5 Ways Digital Health Can Help Decarbonise Patient Pathways
In its lead-up to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the WHO issued the ‘The Health Argument for climate action’ report. In it, the organisation shares its recommendations for governments on how to “maximise the health benefits of tackling climate change in order to avoid the worst health impacts of the climate crisis.”
A recent analysis found that globally, healthcare’s carbon footprint accounts for around 4-5% of total global carbon dioxide emissions. These are not insignificant figures and are the reason why the WHO is pushing for a more environmentally-sustainable approach to health...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Forecast Digital Health Research healthcare systems sustainability climate crisis decarbonising patient pathways Source Type: blogs
BREAKING at ViVE: Jenny Schneider on Launch of New Biz, Homeward
by JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
BREAKING! Livongo-famous Jenny Schneider stops by to talk to us first, on-site at ViVE in Miami, about the brand-new business she’s just launched today to “rearchitect” rural health and care. Called Homeward, the startup is coming out with a $20 million Series A backed by General Catalyst, and a novel model that will integrate virtual-and-in-person primary care and cardiology care for Medicare beneficiaries in rural markets. We get into the business model, care model, some shocking statistics about just how dire the market need is, AND all the gossip about the old friends she’s bri...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Homeward Health Jenny Schneider Jessica DaMassa rural health Source Type: blogs
How to Talk to Clinicians: Forget Workflows, Just Tell Us How Things Work
BY HANS DUVEFELT
Workflows are all the rage with EMR people. But doctors, NPs and PAs are smart. Nothing burns us out as fast or as completely as being told how to do things instead of why. We are not circus animals.
Let me explain:
If we had no professional education at all, we would have clinical workflows memorized instead of clinical knowledge. For example, two weeks after starting an ACE inhibitor like lisinopril, order a basic metabolic profile. That sounds pretty straightforward, but if you add up all the possible clinical workflows we would need if we didn’t know medicine at all, that would be a huge bur...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Clinican Workflows EMR Hans Duvefelt Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 28 February, 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 ----- Huge number of articles to catch up on this week so will let you at it without interruption! ----- https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/anz/queensland-health-releases-10-year-digital-strategy-rural-remote-health Queensland Health releases 10-year digital strategy for rural, remote health It is guided by the principle of leavin...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - February 28, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Randolph Hospital (the old/bankrupt Randolph) vs. Cone Healthcare: " Self-dealing " And Unethical Business Practices. DUH. It's Not Like I Did Not Tell You So.
Before we even get started (and for the record), I was born at Cone Hospital. For years, I admired it from afar.But that was before . . .Once upon a time, twenty-four years ago this month, the executives running my hometown hospital (Randolph Hospital in Asheboro, North Carolina), fired me ( " without cause " ) . . . two weeks after I answered a terrified LDRP charge nurse ' s call in the middle of the night - to intervene in a neonatal case where the managing Family Practitioner was so " lost " that the nurse feared the baby would die before I could get there. The FP (who later styled himself to the baby ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - February 24, 2022 Category: American Health Tags: Asheboro Atrium Health Bankruptcy Bob Morrison Cone Healthcare Ed Cone Medical Whistle-blower National Health Service Corps NC Rural Heatlh Patient Safety Quality Assruance Steve Eblin Source Type: blogs
