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Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –24th September, 2022.
This article makes the case and explains what will be required to make it happen.We hear a lot about “digital health” these days. As data about our health piles up — thanks to sources like electronic health records, personal fitness apps and gadgets, and home genome test kits — weshould understand a lot more than we used to about what ’s wrong with our health and what to do about it. But having a lot of data is not enough. We have to be aware of what we have, understand what it means, and act on that understanding. While the challenges are in some ways more acute in the United States because of its fragmented sys...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Interventions for palliative symptom control in COVID-19 patients
CONCLUSIONS: We found very low certainty evidence for the efficacy of pharmacological interventions for palliative symptom relief in COVID-19 patients. We found no evidence on the safety of pharmacological interventions or efficacy and safety of non-pharmacological interventions for palliative symptom control in COVID-19 patients. The evidence presented here has no specific implications for palliative symptom control in COVID-19 patients because we cannot draw any conclusions about the effectiveness or safety based on the identified evidence. More evidence is needed to guide clinicians, nursing staff, and caregivers when t...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - August 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Marike Andreas Vanessa Piechotta Nicole Skoetz Kathrin Grummich Marie Becker Lisa Joos Gerhild Becker Winfried Meissner Christopher Boehlke Source Type: research

Palliative Care in Toronto during the COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first emerged in China in December 2019 and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11th, 2020. Clinicians around the world looked to cities that first experienced major surges to inform their preparations to prevent and manage the impact the pandemic would bring to their patients and health care systems. Although this information provided insight into how COVID-19 could affect the Canadian palliative care system, it remained unclear what to expect.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - February 4, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kirsten Wentlandt, Rose Cook, Matt Morgan, Allyson Nowell, Ebru Kaya, Camilla Zimmermann Tags: Clincal Note Source Type: research

COVID-19 Special Collection: evidence relevant to clinical rehabilitation
Cochrane has released a new Special Collection  Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to clinical rehabilitation. This Special Collection is one of a  series of collections on COVID-19, and will be regularly updated.Rehabilitation has been identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an essential health strategy, alongside promotion, prevention, treatment, and palliative care. Rehabilitation focuses on the overall functioning of the whole person, including comorbidities. Consequently, rehabilitation of individuals who have experienced COVID-19 must consider not only the consequences of the disease but also ...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - October 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news

Repurposing Drugs for the Management of Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
CONCLUSION: Although some evidence indicates the positive actions of different classes of compounds for the treatment of COVID-19, few clinical assays have been established to definitively demonstrate their therapeutic value in humans. Multicenter clinical studies are urgently needed to validate and standardize therapeutic regimens that involve these agents. Although science has not yet presented us with a specific drug against COVID-19, the repurposing of drugs appears to be promising in our fight against this devastating disease. PMID: 32634080 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Pharmaceutical Design - July 6, 2020 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Lovato ECW, Barboza LN, Wietzikoski S, de Souza ANV, Auth PA, Junior AG, Dos Reis Lívero FA Tags: Curr Pharm Des Source Type: research

Concerns and coping strategies of persons under institutional quarantine during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Conclusion: It highlights that the psychological impact of illness on affected individuals should not be overlooked as it may have the potential to cause major psychiatric morbidity. It also provides a crucial assessment of their coping mechanisms.
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - June 29, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Neha Singh Sanjeev Kumar Puneet Rathore Saurabh Vig Nandini Vallath Anant Mohan Sushma Bhatnagar Source Type: research

Religion & its Discontents: Considerations Around COVID-19 & Africa
Credit: United NationsBy Dr. Azza Karam and Dr. Mustafa Y. AliNEW YORK, May 8 2020 (IPS) COVID-19 has spread to many nations around the world, and has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. In the global south, the COVID-19 pandemic has stretched the available medical and health resources, triggered economic shocks, and caused social upheavals and insecurity in many countries and localities. While the pandemic has caused huge numbers of infections and deaths in the global north, the consequences in the poorer nations in the global south is acute. Serious challenges arising from responses from authoriti...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Prof. Dr. Azza Karam and Dr. Mustafa Y. Ali Tags: Civil Society Economy & Trade Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Inequity Religion TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

In Light of the Global Pandemic, Focus Attention on the People
Kazimir Malevich, Children on the Grass, 1908 (Pushkin Museum State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow). By External SourceMar 23 2020 (IPS-Partners) SARS-CoV-2 or COVID19, now declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation, has begun to wreak havoc in large parts of the world, with other parts waiting in anticipation. We are in a real struggle, which needs total mobilisation; a struggle that needs to put life before profit. We will only win this struggle – as China has already done – if our people are united and disciplined, if governments earn our respect by their actions, and if we act in solidarity across the...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Health Source Type: news