Leveraging AI to Address the Mental Health Crisis
The following is a guest article by Raj Tumuluri, Founder and CEO at Openstream.ai
As healthcare providers, you are acutely aware of the staggering mental health challenges facing our societies today. Depression, anxiety, PTSD, and suicidal ideation have reached pandemic levels, exacerbated by the relentless pace of modern life. From the general population to students in high-stress environments and frontline workers, a severe shortage of clinical personnel has created harrowing bottlenecks in accessing timely mental health evaluations and care.
The weight of this crisis calls for innovative solutions that can simultaneous...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Avatars Behaviorial Health AI CAI Conversational AI Conversational Artificial Intelligence Healthcare AI mental health Mental Health AI Mental Health Crisis Openstream.ai Raj Source Type: blogs
We Reap What We Sow With Mental Health Services Provision!
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mental health system is ‘under siege and stress’
Exclusive By Natasha Bita Education Editor 8:27PM April 19, 2024 Psychotic and suicidal patients are being turned away from short-staffed public hospitals, as the nation’s health ministers work to plug gaping gaps between medical treatment and NDIS support for the m entally ill. Frontline health and (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 22nd 2024
This study reveals a potential treatment for human mitochondrial diseases.
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A Population Study Correlates Air Pollution with Faster Cognitive Aging
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/04/a-population-study-correlates-air-pollution-with-faster-cognitive-aging/
A number of large epidemiological studies provide evidence for long-term exposure to greater levels of air pollution to accelerate the onset and progression of age-related disease. A few of these manage to control for the tendency for wealthier people to avoid living in areas with higher particulate air pollution, ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 21, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Managing Your Doctor Self
I’m having a conversation with a colleague when our talk drifted to how are we managing our lives. “How are you managing your physician life?” I asked. I am in the middle of pivoting professional directions, easing out on one an aspect of my physician life. So, maybe I could get an insight into how they balance all these amidst their very busy practice and learn something I could apply in my own life context.
“You mean our academic, clinical and administrative life as a doctor? or all of that plus our family??!” She jokingly scoffed. The couple are surgeons, both taking masters degree, bot...
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - April 20, 2024 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Remo Aguilar Tags: Habits Productivity doctors managing oneself physicians self management Source Type: blogs
Parkinson's Disease in the SENS View of Damage Repair
The Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) is a view of aging as accumulated damage. Drawing from the extensive scientific literature on aging, the originators of SENS created an outline of the forms of cell and tissue damage that are fundamental causes of aging, in that they occur as a natural side-effect of the normal operation of our cellular biochemistry. So we might consider the loss of vital cells due to declining stem cell function, mutations to nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA, cross-linking of vital molecules in the extracellular matrix, accumulated metabolic waste in long-lived cells, generation ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 19, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
From Patent To Product: The Speed Of The Digital Health Evolution
We’re bombarded with mindblowing headlines of new medical miracles every day. BCI helps paralysed patients talk again! Robots in the stomach! Micro-organs on organ-on-chip technologies! But it is almost impossible to see through the hype and know if and when these will yield actual, patient-ready solutions. So let’s get into this maze and decipher how a new, revolutionary medical technology develops from an ingenious idea to a market-ready product with two real-life examples: the artificial pancreas and wireless ECG.
In early April, the UK’s NHS rolled out an artificial pancreas (APS) for Type 1 diabetes patients,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF artificial intelligence digital health Innovation patent analysis Medicine Source Type: blogs
Assisted Suicide, Forced Cooperation, and Coercion: Reflections on a Brewing Storm
Lucia Ann Silecchia (Catholic University of America), Assisted Suicide, Forced Cooperation, and Coercion: Reflections on a Brewing Storm, 98 Notre Dame L. Rev. (2023): Much of today ’s most contentious and high-profile discourse about unconstitutional conditions and coercion in the medical... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 29, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Assisted suicide: Safeguards debated as bioethicist warns of unintended consequences
At a time when many states are considering assisted suicide legislation, I was interested to encounter the perspective of the well-known bioethicist Arthur Caplan who recently expressed his support for these laws on these pages. While I appreciate Caplan’s endorsement of protecting doctors’ ability to refuse, as a matter of conscience, to participate in assisted death, I
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Assisted suicide: Safeguards debated as bioethicist warns of unintended consequences originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Philip Reed Tags: Conditions Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Assisted suicide is the wrong prescription
America expends much time, effort, and resources when people become seriously ill, bringing many face-to-face with their own mortality. For patients and their families, it is an emotional and difficult time under the best of circumstances. As a cardiologist, I participate in the decision-making that comes at this time, and it has provided me with
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Assisted suicide is the wrong prescription originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 15, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Joseph E. Marine, MD, MBA Tags: Physician Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Scientific Context, Suicide Prevention, and the Second Amendment After Bruen
Eric Ruben (Southern Methodist University), Scientific Context, Suicide Prevention, and the Second Amendment After Bruen, Minn. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024): The Supreme Court declared in New York State Rifle& Pistol Association v. Bruen that modern gun laws must be... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 12, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Harmonies of medicine: the biopsychosocial symphony
In the heartstrings of medicine, a symphony resonates—a tale of profound connections and compassionate care. Envision a middle-aged man thrust into a harrowing journey: diagnosed suddenly with a life-threatening vascular disease, haunted by depression with suicidal thoughts, and navigating the complexities of life without social support. This narrative is both prologue and sonata, weaving through
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Harmonies of medicine: the biopsychosocial symphony originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 1, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Shanice Spence-Miller, MD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – February 24, 2024
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Which Health IT Trends Deserve Even More Attention? We asked the Healthcare IT Today to weigh in on the topics that the industry isn’t talking about enough. Interesting answers included whether data really needs to be cleaned up before it’s ingested and how to get providers and payers on the same page. Read more…
Introducing Designing f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Netsmart Leverages AI and Predictive Analytics to Improve Care and Identify Suicide Risk
Tom Herzog, chief operating officer of Netsmart, says that “digitization has always been about entering data into the system” and that users are asking, “What does the system do for me?” It’s time to “aggregate” that data and get a million “second opinions.”
Matthew Arnheiter, senior vice president of innovations, described Netsmart’s project with the Missouri Behavioral Health Council (MBHC) to use predictive analytics and identify people at risk of suicide. Their AI system ingested data across the “silos” of more than 30 behavioral health providers...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 20, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System behavioral health EHR AI Assistant Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Assistant Healthcare IT Video Interv Source Type: blogs
When Death Becomes Therapy: Canada ’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of LifeWhen Death Becomes Therapy: Canada’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of Life
Trudo Lemmens (University of Toronto), When Death Becomes Therapy: Canada ’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of Life, 23 Am. J. Bioethics (2023): In a recent article in the American Journal of Bioethics, Daryl Pullman contrasts the assisted suicide... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 10, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
A patient reached out to a doctor, and they helped each other heal
Kim Downey: “Each year, almost 400 physicians die by suicide.” That sentence stopped me in my tracks. I’d been reading all the articles here on KevinMD for almost a year when I came across one written by Dr. Avellino, with the opening line above. One of my amazing doctors had died several months prior. I
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A patient reached out to a doctor, and they helped each other heal originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 3, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Anthony Avellino, MD, MBA &
