An Epidemic of Elder Abuse Largely Affects Women
Elayne Clift
She was an 89-year old woman in good health when she entered a nursing home for physical therapy after she’d fallen and broken her ankle. Three weeks later, her leg was gangrenous. Three months later, she was dead. The nursing home where she’d been treated was fined more than $112,000 for “neglect,’ a charge the nursing home director refuted. But the doctor’s orders, which called for monitoring the circulation in her leg and checking her skin for swelling or rednessevery shift had never been followed, nor was her wound bandage ever changed. Even when the woman complained of excruciating pain the staf...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs
Women in Agriculture
Maternal and child health is not limited to pregnancy and child birth. From birth, through infancy, and well into childhood, children’s lives are in the hands of their mothers. This responsibility is an incredible challenge for a number of reasons, especially when women don’t always have the appropriate resources to safeguard the health of their children. In fact, 1 billion children lack access to at least one essential resource or service — including water, basic health care, sanitation, and shelter. This inequity in resource distribution comes at a high cost. In 2015, 16,000 children younger than 5 died every day. ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Agriculture Women Source Type: blogs
World Prematurity Day
In celebration of World Prematurity Day, I want to introduce Disruptive Women in Health Care readers to Once Upon a Preemie and its author, Jenné Johns. It is a short inspirational story for parents whose children are born prematurely and need a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) stay. Jenné is a mother who made that journey with her son and is now shining a light to help others.
Jenné, I learned about Once Upon a Preemie when we met recently. As a busy working mother, how did you find the time to write something with such depth and beauty?
I love it when I hear that the book touches someone’s heart, just as I l...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Premature Babies Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Above the Bikini: There ’s More to Women’s Health
While we are (at least half of us) trying to make sense of the election and what it portends for all the issues we care about, there is an issue that we should all be concerned about that was never addressed by the President elect. Sec. Clinton did so on her website, but it never came up in the debates or campaign ads and was never given any visibility . And that is women’s health. No not reproduction, contraception or choice, and while those are clearly important and under assault there are other womens health issues not addressed in the run up to this election that are important to all women regardless ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Election 2016 Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
The Future Of The Affordable Care Act In A Trump Administration
This segment originally aired on The Diane Rehm Show on November 14, 2016.
The HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen. AP PHOTO/ANDREW HARNIK
Republicans in Congress have voted more than 50 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act without success. Now, they have an ally in President-elect Donald Trump, who promised on the campaign trail to “repeal and replace” the law. But over the weekend, Trump seemed to soften his stance. He told the Wall Street Journal he would consider leaving in place some provisions, including one that prohibits insurers from denying covera...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Affordable Healthcare Act Consumer Health Care Cost Coverage Policy Election 2016 Health Reform Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Reform in President Trump ’s America – A Preliminary Look
This post was originally published on 9 November 2016 in http://www.healthpopuli.com/.
It’s the 9th of November, 2016, and Donald Trump has been elected the 45th President of the United States of America. On this morning after #2016Election, Health Populi looks at what we know we know about President Elect-Trump’s health policy priorities.
Repeal-and-replace has been Mantra #1 for Mr. Trump’s health policy. With all three branches of the U.S. government under Republican control in 2018, this policy prescription may have a strong shot. The complication is that the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare in Mr. Trump’s...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Health Health IT Health Professions Health Reform Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
My Dad, the (2016 Election Year) Prophet
Back in the long-ago dark ages of the early 1960’s when I was in high school, my Dad said, “A man can put on a clean white shirt and everyone will say he’s changed. When a woman falls, she falls forever.”
It was his way of warning me of the consequences of an unwed pregnancy. In his mind at the time, that was the worst thing that could happen to a young girl. It would forever change her life’s trajectory and permanently damage her reputation (though not the young boy’s). He was pointing-out a longstanding gender-based double-standard of social life.
There are many reasons I wish my Dad was alive today. Among th...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Election 2016 Source Type: blogs
October 2016 Man of the Month: Sen. Joe Biden
Sen. Joe BidenPhotographs by Martin Schoeller (Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care)
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
“Excuse me, I have requested a download” of health records (watch)
Our August 2010 Man of the Month, “E-Patient” Dave eBronkart speaks. This post was originally published on MedCity News.
“E-Patient” Dave eBronkart speaks at MedCity ENGAGE 2016.
Back in June, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO Dr. John Halamka wrote about a certain perceived shortfall in the Meaningful Use “view/download/transmit” requirement for patient engagement in electronic health records.
In a blog post that MedCity News reposted as a MedCitizens contribution, Halamka said:
Meaningful Use Stage 2 has a requirement that I’ve always considered to be the “cart before the horse” — patient...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Advocacy Health IT Patients Patients' Rights Source Type: blogs
Americans Have Begun to Raid Retirement Savings for Current Healthcare Costs
While American workers appreciate the benefits they receive at work, people are concerned about health care costs. And consumers’ collective response to rising health care costs is changing the way they use health care services and products, like prescription drugs. Furthermore, 6 in 10 U.S. health citizens rank healthcare as poor (27%) or fair (33%).
This sober profile on healthcare consumers emerges out of survey research conducted by EBRI (the Employee Benefit Research Institute), analyzed in the report Workers Like Their Benefits, Are Confident of Future Availability, But Dissatisfied With the Health Care System and...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Cost Publc Health Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Connected Health Symposium 2016 Disruptive Women in Health Care Panel – Boston Strong
Just as trailblazer Kathrine Switzer, the first female Boston Marathon runner, made history in 1967, transforming the “men’s only” Boston Marathon into what it is today, our panelists are changing the world of health care. Meet the Disruptive Women who are transforming health care in and around Boston.
Speakers:
Robin Strongin
Ami Bhatt, MD, FACC
Glenna Crooks, PhD
Naomi Fried, PhD
Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM
Kathy McGroddy Goetz, PhD
Mandira Singh
Location:
Waterfront
Date/Time:
Thursday, October 20, 2016 – 09:00 to 09:50am
Symposium:
2016 Connected Health Symposium
Category:
Morning Events
Session Type:
Panel (...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Global Health Health Professions Health Reform Homepage Feature Policy Women Source Type: blogs
Creative Power | A Joint Program between The Kreeger Museum and Disruptive Women in Health Care
Discussion: 6:15 – 7:00
Q&A: 7:00 – 7:30
Light reception: 7:30–8:00
Please note the exhibition SMITH | PALEY will be open in the lower galleries 5:00 – 6:00
Tickets: $15 / $12 members Light reception | Visit this link to purchase tickets.
Limited parking on premises and street parking (Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care)
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A Message from a Millennial to a Millennial: Making Science a National Priority
America has always been a leader in medical innovation and scientific discovery. Which is why, when you think of science, it’s easy to picture a lab filled with bright lights, whirring machines, and lots of furrowed eyebrows. The image of a scientist brings to mind one set of those furrowed eyebrows bent over an experiment, with focused energy, putting the last puzzle piece into a mystery that will save the lives of thousands. Unfortunately, today walking into most labs would not yield such an experience. Rather, imagine a tumbleweed blowing by an empty lab while scientists use all their intellectual resources to compete...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Science & Research Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Maternal Mortality Rates Rise in the U.S.
From the late 1970s through the 1990s, when I worked internationally on women’s health issues, alarm bells sounded regularly about the dramatic and unacceptable rate of maternal mortality in the so-called developing world. Today, those alarm bells are ringing again, but this time because of the rising maternal mortality rate (MMR) here in the U.S.
The MMR is defined as the number of registered maternal deaths due to birth or pregnancy related complications per 100,000 registered live births. Maternal death refers to “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy from any cause relate...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Maternity Women Source Type: blogs
