THCB Spotlights: CJ Wilson, CEO of MyHealth.US
Today on THCB Spotlights, Matthew Holt interviews CJ Wilson, the CEO of MyHealth.US. MyHealth.US provides wearable QR codes for instant access to emergency health information, as well as a digital platform to track your health data and house medical records. CJ shows us some of their offerings and explains how they’re working with unions and schools in NYC along with the company’s future plans for funding and growth. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Matthew Holt THCB Spotlights CJ Wilson emergency response MyHealth.US Source Type: blogs
Doing right in the everyday care of patients
Caring for patients is not only a clinical endeavor, it is also an ethical one. Patient care and ethics are woven together as an integral part of every doctor-patient encounter. Medical schools have traditionally taught students the principle-based ethics approach of autonomy, beneficence, non-malfeasance, and justice. These abstract principles are often applied to “big” patientRead more …Doing right in the everyday care of patients originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sheila-crow" rel="tag" > Sheila Crow, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Heal the system: Medicine must be anti-racist
My maternal grandmother, Susana, was one of the most important women in my life. I was named after her. At least, that is what I thought for many years. I had gone by my grandmother’s name until I transferred high schools in the suburbs of Chicago, and the registrar asked me to confirm my name.Read more …Heal the system: Medicine must be anti-racist originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/susan-lopez" rel="tag" > Susan Lopez, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
The plan
This report follows on from initial findings, published in July 2020. It looks at how the food system works and the impact on public health. It finds that the government have implemented four out of seven of the initial recommendations, including increasing the value of Healthy Start vouchers and agreeing to continue collecting, assessing and monitoring data on the number of people suffering from food insecurity. However, there are further recommendations contained in this report including the introduction of a sugar and salt reformulation tax, the launch of an'Eat and Learn' initiative for schools and strengthenin...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 15, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
How to raise tenacious and resilient children [PODCAST]
“For thousands of generations, parents, relatives, and the extended community raised and prepared children to become successful adults, to acquire knowledge, and strengthen the abilities needed to meet the challenges of their time. How did they do it? Until relatively recent times in human history there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were thereRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 11, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Gay Rights and the Illiberal World
David BoazOn Monday, LGBT activists in Tbilisi, Georgia,called off a planned Pride March after hundreds of violent counter ‐protestersattacked activists and journalists.On Tuesday, WeChat, China ’s most popular social media service,shut down dozens of accounts on LGBT topics run by college students and nonprofit groups as part of a tightening of political control by the Communist Party.Three weeks ago, Hungary ’s parliamentpassed legislation that would ban the dissemination of content in schools deemed to promote homosexuality and gender change.And all these assaults on human rights reminded me ofa ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 7, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
The Chinese Communist Party at 100
David BoazThe Chinese Communist Party is going all ‐out to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding on July 1. Movies, music, theater, elaborate wedding ceremonies. Fireworks, of course. And, in keeping with the party’s roots, repression. As the New York Timesreports, nothing is being left to chance:The Ministry of Civil Affairs is leading a nationwide crackdown against “illegal” nonprofit organizations, including religious and social groups, as part of efforts to ensure a “good environment” for the centenary.Officials have also warned of consequences for those who “distort” party history or ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 29, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Infrastructure Arithmetic
Randal O'TooleDepending on what you read, the White House and Senate Republican leaders have either compromised on a$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill or a$579 billion infrastructure bill. Actually, both are true, sort of.The difference is that the $1.2 trillion includes “baseline spending,” or the amount that would have been spent on infrastructure even if no bill were passed. The actual infrastructure bill would only include $579 billion of new spending.That ’s quite a concession on the part of the White House, which hadoriginally proposed $2.3 trillion in new spending, or nearly four times as much as the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 28, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Randal O ' Toole Source Type: blogs
How to keep your optimism in medicine [PODCAST]
“Interviewing for medical schools was intense, excruciating, and terrifying. Despite the difficult questions, there are three that stand out to me. The first was to differentiate sympathy from empathy, where I spent 30 minutes defending my answer to be met with complete silence. He could have asked me anything, yet he sat in silence forRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 26, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Health Tech, Part I: Where We Are Going, Not Just How Fast We Can Get There
By MIKE MAGEE
What will be the lasting impact of the Covid 19 pandemic?
We still don’t know the answer to that question in full. But one thing that can be said with some certainty is that it has strengthened the hand of Big Tech and all things virtual. Consider the fact that within the Biden White House administration, 13 senior aides have Big Tech resumes with time spent in firms like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and more.
This pandemic-induced scrape with mortality has instigated widely varied responses ranging from existential re-awakenings to explosive entrepreneurship.
In health ca...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 25, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Biotech Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Rapid Diagnosis of Infectious Disease at Point of Care: Interview with Shawn Marcel, CEO of Torus Biosystems
Torus Biosystems, a medtech startup that spun out of Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has developed the Synestia system, a point of care diagnostic tool for infectious disease. The system aims to provide rapid, point-of-care identification of pathogens, and incorporates microarray and qPCR technology.
The company reports that the system allows a clinician to run multiple tests on one device to detect all the pathogens associated with a specific disease. The run-time is rapid, with the device providing results in as little as 30 minutes, and for each sample over 1000 targets can ...
Source: Medgadget - June 24, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine Public Health torusbiosystems Source Type: blogs
Rapid Diagnosis of Infectious Disease at Point of Care: Interview with Shawn Marcell, CEO of Torus Biosystems
Torus Biosystems, a medtech startup that spun out of Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has developed the Synestia system, a point of care diagnostic tool for infectious disease. The system aims to provide rapid, point-of-care identification of pathogens, and incorporates microarray and qPCR technology.
The company reports that the system allows a clinician to run multiple tests on one device to detect all the pathogens associated with a specific disease. The run-time is rapid, with the device providing results in as little as 30 minutes, and for each sample over 1000 targ...
Source: Medgadget - June 24, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine Public Health torusbiosystems Source Type: blogs
The Remote Learning Paradox: Some Educators, Parents Want to Keep Online Classes Option Even Though Instruction Suffered
Despite remote learning not going particularly well during the pandemic, about one-third of U.S. schools are keeping it as an option. Is remote learning a pandemic blip or a permanent feature of public education moving ahead? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 24, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Julia H. Kaufman; Heather L. Schwartz; Melissa Kay Diliberti Source Type: blogs
Charter Schools and Special Education: Ensuring Legal Compliance and Effectiveness Through Capacity Building
Robert A. Garda (Loyola University of New Orleans College of Law), Paul O'Neill, Charter Schools and Special Education: Ensuring Legal Compliance and Effectiveness Through Capacity Building, 50 U. Memphis L. Rev. (2020): Charter schools often struggle to meet their obligations... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 22, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Using targets to improve public services
Institute for Government - The government has added new targets to existing ones across key public services such as the NHS, schools and the police, which it hopes will improve performance in those services hit by the Covid-crisis. But this report reveals the way that targets have been used for easy wins have ignored important issues and manipulated data. To ensure that new targets are not counterproductive, the government should: develops targets in partnership with those responsible for meeting them; carefully considers the data that is needed, how this is collected and how it will be used to avoid creating unneces...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 21, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
