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Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in Kids: Collaboration and Technology Are Key
The following is a guest article by Serrah Linares, Vice President of Partner Sales at Change Healthcare, and Rachel Mack Robinson, Founder and President at DotCom Therapy. Children in America were increasingly struggling with mental health before COVID-19, but the pandemic compounded an already growing crisis. Today in the U.S., nearly one in five children experience a mental health disorder. What’s just as alarming is that for every five children with a mental health disorder, only one will receive treatment. In October 2021, leading pediatric healthcare associations declared a national emergency in child and adolescen...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AAP American Academy oF Pediatrics API behavioral health CARES Act Change Healthcare CHIP Coronavirus Aid Source Type: blogs

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –1st October, 2022.
This article details information required for integration into EHRs to build personalized treatment plans and develop successful SDOH programs that provide resources and support for patients in need. In addition, successful SDOH programs implemented by Kaiser Permanente and Boston Medical Center showcase how supporting clinicians with real-time SDOH data can lead to patient-centric care. Create a 360-Degree Patient View Through TechnologyThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)indicatesthat the “collection, documentation, reporting, access, and use of SDOH data … can be used t...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Child Care Stress Among Health Care Workers Associated With Burnout, Intent to Reduce Hours
Health care workers who reported experiencing high levels of stress about child care during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to report anxiety, depression, and burnout compared with those without child care stress, according to areport published today inJAMA Network Open. Health care workers experiencing such stress were also more likely to report an intent to reduce their hours or leave their position than those without child care stress.“Since the start of the pandemic, 1 in 5 [health care workers] has quit their job according to a poll conducted in September 2021,” wrote Elizabeth M. Harry,...
Source: Psychiatr News - July 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: burnout child care stress Coping with COVID survey COVID-19 depression ethnicity health care workers JAMA Network Open leave job pandemic race reduce hours women Source Type: research

Black Veterans Half as Likely as Whites to Receive Prescriptions for Depression
White veterans with depression are twice as likely as their Black peers to receive a prescription for antidepressants in primary care, astudyinPsychiatric Services in Advance has found.“These results underscore the importance of examining patterns of racial disparities in all settings in which mental health care is provided to identify areas for improvement,” wrote Jocelyn E. Remmert, Ph.D., of the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Philadelphia and colleagues.From January 2015 to December 2020, the researchers collected data from 4,120 Black and 4,372 White adult primary...
Source: Psychiatr News - April 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: antidepressants Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Medical Center health disparities health inequities Jocelyn E. Remmert Psychiatric Services Source Type: research

Digital Tool May Improve Cognitive Functioning Among Adults With MDD
Adults who continue to experience symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD) while taking antidepressants may benefit from playing a video game-based intervention called AKL-T03, according to astudy published this week in theAmerican Journal of Psychiatry. Adults with MDD who played AKL-T03 for six weeks showed improvements in sustained attention and cognitive functioning compared with those who played a different video game.“Society is facing a growing mental health crisis, with depression rates in the U.S. increasing about 20% during the pandemic. While mood symptoms are most often associated with MDD, equally concern...
Source: Psychiatr News - April 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: adults Akili Interactive AKL-T03 American Journal of Psychiatry attention cognitive function depression digital intervention MDD public health emergency Source Type: research

The New $10 Billion COVID-19 Deal Leaves Uninsured People at Risk
When Senators announced on Monday that they reached a deal for $10 billion in additional funding for the coronavirus response, many public health experts were dismayed that the package will not include aid for vaccines abroad. But another area that is likely to get shorted is the program that has covered the costs of coronavirus tests, treatments and vaccines for uninsured Americans. That lack of funding could not only hurt the most vulnerable Americans, experts say, but also fuel future outbreaks of COVID-19. The program for uninsured people began winding down late last month. The Biden Administration repeatedly asked la...
Source: TIME: Health - April 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 26th March, 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.-----https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/55-of-telehealth-providers-frustrated-with-overblown-patient-expectations55% of Telehealth Providers Frustrated With Overblown Patient ExpectationsProviders also cited their ability to provide quality care and technical difficulties as among their top frustrations with telehealth, a new survey shows.ByAnuja VaidyaMarch 18, 202...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

The COVID-19 pandemic: one year later – an occupational perspective
This report points to the importance of oc cupation as a risk factor but also to the availability and use of appropriate personal protection to mitigate the risk of becoming infected. In addition, well-established socio-economic factors of health inequalities intermingled with occupations at risk, demonstrated by the fact that most taxi driv ers belonged to the same ethnic group and that taxi drivers had higher mortality rates when residing in London (5). These findings are mirrored in a recent preprint publication from the US state of California, reporting that relative excess mortality was particularly high among food/ag...
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health - March 23, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Five Actions to Promote Well-Being of Health Care Workers During, After COVID-19
Organizations must act to protect the health and well-being of health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic —now and in the future, wrote the leaders of the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience in anarticle inThe New England Journal of Medicine.“Before the virus struck, the U.S. clinical workforce was already experiencing a crisis of burnout. We are now facing a surge of physical and emotional harm that amounts to a parallel pandemic,” wrote Victor J. Dzau, M.D., Darrell Kirch, M.D., and Thomas Nasca, M.D. “Tragically, we are already seeing repo...
Source: Psychiatr News - May 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: chief wellness officers COVID-19 Darrell Kirch epidemiological tracking program health care workers New England Journal of Medicine reporting systems Thomas Nasca Victor J. Dzau Well-Being Source Type: research

How Russia ’s Coronavirus Outbreak Became One of the World’s Worst
Russian President Vladimir Putin eased the nationwide lockdown imposed on March 30 to stem the spread of the coronavirus, even as Russia becomes Europe’s new hotspot for the infection. With more than 250,000 cases as of May 15, Russia now has the second-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world. In a televised address to the nation on May 11, Putin said that some sectors would return to work from the following day, though restrictions on large public events across the country would stay in place. Everyone is required to wear face masks and gloves in shops and on public transport. Still closed in Moscow ...
Source: TIME: Health - May 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Madeline Roache Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Explainer feature Londontime Source Type: news

The Coronavirus Outbreak is Overwhelming to People ’ s Mental Health
With the novel coronavirus outbreak of 2020 raging across the world with little end in sight, people’s mental health is starting to become seriously impacted. There’s no easy way to say this — people are struggling right now. Stay-at-home orders, while invaluable and helping from a public health perspective, are taking their toll on people’s emotional state. And if you were already vulnerable due to a mental illness diagnosis or concern you were grappling with, the outbreak of COVID-19 has only made things worse. The problem is that most public health experts are spending time talking about the phy...
Source: World of Psychology - May 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Anxiety and Panic General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Coping Skills coronavirus COVID-19 Depression Source Type: blogs

The Unseen Trauma of COVID-19
The kind of trauma doctors, nurses, and others in direct contact with COVID-19 patients have endured for months now — with an uncertain future posing a threat of many more months of horror in the hardest-hit areas — is the kind of exhausting and overwhelming stress that impacts the brain and the rest of the body in the worst ways. Whether or not these individuals were mentally healthy before the pandemic, this work takes an often-invisible toll. Sometimes, in a life and death struggle, that toll becomes a pull toward suicide. Compassionate Fatigue, also called Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), can happen when p...
Source: World of Psychology - May 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jan McDaniel Tags: Trauma Compassionate Fatigue coronavirus COVID-19 Healthcare Workers Secondary Traumatic Stress Source Type: blogs

Coughing, Fainting, Breathing Problems: Stranded Cruise Ship Passengers Describe Chaotic Flight Home to U.S.
(ATLANTA) — On a chaotic flight home, some passengers who had been stranded for days aboard a cruise ship after being exposed to the coronavirus suffered breathing problems, many coughed and several fainted with no food or medical personnel provided, travelers said Friday “It was a suicide mission,” said passenger Jenny Harrell, of Fredericksburg, Virginia. “It was a mass triage with absolutely no direction and the crew going, ‘What should we do now?’” Decisions were left up to the passengers, said Harrell, who had some emergency medical training in the past and helped a physician ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JEFF MARTIN / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 News Desk wire Source Type: news