Right to Die? The Bioethical and Legal Issues in End of Life Care
Join me at the University of Minnesota Law School on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, for "Right to Die? The Bioethical and Legal Issues in End of Life Care."
RSVP here for this lunchtime event by the American Constitution Society. The program starts at ... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 28, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Why Do We Need ACOs and Insurance Companies? Part 3. The HMOs Strike Back!!!
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD
This is the last installment in a three-part series that asks why we need both an insurance industry and an ACO industry. We are now stuck with the worst of all possible worlds – an inefficient insurance industry layered on top of an inefficient ACO industry.
I noted in Part I of this series that ACOs’ inability to cut costs explains why 90 percent of Medicare ACOs refuse to accept anything resembling insurance risk. In Part II I discussed ACO proponents’ expectation that many ACOs would accept full insurance risk, and I described the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC’s) reactio...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 20, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Rural Food Access Toolkit
The Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub) makes available a new toolkit. This toolkit compiles evidence-based models and resources to support organizations implementing food access programs in rural communities across the United States. Created in collaboration with the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center, this toolkit is designed to guide users through creating a sustainable program from development through evaluation. Modules include program models, implementation, sustainability and dissemination. Rural communities often face unique challenges and this toolkit helps develop the skills needed to address...
Source: BHIC - March 15, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Patricia Devine Tags: Low Income Rural Source Type: blogs
Three Pillars of Clinical Process Improvement and Control
The following is a guest blog post by Brita Hansen, MD, Chief Medical Officer at LogicStream Health.
In a value-based care environment, achieving quality and safety measures is a priority. Health systems must have the capabilities to measure a process following its initial implementation. The reality, however, is that traditional improvement methods are often plagued with lagging indicators that provide little (if any) insight into areas requiring corrective actions. Health systems have an opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care by focusing on three pillars of clinical process improvement and control: qual...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Care Management System Health Care Healthcare Analytics Healthcare CIO HealthCare IT Brita Hansen LogicStream Health Source Type: blogs
Nature vs Nurture: Mothers with multiple children have an intuitive grasp of behavioural genetics
Lower scores equals more accurate estimates of genetic inheritance. From Willoughby et al 2018
By Christian Jarrett
Several leading psychologists have recently raised concerns about the stranglehold that the “radical left” has on free speech and thought in our universities. The psychologists argue this includes biological denialism: claims that differences between individuals and groups are entirely the result of the biased system or mere social constructions. More generally, many commentators are horrified by the apparent resurgence of far-right ideologies and their twisted interpretation of genetic sc...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: biological Educational Genetics Political Source Type: blogs
Questioning the Link Between Sports-Related Concussions and CTE
This article is submitted on behalf of 26 brain injury experts in neurosurgery, neuropsychology, neurology, neuropathology and public policy at 23 universities and hospitals in the United States and Canada.
The additional signatories are:
Lili-Naz Hazrati, associate professor of neuropathology at the University of Toronto; clinician-scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
John Leddy, professor of clinical orthopaedics and rehabilitation sciences at the SUNY Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Barry Willer, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the SUNY Buffalo Jacobs School of Me...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Boston University CTE football Sports-Related Concussions Source Type: blogs
Understanding the Cataract Phenomenon in Radiology Techs
As nuclear medicine (NM) procedures have become more popular in U.S. hospitals, radiology technologists are at increasing risk for developing a cataract. According to anew study published inRadiology, this ionizing radiation technology that ’s used to evaluate organ health and treat disease can cause damage to technologists’ eyes. Between the years 2003 and 2005, and 2012 and 2013, a group of researchers from the National Cancer Institute, the University of Minnesota, and the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists surveyed 42,545 radiologic technologists about their work history, eye health, lifestyle, their use...
Source: radRounds - February 10, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
The 1000th Thread!
Discussion Blog)
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
The 1000th Thread!
This is the 1000th presentation to my bioethics blog since starting on Google Blogspot.com in 2004.There has been many topics covered. Though comments by the visitors has always been encouraged and, since as a "discussion blog", comments leading to discussions I have felt was the definitive function here. Virtually none of the thread topics have gone unread and most have had some commentary, some with mainly particularly strong and emphatic opinions http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/2013/01/should-pathologists-be-physicians.html, some with extensive up to 12 years long continued discussion http://bioethicsdiscussion....
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 24, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Maurice Bernstein, M.D. Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
How physicians can retire early without regret
“Can I look at that book?” said the man next to me in an accent I would soon learn to be Pakistani. I had placed the book face down on the park bench intentionally. In a busy, public place, I didn’t want to broadcast that I was reading The Doctors Guide to Smart Career Alternatives and Retirement.
The back cover contained enough information to pique the polite man’s interest. “Sure,” I said. I was genuinely curious as to why the guy, who has holding a baby boy on a Thursday afternoon in their Nickelodeon universe, would be interested in a book about leaving medicine.
One man’s regret after leaving a medical ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 19, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/physician-on-fire" rel="tag" > Physician on FIRE, MD < /a > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 18th 2017
In this study, we asked people in an open-ended way about their desire for longer life: Would you like to have more time? What age would you like to become? This was something more specific than asking about a preference for survival without reference to any length of time; about one's plans for the future; or whether people see the future as open or limited, as in studies of future time perspective. Our attempt was to discover whether there were preferred temporal spans with which older adults framed their futures and plans.
The two-question series about extra years and desired age ("How old would you like to becom...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 17, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Idle Thinking on the Outcome when the Political Establishment Notices that Rejuvenation Therapies are Imminent
The political establishment is a plague upon the land; this is generally true of any era. We are fortunate to live in an age in which the level of impact is less brutal and more bureacratic than it has been, and in a region in which the level of wealth is high enough to allow most people to live comfortably despite the constant wars and vast waste of the powers that be. There is, importantly, sufficient space in our society left unpillaged and uncontrolled for technological development to take place at a fair pace. Technology determines near everything about our lives, the degree to which they are worth living, the shape o...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 14, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Politics and Legislation Source Type: blogs
Why I'm Bored With the Debate About Physician Assisted Suicide
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)I ’m a little bored of all the discussion about physician-assisted suicide. Mostly it’s because legalizing PAS is going to have zero impact on nearly all of my patients, and I think the significant amount of press and energy it gets is a distraction from other things which actually would improve t he lives (and deaths) of the patients and families I care for as a palliative doc.The last time I blogged about PAS waspart of my euphemisms series last year, when I elaborated why I did not like terms like ‘assisted death’ or ‘aid-in-dying’ and prefer ‘assisted suicide’ and ‘euthana...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - December 13, 2017 Category: Palliative Care Tags: ethics euthanasia/suicide health policy rosielle Source Type: blogs
