
Spotted this a few days ago!17 Oct 2022 10:22 am AEDTResearchers receive Brilliant Women in Digital Health AwardsAwards celebrate contributions to digital health and technology throughout AustraliaTwo University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers, Tara Alexander and Ping Yu, have been recognised in the2022 Brilliant Women in Digital Health Awards presented by Telstra Health to celebrate women finding ground-breaking digital solutions in the sector.Tara Alexander is the Data Manager and Statistician for theAustralasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre(AROC), headquartered at UOW. She was instrumental in establishing AROC and has...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - October 25, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and any related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon, a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: New Study Promotes “ Bespoke ” Hospital Rehab Program for Kids with ME/CFS
By David Tuller, DrPH The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health recently published a paper called “Key Features of a Multi-Disciplinary Hospital-Based Rehabilitation Program for Children and Adolescents with Moderate to Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ME/CFS.” The investigators retrospectively reviewed the records of 27 children and young people (CYP) who were treated […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 24, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized pediatric terry segal Source Type: blogs
