7 Digital Health Trends We ’ll Keep An Eye On In 2021
Summing up 2020 I was asked many times about the changes COVID-19 have brought about in healthcare. Well, throughout the past year, here at The Medical Futurist we were continuously posting about the technological advancements in the medical field: telemedicine, at-home lab tests, robotics and even doing sports have changed dramatically.
Most of these changes are likely to stay with us even after the pandemic is gone (I mean after we all got vaccinated), and in 2021, some will bear more fruit than ever. Let’s have a look at the 7 most promising trends in healthcare.
1. At-home lab tests
Case: It seems that...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 7, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Robotics Security & Privacy Telemed Source Type: blogs
Evaluating President-Elect Biden ’s Healthcare Plan | Part 2
Conclusion
I am impressed with Joe Biden’s approach to fixing the ACA. It’s a very rational approach to increasing access to healthcare, which is why it is very similar to what I described in my KevinMD post in 2019 about a possible optimal future U.S. healthcare system.
Importantly, it also avoids the moral dilemmas of (1) having people priced out of the insurance market on the one hand and (2) forcing people to buy something they do not want on the other. In a system like the one he is proposing, if there are people who do not have health insurance, it will be because they simply chose to spend their money...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Source Type: blogs
Evaluating President-Elect Biden ’s Healthcare Plan | Part 1
By TAYLOR J. CHRISTENSEN
Without the full support of congress behind him, President-Elect Joe Biden will probably not have an opportunity to sign any major system-altering healthcare legislation. But, if Democrats can gain a majority in the senate–either this election cycle or next—healthcare reform will be high on the agenda. Let’s take a critical look at what Joe Biden would push to accomplish.
For this evaluation, I am relying solely on information that Joe Biden has committed to on his official campaign website. He has many pages talking about a variety healthcare issues, such as the pandemic, gun ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Politics Source Type: blogs
Modeling the Legend, or, the Trouble with Diamond and Dybvig: Part I
George SelginHas any theoretical work on banking been more influential than Douglas Diamond and Phillip Dybvig ' s1983 JPE article," Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity " ? If so, I can ' t think of it. With well over 12,000 Google citations and counting, it ' s certainly among the most cited academic papers in economics, let alone in the sub-discipline of monetary economics.Nor has that paper ' s influence been merely academic. Far from it: it is routinely cited by policymakers as supplying a rationale for government intervention in banking, and for explicit national deposit insurance schemes in particular. That t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 17, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
How this surgeon beat a medical staff disciplinary action
I recently represented a physician in a noteworthy peer review case at an academic medical center. The medical staff president initiated a complaint against a surgeon, who would later become my client. The complaint was that the surgeon inappropriately collected cash payment from an uninsured patient at the hospital’s point of service instead of having […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/barney-cohen" rel="tag" > Barney Cohen < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Malpractice Source Type: blogs
Hypertension, health inequities, and implications for COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has led many people to forego follow-up and treatment of chronic health conditions such as hypertension (high blood pressure). It is now quite evident that people with hypertension are also more likely to develop severe complications from the coronavirus. In the US, African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities, including Hispanics and Native Americans, are more likely to have hypertension, and consequently have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
What is the link between high blood pressure and heart disease?
Hypertension is the most common modifiable risk factor for...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Hanna Gaggin, MD, MPH Tags: Coronavirus and COVID-19 Health care disparities Hypertension and Stroke Source Type: blogs
Social Workers are the Healthcare Heroes We Need
By ALIZA NORWOOD
I’m a primary care doctor at a clinic providing care to uninsured and under-insured patients in central Texas. As COVID-19 cases rise around the country, one thing has become crystal clear: social workers are more critical to our work than ever, and we don’t have enough of them.
I’m reminded of this one day with a patient I’ll call David. It’s late September, and he’s back for a 3-month follow-up visit. Behind the pane of a face shield, I look at his phone as he shows me pictures. By now I’m used to the blur as the shield fogs...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy aliza norwood social workers Source Type: blogs
How the Media Report on Preexisting Conditions
Michael F. CannonHealth reporters have difficulty writing about preexisting conditions accurately.Thisarticle, for example, commits a number of errors when it states: “About 54 million, or 27%, of U.S. adults under age 65 had a pre ‐existing condition in 2018 that would have rendered them uninsurable on the individual insurance market before Obamacare, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.”First, it is not accurate to say those conditions were uninsurable on the individual market. The individual marketcould have insured maybe 99.99 percent of them withsecure, long ‐term coverage....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 23, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
Health Care 101 Continued: The allocation problem
We often hear sentiments to the effect that human life is infinitely precious, that you can ' t put a price on human life. While most people probably think this instinctively, it is conservatives, and particularly religious conservatives, who are most likely to try to apply the concept in reality. Do you remember the ravings about " death panels " when the Affordable Care Act passed? Of course there ' s nothing in the ACA that could conceivably be construed that way, but the scary meme was imported from arguments about single payer or, as in the UK, socialized medicine schemes.To put this in the simplest and starkest terms...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 23, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Uninsured and undocumented: a resident perspective
A middle-aged man lies on a gurney. Anxious. Work boots. Blue jeans. Stained white shirt. Rough hands.“Hi! I ’m your doctor. What brings you to the emergency room?” The patient looks at me, puzzled. He ’s Spanish speaking. It’s the middle of the night, and I ’d rather not use the translator line. We start in broken […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 15, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/zachary-wikerd" rel="tag" > Zachary Wikerd, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Emergency Medicine Neurology Source Type: blogs
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The Provider Relief Fund is distributed in a way that systematically disadvantages health care providers serving Medicaid and uninsured patients
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - October 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Cindy Mann, Gayle E. Mauser Source Type: blogs
Five Problems with Democrats ’ “Preexisting Conditions” Strategy
Michael F. CannonDemocrats think preexisting conditions will once again carry them to electoral victory. Despite their own liabilities and callousness on the issue, they ’re probably right.In 2018, Democrats accused Republicans of wanting to deny health care to the sick. Exhibit A, they said, was the GOP ’s attempt to repeal ObamaCare’s popular preexisting‐conditions provisions. The accusation worked. Democratsflipped a net 41 House seats to take control of the chamber. Conventional wisdom considers the outcome to be proof that ObamaCare is (finally) popular with voters.In 2020, Democrats are deploying the sam...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 29, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
" It's the Rx rebates, stupid! "
Although mylast post addressed one realistic solution to an embedded problem in the U.S. healthcare system related to prescriptions of life-sustaining essentials like insulin (which isn ' t a NEW drug; it was discovered in 1921), the problem has never really been explained which is necessary when interacting with lawmakers about potential legislative solutions to the problem of runaway insulin prices. So, this post aims to be an explainer. Insulin is today a prescription medicine (it used to be OTC) and there are only a handful of manufacturers worldwide. That is the root of the problem, but not due to a lack of competitio...
Source: Scott's Web Log - September 29, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Food and Drug Administration Drug Channels FDA insulin legislation price caps price-caps rebate reform rebates Source Type: blogs
" It's the Rx rebates, stupid! "
Although mylast post addressed one realistic solution to an embedded problem in the U.S. healthcare system related to prescriptions of life-sustaining essentials like insulin (which isn ' t a NEW drug; it was discovered in 1921), the problem has never really been explained which is necessary when interacting with lawmakers about potential legislative solutions to the problem of runaway insulin prices. So, this post aims to be an explainer. Insulin is today a prescription medicine (it used to be OTC, and early-generations still are, but with the advent of analog insulin, the drug companies persuaded the FDA to reclassi...
Source: Scott's Web Log - September 29, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Food and Drug Administration Drug Channels FDA insulin legislation price caps price-caps rebate reform rebates Source Type: blogs
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To help health care providers battered during the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has stepped in with funding to help make up for lost revenue, preserve jobs, and ensure access to COVID testing and services for uninsured patients in hot spot regions.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - September 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lovisa Gustafsson, Josh LaRosa Source Type: blogs
