Category: health Journal

Project ECHO GEMH: Disruptive Technology For Geriatric Mental Health

  • May 28, 2015
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New York State is a leader on many health fronts, whether it be antismoking, obesity reduction, or insurance coverage. But our state is also a leader in another area: we are among the states with the greatest shortages in physician supply. According to the Healthcare Association of New York State, the deficits are especially large in rural areas, which lack both primary care physicians and specialists. This situation hits particularly hard in rural communities since primary care doctors may be their only source of health services, including those for mental health. The prevalence of mental illness is not much different in rural and urban areas, but the lack of access to and availability of mental health services are particular challenges in rural areas. According to the American

Proactive Psychiatric Consultation For Hospitalized Patients, A Plan for the Future

  • May 28, 2015
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The Yale Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT) is a proactive, multi-disciplinary psychiatric consultation service for all internal medicine inpatients at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The goal of the team, which includes nurses, social workers, and psychiatrists, is to shift from a “reactive” to a “proactive” paradigm of psychiatric consultations on hospital inpatient medical floors. The team screens for, identifies, and removes/mitigates behavioral barriers to the effective receipt of health care among hospitalized medical patients, especially among those with co-occurring mental illness and/or substance abuse. To facilitate delivery of timely, effective inpatient medical care, the BIT collaborates closely with the medical team through formal and informal advice, co-management of behavioral issues, education of medical, nursing, and social work staff, and direct care of complex

The Latest Health Wonk Review

  • May 28, 2015
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Last week, Julie Ferguson put up the latest Health Wonk Review at Workers’ Comp Insider. Julie offers a smorgasbord of great posts, including Preeti Malani’s Health Affairs Blog post on the intersection of politics and HIV in Indiana. If you haven’t done so already, check out Steve Anderson’s Grumpy Cat Wonk Review edition, at the medicareresources.org blog, which preceded Julie’s pre-Memorial Day edition. And watch for next week’s Review, which will be hosted on June 4 by Louise Norris at Colorado Health Insurance Insider.

The Society For Women’s Health Research Announces “Beyond The Bruises” Campaign Highlighting The Effects Of Domestic Violence On Chronic Disease

  • May 28, 2015
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The press release below was issued May 27 by the Society for Women’s Health Research and can be seen here. The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR ®), a national non-profit and thought leader in research on sex differences in health and disease, today announced “Beyond the Bruises,” an online campaign uniting survivors, advocates, organizations, and celebrities in bringing awareness to the effects of domestic violence on chronic disease.  The campaign features a short film that shares the stories of domestic violence survivors who struggle with chronic disease as a result of their abuse, as well as the website BeyondtheBruises.org, a resource center that houses information on the often unrecognized effects of domestic violence on chronic illness. A 2013 study conducted by MORE Magazine and

Narrative Matters: On Our Reading List

  • May 28, 2015
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Editor’s Note: “Narrative Matters: On Our Reading List” is a monthly roundup where we share some of the most compelling health care narratives driving the news and conversation in recent weeks. The One In 40,000 Parents think their children are one in a million, but Liz Savage knows what it means to have your child be the statistical anomaly. One in 40,000 measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR)-vaccinated patients will be affected with immune thrombocytopenia purpura. Her son, whom she refers to as “Oscar” in her story for Slate, “My Son, the Statistic,” was hospitalized with low platelet counts, as his body adversely reacted to the immunization. Oscar recovered, and despite the stress of the ordeal, Savage says she’d still vaccinate him again. “I had to weigh my

Health Affairs Web First: Are Marketplace Enrollees Sicker Than Those With Employer-Sponsored Insurance?

  • May 27, 2015
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To date little is known about the health status of the 7.3 million Americans who signed up for health insurance through either federal- or state-run exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). One effective way to gain information is to examine their use of prescription drugs. A new study, being released by Health Affairs as a Web First, compared prescription data from January to September of 2014 of more than one million Marketplace enrollees. The study reviewed the characteristics and medication use of early enrollees (October 1, 2013 through February 28, 2014) and those enrolling later (between March 1 and May 31, 2014), and compared those findings with a sample of some one million Americans enrolled in employer-sponsored health coverage. There were three key findings, which have implications for understanding the