Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 18 July, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Aged Care had a good run this week with lots of discussion on just how useful it could be and where the priorities lay. Some fools were wittering on about how helpful the #myHR can be in this setting!Telehealth went and came back!The James Webb Telescope humbled us all with images for an age!-----https://itwire.com/science-news/he...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
NHS reality check: the financial and performance ask for trusts
This report outlines the findings of a survey of NHS leaders, looking at the pressures being felt across the health and social care sector. It finds that rising demand for NHS services combined with workforce pressures and an underfunded social care system means there is a still a long road ahead for trusts in tackling care backlogs. It highlights how the pandemic has deepened existing pressures and finds that many waiting times targets are taking longer to deliver than expected. However, trusts report that the number of patients being seen in mental health services and cancer services exceed pre-pandemic levels.Repo...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 8, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS finance NHS performance and productivity Social care Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 06 June, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.
General Comment ----- Not much happening as the new Government gets it feet under the desk(s). Will be interesting to see if there is any movement in he Digital Health space that is not the ADHA business as usual! ----- https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/new-smartphone-app-to-compare-emergency-department-wait-times-20220524-p5ao26.html New s...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Beds in the NHS
This report shows that an additional 13,000 staffed beds are required in the NHS across the UK to drive meaningful change and improvement. Meaningful change and improvement would constitute a significant improvement in A&E waiting times, ambulance response times, ambulance handover delays, and a return to safe bed occupancy levels.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 31, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Patient safety Source Type: blogs
NHS backlogs and waiting times in England
This report finds that the NHS has not met the 18-week maximum waiting time standard for elective care since February 2016 nor the eight key standards for cancer care in totality since 2014. It concludes that any transparent and realistic assessment of what elective and cancer care services can achieve by 2024 –25 needs to include an assessment of the number of staff that will be available, how staff who have been working under intense and consistent pressure will be supported, and how patients will be kept informed about their own progress through waiting lists.ReportHouse of Commons Public Accounts Committee - news (So...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 16, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Patient involvement, experience and feedback Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Redesigning orthopaedic outpatient assessments
NHS Confederation - To support orthopaedic patients waiting for elective care, Dorset County Hospital redesigned its outpatient clinic assessments, opening a new assessment clinic in just five weeks. By doing so, the hospital has shortened waiting times, increased capacity and improved patient experience.Case study (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 21, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs
NHSE/I delivery plan for tackling the backlog of elective care
NHS Providers - Delivery plan for tackling the Covid-19 backlog of elective care sets out NHS England and NHS Improvement's ambitions to restore activity and performance to pre-pandemic levels. This includes expanding capacity, a reduction in waiting times, and transforming the delivery of care to reduce the elective backlog. This briefing provides a summary of the document and includes NHS Providers ’ view.BriefingMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 8, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs
Clearing the backlog caused by the pandemic
This report finds that elective recovery plans are threatened by pressure on emergency care with a record number of 999 calls and waiting times in emergency departments at record levels. It concludes that tackling the wider backlog caused by the pandemic is a major and ‘unquantifiable’ challenge. It calls for a broad national health and care recovery plan to include mental health, primary care, community care, and social care as well as emergency care.ReportHealth and Social Care Committee - press releaseThe King's Fund - response (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 6, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 NHS performance and productivity Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs
It Seems To Me We Are Seeing Conservative Ideology From The NSW Premier Get In The Way Of Truth.
I have the distinct feeling the NSW public – and possibly others – are being ‘Mushroomed’ by various Governments on COVID statistics – maybe because they are presently getting a lot wrong! I found this a lesson in contrasts. Plan for rapid test results as Sutton’s Omicron health advice is revealed By Paul Sakkal, Aisha Dow and M ary Ward January 1, 2022 — 5.00am Victorians who test positive to COVID-19 on a rapid test will be able to share their result with the government and be included in official figures, as people forgo PCR testing due to unpalatable waiting times and site closures. The Agehas confirmed e...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
My 22 Oldest Jokes and Why they Still Matter in 2022
By IAN MORRISON
I have been studying American healthcare for more than 40 years and I have assembled a large number of one-liners over the years. As we enter 2022, I thought I’d share my 22 oldest jokes and why they still matter.
Coming to America
I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. In Glasgow, healthcare is a right, carrying a machine gun is a privilege. America got it the wrong way round.
Gun violence continues to ravage the United States. We have more guns than people. Kids get gunned down in school playgrounds and classrooms routinely. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy American healthcare healthcare quality Source Type: blogs
NHS backlogs and waiting times in England
National Audit Office -According to this report, recovering elective and cancer care performance to the standards required will be a huge and lengthy challenge for the NHS, and there is a real risk that the waiting list for patients seeking elective care will be longer in 2025 than it is today. The report highlights how tackling the difficulties ahead will require extra beds and operating theatre capacity beyond the levels that were planned before the Covid-19 pandemic; managing the ongoing pressure on the NHS workforce, including long-standing staff shortages; and ensuring that existing health inequalities are not perpetu...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 2, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs
The backlog of care across the provider sector: a submission to the National Audit Office inquiry on NHS backlogs and waiting times
NHS Providers -This survey of NHS trust leaders has revealed widespread worries that rapidly growing waiting lists will worsen existing health inequalities. Findings also reflect concerns about the time it will take to recover the care backlog, despite impressive progress by trusts and frontline staff in restoring services. Almost a third of leaders (32 per cent) said it will take three to five years.BriefingNHS Providers - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 14, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Patient involvement, experience and feedback Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Elective care: how has Covid-19 affected the waiting list?
Health Foundation - Using six charts this analysis looks at the impact of the pandemic on consultant-led elective care, using monthly referral to treatment waiting time data published by NHS England.Analysis (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 27, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs
Could smartphones and ride-sharing apps solve transportation in healthcare?
Patients living in rural, suburban or urban areas with poor infrastructure often don’t have the proper means to get to the doctor’s appointment on time. In extreme cases, they have to wait even for emergency situations so much that they can call an ambulance and receive care in a hospital.
Ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft offer non-emergency medical transportation services, while start-ups, such as Circulation or Ride Health also promise to deal with the issue. Could smartphones and networked services solve transportation in healthcare?
Why is getting to the doctor such a hassle?
Wherever they...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 23, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Health Insurance Healthcare Design Telemedicine & Smartphones Hospital patient startup transportation uber lyft ride-hailing medical transportation NEMT Circulation Kaizen Helth Veyo Ambulnz RoundTrip Source Type: blogs
From Drug Design To Distribution: This Is How Robotics, A.I. and Blockchain Transforms Pharma
Exoskeletons to aid pharma factory workers. 3D printing to allow pharmacies to produce drugs on the spot. Blockchain technologies to help fight counterfeit drugs.
These are just bits and pieces, but the entire process of the pharmaceutical supply chain will be affected by disruptive technologies. Let me show you how innovations will make it more efficient, faster and cheaper than ever before.
“We call it Robi”, the smiling pharmacist told me when I looked at the robotic dispenser pacing up and down in a small glass-fronted drug storage room of the pharmacy. The robot spares humans about two hours of med...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 21, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Robotics Security & Privacy AI digital Innovation Personalized medicine pharmacies blockchain pharmaceutics robots supply c Source Type: blogs
