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Recent surveys and research show that the health care sector is rapidly adopting mobile technology, and it’s only expected to have more significant uptake in the future. This isn’t surprising. Laptops, tablets, and smart phones are fast and convenient means of communicating all sorts of data including health information.
Unfortunately, polls also show that mobile device security has not kept pace with adoption. In fac
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The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, put in place new incentives for doctors and hospitals to help them make the investment in electronic health records (EHRs). It also made a very important distinction: that health IT is not just about the technology, its how we use the technology to improve care. It has moved health care in a direction that isnt just about more technology its about using that technology in a way thats going to be meaningful to patients. <
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A couple of years ago, I gave birth to a baby girl, Ada. She looked perfect, but the doctors told me she had a significant heart murmur. When I held her in my arms at night I could hear blood rushing through a hole in her heart that shouldnt have been there.
My husband and I took Ada to a pediatric cardiologist, who said she would probably need surgery to close that hole. For an entire year of tests and hospital visits, we lived in fear that open heart surgery was just around the corner. And then one day it was. I
Yesterday Health Canada effectively banned cadmium from children’s jewelryWhy?Because if kids accidentally put it in their mouths, cadmium carries with it a number of medical risks And of course it should be banned, after all that’s what governments are supposed to do with toxins Here’s our Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq’s take on a government’s role,
“Consumer products that pose a danger to human health or safety may not be manufactured, distributed, imported or sold in Canada This proposed guideline makes our expectations of industry clear”
Begs the question of course, why then has the government failed to move on trans-fat?According to the head of Health Canada’s own Trans-Fat Task Force, trans-fats are,
“a “toxic” killer that need to be removed from the food chain as soon as possible”
where,
“the longer we wait, the more illness and in fact death will happen, so we know we have to get it out of our food supply”
and that,
“there is no safe amount of trans consumption”
Tony Clement, the then Minister of Health promised in June 2007 in a speech that Health Canada conveniently no longer hosts on their websites that if in 2 years a voluntary approach didn’t remove the toxin from our food supply, that regulations would be put in placeAnd here we are, over 2 years past that overly generous deadline, and Health Canada’s banning cadmium, this despite the fact that the toxin kids in Canada are most likely to put into their mouths in Canada is trans-fat adults tooIf Health Canada actually cared about our health, trans-fats would have been gone back in 2007, no voluntary free pass, and no lip service about potential regulationsOnly reason trans-fat isn’t gone is because politically, it’s more challenging to do, and at the end of the day Health Canada sadly, apparently cares more about politics than it does about the health of Canadian childrenWhat it really means is that there isn’t much of a pro-cadmium lobby here in Canada, because if there were, there likely wouldn’t have been any announcements made yesterday
Federal officials announced Thursday that $95 million was awarded to 278 school-based health center programs nationwide, including three programs in San Diego County.
Provided by the federal Affordable Care Act, the funds will help school-based programs provide services to an additional 440,000 people beyond the 790,000 people currently benefiting from the centers, said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The Family Health Centers of San Diego was awarded $500,000 that will be spent on school-based clinics at two campuses, spokeswoman Jennette Lawrence Shay said.
The largest chunk will be used to establish a clinic at Rice Elementary School in the Chula Vista Unified School District, Shay said.