Social media and healthcare: Navigating the new communications landscape
There is no doubt that social media has fundamentally changed the patient to patient and patient to provider communications relationship for the health care industry. The advent of transparent, real time social media communications platforms that allow open and honest dialogue presents a wealth of opportunities for the industry to capitalize on positive patient sentiment and build a trusted support community to actively engage with.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 24, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Trader Tags: Ed Bennett healthcare Industry News Liz Scherer Maryland University of Maryland University of Maryland Medical Web Mobile/Wireless Quality and Safety Source Type: blogs
With Obesity, A New Disease is Born: Its Profound Implications for Psychiatry
A new disease was discovered the other day — or rather, one was created.
There is no “lab test” for this disease, nor is there an X-ray, MRI, or CT scan that can detect it. It is diagnosed on the basis of a mathematical formula that many believe is simplistic and poorly-validated.
Sometimes this “disease” results in metabolic abnormalities, sometimes not.
Many clinicians view the decision to recognize this disease as another example of “medicalizing” a problem stemming from the person’s “life-style” — not from a specific pathological process. In fact, the declaration that this condition is ...
Source: World of Psychology - June 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Ronald Pies, M.D. Tags: Eating Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Professional Psychiatry Psychology American Medical Association Ct Scan Disea Dsm 5 Lab Test Life Style Major Depression Mathematical Form Source Type: blogs
Disruptive Champion: United States Surgeon General Regina Benjamin
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin has dedicated her career to making sure that “no one falls through the cracks.” As a practicing physician, she kept her rural clinic open in Alabama, despite being destroyed three times by fires and hurricanes. When Hurricane Katrina struck, Benjamin personally placed medical charts in the post-storm sun to dry and made house calls to check on her patients. Benjamin has dedicated her career to disease prevention, smoking cessation and healthy lifestyles. This month, DW honors United States Surgeon General Regina Benjamin as a Disruptive Champion.
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 20, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Champions Disparities Policy Publc Health Source Type: blogs
Adapting “Our Bodies, Ourselves” for Iranian and Vietnamese Women and Girls
Committed friends of the Vietnamese OBOS project Susan Bailey (left) and Roslyn Feldberg and Nancy Hammett (right), join Project Director Khuat Thu Hong (center) and OBOS’s Judy Norsigian and Sally Whelan.
The Our Bodies Ourselves Global Network is a dynamic coalition of social change organizations, all of whom talk the talk and walk the walk when it comes to the health and human rights of women and girls.
This year, OBOS welcomes two new partners into its growing network.
The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, in collaboration with the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, is adapting s...
Source: Our Bodies Our Blog - May 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ayesha Tags: Activism & Resources Global News Our Bodies Ourselves Source Type: blogs
Proposed FDA Guidance on Financial Disclosure and the Physician Payment Sunshine Regulations – Divergent Paths and Duplicated Efforts
Conclusion
The increased regulation and requirements to disclose FCOIs creates a tremendous burden for researchers and institutions that are repetitive, overlapping but not-identical, and time-consuming. Nevertheless, institutions that receive PHS funding can manage FCOIs in a number of ways: (1) public disclosure of the FCOI (e.g., when presenting or publishing the research); (2) disclosure of the FCOI directly to human participants; (3) appointment of an independent monitor capable of taking measures to protect the design, conduct, and reporting of the research against bias resulting from the FCOI; (4) modification ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Get Powerful, Lacrosse Star-Like Legs With This Lunge Sequence
Lacrosse player Katie Schwarzmann knows how essential it is to pack a punch (errr...kick?) in your legs. "At [University of] Maryland, we like to run and gun!" says the midfielder, who helped her team earn a top seed ranking in the upcoming NCAA championship. "I love the fast-paced type of play," she says of her sport. (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.)
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - May 6, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: One-Minute Master Class lacrosse legs toning moves Source Type: blogs
Johns Hopkins: Thanks to EHRs, time with patients seems “squeezed out” of medical training, investigator says
Question: Who would have thought it? That there is yet another potentially deadly unintended consequence of bad health IT and health IT hyper-enthusiasm?Suggested answer: anyone who truly understands the issues at the intersection of medicine, information science, information technology, and Social Informatics - which probably excludes 95% of the health IT "experts", pundits and opportunists.Which only goes to show how dense such people can be - as the medical trainees of today will be treating them, their families, and their children in the future:Johns Hopkins MedicineRelease Date: 04/23/2013 Ti...
Source: Health Care Renewal - April 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: healthcare IT unintended consequences social informatics healthcare IT risks Johns Hopkins University Source Type: blogs
AMSA Expanding Anti-Industry Scorecard to 400 Teaching Hospitals
We recently reported on a survey of 1,610 first- and third-year medical students and 739 residents regarding conflict of interest (COI) policies and their interactions with industry. In our story, we noted that almost every year, the American Medical Students Association (AMSA) publishes a yearly “PharmFree Scorecard” that evaluates the COI policies at American medical schools. Here is a little background and history on AMSA.
The PharmFree Scorecard is funded through the Consumer and Prescriber Education grant program, which resulted from the Neurontin settlement back in 2004.
It is because of organizations lik...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 16, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Emerging Issues in Food and Drug Law: A National Conference for Lawyers, Policy-Makers, and Corporate Leaders
The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law’s Law & Health Care Program and Student Health Law Organization and the School of Pharmacy’s Center for Drugs and Public Policy, in collaboration with the Washington, DC law firm, Arnold & Porter LLP, recently announced a conference to be held this April.
Entitled, “Emerging Issues in Food and Drug Law: Implementation of FDASIA,” this day long, free conference, will cover a number of important topics in the food and drug law world, with a particular focus on the recently enacted Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA), wh...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Five post-bac research positions at the university of maryland
The Dept of Linguistics at the U of Maryland, is looking to fill up to five full-time positions for post-baccalaureate researchers. Starting date for all positions is Summer/Fall 2013. Salary is competitive, with benefits included. The positions would be ideal for individuals with a BA degree who are interested in gaining significant research experience in a very active lab as preparation for a research career. Applicants must be US or Canadian citizens or permanent residents, and should have completed a BA or BS degree by the time of appointment. The ability to interact comfortably with a wide variety of people (and machi...
Source: Talking Brains - March 14, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
And the winner of the painful microbiology press release of the day: U. Maryland and Shil Dassarma
Not much to say here but "yuck". A new press release is out from University of Maryland: Strategies for possible survival on Mars: Scientists found differences in core proteins from a microorganism that lives in a salty lake in Antarctica
Some pretty painful things in here such as:
"These kinds of adaptations are likely to allow microorganisms like Halorubrum lacusprofundi to survive not only in Antarctica, but elsewhere in the universe," says Dr. DasSarma.What? Does he really think there will be microorganisms like this elsewhere in the universe? If there is life elsewhere in the universe is it rea...
Source: The Tree of Life - March 12, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Study Maybe
Zdogg MD has some competition from the University of Maryland School of Medicine Class of 2015:
Heh.
Thanks to a cool $10 million dollar grant available from he AMA, perhaps (music) video production will become the next new prerequisite for medical school.
-Wes (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - February 23, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Tags: AMA parody humor medical school Source Type: blogs
Boost Self-Improvement Results with 20 Minutes a Day Exercises
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - AristotleEver since I was old enough to understand a few things about the world, the rule of cause-effect and reward- punishment, I already knew how to get better. If I did not get a “very good” grade on my test paper, I already thought I needed to improve to get better output. If I wanted to get a toy, I had to do well in convincing my parents why I deserved it. This was the rule of thumb until I grew up as an adult. You get something only if you tried, and only if you improved. This is true for many of us no matter what ag...
Source: Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life - January 11, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: DLM Writers Source Type: blogs
Celebration of Science
On Saturday, September 8, I had the opportunity to volunteer at a very special event on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) main campus, called “Celebration of Science,” otherwise known as COS. Going to the main campus is always a treat. The beautiful gardens, the flowers, the trees! The event was held at the end of the summer, and the weather was perfect.
The 3-day event highlighted how important it is to fund biomedical research. COS featured scientists, patients, and caregivers speaking on topics such as HIV/AIDS, neuroscience, and rehabilitation medicine. There also were discussions with policymakers and indust...
Source: NIDA Drugs and Health Blog - December 6, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Zofia Klosowska, NIDA Research Training Award Fellow Source Type: blogs
