Big Data for Hospital Librarians – Are We There, Yet?
In the NNLM Big Data in Healthcare: Exploring Emerging Roles course, we asked participants, as they progressed through the course to consider the following questions: Do you think health sciences librarians should get involved with big data in healthcare? Where should librarians get involved, if you think they should? If you think they should not, explain why. You may also combine a “should/should not” approach if you would like to argue both sides. NNLM will feature responses from different participants over the coming weeks.
Written by Elanor Pickens, Medical Librarian, Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Portsmouth, NH
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Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog - May 1, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Hannah Sinemus Tags: Data Science Source Type: news
Strength in Numbers? Ins and Outs, Pros and Cons of Virtual Groups
While the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) creates questions and headaches for practitioners, its evolution continues. Virtual Group (VG) reporting is a new option for solo/small practices to use, and the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services continues to make changes as the feedback, concerns, and recommendations pour in from various audiences. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - April 1, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Rod Baird Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news
You Asked: Do Religious People Live Longer?
If a long life is what you’re after, going to church may be the answer to your prayers.
A number of studies have shown associations between attending religious services and living a long time. One of the most comprehensive, published in JAMA Internal Medicine in 2016, found that women who went to any kind of religious service more than once a week had a 33% lower chance than their secular peers of dying during the 16-year study-follow-up period. Another study, published last year in PLOS One, found that regular service attendance was linked to reductions in the body’s stress responses and even in mortality̵...
Source: TIME: Health - February 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthytime Longevity Source Type: news
FTC files complaint against Schein, Benco, Patterson over alleged denial of biz to buying groups
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week filed a complaint against Henry Schein (NSDQ:HSIC), Patterson (NSDQ:PDCO) and Benco alleging violations of US antitrust law by conspiring to refuse to provide discounts to or to serve buying groups representing dental practitioners, according to a new FTC posting.
The three companies, which the FTC claims control more than 85% of all dental product distributor sales in the US, face allegations that they denied independent benefits of such buying groups to dental practices mostly composed of small businesses, including solo or small groups of dentists.
Benco and Henry Schein al...
Source: Mass Device - February 13, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Dental Distribution Legal News benco Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Henry Schein Inc. Patterson Companies Source Type: news
Table of experts 2017: Value-based health care
MEETING THE EXPERTS
DAVID RUBINGER: How you would define the term value-based care when it comes to your individual practices?
DR. KEVIN ADAMS: I have a solo practice with one mid-level provider and a small ancillary staff of about five located outside of Athens. During the past three to five years, about 30 percent to 40 percent of my patients have switched to some type of value-based payor mix.
My approach to value-based care is providing care with a quality, cost and patient-satisfaction component.… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - December 11, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Table of experts 2017: Value-based health care
MEETING THE EXPERTS
DAVID RUBINGER: How you would define the term value-based care when it comes to your individual practices?
DR. KEVIN ADAMS: I have a solo practice with one mid-level provider and a small ancillary staff of about five located outside of Athens. During the past three to five years, about 30 percent to 40 percent of my patients have switched to some type of value-based payor mix.
My approach to value-based care is providing care with a quality, cost and patient-satisfaction component.… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - December 11, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: news
The Waning World of the Solo Practice
(MedPage Today) -- Is concierge medicine the solution? (Source: MedPage Today Dermatology)
Source: MedPage Today Dermatology - December 2, 2017 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
Adolescent Health Congress Skirts Issue of Abuse, Trafficking
Attendees at the 11th Congress on Adolescent Health in New Delhi, Oct. 27-29, 2017. Credit: Stella Paul/IPSBy Stella PaulNEW DELHI, Oct 30 2017 (IPS)Twenty-year-old Gogontlejang Phaladi of Mahalapye, Botswana is grateful she was never sent to a so-called “hyena” like scores of girls in neighboring Malawi were.In a ritual approved by the community, a solo man (the hyena) would have sex with the adolescent girls of an entire village to “sexually cleanse” them so they would be considered fit for marriage."It makes sense to bring village and religious leaders in this conversation on violent crimes. After all, most of t...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 30, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Stella Paul Tags: Active Citizens Asia-Pacific Crime & Justice Education Featured Gender Violence Global Headlines Health Human Rights Migration & Refugees Population Poverty & SDGs Women's Health adolescent girls adolescent health child mar Source Type: news
Now Open: Virtual Group Election for MIPS Participation
Solo and small physician practices have until Dec. 1 to inform CMS they are forming a virtual group for 2018 Merit-based Incentive Payment System reporting. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 17, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Where You Should Road Trip, Based on Your Zodiac Sign
This article originally appeared on TravelandLeisure.com (Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories)
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Karen Ruffini / Travel + Leisure Tags: Uncategorized onetime onetimetravel Source Type: news
7 Ways to Make Flying Less Stressful
This article originally appeared on BusinessInsider.com (Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories)
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew DeBord / Business Insider Tags: Uncategorized bi onetime onetimetravel Source Type: news
3 names you need to know this week — and why the Birds are flying solo
Here is another look at some of the people and companies who could help shape San Antonio's economic future. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - September 29, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: W. Scott Bailey Source Type: news
2016 Annual QRURs Webcast
October 19, 2017 1:30-3:00pm ET. 2016 Annual Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) are available for all group practices and solo practitioners nationwide. This event provides an overview of the report and explains how to interpret and use the information. (Source: HSR Information Central)
Source: HSR Information Central - September 20, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
A'Passion' for Family Medicine A'Passion' for Family Medicine
Solo practitioner Dr Karen Smith reveals that passion for family medicine fuels her practice in a rural community and fuels her voice in Washington, DC.American Academy of Family Physicians (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Commentary Source Type: news
