The Macro View – Health, Financial And Political News Relevant To E-Health And The Health Sector In General.
June 07, 2018 Edition.On the international front it seems Italy now has a government, Spain has managed a transition and Trump says (for now ) he is going to Singapore while applying tariffs on all his friends. The man is a bloody menace I reckon.In OZ One Nation appears to be imploding, the ACCC is bringing criminal charges against the ANZ and two international investment banks and Barnaby appears to have also imploded and gone on extended leave.The Productivity Commission Report on Superannuation is an amazing document which needs a major response to fix the issues raised.The Financial Services Royal Commission aga...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 7, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Phillips Curve Is Dead (except in Federal Reserve and CBO models)
“Is the Phillips Curve Dead?” asked Princeton economistAlan Blinder in a May 3Wall Street Journal article. The former Vice-Chairman of the Fed noted that “the correlation between unemployment and changes in inflation is nearly zero… Inflation has barely moved as unemployment rose and fell.”For a veteran Ivy League Keynesian like Blinder to doubt the Phillips Curve was doctrinal heresy, comparable to a monetarist asking if money matters or a supply-sider wondering aloud if a 91% tax rate is better than a 28% rate.Wall Street Journal columnistGreg Ip later explained the dilemma and expanded it: “Standard models o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 24, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Strangers are more likely to come to your help in a racially diverse neighbourhood
By Alex Fradera
The “Big Society” initiative – launched at the turn of this decade by the incoming British government – was a call for politics to recognise the importance of community and social solidarity. It has since fizzled out, and for a while communitarianism fell out of the political conversation, but it has returned post-Brexit, sometimes with a nationalist or even nativist flavour. The US political scientist Robert Putnam’s research is sometimes recruited into these arguments, as his data suggests that racially and ethnically diverse neighbourhoods have lower levels of trust and social capital, whic...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Political Social Source Type: blogs
Topical Skin Lotion to Detect Variety of Disease Biomarkers
Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a new way of utilizing nanotechnology to detect important biomarkers within the skin using what looks like a simple lotion.
Their NanoFlares, which are spherical, programmable nano-scale balls of nucleic acid, have gold cores. These NanoFlares are able to penetrate the skin and meet up with biochemicals within. When the nucleic acids interact with targeted biomarkers, the gold cores are exposed and the become free to fluoresce and therefore to be detected.
The researchers published their study in Nature Biomedical Engineering, but have also p...
Source: Medgadget - May 18, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Dermatology Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 14th 2018
This study found that professional chess players had shorter lifespans than those players who had careers outside of chess and argued that this might be due to the mental strain of international chess competition.
In the present study, we focused on survival of International Chess Grandmasters (GMs) which represent players, of whom most are professional, at the highest level. In 2010, the overall life expectancy of GMs at the age of 30 years was 53.6 years, which is significantly greater than the overall weighted mean life expectancy of 45.9 years for the general population. In all three regions examined, mean life...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 13, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Will Anwar Ibrahim Finally Make It from Prison to Prime Minister?
In 2005 the Malaysian political leader Anwar Ibrahim visited the Cato Institute. In the photo at right, I’m giving him a copy of my bookLibertarianism: A Primer, which he told me he had already read – in prison. What a thing for an author to hear! After becoming leader of the opposition People’s Justice Party, he was again imprisoned on trumped-up charges in 2015. He remains in prison today. But thanks toyesterday ’s elections, it now seems that Anwar may soon not only be released from prison but be named prime minister.It ’s a complicated story. Anwar was a youth leader and rising star in UNMO, the party that ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
The First Set of Videos from the Undoing Aging 2018 Conference are Available Online
The first set of presentation videos from Undoing Aging are now available online, via the conference YouTube channel. The conference was held earlier this year in Berlin, jointly hosted by the SENS Research Foundation and Forever Healthy Foundation. The former should need no introduction here, while the latter was founded by philanthropist and investor Michael Greve, a strong supporter of the SENS rejuvenation research programs. By all accounts the conference was a rousing success, adding to a series of past events that have brought together research and industry interests focused on the development of rejuvenation therapi...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 8, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Congestion Tolls Work in London and Stockholm — Why Not Seattle?
Seattle is considering following in the footsteps of cities like London, Stockholm, Singapore and Milan to introduce a charge for driving on the roads. What can Seattle and its inhabitants learn from other cities that have implemented road user charging? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - April 12, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Charlene Rohr Source Type: blogs
Top 12 Companies Bringing Blockchain To Healthcare
Security, trust, traceability, and control – these are the promises of the blockchain, the technology with the most potential in healthcare at the moment. As these are highly attractive traits for storing sensitive health data or for the operation of supply chains, many companies aim to leverage its powers for healthcare. We collected the most promising enterprises here.
The buzzword of the year award goes to blockchain
It would be a big surprise if the buzzword of the year award would not go to blockchain in 2018. Although the technology is indeed a game-changer, the craze and hype around it remind some experts of the d...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 27, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Security & Privacy AI artificial intelligence big data blockchain future genetics genomics Health health data health IT health market Innovation Personalized medicine Source Type: blogs
Trump to Impose Restrictions on Imports and Investment from China
This afternoon, for the second time in the space of a month, President Trump is expected to invoke his authority under a rarely used statute to levy restrictions on a vast swath of imports and investment from China. The cause for today ’s measures is behavior that the U.S. Trade Representative has characterized as rampant, sustained theft of U.S. intellectual property by Chinese entities and the Chinese government.Although allegations —and the evidence supporting those allegations—that China routinely transgresses in the realm of intellectual property have been accumulating for many years, it does not follow that the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 22, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
Interview with Glenn Snyder, Medical Technology Segment Leader at Deloitte
Deloitte is one of the leading innovators in the world focused on value-based care and medical technology. In this emerging world, it is a business imperative for medtech companies to understand, demonstrate, and clearly articulate how their offerings can not only improve patient outcomes but also create value for key health care stakeholders.
Deloitte works with hundreds of provider organizations, helping them navigate the challenges and opportunities emerging technologies currently present. We had the opportunity to speak with Glenn Snyder, Medical Technology Segment Leader at Deloitte, about medtech in health systems,...
Source: Medgadget - March 20, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Get to Know Your Asian Indian Caucus
A monolingual speech-language pathologist recently reached out to ASHA’s Asian Indian Caucus (AIC) for a Tamil-speaking SLP to provide services for a 70-year-old elderly New Jersey man. The patient had expressive aphasia due to a recent stroke.
The AIC community—through its active listserve—immediately located a bilingual SLP who spoke English and Tamil. The SLP worked with the client’s local SLP to help him receive linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
In another instance, a 35-year-old female vocalist— referred to the AIC by a laryngologist in California—was seeking consultation from an SLP with...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Akila Rajappa Tags: Advocacy Audiology Slider Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Cultural Diversity Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Get to Know Your Asian Indian Caucus
The AIC Caucus met this past November at the 2017 ASHA Convention in Los Angeles.
A monolingual speech-language pathologist recently reached out to ASHA’s Asian Indian Caucus (AIC) for a Tamil-speaking SLP to provide services for a 70-year-old elderly New Jersey man. The patient had expressive aphasia due to a recent stroke.
The AIC community—through its active listserve—immediately located a bilingual SLP who spoke English and Tamil. The SLP worked with the client’s local SLP to help him receive linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
In another instance, a 35-year-old female vocalist— referred to th...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Akila Rajappa Tags: Advocacy Audiology Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Cultural Diversity Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Liquid-Powered Bioprinting of Tissues at Any Scale
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London, University of Oxford, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, have developed an unusual way to print complex biological structures with multiple ingredients that can harness further tissue growth. The 3D structures that are created are made of modular components that can be brought together in specific concentrations and locations.
The technique is actually self-assembling, using liquid currents to bring things together. Computers are certainly used to predict how droplets come together and form shapes. The result is precision control at different scales while ke...
Source: Medgadget - February 26, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Genetics Materials Source Type: blogs
The Digital Health Manifesto
Conclusion
No manifesto will by itself change a two-thousand-year-old system, any more than Martin Luther’s 95 theses did. Establishments die hard: 100 years ago, in 1918, Max Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, and in his Scientific Autobiography he talked about the adoption of change by any establishment:
A new scientific truth does not win adoption by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but because its opponents eventually die.
A manifesto can, though, kindle new thinking among those who do see the light. Planck continued:
… and a new generation comes up that is familiar with it.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - February 6, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Empowered Patients Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy digital digital health doctor empowerment future Health 2.0 Innovation manifesto patient empowerment Personalized medicine philosophy technology Source Type: blogs
