What Barriers Face Students With Hearing Loss?
The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University wants to know what you see as the significant barriers facing students who are deaf and hard of hearing, ages birth through high school. This is your opportunity to share your experiences.
The Clerc Center is mandated by the 2008 Education of the Deaf Act “to establish and publish priorities for research, development, and demonstration through a process that allows for public input.” Now is the time for ASHA members to share their input! The center will use your responses to identify priorities for the Clerc Center Strategic Plan 2025.
If ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 8, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Mary Ann Kinsella-Meier Tags: Advocacy Audiology Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Language Disorders Schools Speech Disorders speech-language pathology Source Type: blogs
What Barriers Face Students With Hearing Loss?
The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University wants to know what you see as the significant barriers facing students who are deaf and hard of hearing, ages birth through high school. This is your opportunity to share your experiences.
The Clerc Center is mandated by the 2008 Education of the Deaf Act “to establish and publish priorities for research, development, and demonstration through a process that allows for public input.” Now is the time for ASHA members to share their input! The center will use your responses to identify priorities for the Clerc Center Strategic Plan 2025.
If ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 8, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Mary Ann Kinsella-Meier Tags: Advocacy Audiology Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Language Disorders Schools Speech Disorders speech-language pathology Source Type: blogs
Federal Pain Research Strategy Overview | Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee
The NIH Office of Pain Policy is pleased to announce the release of the Federal Pain Research Strategy.The Federal Pain Research Strategy (FPRS) is an effort of the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (IPRCC) and the National Institutes of Health, Office of Pain Policy to oversee development of a long-term strategic plan to advance the federal pain research agenda. The strategy is relevant to the missions all federal agencies and departments that support pain research. The research priorities of the FPRS are intended to guide strategic research planning and to support funding decisions that will fill cruc...
Source: Psychology of Pain - October 21, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
The Four Things Keeping Hospital CEOs Awake at Night This Year (Hint: Donald Trump Isn ’ t One of Them)
By PAUL KECKLEY
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation released a Request for Information (RFI) last week– “New Direction for the CMS Innovation Center.” It’s the latest chapter in the unfolding policy framework that will govern the health system for at least the next 3 years.
The RFI, which doubles down on value-based alternative payment models and consumer directed care, coupled with a proposed rule to cancel mandatory bundles by former HHS Secretary Price, the administration’s actions last week to weaken contraceptive coverage requirements in employer-sponsored health plans and Congress’ FY18 fe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized CMS Innovation Center Paul Keckley Source Type: blogs
The Three Things Keeping Hospital CEOs Up Late at Night (Hint: Donald Trump Isn ’ t One of Them)
By PAUL KECKLEY
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation released a Request for Information (RFI) last week– “New Direction for the CMS Innovation Center.” It’s the latest chapter in the unfolding policy framework that will govern the health system for at least the next 3 years.
The RFI, which doubles down on value-based alternative payment models and consumer directed care, coupled with a proposed rule to cancel mandatory bundles by former HHS Secretary Price, the administration’s actions last week to weaken contraceptive coverage requirements in employer-sponsored health plans and Congress’ FY18 fe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized CMS Innovation Center Paul Keckley Source Type: blogs
ACA Round-Up: Graham-Cassidy ’ s Demise, Pressures On 2018 Open Enrollment, And New HHS Draft Strategic Plan
On September 26, 2017, the Republican Senate leadership announced that the Senate would not hold a vote on the Graham-Cassidy bill, the last attempt to repeal or amend the Affordable Care Act under the 2017 budget resolution. After Senator Collins announced that she would not support the legislation, joining Senators Paul and McCain who had already announced their opposition, it became clear that it lacked the 50 votes necessary to pass. There is some discussion of trying again to address health reform in the 2018 budget resolution, which would otherwise be devoted solely to changes in the tax code.
CMS Decisions On Renewa...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage ACA repeal and replace freedom of religion guaranteed issue and renewal open enrollment period Source Type: blogs
How To Make A Great First Impression
You're reading How To Make A Great First Impression, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
First impressions are very important in forming a strong relationship with the different people we meet and interact with in our lives. Though it happens for a very short time, the first impression can last for a very long time, for better or worse. People make judgments about the people they meet based on their appearance and presentation and once the impression is created, it hardly changes. Simply put, a great or good...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: maryjames Tags: featured success first impression good first impression happiness pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
Senate Bill Mandates More Border Surveillance
An anonymous source sent an advanced copy of S.1757, otherwise known as the “Building America ’s Trust Act, ” toArs Technica. If passed as written, the bill would dramatically expanded surveillance at the border and ports of entry, putting the privacy of immigrants and citizens alike at risk.The bill, sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and co-sponsored bysix of his Republican colleagues, mandates increased border drone surveillance and the collection of more biometric information, including but not limited to voice prints and facial scans.The drone provisions of the bill are consistent with President Trump ’s cam...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 15, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs
Substance Use Disorders: A Foundation Sees New Opportunities And Continuing Challenges
Behavioral health conditions (including both mental illness and substance use disorders) are common and serious problems throughout Montana. In 2014, Montana had the highest suicide rate in the United States for all age groups, and it has been among the five states with the highest suicide rate in the nation for more than forty years. Community health assessments from Montana’s fifty-six counties consistently ranked behavioral health as one of the leading community concerns.
The Montana Healthcare Foundation (MHCF) was formed in 2013 and is Montana’s largest health-focused philanthropy. Behavioral health is one of the ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Scott Malloy Tags: Featured GrantWatch Health Professionals Organization and Delivery Behavioral Health Chronic Care Consumers Health Care Delivery Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW Medicaid Mental Health Montana Substan Source Type: blogs
Contaminated Childhood: The Chronic Lead Poisoning of Low-Income Children and Communities of Color in the United States
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, revealed systemic government malfeasance that exposed an entire city population to lead-contaminated water. It also alerted the nation to the fact that lead poisoning remains endemic and threatens the livelihood of children across the country. The problem extends beyond Flint—a recent report identified more than 2,600 areas in the United States that have lead poisoning rates at least double those recorded during the peak of the Flint crisis.
According to the American Healthy Homes Survey, conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), more 23 million homes in ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 8, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Emily A. Benfer Tags: Featured Health Equity Population Health Public Health civil rights Lead poisoning racial inequity Social Determinants of Health social justice Source Type: blogs
FDA Orphan Drug Modernization Plan Released
In late June 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) unveiled a strategic plan to both eliminate the agency’s existing orphan designation request backlog and ensure timely responses to all new requests for designation with firm deadlines.
This Orphan Drug Modernization Plan comes hot on the heels of FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s testimony before a Senate subcommittee, where he made a commitment to (1) eliminate the current backlog within ninety days and (2) respond to all new requests for designation within ninety days of receipt.
Authorized under the Orphan...
Source: Policy and Medicine - July 28, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
The Messenger Also Matters: Value-Based Payment Can Support Outreach To Vulnerable Populations
With the proliferation of value-based payment initiatives and implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) coverage expansions, states have had many opportunities in recent years to improve the health of vulnerable populations through health promotion, prevention, and care coordination. We believe value-based payment models can and must support accountable health care delivery systems in partnering with community-based “messengers” to engage vulnerable individuals in health education and promotion. We explore one such messenger program, ACCESS, a Brooklyn-based project of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Ruth C. Browne, Marilyn Fraser, Judith Killen and Laura Tollen Tags: Health Equity Medicaid and CHIP Population Health Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health New York New York State Social Determinants of Health value-based payment vulnerable populations Source Type: blogs
Alzheimer's Care, Delirium, and Urinary Tract Infection
Delirium is a sudden alteration in mental status -- brain failure in a vulnerable individual, often an older adult with multiple health issues, caused by something else such as medications, urinary tract infection, lack of sleep, excessive light or noise or pain.Fact: an estimated 80 percent of patients in intensive care units experience delirium during their hospital stay; however, delirium is unrecognized in 60 percent of patients who experience it.Looking for Answers? How to Get Answers To Your Questions About Alzheimer's and DementiaStatistically having delirium is as serious as having a heart attack. Once deliriu...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - July 4, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: care of dementia patients care of dementia patients at home delirium dementia care dementia confusion Hallucinate home care memory care Source Type: blogs
Health Business Group announces leader for its Australia/Asia practice
I’m excited to announce that Dan Segal will join Health Business Group as a principal, leading our practice in the Australia and Asia. The press release is below:
Dan Segal joins Health Business Group
Industry veteran will lead consulting firm’s practice in Australia and Asia
Dan Segal, Principal, Health Business Group
BOSTON – June 20, 2017 – PRLog — Health Business Group a leading strategy consulting boutique advising companies, non-profits and investors in health care services, digital health, pharmaceutical services, and medical devices has appointed Dan Segal as Principa...
Source: Health Business Blog - June 20, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements International Source Type: blogs
