Why Hospital Discharges Take So Long —And What We Can Do To Shorten Them
This article discusses some organizational and workflow measures that hospitals are taking to shorten discharge times, saving money along the way. A subsequent article will chime in with some technologies that help.
Factors Delaying Discharges
Where to begin? So many hospital activities were cited by respondents to my question that I can hope at best to summarize the most salient of them. I’ll run through the observations quickly in order to get to solutions, which boil down to “Think about what you’re doing.”
First, according to Donna Pritchard and Joy Avery of CipherHealth, a company with a commun...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System ABOUT Andrew Y Shin Care Managers Carta Healthcare Cindy Gaines CipherHe Source Type: blogs
Transforming lives, improving health outcomes: tackling the true cost of variation in uptake of innovative medicines
This report considers how to ensure patients are able to access and benefit from innovative medicines – wherever they live in the UK. The joint report with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) makes thirteen specific recommendations (focusing on England, Wales and Northern Ireland) to support progress in tackling the unwarranted variation in the uptake of innovative medici nes.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 17, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
I Have To Say This Is A #myHealthRecord Story I Never Expected To Provide.
This appeared a day or so ago…
Vet-tech Vedi vies for UK
paw print after securing $3m investment
By David Simmons
13 January 2023
Australian veterinary tech company Vedi has
secured $3 million from investors MSD Animal Health - a division of US-based
Merck& Co - and Companion Fund as it looks to expand its medical record
platform for pet health into the United Kingdom.
Announced today, (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Flight Chaos Demonstrates Need for Systemic Changes in Air Traffic Control Policy
Colin GrabowAir travel in the United States was thrown into chaos earlier this week when a key system used by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) went down, forcing over10,000 flights to be delayed and at least 1,300 canceled. While a damageddatabase file may have been the proximate cause of this upheaval, the episode appears yet another indication of systemic flaws in U.S. air traffic control policy.Technological deficiencies in U.S. air traffic control operations arelong-standing. Indeed, Congress mandatedtwenty years ago that the FAA establish a plan for implementing the modernized Next Generation A...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Big Dairy Milks Congress for Baby Formula Tariffs
Gabriella Beaumont-SmithJanuary 11th isNational Milk Day and this year, the U.S. dairy industry has a lot to celebrate.While the 2022 baby formula crisis grappled the United States, the National Milk Producers Federation called on Congress toresistnew action. In November, the groupurged Congress to oppose any efforts to extend the tariff suspensions emergently granted to baby formula imports amidst the crisis. Unsurprisingly, Big Dairy succeeded —on January 1st, thetariffs returned on imports of infant formula meaning these imports are again subject to an effective tax of about 25 percent.To recap, the baby formula cri...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 11, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
Missing links in IHD : What is the relationship between Ischemia & cardiac arrhythmias ?
The term Ischemic heart disease (IHD) was once very popular, but many abandoned it as it became an academic cliche. CAD & CAHD are the other terms that are equally popular and prevalent. Stable IHD was in vogue till recently, which was again replaced by “chronic coronary syndrome’ now. Honestly, I feel the original term IHD to be restored however outdated it may look. it encompasses the entire spectrum of clinical cardiac disorders.
Manifestation of Ischemia heart disease
Angina
Infarction
Cardiac failure
Arrhythmias
Silent ischemia
Sudden cardiac death
The ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 5, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Cardiology -unresolved questions Cardiology-Arrhythmias Relationship between Ischemia and arrhytmias Source Type: blogs
Privacy and Its Discontents
Clark Neily andNorbert MichelThere ’s an iconic scene in the movieSpinal Tap where lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel, reacting to a production error that has rendered the band ’s latest record album an unadorned black square, exclaims, “There’s something about this that’s so black, it’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none, none more black.” Last Wednesday’sop ‐ed in theNew York Times by self ‐styled “digital ethics” adviser and privacy‐skeptic Reid Blackman evokes a similar response: How much more wrong could this piece be? The answer is none, none more wro...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 4, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Neily, Norbert Michel Source Type: blogs
Countries with the Highest Shares of Their Populations Living in the U.S.
David J. BierThe United States is home to immigrants from every country in the world, but people are much more likely to leave some countries than others. The probability of a person from a given country immigrating to the United States can be broadly measured by dividing the number of immigrants in the United States by the country’s population plus the country’s population.Figure 1 shows the origin countries for people with the highest likelihood of immigrating to the United States. The immigration data come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey as of July 1, 2021 and the country population da...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 29, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Empathy and longevity in diabetes with BDI Briefs
Introducing BDI Briefs
I’m very excited to share the first episode of BDI Briefs! Together with Dr. Bill Polonsky and Dr. Susan Guzman from the Behavioral Diabetes Institute, our aim with BDI Briefs is to take a brief look at important issues about the emotional side of diabetes.In this short discussion, Scott, Bill, and Susan talk about an interesting study from 2019 that found an association between primary care practitioner empathy and longevity in people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. There is a lot to unpack, and we only scratch the s...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - December 29, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
A Blackcap in Winter
It’s no wonder this little fellow looks so grumpy perched next to the mistletoe growing on our rowan tree…most other Blackcaps will be enjoying a much balmier winter on the Iberian Peninsula or even in Africa. We have had Blackcaps in our garden in winter for several years now. Never see them in the garden in summer though. We had a male and a female last winter. So far this winter, just this solitary male.
Blackcap overwintering in the UK
In recent years, a lot of migrating Blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla) have headed west from eastern Europe for the winter instead of turning south. Their compasses seem to have ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 23, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Tariffs Tax the Poor More Than the Rich
Gabriella Beaumont-SmithTaxes on imports, known as tariffs, are regressive —they disproportionately burden the poor. A recentpaper by Miguel Acosta and Lydia Cox explores the origins and implications of the regressive nature of the U.S. tariff code.This paper is welcomed to the literature. As the authors note, the regressive pattern “has only been noted anecdotally” byEd Gresser at the Progressive Policy Institute andothers, including my colleagueRyan Bourne. Cox and Acosta lay out how U.S. “tariffs are systematically higher on lower lower‐end versions of goods relative to their higher‐end counterparts....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 22, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
U.S. Can ’t Afford Another Decade Without New Free Trade Agreements
Clark PackardAs 2022 winds down, it is worth noting that it has now been ten years since the United States entered into a free trade agreement (FTA) with new trading partners. Despite claims that the United States is a “hyperglobalist,” the reality is much different. In fact, as Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for international economicsnoted in his excellentForeign Affairs essay last year, the United States has been withdrawing from international economic integration for about 20 years. The consequences of a stagnant trade agenda will become more apparent and pronounced as time passes.In 2012, U.S....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 20, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
Getting it right: the case for urgent investment in safe, modern technology and data sharing in the UK ’s health services
This report sets out they key areas where more needs to be done to ensure the recovery and resilience of UK health services and the safe delivery of care: infrastructure – hardware, software and connectivity; interoperability – standards and security; involvement – digital leadership, user involvement and skills development; inclusion - digital access and literacy for patients; and investment - prioritise existing funding, protect against budget cuts, increase funding.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 15, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data Source Type: blogs
Brick by brick: the case for urgent investment in safe, modern, and sustainable healthcare estates
This report examines the condition of the NHS estate across the UK and its impact on both the wellbeing of doctors and patient care, with a focus on: the maintenance and modernisation of healthcare estates; the need to design healthcare environments with capacity, safety and wellbeing in mind; the impact healthcare estates have on climate and the environment; and the need for steeper increases in capital funding.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 15, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
