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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

News at a glance: South Korea ’s lunar orbiter, the U.S. monkeypox response, and a lost Earth-science satellite
PLANETARY SCIENCE South Korea sends orbiter to Moon to search for ice South Korea’s first Moon probe was lofted into space from Cape Canaveral in Florida on 4 August by a SpaceX rocket. The $200 million Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, also called Danuri—“enjoy the Moon” in Korean— will study the Moon from a polar orbit for at least a year. One of the probe’s five instruments will capture polarized light to measure the grain sizes of lunar dust, an indicator of “weathering” by the solar wind and hence of the age of features such as lava flows and impact craters. In another first, a high...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

De-escalation of asymptomatic testing and potential of future COVID-19 outbreaks in US nursing homes amidst rising community vaccination coverage: A modeling study
Vaccine. 2022 Apr 18:S0264-410X(22)00467-4. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.040. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAs of 2 September 2021, United States nursing homes have reported >675,000 COVID-19 cases and >134,000 deaths according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). More than 205,000,000 persons in the United States had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine (62% of total population) as of 2 September 2021. We investigate the role of vaccination in controlling future COVID-19 outbreaks. We developed a stochastic, compartmental model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a 100-bed nursing home ...
Source: Vaccine - April 29, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Brajendra K Singh Joseph Walker Prabasaj Paul Sujan Reddy Camden D Gowler John Jernigan Rachel B Slayton Source Type: research

Estimated Medicaid Costs Associated with Hepatitis A During an Outbreak - West Virginia, 2018-2019
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2021 Feb 26;70(8):269-272. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7008a2.ABSTRACTHepatitis A is a vaccine-preventable disease caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV). Transmission of the virus most commonly occurs through the fecal-oral route after close contact with an infected person. Widespread outbreaks of hepatitis A among persons who use illicit drugs (injection and noninjection drugs) have increased in recent years (1). The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends routine hepatitis A vaccination for children and persons at increased risk for infection or severe disease, and, since 1996, ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - February 25, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Samantha J Batdorf Megan G Hofmeister Tamara C Surtees Erica D Thomasson Shannon M McBee Nathan J Pauly Source Type: research

‘ Botox Police ’ : FDA crime unit draws fire over import crackdown
(Reuters) – On April 5, 2012, a criminal investigator from the Food and Drug Administration named Robert West charged into an oncology clinic in Greenville, Tennessee. West was chasing a lead that Dr. Anindya Sen and his wife, the clinic’s office manager Patricia Posey Sen, purchased an unapproved Turkish version of the cancer drug Avastin. But “Cowboy Bob,” as some defense attorneys call him, did not realize his interview was caught on the clinic’s surveillance cameras. West told Posey Sen she was guilty of buying counterfeit drugs and looked like a “deer in the headlights,” court...
Source: Mass Device - September 9, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Cosmetic/Aesthetic Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Source Type: news

Your Money Or Your Life: Federal Policies And Health Disparities In Puerto Rico
Discussions in Washington continue to focus on creating a fiscal board rather than on the underlying structural causes of the crisis. While P.R. politicians can and should be held responsible for the emission of government debt, there is consensus that a fiscal watchdog alone won’t solve the problem. One of the principal, and often unnamed, causes of the P.R. fiscal crisis is a federal policy which provides unequal treatment to the territories for Medicaid funding. As will be explained in this article, Medicaid parity alone would have covered the P.R. government’s entire primary cumulative deficit. Federal Medicaid Fun...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 13, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Maria Levis Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Featured Global Health Medicaid and CHIP Medicare Public Health Congress immigrants Puerto Rico U.S. citizens Zika Source Type: blogs

Ethical Issues in Environmental Health Research Related to Public Health Emergencies: Reflections on the GuLF STUDY
Conclusions Environmental health research related to disasters and other public health emergencies raises challenging ethical issues that need to be addressed beforehand, including Minimizing risks and promoting benefits to participants. Obtaining valid informed consent. Providing financial compensation to participants. Working with vulnerable participants. Protecting participant confidentiality. Addressing conflicts of interest. Dealing with legal implications of research. Obtaining review from the IRB, community groups, and other committees (e.g., scientific review committees). To ensure that these issues are handled p...
Source: EHP Research - September 1, 2015 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Sam Duvall Tags: Brief Communication September 2015 Source Type: research

Twerking Disease: The Definitive Medical Resource For Doctors.
This study was published in Time magazine so it must be true.  In addition, the story was picked up by 95.8 THE BONE and was described by a self proclaimed expert twerker jockey between songs about booty slappin' and G-thangs.      EXERCISE Studies have shown most folks watching Richard Simmons in "Twerking to the Oldies" have been cured of their twerking addiction.      MIRROR THERAPY Consider buying a full length wall mirror for full therapeutic effect.  Alternatively, take a video of yourself twerking while checking yourself out in a mirror, put it on YouTube and let ever...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - September 7, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs