by medicaltechont | Jan 2, 2016 | Healthcare, Technology
What do you do when you love your job, but it’s killing you?
That’s an easy question if it’s asked by someone else. It’s a hard question when you’re asking it of yourself. As a physician, I give advice to people all the time — other people. If you have diabetes, control your diet. If you are obese, then lose weight and exercise. If you have COPD, then you better not continue smoking. Common problems. Obvious solutions.
What if burnout is your problem? When your cell phone rings, you get tachycardia wondering what catastrophe awaits you. You work 80 hour weeks and have no time to recuperate between catastrophes. When you’re not working, your mind is still there, wondering what you could have done differently; feeling responsible for any bad outcome; feeling thankful and lucky (more relieved than proud) of any good ones. Even when you’re not at work, your mind is.
Read more at KevinMD.
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2016/01/surgeon-loves-job-killing.html
by medicaltechont | Oct 3, 2015 | eHealth
This is a great article on the real cost of EMR in Ontario!
How much does is cost to care for a baby, pregnant woman, diabetic, heart disease patient, or provide primary care among the myriad of other services offered by your family doctor? According to the Ontario Government, too much. According to you and me?
I am not about to rehash the many exemplary articles and blog posts that have so eloquently outlined the issues (see attached PDF). My focus is to ask you a single question: Are you getting value for what is spent on primary care health teams?
Read more: http://policyoptions.irpp.org/2015/09/26/the-real-cost-of-primary-care-in-ontario-a-fraction-of-the-cost-of-a-gym-membership/
by medicaltechont | Sep 29, 2015 | United States
A top Texas Medical Center executive described a plan Thursday for a major medical research campus that would bring together four institutions and contain multiple components, including hotel rooms, restaurants and bars, green space and an enormous plaza shaped like a double helix, a nod to the medical description of intertwining strands of DNA.
The proposed project, still in the conceptual stage, would cost $1.5 billion and represent a new model of collaboration at Houston’s premier medical complex, said William McKeon, executive vice president, chief strategy officer and chief operating officer of the Texas Medical Center.
The University of Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center would anchor the new TMC3 Innovation Campus. The number 3 refers to the “third coast.”
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/medical/article/Proposed-research-campus-would-encourage-6528011.php
by medicaltechont | Sep 27, 2015 | Canada, United States
Spending by the Medical Research Council (MRC) on cancer research has fallen by a third since David Cameron became prime minister, according to figures released on Thursday.
The amount spent by the organisation on projects relating to the treatment of cancer has fallen from a peak of £112m in 2011 to £76.2m in 2014, according to the data released by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/24/medical-research-council-cancer-funding-down-by-a-third-since-2010
by medicaltechont | Sep 12, 2015 | Healthcare, Hospitals
A team of scientists in Massachusetts has developed an innovative medical technology that could eliminate the problem of shortage of hearts for transplantation. The technology claims to “reanimate” the dead heart for transplant.
Each year, thousands of Americans require a heart for transplantation. However, the researchers say that the availability of donor hearts could be increased by almost 30 percent if the new technology is approved for medical use in the U.S.
Click here to read more: http://www.ibtimes.com.au/new-medical-technology-revives-dead-hearts-successfully-used-transplantation-uk-australia-1465254
