11th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference, San Diego, December 3-4
December 3-4, 2014
San Diego, CA
Technology-Enabled Consumer Engagement & Behavior Change
Register by November 17th to receive a $100 early bird discount.
The Healthcare Unbound Conference will focus on technology-enabled consumer engagement and behavior change.
Technologies to be discussed include wearables, mHealth, remote monitoring, eHealth and social media.
Moving beyond just a “cool technology” focus, this event will offer practical approaches for healthcare stakeholders and digital health companies. The program will address the reasons that the sustained a...
Source: e-CareManagement - November 4, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Source Type: blogs
Top Ten Reasons You Should Attend Cato's Conference on the Halbig Cases This Thursday
Michael F. Cannon
Here are ten reasons everyone should attend this Thursday’s Cato Institute conference, “Pruitt, Halbig, King & Indiana: Is Obamacare Once Again Headed to the Supreme Court?”
The very next day – October 31 – the Supreme Court could grant certiorari in King v. Burwell. Reporters who attend will be able to write their stories in advance.
Our luncheon keynote speaker, Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt, filed the first Halbig-style challenge in September 2012. (Does that mean I should call them “Pruitt-style challenges”?) Last month, a federal district court sided ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 27, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
The Art of Survivoring
A week from today I will be the keynote presenter at the “Ladies Night Out – Give Cancer the Boot” annual gala for the Springfield Regional Cancer Center (SRCC). I am flattered and daunted by this opportunity to share my thoughts with an audience of 400 patients, survivors and their champions. The date of the event falls on the 6th anniversary of my mastectomy – how fortunate I am to celebrate with kindred spirits!
I will open with this claim: The richest and most profound experiences happen when what we believe to be real and true about ourselves is turned upside down. (If you’ve seen Brene Brown’s TED...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 17, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
Cato Conference: "Pruitt, Halbig, King & Indiana: Is ObamaCare Once Again Headed to the Supreme Court?"
Michael F. Cannon
On October 30, the Cato Institute will host a conference featuring leading experts on four legal challenges that critics understandably yet mistakenly describe as “the most significant existential threat to the Affordable Care Act”:
Pruitt, Halbig, King & Indiana: Is ObamaCare Once Again Headed to the Supreme Court?
Thursday, October 30, 2014, 9:00AM – 1:30PM.
Luncheon to follow.
Featuring: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt; Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller; Robert Barnes, The Washington Post; Jonathan Adler, Case Western Reserve Uni...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 15, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
New Research Erases Global Warming from Pacific Northwest
This study uses several independent data sources to demonstrate that century-long warming around the northeast Pacific margins, like multidecadal variability, can be primarily attributed to changes in atmospheric circulation. It presents a significant reinterpretation of the region’s recent climate change origins, showing that atmospheric conditions have changed substantially over the last century, that these changes are not likely related to historical anthropogenic and natural radiative forcing, and that dynamical mechanisms of interannual and multidecadal temperature variability can also apply to observed century-long...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 1, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger, Patrick J. Michaels Source Type: blogs
New Research Sheds Light on Drug-Induced Salivary Issues
Scientists have discovered a possible mechanism behind the bad taste and dry mouth caused by some drugs. Credit: Stock image.
The effects some medicines have on our salivary glands can at times extend beyond the fleeting flavor we experience upon ingesting them. Sometimes drugs cause a prolonged bad taste or dryness in the mouth, both of which can discourage people from taking medicines they need. Now, a research team led by Joanne Wang of the University of Washington has discovered a possible mechanism behind this phenomenon. Working primarily with mice and using a commonly prescribed antidiabetic drug known to impair t...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - September 18, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Srivalli Subbaramaiah Tags: Cell Biology Genetics Pharmacology Source Type: blogs
Opinions of Climate Change: Related to Dependency on Government Money?
Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger
Global Science Report is a feature from the Center for the Study of Science, where we highlight one or two important new items in the scientific literature or the popular media. For broader and more technical perspectives, consult our monthly “Current Wisdom.”
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In our post last week titled “Climate Alarmism: When is this Bozo Going Down?” we described how new research increasingly casts doubt on the validity of climate models and their projections of future climate change. It is increasing clear that climate models simply predict too much warm...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 3, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger Source Type: blogs
Smartphone App May Detect Neonatal Jaundice
Engineers and physicians at the University of Washington have developed an app called BiliCam that can detect jaundice in newborns using just a smartphone’s camera and flash plus a color calibration card the size of a business card. Jaundice is a yellowish discoloration of the skin resulting from an excess amount of bilirubin in the blood. Severe jaundice can cause kernicterus and brain damage.
The app is meant to be used by either parents or healthcare providers as a screening tool to help in deciding when a blood test is needed, in the first few days after birth. The app works by placing the calibration card on th...
Source: Medgadget - August 28, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Wouter Stomp Tags: Diagnostics Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Back from Africa
Accompanying the August issue is a supplement devoted to a collaboration between US and African medical schools, known as the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI). I attended a conference in Maputo, Mozambique earlier this month at which many of these authors presented their work and discussed the next steps in the collaboration. Little did we know when planning the conference that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa would bring new urgency and relevance to the need for an educated workforce of physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and public health experts not only to address African health care needs but also ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 25, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: David P. Sklar, M.D. Tags: Featured From the Editor African medical schools global health graduate medical education Medical Education Partnership Initiative research rural health scholarship Source Type: blogs
The Payment Reform Landscape: Accountable Care Organizations
Note: In addition to Suzanne Delbanco, this post is also coauthored by David Lansky.
“The accountable care organization is like a unicorn, a fantastic creature that is vested with mythical powers. But no one has actually seen one,” said former California HealthCare Foundation CEO, Mark Smith, MD, in 2010. Over the last four years, we’ve certainly seen a proliferation of unicorns and we’re now reaching the point where fantasy—at least in a handful of cases—is becoming a reality.
A growing number of large employers are piloting accountable care organizations (ACOs), working through their health plan; in some ca...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 5, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Suzanne Delbanco Tags: All Categories Business of Health Care Effectiveness Employer-Sponsored Insurance Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Health IT Health Reform Payment Quality Source Type: blogs
Electrospun Dissolvable Material to Make Tampons that Prevent HIV Infections
Two of the UW’s fibers (white) made of different ingredients are shown dissolving. When the materials come into contact with moisture, they rapidly hydrate and dissolve to form gels. The gel could then spread around the vagina during sex to deliver the drug.
Topical antiviral gels have the capacity to kill the HIV virus within the vagina, and so allow a woman to protect herself, but they lack certain characteristics that would make them practical in the real world. One problem is that the gel has to deliver a high dose of the antiviral agent, which is essentially achieved by using a lot of gel – a potentially lea...
Source: Medgadget - August 4, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: Reproductive Medicine Source Type: blogs
Google Glass in Healthcare: Six Perspectives
This post was contributed by @MikeMadarasz Google Glass is still in its Beta Period meaning many physicians will be have to settle for peer reviews on its practicality in a medical setting. Fortunately, there is no shortage of opinions from those who have experienced the device. Here are six different takes on how Google Glass might impact the healthcare industry: "It allows me to capture the first-person perspective in both image and video in a medical examination. Patients are impressed by Glass as a new technology and comment on it favorably. Only one or two patients have expressed concerns a...
Source: ePharma Summit - July 9, 2014 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Tags: Digital Pharma Marketing Doctors Google Glass ePharma Google Glass Healthcare google glass medicene google glass physicians pharmaceutical marketing Surgeons Google Glass Source Type: blogs
Being a Transgender Ally and Unconscious Bias
Regarding the experience of being an ally – one of the best experiences of my professional career – I wish it upon every physician and nurse interested in making humanity a better place for all.
I began working on this back in January, when I put out a call for assistance: Crowdsource Request: Being a transgender ally and unconscious bias | Ted Eytan, MD
Thanks to everyone who offered their help, all outstanding individuals, who willingly shared their wisdom, their stories, their presence in society as examples of the future of health, even in some cases when we’ve never met in person (yet ).
I’ll write more abou...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 5, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Advocacy Source Type: blogs
The Continuing Mystery of the Fugitive Founder and Missing Money - What it Says About the Opacity of Offshore Medical Schools
The next chapter in the bizarre tale of the fugitive founder of an off-shore (from the US and Canada) Caribbean medical school, and his now convicted spouse, do not solve any mysteries, but raise larger concerns about the accountability, or lack thereof, of leaders of important health care organizations.Introduction: the Fugitive Founder and Convicted SpouseAs we posted in October, 2013, drawing an amazing for us number of comments, the couple who founded two Caribbean medical schools which catered almost entirely to US and Canadian students ran into significant legal trouble. Founder David Leon Fredrick and his wife...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 13, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: accountability crime Equinox Capital fraud governance leadership offshore medical schools private equity Saba University Source Type: blogs
