Talkiatry Finds Features and Flexibility in eClinicalWorks
Talkiatry is a telemedicine service connecting psychiatrists with patients suffering from depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and other common mental health and behavioral problems. This market is an especially complex area of health care for many reasons. In this video, CEO Robert Krayn talks about how Talkiatry addresses the needs of patients by leveraging their eClinicalWorks EHR platform.
Remote psychiatry is a crucial need, because psychiatrists are extremely unevenly distributed. If you’re in New York City or Boston, you can corral a psychiatrist by accosting people on the street. In a remote rural a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Behavioral Telehealth eClinicalWorks eCW Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Psychiatry EHR Psychiatry EMR Robert Source Type: blogs
American Telemedicine Association Leaps Into Privacy and AI Policies
The computerization of daily life has evolved from a set of technical decisions to a matter of urgent public policy over the past few decades. The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI.
Of course, privacy and AI both make front-page news these days. Concerns over the data protection of individuals dates back to the 1970s. The issue takes on new urgency since evidence has emerged about the manipulation of voters and exploitation of children. AI became the subject of an international summit at Bletchley P...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AI Regulations Artificial Intelligence ATA HIPAA Kyle Zebley privacy Privacy Regulations Telehealth Policy Telemedicine Regulations Source Type: blogs
Vague criteria can lead to misdiagnosis and prison
The definition of addiction, now called substance use disorder, has varied greatly over time. The first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, from 1952, didn’t include specific diagnostic criteria for this condition. Over the next sixty years, the DSM went through six revisions, with a slow evolution of the terms “substance abuse” and “dependence.”
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Vague criteria can lead to misdiagnosis and prison originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Conditions Pain Management Source Type: blogs
How Could Digital Technology Make An Impact On Primary Care?
I truly hope that very soon I do not have to make an appointment at the GP when I suspect signs of a disease, but my GP will send me a message that she spotted something irregular in my latest test results and my digital health data, so I’d better visit. Let me show you in detail how primary care should be carried out in the future!
Digital health should become an organic part of primary care in the future
I live a fairly healthy life. I use data to improve my lifestyle and to make better decisions by optimising my sleep pattern, my physical, my cognitive or my emotional abilities; and I had several genetic tests....
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Digital Health Research Healthcare Innovation technology wearables GP primary care general practitioner Source Type: blogs
THCB 20th Birthday classics: A Brief History of Price Controls by Annoyed Republican Administrations
By UWE REINHARDT
One of the greatest pleasures of running THCB has been to get to know and host the writings of some of my health policy heroes. This week I have already published work from Jeff Goldsmith, and Ian Morrison & Michael Millenson among others will be featured next week (as the party won’t quite stop). Perhaps one of the most amazing things was that the doyen of health economists, Uwe Reinhardt, offered to write some original pieces for THCB…prodded by former editor John Irvine. This is one of my favorites, riffing on a talk I heard him give in (I think) 1993 about how HCFA was like the Kreml...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Price controls Uwe Reinhardt Source Type: blogs
Profound ST depression in II, III, aVF
Conclusion:Type II MI probable due to hypoxia and tachycardia from resp arrest and amphetamine use. Whether the ST Depression on the ECG represents ischemia or not is uncertain, but it does not represent acute coronary syndrome.===================================MY Comment, by KEN GRAUER, MD (7/26/2023):===================================The most interesting aspects of today ’s case are: i) The tale told by the 6 ECGs; and, ii) The surprise finding of positive troponins! The Sum is More than Each of its Parts:If we look back at the initial ECG&nb...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - July 27, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Drugs Vs. Digital Therapeutics – A Digital Symbiosis
In conclusion, it’s not about Drugs vs DTx. It’s about Drugs & DTx, leveraging the strengths of both for maximal benefits.
The post Drugs Vs. Digital Therapeutics – A Digital Symbiosis appeared first on The Medical Futurist. (Source: The Medical Futurist)
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: E-Patients Future of Pharma Personalized Medicine Telemedicine & Smartphones DTx digital therapeutics prescription apps Source Type: blogs
What Are The Current Regulatory Changes And Compliance Requirements That ASCs Need To Be Aware Of In Their Billing Practices?
The following is a guest article by Isaac Smith, Billing, Coding, and Reimbursement Specialist at Medcare MSO
ASCs are types of medical facilities that are subject to stringent regulations. Each ASC is responsible for ensuring that they are in compliance with the numerous statutes and regulations that are in place at both the state and federal levels. These laws regulate everything pertaining to ASCs, from their day-to-day operations to the manner in which they are compensated.
ASCs must stay current on healthcare regulations that affect billing. New CMS and AMA guidelines, coding changes, and reimbursement methods have be...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Healthcare IT Regulations Revenue Cycle Management AMA ASC ASC Billing ASCs Regulatory Changes CMS Conditions for Coverage CPT Emergency Preparedness HOPD ICD-10-CM Isaac Smith Medcare MSO Medica Source Type: blogs
Increased Medicaid Coverage Is Not Improving Low Birth Weight
Marc JoffeWith so many people obtaining Medicaid coverage in the wake of the Affordable Care Act and during the pandemic, it is worth investigating whether this expanded eligibility is improving health outcomes. Overall, decreases in theproportion of uninsured individuals over the last decade are not being matched by improved life expectancy. Indeed, life expectancy at birth in 2021was lower than it was when the Affordable Care Act passed. But this fact tells us little about the benefits of Medicaid coverage since the decline has been driven in large part by COVID-19 deaths among elderly patients (often not on Medicaid) as...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
In San Francisco, Government Failure Erases Billions of Dollars of Commercial Real Estate Valuations
ConclusionAn overly energetic lockdown and actions that concentrated violent and unstable individuals in the downtown area have contributed to the collapse of real estate values in San Francisco ’s prime hotel, office, and retail districts. Quasi‐governmental institutions that might have stepped in to provide improved security and street conditions have been enfeebled in part by city policy.At this point, it does not appear that any set of feasible policies can restore downtown San Francisco to the heights it reached in 2019. A more realistic possibility is that it will stabilize at much lower levels of occupancy...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 12, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
CADDAC ’S ADHD And Substance Use Disorder Peer-Led Support Groups
This is great news by CADDAC and Health Canada to create ADHD and substance use disorder peer-led support groups in the fall. They’re looking now for peer support facilitators now with lived experience who are willing to be trained and run them. Will be offered a stipend for their time.
Hope people with ADHD ask their MLAs to get provincial health departments to create ADHD and substance use disorder (SUD) peer-led support groups too.
ADHD people are 4-8 times + more likely to have SUD. Provinces should also require ALL rehabs to screen for ADHD.
Every BC rehab I’ve asked at community events in Vancouver does n...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - June 10, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Addictions Source Type: blogs
The HALT Fentanyl Act Doubles Down on Denialism
Jeffrey A. SingerYesterday the House of Representatives voted 289 –133 topass the HALT Fentanyl Act.* Theact permanently classifies fentanyl ‐related substances (FRS)—analogs of fentanyl that differ chemically from analogs currently used medically (e.g.,sufentanil,remilfentanil,alfentanil) —as Schedule 1 drugs. The Drug Enforcement Administrationdefines Schedule 1 drugs as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”Set aside the fact that politicians have no way of knowing that future analogs have no potential medical use (think of all those years lost intreating mental hea...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Diversion
To be clear, we are not talking about people who have committed serious felonies. That is another discussion. But the large majority of people who are involved with the criminal justice system are charged with fairly minor offenses -- what may be labeled disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, public intoxication, shoplifting or other petty theft, maybe getting in a fight or vandalizing property of someone they ' re mad at. As we have seen, a lot of these people have diagnosable mental and/or substance use disorder, limited education and job skills. As we have also seen, if they are convicted (or more realisti...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
TCMHCC and Trayt Health Addressing Youth Mental Health at Scale
State and local governments, along with non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations are teaming up in Texas to tackle youth mental health. The Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium is a unique collaboration between stakeholders across the state that provides access to mental health resources no matter where the child may be. The Consortium’s success is due to efficient processes, a data-driven approach backed by a technology platform, and a shared sense of purpose.
Healthcare IT Today recently had the chance to learn more from Dr. Laurel Williams Medical Director for the Centraliz...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring adolescent mental health behavioral health CPAN CPWE Dr. Laurel Williams Healthcare Scene Featured Malekeh Amini Primary Care Providers TCMHCC Telehealth Texas Child Men Source Type: blogs
Steroids And The Heart: A Revealing Study On Long-Term Risks
Conclusion: A Heartfelt Wake-Up Call
These pioneering studies serve as a stark reminder that every choice has consequences – and when it comes to anabolic steroids, those consequences can be heart-wrenching.
The results underscore the urgency of prioritizing health over fleeting performance gains.
As we step forward, awaiting more insights from larger studies, remember – your health is an invaluable asset, one that deserves more than temporary boosts.
Making conscious, informed choices today can shield your heart from undue harm tomorrow.
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American Heart Association: Steroids, Other A...
Source: The EMT Spot - May 15, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: News Source Type: blogs
