Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - July 27, 2021.
----- This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters. I will also try to highlight ADHA Propaganda when I come upon it. Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! Its pretty sad! Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon. ---...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Rising and Falling in Health IT – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 67
For the 67th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about what’s Rising and Falling in Health IT. I’m not sure there’s ever been a time in health IT where more things have been happening. Money is flowing into new and old health IT companies as they build out new digital health solutions and […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 26, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn John Lynn and Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Podcasts Hospital - Health System Amazon Apple CES CES 2022 Health IT Podcasts Healthcare Podcasts Healthcare Salaries Healthcare Voice Source Type: blogs
Matthew ’ s health care tidbits
Each week I’ve been adding a brief tidbits section to the THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB that week (Sign up here!). Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt
In this week’s health care tidbits, we are talking about medical debt. Oh, not all medical debt. No, not that debt being garnished from the wages of health care workers by their own employers. Today we are just discussing the debt that has already gone to collections. Yes, the debt sold off by doctors and hospitals for pennies on the dollars so that debt ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Care Tidbits Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs
How To Negotiate Salary: 12 Science-Based Tips
Negotiate salary scientifically with these 12 science-backed tips straight from real-world psychological research. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 20, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Persuasion Source Type: blogs
Biden Should Extend a “Public Option” as a Message to “Health Care Royalists ”
By MIKE MAGEE
In this world of political theatrics, with Democratic legislators from Texas forced into exodus to preserve voters’ rights, and Tucker Carlson rantings about Rep. Eric Swalwell riding shirtless on a camel in Qatar streaming relentlessly, Americans can be excused if they missed a substantive and historic news event last week.
On Friday, July 9th, President Biden signed a far-reaching executive order intended to fuel social and economic reform, and in the process created a potential super-highway sized corridor for programs like universal healthcare. In the President’s view, the enemy of the common ma...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Politics Public Health Biden Health insurance Mike Magee Public Option Source Type: blogs
How to Get Started Teaching English Abroad if You Have No Experience
Teaching English in another nation is an easy way to travel the globe without having to save thousands of dollars or have years of experience as a teacher. All you need is an online TEFL certificate and the ability to communicate in English. The rest is easy after you've checked those boxes.
When you begin teaching English in a foreign country, you will be able to spend your weekends exploring your new surroundings. If you pick China as your teaching location, for example, you will have the opportunity to travel across East Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.You may be able to save thousands of dollars by te...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Esme Gelder Tags: career featured self education self-improvement success english abroad Source Type: blogs
Nice work if you can get it
So a woman in Connecticut murdered her husband.and concealed his body for several months. (Don ' t worry, other side of the river from me.) Okay, it happens. But the whole time, she continued to collect his salary as a professor at the UCONN School of Medicine, which they evidently happily continued to pay even though he hadn ' t been seen or heard from for months. And they say academia is a tough racket. (Source: Stayin' Alive)
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 26, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Will the occupational therapy Academic Leadership Council stand up to the accreditation function of its own organization?
TheAmerican Council of Academic Physical Therapy (ACAPT) recently published a paper entitled " Future of physical therapist education programs in higher education. " This paper should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in the proliferation of some allied health programs, credential escalation, and the intersection of these issues with practice.For starters, it is important to disambiguate ACAPT fromCAPTE (Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education). CAPTE grants accreditation to entry level programs for the physical therapy profession, and although ' independent ' is also a part of ...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - June 24, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Tags: OT Education OT practice policy Source Type: blogs
Should We Fear Stablecoins?
Lawrence H. WhiteA “stablecoin” is a cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to a fiat currency, gold, or another continuously traded asset. USD Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC), the two stablecoins with the largest values in circulation, are each managed to maintain a price centered on and close to $1.00 (usually w ithin 1 cent). Both Tether and USDC claim to be fully backed by USD assets held in reserve, enabling their parent companies to buy back as many units as needed to maintain the peg. They differ in some other respects, as discussed below. Some other stablecoins are managed by “algorithmic central ba nk” mec...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 24, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
NC Pediatricians/Physicians RISE Against CHEAP/PROFITEERING Hospital Executives: Maybe I'm Not " Disgruntled " . . . Or " Disruptive " . . . OR ALONE . . . After All.
First, read the following article (linked in red) at North Carolina Health News - " lifted " from a story/letter published at the Charlotte Ledger:The doctor won ' t see your newborn now - North Carolina Health NewsIt only under-scores the cheap, supremely arrogant C-Suite mind-set that I ' ve been blogging about . . . and fighting . . . as an inpatient Pediatrician covering the duty in small/rural/community hospitals in NC and Virginia . . . for over 20 years.Pediatricians that work for hospitals are " a-dime-a-dozen " . We ' re " interchangeable light bulbs " . We can be " replaced by nurses " . The gen...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - June 23, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: ApolloMD APRN Central Carolina Hospital CMS Duke Lifepoint JCAHO LDRP medical scope creep Mother-Baby Care Pediatric Hospitalist Pediatrics Quality Assruance Source Type: blogs
The Bitcoin Law: Counterfeit Free Choice in Currency
George Selgin“Why should we not let people use freely what money they want to use? [They] ought to have the right to decide whether they want to buy or sell for francs, pounds, dollars, D-marks, or ounces of gold. I have no objection to governments issuing money, but I believe their claim to amonopoly, or their power tolimitthe kinds of money in which contracts may be concluded within their territory …to be wholly harmful.”—F.A. Hayek,Choice in Currency: A Way to Stop Inflation, p. 17.So, it has happened: a country —an honest to God,bona fide, country, complete with its own flag, coat of arms, seat at the U.N., a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 17, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
ProPublica Analysis of Taxes on Wealthy
Chris EdwardsProPublica is running a series ofarticles based on federal tax returns for 25 wealthy individuals which were illegally obtained. The articles present selective information and dubious metrics to push a narrative that rich people pay little tax. Data from four authoritative sources show that tax payments by these 25 individuals are not representative of high earners generally.Let ’s focus on ProPublica’s click‐friendlyheadline: “You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire.” The article says that a “typical” worker with $45,000 in wages pays a higher federal tax rate than the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 10, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Minimum Wages Encourage Uneconomic Automation
Ryan BourneFox Business reports today:McDonald ’s current CEO Chris Kempczinski confirmed during Alliance Bernstein’s Strategic Decisions Conference last week that the company is testing an automated, voice‐recognition based drive‐thru ordering system at 10 of its Chicago locations. Kempczinski noted that the artificial intelligenc e technology has 85% accuracy with filling orders, with workers having to step in for approximately one in five orders.Businesses in competitive markets like McDonald ’s face strong incentives to harness labor‐saving technologies to improve efficiency, at least when such inv...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Unemployment Insurance Waste and Fraud
Ryan BourneUnemployment Insurance has been the hot economic policy debate topic for a while. This week ’s jobs figures again showedlabor supply failing to keep up with a soaring demand for workers as the economy reopens, leading tosharply rising wages in pandemic ‐hit sectors and thehighest unfilled opening rate among small businesses ever. As I ’ve written before, there is good indicative evidence that the $300 per week UI supplement has been slowing rehiring rates by disincentivizing returns to work. Hence why 25 states so far have opted out of the program from June onwards.Lesser commented on though i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 4, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Restarting the Economy Requires Less Government, Not More
Jeffrey Miron andErin PartinLast Friday, President Biden unveiled his$6 trillion budget proposal. Under his plan, government spending will rise to levels not seen since World War II. Large investments in climate change, transportation, and education headline the proposal.“Build back better” has been a common refrain of the Biden administration. The COVID-19 pandemic crashed much of the economy, but with increasing vaccination rates and recent promisingjobs reports it appears that America is ready to reopen.The federal government can encourage economic growth; mainly, however, this involves doing less, not more.To ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron, Erin Partin Source Type: blogs
