Healthcare Should Be Invisible
What if healthcare worked as an unseeable fairy mother with a swarm of digital helpers? In the background, many digital tools, smart algorithms, health trackers and wearables would work for your well-being discreetly, you could be sure that you are taken care of, but you would only sense that on rare occasions. How would you fancy the invisible healthcare system? The Medical Futurist believes that we should move in that direction.
Healthcare should be what Zorg showed us in The Fifth Element
Do you remember the scene from the brilliant Luc Besson movie, The Fifth Element, where Gary Oldman as one of the leading antagonist...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design AI artificial intelligence chatbot digital health health chatbot health trackers healthcare system Innovation robotics sensors technology VR wearables Source Type: blogs
Using AI To Determine if Your Radiologist Appointment is On Time
It ’s just as difficult to predict if your doctor is running on schedule as it is to draw your own blood. Fortunately, a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital has figured out a way to eliminate those frustrating long waits by developing a machine learning technique designed to accur ately predict radiology appointment wait times.Long wait times are a serious source of contention for patients and physicians. In order to meet fee-for-service quotas, doctors must over-book their patient schedules so they can make sure they ’re earning a consistent salary. However, this appointment booking system only cau...
Source: radRounds - May 18, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
12 Weeks of Simple Activities to Support Kids ’ Learning All Summer Long
Help your students and their families go from summer slump to summer triumph with engaging exercises families can enjoy together. Below I share 12 weeks of simple activities parents or caregivers can use to help their child—or entire family—build speech, language and literacy skills.
Offer the list to parents or hand it out to students to take home!
Week 1: Summer bucket list
Ask the child to write a list or draw pictures of the student’s top five activities that they want to do over the summer, like go to the pool or zoo. Post the list and check off adventures as you complete them.
Week 2: Library love
A trip t...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Stacey Glasgow Tags: Audiology Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Augmentative Alternative Communication Autism Spectrum Disorder Early Intervention Feeding Disorders Language Disorders Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
Could ride-hailing platforms solve the problems of 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 could even wait for emergency situations so they can call an ambulance and receive care in a hospital. In the last months, both giant ridesharing companies, Uber and Lyft announced non-emergency medical transportation services, while start-ups, such as Circulation 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?
There is a little village i...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 17, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Hospital lyft medical transportation patient ride-hailing startup uber Source Type: blogs
Ride-Hailing Platforms Could Solve The Problems of 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 could even wait for emergency situations so they can call an ambulance and receive care in a hospital. In the last months, both giant ridesharing companies, Uber and Lyft announced non-emergency medical transportation services, while start-ups, such as Circulation 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?
There is a little village i...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 17, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Hospital lyft medical transportation patient ride-hailing startup uber Source Type: blogs
The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) pathway for people with long-term physical health conditions and medically unexplained symptoms
NHS England - From April 2018 all CCGs are expected to expand Improving Access to Psychological Therapies by commissioning (IAPT) services integrated into physical healthcare pathways. This document supports this expansion by setting out the treatment pathway that underpins the access and waiting time standards, which all services should seek to measure themselves against.Guidance (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 23, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Commissioning Developments in primary and community care Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Robotics, A.I. and Blockchain Redesign The Pharma Supply Chain
Exoskeletons will aid pharma factory workers. 3D printing will allow pharmacies to produce drugs on the spot. Blockchain technologies will 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 a comprehensive overview how innovations will make it more efficient, faster and cheaper than ever before.
Exoskeletons will aid pharma factory workers. 3D printing will allow pharmacies to produce drugs on the spot. Blockchain technologies will help fight counterfeit drugs. These are just bits and pieces, b...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 13, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: 3D Printing in Medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Pharma Security & Privacy AI blockchain digital Innovation Personalized medicine pharmaceutics pharmacies robotics robots supply chain Source Type: blogs
How is the NHS performing?
The King's Fund - The King ’s Fund published its first quarterly monitoring report in April 2011 as part of our work to track, analyse and comment on the changes and challenges the health and care system is facing. This is the 25th report and aims to take stock of what has happened over the past quarter. We find that more p atients are facing long waits for hospital treatment, with those experiencing the longest waits often most in need of treatment. With demand for services continuing to rise it's very unlikely that meeting waiting time targets will become more achievable, with implications for how the NHS...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 8, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
How to Overcome Frustration: 3 Simple but Effective Steps
Frustration. It winds you up and can take so much out of you.
Because it not only sucks energy but also distracts you and can steal quite a bit of time.
So what can you do?
Well, sometimes that frustration can actually be a positive and can give you a new idea or angle on things. Or it can give you the power to keep going just a little bit more until you reach your goal.
But when you start going in circles, when the frustration just makes you mad or your mind foggy and the day is starting to slip through your fingers then there are steps you can take.
There are ways to turn such a state of mind or day around.
Into somethi...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - January 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness Personal Development Relaxation Success Source Type: blogs
Transforming children and young people's mental health provision: a green paper
Department of Health (DH) - This green paper outlines the government's proposals to improve mental health support for children and young people in England. The measures include: encouraging schools and colleges to designate a mental health lead; setting up mental health support teams to work in schools; and piloting a four-week waiting time target for children and young people's mental health services. Views and feedback are being sought on these proposals until 2 March 2017.Green paperFurther informationPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 5, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs
How Time Can Move Backward For Immigrants Waiting for Green Cards
Many Americans want immigrants to “get in line.” But they cannot do so on their own. They need to get a sponsor, either a U.S. citizen family member or a U.S. employer, to petition the government to grant them permanent residency (a “green card”). Even if immigrants do obtain sponsors, there isn’t just one line to get into . Rather, immigrants haveseparate lines based on the type of sponsorship and their country of origin, and these lines all move at different speeds. Even two immigrants working in essentially the same position whose employer petitions for them on thesame day can end up receiving their green card...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 30, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
NHS pressures: future trends
British Medical Association (BMA) - This analysis of NHS admissions and waiting times data estimates that emergency department attendances could increase to 24 million between October 2017 and September 2018. During this period, the analysis also projects that the number of patients failing to be treated within four hours of arrival at hospital could rise by 370,000.AnalysisPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 30, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
Ranking the world ’s health systems: These results may surprise you
I was recently by the New York Times’ the Upshot to rank eight health care systems they had chosen: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This forced me to think about a pretty fundamental question: what do we want from a health care system?
What does an ideal health care system look like?
I would argue that most people want a health care system where they can get timely access to high-quality, affordable care and one that also promotes innovation of new tests and treatments. But underlying these sentiments are a lot of important issues that need unpack...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 24, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ashish-jha" rel="tag" > Ashish Jha, MD, MPH < /a > Tags: Policy Public Health & Washington Watch Source Type: blogs
What Does an Ideal Healthcare System Look Like?
By ASHISH JHA, MD
Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll recently approached me about a New York Times UpShot piece aiming to rank eight healthcare systems they had chosen: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This forced me to think about a pretty fundamental question: what do we want from a healthcare system?
I would argue that most people want a healthcare system where they can get timely access to high quality, affordable care and one that also promotes innovation of new tests and treatments. But underlying these sentiments are a lot of important issues that nee...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Access and waiting times in children and young people's mental health services
This report examines new data on access to specialist treatment for children and young people with mental health problems, and the waiting times they face. It finds that children with mental health problems face barriers when seeking access to mental health services. It also finds that, over the last year, overall waiting times (including both assessment and treatment) have fallen – yet there remains substantial variation across England. This data was obtained by EPI through a Freedom of Information request.ReportEPI - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 20, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs
