Shaping the Future of Mental Health
Digital Mental Health: the Hurt, the Hype, the Hope + Brainnovations Session 1 from SharpBrains
We hope you enjoy this slidedeck supporting two great sessions held during the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: Brain Health & Enhancement in the Digital Age (December 5–7th, 2017).
Digital Mental Health: the Hurt, the Hype, the Hope
Dr. Tom Insel, President and Co-Founder of Mindstrong Health
Top Brainnovation to measure Brain Health & Performance. The three Finalists were:
Savonix— pitch by Greg Wong, VP Product Management
HealthTech Connex — pitch by Dr. Ryan D’Arcy, President & Chief Scientific Officer...
Source: SharpBrains - March 8, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology future HealthTech Connex innovation mental health Mindstrong Health NeuraMetrix Savonix Source Type: blogs
Tips For You In Improving Your Garden
In life, we should always focus on becoming better. When it comes to your own house, you can try and make it better in many effective ways. In doing so, you would have to focus on different areas of the house. By making each area perfect, you will be able to create an overall area that is perfect. Out of the various areas that you would have to take into consideration, the garden of your house will take a special place. When you have a garden in your house, you need to consider it as an added advantage. Simply having a look at the garden of your house will be capable of giving you the necessary relaxation if the garden is ...
Source: Nurse Blogger - March 1, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Fabiola Panicucci Tags: Small Business Services Source Type: blogs
Beer vs. Bureaucracy
The federal shutdown revealed some of the ways that the government needlessly shackles the economy through subsidies and regulations. The microbrew industry is a microcosm of the general problem.Beer companies take federal loan guarantees and they need federal approval for business activities such as launching new beer labels and opening facilities. The idea that we need the government providing business loans is ridiculous, as discussedhere. And the permitting of new facilities ought to be a local government activity.As for beer labels,theWashington Post reports, “Last year, the federal government received 192,000 appli...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 28, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Another Hostage from the Federal Shutdown: Small Business
We are in the fourth week of the partial federal shutdown, which is starting to disrupt the broader economy because the government exerts control over many major industries. These sorts of disruptions will become more frequent in coming years as deficits rise and partisan divisions persist.To minimize the damage, we should privatize or devolve to the states activities that do not need to be run by Washington. Those activities include air traffic control, airport screening, parks, and services on Indian reservations, as discussedhere andhere.TheWall Street Journalreports today that the “shutdown leaves small-business loan...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
The Libertarian Experiment That Isn ’t
According to Paul Krugman, the government shutdown amounts to a potentially big libertarian experiment.With nine departments and multiple agencies closed, maybe for months, the New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate envisages a coming test of whether the country can live without the Food and Drug Administration, the Small Business Administration and farm subsidies.So are those of us at Cato who believe in the abolition of these programs celebrating? Not quite.As the vast majority of the U.S. population go about their daily lives, barely noticing that 25 percent of federal discretionary spending has been paused, it ’...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On The MyHR Debate And Related Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - Week 23.
Note: I have excluded (or marked out) any commentary taking significant funding from the Agency or the Department of Health on all this to avoid what amounts to paid propaganda. (e.g. CHF, RACGP, AMA, National Rural Health Alliance etc. where they were simply putting the ADHA line – viz. that the myHR is a wonderfully useful clinical development that will save huge numbers of lives at no risk to anyone – which is plainly untrue) (This signifies probable ADHA Propaganda)-----https://www.smh.com.au/business/small-business/australia-s-100-million-scam-problem-the-threat-has- become-personal-20181220-p50nfd.htmlAustra...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - December 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The First Amendment Allows You to Draw Your Own Conclusion on Same-Sex Marriage
Earlier this year inMasterpiece Cakeshop, the Supreme Court contended with the issue of whether cake-baking is protected speech under the First Amendment, and thus whether a Christian baker could refuse to design a wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony. The Court ended up punting on the case ’s major questions, but now the Arizona Supreme Court is facing a similar issue, this time with calligraphers instead of bakers.Artists Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski are practicing Christians who own and operate Brush& Nib, an art studio in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to designing wedding invitations using calligraphy, they produce ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 20, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Patrick Moran Source Type: blogs
Kitchen Tiling Ideas
Kitchen is the most essential part of the house. As your favorite dishes can be made inside it. So it is essential that while building a house or renovating a house, kitchen must be kept at top priorities. Playing with colors is daunting, so to use a back splash is perfect. It suddenly adds a pop in a neutral kitchen with a little effort. Decorative tiles in Melbourne add a bold color and pattern to your kitchen. Inside the kitchen, the wall beyond the dining table can be splashed with multi colored tiles as it may boost you up whenever you came, see, sit and have your breakfast, lunch and dinner or any othe...
Source: Nurse Blogger - December 14, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Fabiola Panicucci Tags: Small Business Services Source Type: blogs
Central Bank Digital Currency Threatens Financial Privacy and Economic Growth
Discussion Note (November 2018).[4] For theory and evidence on this point seeLastrapes and Selgin (2012).[Cross-posted from Alt-M.org] (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 4, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
Share Buybacks: Mismeasured and Misunderstood
In March of this year,Forbespublished an article with the following lede:The Economist has called them “an addiction to corporate cocaine.” Reuters has called them “self-cannibalization.” The Financial Timeshas called them “an overwhelming conflict of interest.” In an article that won the HBR McKinsey Award for the best article of the year, Harvard Business Review has called them “stock price manipulation.” These influential journals make a powerful case that wholesale stock buybacks are a bad idea—bad economically, bad financially, bad socially, bad legally and bad morally.There is no shortage of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 30, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Derek Bonett Source Type: blogs
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This summer, federal officials issued regulations designed to encourage the expansion of coverage options that are exempt from key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). One of those rules makes it easier to form association health plans (AHPs) and offer this less regulated coverage to small businesses and people who are self-employed. Though a legal challenge to the new rule is ongoing, some types of AHPs were allowed to take advantage of the weaker standards beginning September 1, while all such entities will be able to do so by April 2019.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - November 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kevin Lucia, Justin Giovannelli, Sabrina Corlette, Christina Goe Source Type: blogs
Distracted by Repulsive Objects
I highly recommendFintan O ' Toole ' s new piece in NYRB, which they have kindly made available to non-subscribers. Do read the whole thing, depressing as it is, because it may knock some scales from your eyes. Here ' s a key paragraph:There is, surely, a reason why books that give us Trump in all his outlandish tawdriness —like Michael Wolff’sFire and Fury and Bob Woodward ’sFear: Trump in the White House—cannot, however appalling their accounts may be, do him any harm. They are exercises in “looking straight at him to learn the truth about him,” an act that seems entirely right by any traditional political an...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 24, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A HIPAA Life Sentence … and SO Many Lessons
In 2012 Accretive Health Care was banned from doing business in Minnesota for 2 – 6 years for a HIPAA violation.
In 2018 New York State suspended a nurse’s license for a year for a HIPAA violation.
But, a life sentence?
The New Jersey Attorney General announced a $ 200,000 HIPAA and consumer fraud penalty against an out-of-business Georgia medical transcription company. In 2016 ATA Consulting LLC d/b/a Best Medical Transcription breached the medical records of over 1,650 people treated by three New Jersey healthcare providers by publicly exposing their medical records to the Internet. And, their customer, Virtua Health...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 15, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Semel Tags: Health Care Healthcare Healthcare IT Security HIPAA HIPAA Breaches HIPAA General HIPAA Lawsuits HIPAA News HIPAA Training Best Medical Transcription HIPAA Fines OCR State Attorney General Virtua Health Source Type: blogs
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The Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces open for enrollment today for the sixth time. But this year the marketplace health plans in many states will face some new competition from insurance products that don’t meet the law’s standards. These include the ban on denying coverage or charging more based on a person’s preexisting health conditions. New Trump administration regulations released earlier this year have undermined the coverage protections in the ACA by making it possible for insurers to renew skimpy short-term health insurance for up to three years, and for small businesses to form associat...
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - November 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sara R. Collins Source Type: blogs
The November 6 Midterm Elections and Their Impact on Obamacare:Q & A
By ETIENNE DEFFARGES
1) What is the likelihood the ACA will be repealed?
This straightforward question has a very simple answer: It depends on the results of the upcoming November 6 U.S. congressional elections.
If the Republicans retain control of both the House and the Senate, the probability that the ACA will be repealed is very high: The Republicans would be emboldened by such a victory and would most probably attempt in 2019 to repeal the health care law—again. It is worth remembering that in July of last year, the repeal of the ACA (a version of which had passed the House in May) was defeated in the Senate by the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Obamacare Patients Politics health care Midterm Elections Source Type: blogs
