Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 6th August 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment-----https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/telehealth-bolsters-maternal-care-outcomes-patient-satisfactionTelehealth Bolsters Maternal Care Outcomes, Patient SatisfactionNew research shows that implementing telehealth, either in place of or as a supplement to in-person care, led to good clinical outcomes and high patient satisfaction in maternal care.ByMark MelchionnaJu...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Women in prison
This report assesses its performance to date against those priorities.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 26, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
How much should you trust BetterHelp, Talkspace, Cerebral and other mental health start-ups touted by celebrities?
When Pat Paulson’s son told her he was feeling anxious and depressed at college, Paulson went through her Blue Cross Blue Shield provider directory and started calling mental health therapists. No providers in the Wisconsin city where her son’s university is located had openings. So she bought a monthly subscription to BetterHelp, a Mountain View, California, company that links people to therapists online.
Her son felt uncomfortable with his first BetterHelp therapist. After waiting several weeks, he saw a second therapist, whom he liked. But she wasn’t available the following week.
Despite the switch and the wait, P...
Source: SharpBrains - July 11, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Kaiser Health News Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation 8 billion minds American-Psychological-Association BetterHelp cerebral medication mental health start-ups mental healthcare talk-therapy Talkspace teletherapy Source Type: blogs
The New Buzz: These Are The Top Examples Of Digital Therapeutics
Digital Therapeutics or DTx in short is one of the latest buzzwords in the digital health ecosystem. Unlike others (NFT, Metaverse just to name a few) however, we see DTx as a meaningful trend that has the capacity to bring short-term, substantial improvements in personalised healthcare.
What is Digital Therapeutics?
The definition by the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, the main professional hub is:
“Digital therapeutics (DTx) deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions that are driven by high-quality software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. They are used inde...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Telemedicine & Smartphones software chronic pain apps cancer care mental health DTx digital therapeutics eczema Atopic dermatitis sleep disorders Source Type: blogs
It Would Be Really Good To See Some Movement On This And Some Related Areas!
This appeared last week:Opportunity to ‘undo’ raft of surveillance powers passed by CoalitionDenham SadlerNational Affairs Editor2 June 2022The restructuring of the Home Affairs Department by the new Labor government and the ongoing review of surveillance powers offers an opportunity to “undo” many of the privacy-invasive digital-focused laws passed during the Coalition’s time in power, Deakin University senior lecturer Dr Monique Mann says.Labor this week unveiled its Administrative Arrangements Order, revealing that responsibility for the Australian Federal Police (AFP) from the Department of Home Affairs to th...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - June 07, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
“Prohibition Theater” and “The Iron Law of Prohibition”
Jeffrey A. SingerA May 18 opinion column in theWall Street Journal by Joseph Grogan and Casey B. Mulligan titled “Fentanyl Overdose Rates Are Rising Fast” argued that to better address the overdose crisis, the Biden administration should tighten border security, give law enforcement better tools to combat the drug trade, toughen sentencing, and add illicit fentanyl and its analogs (easily created in clandestine labs) to the Drug Enforcement Admini stration’s Schedule 1 (“no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse ”), joining cannabis, LSD, heroin, MDMA (“ecstasy”) and other drugs wi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 31, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Retail Pharmacy Paranoia is Understandable –But Patients Are The Real Victims
Jeffrey A. SingerThere is already ample evidence that the war on opioid prescribing has intimidated many pharmacies and pharmacists intorefusing to dispense legally ‐prescribed opioids. This is tragic for patients, but an understandable result of incredulouslawsuits brought by state attorneys general against pharmacy retailers CVS, Walgreens, and others for allegedly contributing to the opioid overdose crisis by filling opioid prescriptions —even as overdose deaths continue to mount while opioid prescribing continues to drop precipitously. (87 percent of those overdose deaths involve illicit fentanyl, more than a&nb...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 25, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Hallucinations are surprisingly common and varied experiences
By Emma Young
Many mentally well people experience hallucinations. An estimated 6 – 15% of us hear, see, feel or even smell things that aren’t real. But there has been little research into what those hallucinations are like — and how they might differ from those experienced by people with psychosis. Now Mascha M.J. Linszen at Utrecht University and her colleagues report the results of a large study of more than 10,000 people aged 14 to 88. The work, published in Schizophrenia, throws up a few surprises among a host of interesting findings.
The team’s online survey was open to anyone aged over 14 who ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Perception Source Type: blogs
The Hidden Signs of Prescription Drug Abuse
Content reviewed by Karen Rubenstein, LMFT, Chief Clinical Officer at Cliffside Malibu. Prescription drug...The postThe Hidden Signs of Prescription Drug Abuse appeared first onCliffside Malibu. (Source: Cliffside Malibu)
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 5, 2022 Category: Addiction Authors: Cliffside Malibu Tags: Addiction abuse dependency misuse opioid prescription medication treatment Source Type: blogs
Attachment Styles: What Are They and How Do They Impact Addiction?
Content reviewed by Karen Rubenstein, LMFT, Chief Clinical Officer at...The postAttachment Styles: What Are They and How Do They Impact Addiction? appeared first onCliffside Malibu. (Source: Cliffside Malibu)
Source: Cliffside Malibu - April 22, 2022 Category: Addiction Authors: ebarbour Tags: Substance Abuse addiction Substance Use Source Type: blogs
How the pandemic affected teen mental health and substance abuse [PODCAST]
“Two issues drive teen substance use: drug availability and perception of risk. Availability: Today ’s teens know that obtaining substances is far too easy. For example, 70 percent of high school seniors say marijuana is either “fairly easy” or “very easy” to obtain. Seventy-seven percent say getting their hands on alcohol is very easy and twenty-oneRead more …How the pandemic affected teen mental health and substance abuse [PODCAST] originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 11, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
High-Functioning Depression and Substance Use Disorder
Content reviewed by Karen Rubenstein, LMFT, Chief Clinical Officer at Cliffside Malibu It may seem...The postHigh-Functioning Depression and Substance Use Disorder appeared first onCliffside Malibu. (Source: Cliffside Malibu)
Source: Cliffside Malibu - April 5, 2022 Category: Addiction Authors: ebarbour Tags: Substance Abuse depression Substance Use Source Type: blogs
Mapping ‘psychedelic trips’ in the brain to better direct their therapeutic effects
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
To learn more:
Why MDMA-assisted psychotherapy may become an FDA-approved treatment for PTSD within 2 years
Next: Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy?
The post Mapping ‘psychedelic trips’ in the brain to better direct their therapeutic effects appeared first on SharpBrains. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - April 4, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health academic research anxiety artificial intelligence brain regions cognitive-flexibility depression psychedelics psychiatric conditions psychotropic drugs therapeutic treat psychiatric conditions Source Type: blogs
MedPAC Got It Wrong (pt 1)
By GEORGE HALVORSON
This is the first part of former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson’s critique of Medpac’s new analysis of Medicare Advantage. The rest will be published on THCB later this week. Eventually I’ll be doing a summary article about all the back and forth about what Medicare Advantage really costs!-Matthew Holt
MedPac just did their annual report on Medicare Advantage (MA) and they were extremely wrong on several key points.
The MedPac staff has a long tradition of being critical of MA, and they also, unfortunately, have a long tradition of being inaccurate, misleading, and...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 30, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy The Business of Health Care George Halvorson Medicare Advantage MedPAC Source Type: blogs
