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Health IT Cyberinfrastructure for the Patient-Centered Medical Home
Featured in: Quality Advocate
This post presents a scenario describing a novel cyberinfrastructure supporting patient-centered medical homesThe patient-centered medical home is receiving a great deal of attention lately. It's a wonderful concept with lofty goals focused on bringing greater value to the consumer; such value is essential to healthcare reform as a I've been advocating for years.
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Dr. Steve Beller is a clinical psychologist, author, consultant, researcher, software inventor, and CEO/President of National Health Data Systems. His life goal is to work with others to help re-direct the course of humankind, so we don't have to be ashamed of the world we’re leaving our children.
Toward that end, Dr. Beller spent the past 25 years in creative pursuits, including inventing unique software systems, writing about the healthcare crisis and cures, and developing close personal and professional bonds with fine individuals across the globe.
Dr. Beller's current activities are devoted to (a) consumer empowerment through comprehensive mind-body-environment health assessments yielding deep understanding, “information therapy” supporting self-maintenance and knowledgeable decision-making, and guidance from collaboration with health professionals & peers; (b) continuous improvement of sick-care and well-care safety, effectiveness and efficiency through use of evolving evidence-based guidelines; (c) international efforts to improve the health and well-being of the elderly and impoverished; (d) establishment of cost-effective information exchange architectures using next-generation technologies; and (e) supporting first responders and trauma department staff in pandemics, disasters and terrorist attacks.
For more, please see his extended bio here.
Natural Life, Madoff And The Merits Of Skepticism In A Culture Of Murky Thinking
Featured in: Wellness Report
Madoff to be locked up for the rest of his natural life? What does that mean?... Ruth Madoff expressed shock and dismay at her husband's behavior, telling reporters, 'This is not the man I owned nine homes with. When you spend hundreds of millions of dollars with someone, you think you know him. I guess I was wrong.' Mrs. Madoff said she was kept 'totally in the dark' about her husband's activities because he used a clever cover story: 'He told me he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.'
Andy Borowitz, The Borowitz Report, June 30, 2009
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How Will FTC's New Blog Disclosure and Monitoring Scheme Go Wrong?
Featured in: Hippocrates
As the talk of FTC regulating bloggers heats up, the risks and unintended consequences are getting more apparent and troubling.As I highlighted a few months ago, FTC is hard at work updating 30-year old rules on testimonials for the age when anyone is a publisher: "FTC Guidelines for Endorsements Could Shake Up Social Media Marketing".
They made headlines again last week touting the need for regulation: "FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims, payments". Now with the agency's direction being less of a surpirse we are starting to see more coverage and real discussion of if and how such regulations may or may not work.
A government agency regulating an industry? What could go wrong?
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A Debate on Gradual versus Radical Change
Featured in: Quality Advocate
Debate whether HIT should evolve gradually or leap forward with the aid of disruptive innovation and a focus on radical change
Following is a discussion I'm having on a LinkedIn forum about adopting a very gradual approach to HIT evolution versus implementing a strategy promoting evolutionary leaps coming from disruptive innovation and a focus on radical change.
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Dr. Steve Beller is a clinical psychologist, author, consultant, researcher, software inventor, and CEO/President of National Health Data Systems. His life goal is to work with others to help re-direct the course of humankind, so we don't have to be ashamed of the world we’re leaving our children.
Toward that end, Dr. Beller spent the past 25 years in creative pursuits, including inventing unique software systems, writing about the healthcare crisis and cures, and developing close personal and professional bonds with fine individuals across the globe.
Dr. Beller's current activities are devoted to (a) consumer empowerment through comprehensive mind-body-environment health assessments yielding deep understanding, “information therapy” supporting self-maintenance and knowledgeable decision-making, and guidance from collaboration with health professionals & peers; (b) continuous improvement of sick-care and well-care safety, effectiveness and efficiency through use of evolving evidence-based guidelines; (c) international efforts to improve the health and well-being of the elderly and impoverished; (d) establishment of cost-effective information exchange architectures using next-generation technologies; and (e) supporting first responders and trauma department staff in pandemics, disasters and terrorist attacks.
For more, please see his extended bio here.
A 'uniquely' American health care plan
Featured in: A Patient's Journey
I'm sure everyone can get behind this free market based solution to reform the US health care system, and at the same time dramatically reduce costs.The first step would be to completely remove the government as a provider/facilitator of health care/insurance, secondly forbid businesses from providing payment for health care/insurance to their employees, thirdly eliminate all health care regulations, and finally completely eliminate the sale of all health insurance products.
Not only will this ensure health insurance companies, and [especially] the government, have no part in dictating
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I have mantle cell lymphoma, and to be so bold as to quote a line from another blogger "it may kill me." Actually it is killing me, albeit very slowly at this point. In the mean time, I'm still able to function mostly as normal, going to work, riding my bike, playing golf and even planning for vacations.
In fact, if it wasn't for that fateful blood test of March 26, 2002, I still might not even realize I am sick.
But that isn't the case, so I decided to chronicle my life from the beginning (not from when I was born, mind you, but from that fateful day), and remembering it's not just about being sick. Even if you've been diagnosed with a terminal illness, that doesn't mean life ends.
We're all going to die, most of us just have different perspectives on when that is going to happen. It's how we deal with the living part of our lives, that makes a difference.
Whiplash, neck pain, and the muscles of the neck
Featured in: Nutrition & Life
Car accidents frequently cause whiplash where the head and neck are violently thrown forward and back injuring the soft tissues of the neck.Although vertebrae and disk injuries do occur often in this kind of a scenario, frequently nothing obvious comes up on imaging tests, and the patient is left with neck pain without a concrete reason as to why. In other situations, the accident victim may feel surprisingly okay immediately post accident, and then a few weeks to months later may develop neck pain. In this scenario it may be harder to prove to insurance companies that the neck pain is actually a result of the car accident, even though there is a very understandable explanation for this pain pattern.
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I have always been interested in what we can do to make ourselves as healthy as possible. We cannot change our genetics, but there is much that is within our control that can have an impact on whether we are healthy or whether we suffer with pain and disease.
I was the top graduating student at the University of Toronto in Physical and Health Education in 1992, where I studied anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, nutrition and how exercise can improve health. In 1997 moved to Vancouver and started a personal-training business.
I became frustrated by my inability to help my clients through their various aches and pains, and pursued further education through the CHEK Institute in San Diego. I learned an incredible amount, and became far more effective with my clients suffering from low-back pain, but still found some clients did not respond as I felt they should and I didn't understand why.
I began to read and read. I began to appreciate how nutrition and other lifestyle factors can have a huge impact on healing or the lack of healing. It became obvious to me that there is a lot more to orthopeadic problems than simply looking at the physical. I took the CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Consultation course which solidified what I had been learning. Disease is a function of bodily systems being out of balance, and when we do what is necessary to bring the individual back into balance our health is restored.
My hope is that through this site you can travel the wellness journey with me and prevent illness, or if you are ill, you can learn some ways to become well again.
How Free Is Free Will?
Featured in: Wellness Report
A REAL wellness perspective on the topic of free will.What's the deal with free will? Do we have it or not, If not, are we off the hook of personal responsibility? What IS free will, anyway? Have recent articles on the subject put the issue to re
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Regulatory Rant: Whose Interests Does FDA *REALLY* Represent?
Featured in: Hippocrates
FDA's stated mission is to protect the public and advance safe and sound foods and drugs. The actions tell a very different story.This year I have written several pieces calling out FDA for their lack of enlightenment about Internet and social media marketing. My conclusion has been that literal application of last century regulations, without understanding the changes in media are counter-productive to FDA's stated mission.
I spared no scorn criticising the agency in posts titled like "FDA Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Launch a Witch Hunt on Internet Marketing", "Will DDMAC Ever Get a Clue About Internet Marketing?" and "Dumb Regulation Watch: Traditional Healthcare Marketing Rules Can Be Meaningless Online". I have been ahead of my colleagues in calling out FDA's flaws, but now looks like the frustration with the agency is growing louder and louder.
In the last weeks pharma blogs hosted some pointed exchanges
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Meaningful Healthcare Reform: Challenges and Solutions
Featured in: Quality Advocate
Discusses a provocative paper titled "Electronic Record Keeping, Wellness Programs, and Care Coordination -- Would They Yield Real Savings, and When?"David Koitz--a former analyst for The Congressional Research Service and the Congressional Budget Office, just published a provocative paper entitled "Electronic Record Keeping, Wellness Programs, and Care Coordination -- Would They Yield Real Savings, and When?
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Dr. Steve Beller is a clinical psychologist, author, consultant, researcher, software inventor, and CEO/President of National Health Data Systems. His life goal is to work with others to help re-direct the course of humankind, so we don't have to be ashamed of the world we’re leaving our children.
Toward that end, Dr. Beller spent the past 25 years in creative pursuits, including inventing unique software systems, writing about the healthcare crisis and cures, and developing close personal and professional bonds with fine individuals across the globe.
Dr. Beller's current activities are devoted to (a) consumer empowerment through comprehensive mind-body-environment health assessments yielding deep understanding, “information therapy” supporting self-maintenance and knowledgeable decision-making, and guidance from collaboration with health professionals & peers; (b) continuous improvement of sick-care and well-care safety, effectiveness and efficiency through use of evolving evidence-based guidelines; (c) international efforts to improve the health and well-being of the elderly and impoverished; (d) establishment of cost-effective information exchange architectures using next-generation technologies; and (e) supporting first responders and trauma department staff in pandemics, disasters and terrorist attacks.
For more, please see his extended bio here.
Why You Should Stand Up for Small Farmers
Featured in: Nutrition & Life
The small farmers who produce much of the safest and most nutritious food available need your help!Food safety has been a popular political topic this year, especially with the intended implementation of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Unfortunately, much of the recently proposed legislation relating to food safety promotes a symptom driven approach that favors industrial farming and poses significant challenges to smaller farmers.
Stand Up for the Small Guy!
Ironically, it's the small farmers who use natural, organic, and sustainable methods who need the least amount of regulation but are impacted by it the most. These farmers raise crops and livestock in a manner that resembles their natural environment. This results in healthy and robust plants and animals that are naturally resistant to infection and disease. In contrast, many large industrial farms raise crops and livestock in an artificial and assembly line type of environment that increases output and profitability at the cost of food quality. Because the plants and animals that are raised in these conditions are unhealthy and much more susceptible to infection and disease, more regulation is needed.
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Vin Miller is a certified health and fitness professional who is passionate about helping people improve their lives through healthier living and a more positive perspective. As someone who was able to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome, Vin knows what it's like to experience poor health and understands the aspects of a healthy lifestyle that prevent it.
In a society where poor health has come to be accepted as normal and is often blamed on age, Vin is motivated to help people rise above this self defeating mentality and realize the potential for the long and healthy life that optimal health can provide.
For more information about Vin, visit http://NaturalBias.com. To learn how to maximize your life through better health, fitness and perspective, sign up for his free e-course: 7 Simple Steps to a Leaner, Happier and Healther You!
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