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Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed
There are a lot of rules and regulations in place in the world of healthcare. These are put into place in order to protect patients and organizations. However, the world of healthcare is constantly changing and evolving as we come up with new ideas and solutions. Have the regulations done the same though? Or are there areas that are missing regulations? Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update re...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations 1upHealth 4medica Amanda Heidemann Andrea Mazzoccoli Andrew Norden MD Bill Charnetski Cheryl Cheng Commur Source Type: blogs

Physician and administrator experience of preparing to implement Ontario's intensive care unit Triage Emergency Standard of Care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study
CMAJ Open. 2023 Sep 19;11(5):E838-E846. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20220168. Print 2023 Sep-Oct.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: As the COVID-19 pandemic created a surge in demand for critical care resources, the province of Ontario, Canada, released the Adult Critical Care Clinical Emergency Standard of Care for Major Surge (Emergency Standard of Care [ESoC]), a triage framework to guide the allocation of critical care resources in the expectation that intensive care units would be overwhelmed. Our aim was to understand physicians' and administrators' experiences and perceptions of planning to implement the ESoC, and to identify ways to impro...
Source: cmaj - September 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Brandon A Heidinger Ariane Downar Andrea Frolic James Downar Sarina R Isenberg Source Type: research

ASO Visual Abstract: COVID-19 Pandemic Did Not Influence the Number of Oncologic and Emergency Surgeries-A Retrospective Cohort Study from a Tertiary Hospital in Austria
Ann Surg Oncol. 2023 Sep 18. doi: 10.1245/s10434-023-14330-5. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:37721692 | DOI:10.1245/s10434-023-14330-5
Source: Ann Oncol - September 18, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Lukas Gasteiger Gabriel Putzer Elisabeth Hoerner Michael Joannidis Timo Mayerhoefer Tobias Hell Ottokar Stundner Judith Martini Source Type: research

Emergency department visits and hospital admissions for suicidal ideation, self-poisoning and self-harm among adolescents in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic
CMAJ. 2023 Sep 18;195(36):E1221-E1230. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.220507.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic had profound effects on the mental wellbeing of adolescents. We sought to evaluate pandemic-related changes in health care use for suicidal ideation, self-poisoning and self-harm.METHODS: We obtained data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information on emergency department visits and hospital admissions from April 2015 to March 2022 among adolescents aged 10-18 years in Canada. We calculated the quarterly percentage of emergency department visits and hospital admissions for a composite outcome comprising suicidal...
Source: cmaj - September 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Naveen Poonai Stephen B Freedman Amanda S Newton Scott Sawyer Nathalie Gaucher Samina Ali Bruce Wright Michael R Miller Ahmed Mater Eleanor Fitzpatrick Mona Jabbour Roger Zemek Mohamed Eltorki Quynh Doan Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) Network Source Type: research

Self-harm among youth during the first 28 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study
We reported relative differences between observed and expected monthly rates overall and by age group (10-13 yr and 14-17 yr), sex and mental health service use (new and continuing).RESULTS: In this population of about 1.3 million children and adolescents, rates of acute care visits for self-harm during the pandemic were higher than expected for emergency department visits (0.27/1000 population v. 0.21/1000 population; adjusted rate ratio [RR] 1.29, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.19-1.39) and hospital admissions (0.74/10 000 population v. 0.43/10 000 population, adjusted RR 1.72, 95% CI 1.46-2.03). This increase was primar...
Source: cmaj - September 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Rachel H B Mitchell Alene Toulany Hannah Chung Eyal Cohen Longdi Fu Rachel Strauss Simone N Vigod Therese A Stukel Kimberly Moran Astrid Guttmann Paul Kurdyak Azmina Artani Monica Kopec Natasha R Saunders Source Type: research

Emergency department visits and hospital admissions for suicidal ideation, self-poisoning and self-harm among adolescents in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic
CMAJ. 2023 Sep 18;195(36):E1221-E1230. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.220507.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic had profound effects on the mental wellbeing of adolescents. We sought to evaluate pandemic-related changes in health care use for suicidal ideation, self-poisoning and self-harm.METHODS: We obtained data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information on emergency department visits and hospital admissions from April 2015 to March 2022 among adolescents aged 10-18 years in Canada. We calculated the quarterly percentage of emergency department visits and hospital admissions for a composite outcome comprising suicidal...
Source: cmaj - September 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Naveen Poonai Stephen B Freedman Amanda S Newton Scott Sawyer Nathalie Gaucher Samina Ali Bruce Wright Michael R Miller Ahmed Mater Eleanor Fitzpatrick Mona Jabbour Roger Zemek Mohamed Eltorki Quynh Doan Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC) Network Source Type: research

Self-harm among youth during the first 28 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study
We reported relative differences between observed and expected monthly rates overall and by age group (10-13 yr and 14-17 yr), sex and mental health service use (new and continuing).RESULTS: In this population of about 1.3 million children and adolescents, rates of acute care visits for self-harm during the pandemic were higher than expected for emergency department visits (0.27/1000 population v. 0.21/1000 population; adjusted rate ratio [RR] 1.29, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.19-1.39) and hospital admissions (0.74/10 000 population v. 0.43/10 000 population, adjusted RR 1.72, 95% CI 1.46-2.03). This increase was primar...
Source: cmaj - September 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Rachel H B Mitchell Alene Toulany Hannah Chung Eyal Cohen Longdi Fu Rachel Strauss Simone N Vigod Therese A Stukel Kimberly Moran Astrid Guttmann Paul Kurdyak Azmina Artani Monica Kopec Natasha R Saunders Source Type: research

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on erectile function in Chinese CP/CPPS patients
This study aimed to investigate the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on erectile function in Chinese patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS). A retrospective study was conducted on 657 CP/CPPS patients who visited The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University (Changsha, China) from November 2018 to November 2022. Patients were divided into two groups based on the timeline before and after the COVID-19 outbreak in China. The severity of CP/CPPS, penile erection status, anxiety, and depression was evaluated using the National Institutes of Health-Chronic Pro...
Source: Asian Journal of Andrology - September 11, 2023 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Wei-Jie Song Ji-Wei Huang Yuan Liu Wei Ding Zhi Long Le-Ye He Source Type: research

Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Modality Education in a Nephrology Clinic During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nephrol Nurs J. 2023 Jul-Aug;50(4):313-320.ABSTRACTLow attendance by patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD stage 4 and 5) to the kidney replacement therapy (KRT) education sessions was noted by our nurse practitioners at a safety net hospital. The main outcome measure was the weekly percentage of patients with advanced CKD seen by the nephrology division weekly that completed KRT education. Process measures were weekly KRT session attendance by scheduled patients and the weekly referral of patients to KRT education sessions. The weekly education class attendance by scheduled patients reached the target level. ...
Source: Nephrology Nursing Journal - September 11, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Suma Prakash Colleen Rabbitt Iryna Danylyuk Diane Woodford Rui Song Wayne Satz Jan Schriefer Source Type: research

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on erectile function in Chinese CP/CPPS patients
This study aimed to investigate the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on erectile function in Chinese patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS). A retrospective study was conducted on 657 CP/CPPS patients who visited The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University (Changsha, China) from November 2018 to November 2022. Patients were divided into two groups based on the timeline before and after the COVID-19 outbreak in China. The severity of CP/CPPS, penile erection status, anxiety, and depression was evaluated using the National Institutes of Health-Chronic Pro...
Source: Asian Journal of Andrology - September 11, 2023 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Wei-Jie Song Ji-Wei Huang Yuan Liu Wei Ding Zhi Long Le-Ye He Source Type: research

Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Modality Education in a Nephrology Clinic During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nephrol Nurs J. 2023 Jul-Aug;50(4):313-320.ABSTRACTLow attendance by patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD stage 4 and 5) to the kidney replacement therapy (KRT) education sessions was noted by our nurse practitioners at a safety net hospital. The main outcome measure was the weekly percentage of patients with advanced CKD seen by the nephrology division weekly that completed KRT education. Process measures were weekly KRT session attendance by scheduled patients and the weekly referral of patients to KRT education sessions. The weekly education class attendance by scheduled patients reached the target level. ...
Source: Nephrology Nursing Journal - September 11, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Suma Prakash Colleen Rabbitt Iryna Danylyuk Diane Woodford Rui Song Wayne Satz Jan Schriefer Source Type: research