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We Need To Make Sure We Are Optimising Our Approach And Use Of Telehealth Now The Pandemic May Be Settling!
This appeared last week: 18 July 2022Is telehealth the great panacea for rural health?Simon Judkins, Belinda Hibble& Stephen GourleyIssue 27 / 18 July 2022Instead of a telehealth explosion, where “we will get back in touch with you”, we need to refocus on a rural workforce explosion, where we can have clinicians and patients actually within hand’s reach of each otherOUT of a crisis comes opportunity, and with the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic marching on, opportunities to transform many aspects of our health care systems have flourished.One of the areas that has gained much interest is the potentia...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 25 July, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a 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.General Comment-----Quite a lot going on this week and we have had a pretty busy comment flow on the blog. Interesting how comment streams evolve!The telehealth debate continues and the Government is yet to notice what a ‘steaming pile of poo’the #myHR is!-----https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/anz/australia-launches-digital-cancer-hub-childre...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Encouraging Signals from the Justice Department on Safe Consumption Sites
Jeffrey A. SingerThe Associated Pressreports the U.S. Department of Justice announced it is “evaluating supervised consumption sites, including discussions with state and local regulators about appropriate guardrails for such sites, as part of an overall approach to harm reduction and public safety.” This is welcome news.As I explained in a 2019Cato Policy Analysis, safe consumption sites (also called “safe injection sites” and “overdose prevention sites”) have established a track record of saving lives and preventing the spread of HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases since the late 1980...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 8, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs

The Most Pressing Issues In Bioethics
Who owns medical and genetic data? How to regulate gene editing? Where is the boundary of enhancing physical or cognitive human capabilities? What to do with biological differences widening the gap of the haves and have-nots? Could we define where is the boundary to augment life? Will we sue robots or algorithms for medical malpractice? With the constant advancement of technology, unprecedented moral, ethical and legal concerns are surfacing. Channeling them into substantial debates will get us closer to their fair solution step by step. Here, we collected the most pressing issues in bioethics. Bioethicists of the world...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 26, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Cyborgization Genomics bioethical data debate DNA future gene editing genetic genetics Innovation legal longevity medical medical data moral sex sexuality technology Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 212
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 212 – a “where in the world” edition from Dr Mark Corden – paediatric fellow in Melbourne. Question 1 Where in the world was insulin discovered? www.diabetes.co.uk + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1478966...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 3, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five appendicectomy artificial ear bionic ear claudius aymand cochlear implant frederick banting Graeme Clark hyperbilirubinaemia insulin Leonid Rogozov mestivier phototherapy pierre eymard Sister J Ward sodi Source Type: blogs

A (Global) Cornucopia Of Clues To Optimize Medication Use
The most common patient care intervention, issuing a prescription, is fraught with continuing challenges for patients, their caregivers, and practitioners. Patients rely on medications across a continuum of care, with expectations for self-management; some experience unintended problems along the way. For older patients, such problems often result in emergency hospitalizations, many of which could be prevented. Historically, integration to support safe and appropriate medicine use across the U.S. health care ecosystem has been sporadic, including within our siloed Medicare Part D benefit. Other countries, however, are well...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: N. Lee Rucker, Michael Holden, Parisa Aslani, and Rana Ahmed Tags: All Categories Global Health Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Pharma Policy Public Health Source Type: blogs

Stripping Safely and What Medicare Has to Do With It
At this point, I won't try to repeat what others in the community have already said about the "Strip Safely" [http://www.stripsafely.com/] campaign other than to reiterate some of what I think are their key points, as I have a few points I think are worth noting.  The folks at diaTribe have a very well-written summary of what's at stake (see HERE).  Also, my friend Riva Greenberg discussed the recent move by Medicare in her Huffington Post column (see http://huff.to/13avkif for details).Let me take a step back and give you some relevant background which is important for my readers to understand the issues.Back in...
Source: Scott's Web Log - August 21, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Scott S Source Type: blogs