#They ’ llnevercare. Insurance Is Not the Problem. It ’ s Also Not the Solution
By JOSEPH WOOD
Most everyone is talking about Healthcare lately and I just can’t take it anymore and had to send out a primer, because there is so much bad information being floated. I don’t like the ACA replacement because the idea is still based on the premise that you can give-away insurance as an entitlement program. The problem is that you can’t “give-away” insurance, it’s an oxymoron, if there is no skin in the game for the insured they’ll never care.
I’m an insurance guy and Trump voter. I only point this because I want you to know that my healthcare recommendation is he...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Community Outreach Case Study: Free Radiology Examinations at 21 Private Labs in New Delhi, India
New Delhi ’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has introduced a new radiology-centric healthcare initiative that will enable all of the city’s residents to access free radiology tests. The action is apart of a wave of legislation to increase government spending in both healthcare and public education sectors. In the last two years, the AAP has doubled Delhi ’s education budget and grown its healthcare funds by one and a half times.Callingit the “responsibility of the government,” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, has also established a plan to create medical facilities within two miles of every resident. The free rad...
Source: radRounds - March 10, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Combined performance summary, January 2017
NHS England - This statistical release brings together the monthly performance statistics for NHS 111, ambulance quality indicators, A&E attendances and admissions, diagnostic waiting times, referral to treatment waiting times, cancer services waiting times, delayed transfers of care and early intervention in psychosis. The combined statistics reflect the continuing long-term trend of greater volumes of urgent and emergency care and elective activity.ReportNHS England news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 9, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
never a dull moment: the blood clot edition
On Monday, I got a call from the nurse who works with my oncologist. I had a CT scan last week, so the phone call made me I brace myself for the worst kind of news.Instead, she said " You have a blood clot on your lung. "What unfolded next is a bit blurry but I know that I asked if there was cancer on the CT (no), whether this was life-threatening ( " absolutely not " ) and what I should do next.I was instructed to get myself to a specific ER (at the General Campus of the Ottawa Hospital, which also houses the Cancer Centre). They would be told to expect me. Tim and I gathered up our stuff, made sure Daniel would be OK and...
Source: Not just about cancer - February 18, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer cancer blog chronic illness CT scan health care metastatic pissed off Source Type: blogs
Let ’s recognize caregivers and make it easier for all of us to do the right thing
I walked out of the doctor’s office, overwhelmed and paralyzed. My daughter had just been diagnosed with multiple food allergies from nearly all fruits, numerous vegetables, seafood, nuts, soy, wheat, and more. We headed straight to the grocery store to figure out what she could eat without wasting away from malnutrition, or so I thought.
Two hours later, we were still in the grocery store, reading every label.
You would think I would know what to do. After all, I am a doctor. But that day, I was simply a mom and a caregiver.
My problem was simple in the big scheme of things. Many years later, we figured out what my daug...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlotte S. Yeh, MD Tags: Behavioral Health Caregiving Source Type: blogs
6 Quick Questions to Help You Simplify and Free Up Time for What Truly Matters
“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.”
Charles Richards
There are many important things in life.
Your family and friends. A hobby perhaps. Working out and staying healthy. Reading, learning and growing as a person.
But finding the time for what is most important in life is not always easy. It sometimes feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day.
But even if it may not feel like it, there are often ways to improve how you use your time. This week I...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - November 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness Personal Development Productivity Relaxation Success Source Type: blogs
The Driverless Car Is a Great Opportunity for Healthcare
The latest developments in the car industry point towards the realization that within years we will travel by driverless cars everywhere. These automated vehicles also have a huge potential in revolutionizing healthcare. Let me show you how.
Will learning how to drive become an obsolete skill?
Heading home to his daughter’s fourth birthday celebration, 37-year-old attorney, Joshua Neally suffered a pulmonary embolism in his moving car on a highway in July. For his greatest luck, the car was a new Tesla Model X with an autopilot function. It enabled the car to drive to the nearest hospital, while he suffered in the drive...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 8, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: imported autopilot car industry cars driverless car future Healthcare Innovation portable diagnostics technology tesla vehicles wearables Source Type: blogs
Winter pressure in accident and emergency departments
This report concludes that the Government urgently needs to address the underfunding of adult social care to relieve pressure on A&E departments. It finds that for major emergency departments in 2015, only 88 per cent of patients were admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours, short of the 95 per cent standard set by the Government. It also finds that the current level of variation in meeting the four hour waiting time standard is also due to differences in the way that trusts manage flows within hospitals.ReportHouse of Commons Health Select Committee - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 2, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
30 Days of Disneyland – Day 7
Rachelle and I made it through our first weekend of Disneyland, which reminded me of why I never visit Disneyland on weekends. It was massively crowded on Saturday and Sunday, and the combination of the noise and crowds felt oppressive sometimes. It was an endurance challenge, but we made it through okay.
I felt sorry for anyone who had their first visit to Disneyland on that weekend because I don’t think they got their money’s worth. Wait times for the popular rides were often more than an hour. The Haunted Mansion ride had a 120-minute wait at one point. It’s decorated with a Nightmare Before Christmas ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - November 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
The Most Over-Hyped Technologies in Healthcare
The hype about the technological development in healthcare should not blind you in terms of the probabilities and possibilities of today’s healthcare and the future of medicine. In order to remain objective, conscious but optimistic, let’s look at the most over-hyped technologies and keep in mind the realistic development opportunities in healing.
You know the saying: the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the optimist says it is half full, and, well, the cynic asks who drank the other half? I’m truly an optimist – especially when it comes to the future of medicine and healthcare.
And although my optimism is ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 13, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing GC1 Healthcare hype organs robotics technology theranos virtual reality wearables Source Type: blogs
Securing meaningful choice for patients: CCG planning and improvement guide
NHS England - This guide is designed to help CCGs deliver their statutory duties by highlighting the actions they need to take to make choice work for the populations that they serve. CCGs are encouraged to focus specifically on choice of provider and team for first outpatient appointments and choice of a suitable alternative provider if patients are not able to access certain services within the waiting time standards. The guide sets out a number of enablers for patient choice and the actions that can be taken to deliver each of these.Guidance (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 24, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs
Feeling the wait: annual report on elective surgery waiting times
Patients Association - This is the sixth annual Patients Association report on hospital waiting times for elective surgical procedures in England. The report is based on data from 2015 and shows that on the whole, the total number of patients waiting over 18 weeks for surgery has risen to 92,739 from 51,388 since 2014. The report also highlights the most common causes for cancellation of surgery as well as the variation in performance across different regions of the country.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 15, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs
Artificial Intelligence Will Redesign Healthcare
Artificial intelligence has an unimaginable potential. Within the next couple of years, it will revolutionize every area of our life, including medicine. I am fully convinced that it will redesign healthcare completely – and for the better. Let’s take a look at the promising solutions it offers.
There are various thought leaders who believe that we are experiencing the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be hum...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 4, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine AI big data GC1 google deepmind Healthcare Hospital ibm watson Innovation Source Type: blogs
Limiting gay men donating blood: Discriminatory or rooted in science?
In the wake of the horrific Orlando shootings, there has been renewed attention given to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) so-called ban on blood donations from gay men. A congressman called the ban discriminatory, and demanded it’s repeal — a call joined by the American Medical Student Association.
I can understand how many gay men feel. I often donated blood at various American Red Cross locations. Either they loved my blood or have way too many volunteers, because I was seemingly besieged with calls every eight weeks (the minimum waiting time between blood donations). Then in Februa...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 13, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Vamsi Aribindi Tags: Conditions Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
