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What ’s the Big Deal about Data in Medtech?
Discussion, “Top 5 Things You Need to Know about the Implantable Internet of Things."
Brian Chapman, partner and leader of ZS’s medtech practice of ZS, attributes today’s focus on data to the intersection of two important things:
"A general recognition that understanding more and connecting actions with outcomes will provide feedback and understanding that will drive standards of care. This is not new, but as capabilities rise in data collection, aggregation, and synthesize rise, and coupled with machine learning, the promise of data in healthcare is becoming even more ...
Source: MDDI - December 20, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Daphne Allen Tags: Digital Health Source Type: news
Stroke Survivors' Perspectives on Post–Acute Rehabilitation Options, Goals, Satisfaction, and Transition to Home
Conclusion:
Despite recommendations to include stroke patients in PAC selection and goal setting, many former inpatient rehabilitation facility and skilled nursing facility patients report not being involved in either aspect of care.
Video Abstract available for more insights from the authors (see Supplemental Digital Content 1, available at: http://links.lww.com/JNPT/A273).
Source: Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy - June 27, 2019 Category: Physiotherapy Tags: Research Articles Source Type: research
Stroke Survivors' Perspectives on Post-Acute Rehabilitation Options, Goals, Satisfaction, and Transition to Home.
CONCLUSION: Despite recommendations to include stroke patients in PAC selection and goal setting, many former inpatient rehabilitation facility and skilled nursing facility patients report not being involved in either aspect of care.Video Abstract available for more insights from the authors (see Supplemental Digital Content 1, available at: http://links.lww.com/JNPT/A273).
PMID: 31205230 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Physical Therapy - June 19, 2019 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Krishnan S, Hay CC, Pappadis MR, Deutsch A, Reistetter TA Tags: J Neurol Phys Ther Source Type: research
Stroke patients receive different amounts of physical therapy
(Brown University) Medicare-covered stroke patients receive vastly different amounts of physical and occupational therapy during hospital stays despite evidence that such care is strongly associated with positive health outcomes, a new study by Brown University researchers found.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Is self or caregiver report comparable to Medicare claims indicators of healthcare utilization after stroke?
Conclusion Healthcare utilization after stroke can be reliably assessed from Medicare claims, Stroke participant, or Caregiver report for salient events such as hospitalizations and Emergency Room visits. Self-report and caregiver report appear to be less reliable for identifying use of therapy or home health services. Caution should be used when interpreting disparities based on self-report data alone in these areas.
PMID: 30047841 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - July 26, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Sheehan OC, Prvu-Bettger J, Huang J, Haley WE, David Rhodes J, E Judd S, Kilgore ML, Roth DL Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research
No Racial Difference in Rehabilitation Therapy Across All Post-Acute Care Settings in the Year Following a Stroke Clinical Sciences
Background and Purpose—Black stroke survivors experience greater poststroke disability than whites. Differences in post-acute rehabilitation may contribute to this disparity. Therefore, we estimated racial differences in rehabilitation therapy utilization, intensity, and the number of post-acute care settings in the first year after a stroke.Methods—We used national Medicare data to study 186 168 elderly black and white patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of stroke in 2011. We tabulated the proportion of stroke survivors receiving physical, occupational, and speech and language therapy in each post-acute c...
Source: Stroke - November 27, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Lesli E. Skolarus, Chunyang Feng, James F. Burke Tags: Health Services, Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke Original Contributions Source Type: research
Judge Orders Medicare To Clarify When It Will Pay For Rehab And Skilled Nursing
Imagine your mom has a stroke. Once she is stabilized, she is sent to a skilled nursing facility for rehab. Then she goes home and gets some home health care and additional physical therapy. Medicare may pay, but for how long?
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 24, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Howard Gleckman Source Type: news
Let's Encourage Congress to Improve Stroke Care FAST
She thought she was choking. It was June of her first year as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. Joyce Beatty had just returned to her office following a luncheon when she felt her throat shut down. She couldn't swallow, couldn't talk. Couldn't cry for help. As she reached for water, her left side went numb. She collapsed. Someone called 911, thinking it was a heart attack. It was a stroke. Specifically, a brain stem stroke. The brain stem is a precarious spot -- a half-inch wide area that controls basic activities like consciousness, blood pressure and breathing. A stroke there could harm any of those functio...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Examining the Association Between Comorbidity Indices and Functional Status in Hospitalized Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries.
CONCLUSIONS: The five comorbidity indices contributed little to predicting functional status. The indices examined were not useful as proxies for functional status in the acute settings studied.
PMID: 26564253 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Physical Therapy - November 12, 2015 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Kumar A, Graham JE, Resnik L, Karmarkar AM, Deutsch A, Tan A, Al Snih S, Ottenbacher KJ Tags: Phys Ther Source Type: research
New recommendations aim to improve safety of pain-relieving spinal steroid injections
More and more people are seeking injections of anti-inflammatory steroid medications for back and neck pain. In 2011, the last year for which complete information is available, doctors pushed the plunger on 2.3 million steroid injections into the spine — and that’s just among people covered by Medicare.
These injections deliver drugs that mimic the effects of two hormones, cortisone and hydrocortisone, to reduce inflammation and help relieve pain. When they work — they don’t always — such injections can bring profound relief.
“If you are in severe pain with a ruptured spinal disc and you get a stero...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - May 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Daniel Pendick Tags: Back Pain Drugs and Supplements anti-inflammatory steroid medications spinal injections spine steroid injections Source Type: news
Examining the Relationship Between Medical Diagnosis and Patterns of Performance on the Modified Dynamic Gait Index.
CONCLUSIONS: Results support retaining all eight tasks when assessing mobility function in geriatric and neurologic patient populations. Mapping mDGI scores to CMS severity indicators should assist clinicians in interpreting mobility performance, including change in function over time.
PMID: 25476719 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Physical Therapy - December 4, 2014 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Matsuda PN, Taylor C, Shumway-Cook A Tags: Phys Ther Source Type: research
Half a million California seniors fall repeatedly but many don’t seek medical attention
More than half a million older Californians — 12.6 percent of the state’s senior population — fall more than once a year, but nearly 60 percent of them fail to seek medical attention afterward, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
The study also found that among those who did seek treatment, 40 percent did not receive counseling from a medical provider about how to prevent future falls.
Falls are the leading injury-related cause of death and need for medical care among Californians age 65 and older, according to the study. In 2012, more than 1,800 seniors died after falling and se...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - November 21, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
