How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Health Care
In nearly every corner of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus – in clinics, in classrooms, in offices, and in laboratories – faculty members and students are thinking about…
Advance Care Planning: Advance Directives for Health Care
Español Create your own plan NIA’s new email series, Ready, Set, Plan! A Weekly Guide to Advance Care Planning, will help you start planning for your future health care over…
California Raises Health Care Minimum Wage, Expands to Affect More Positions
SB 525 will ultimately increase the minimum wage for health care workers to $25/hr. Law expands definition of employees who will be considered health care workers for coverage purposes. Law…
Open access journal publication in health and medical research and open science: benefits, challenges and limitations
Scientific progress, including in evidence-based medicine, requires all available evidence to be accessed, scrutinised, interpreted and used. Missing or incomplete evidence creates biases and errors in later research. Open science…
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing
The previous article in this series gave some history of social determinants of health (SDoH) and the importance of addressing them in medicine. This article delves deeper into various aspects…
What Is Mental Health Respite Care?
When caregivers need more support, respite care is available to families caring for their loved one’s mental health. This care makes it possible for caregivers to manage their health and…
Public Health and Global Inequalities
Many social and economic factors have a significant impact on one’s well-being. Food, water, shelter, education, decent employment, safe working conditions, and so on are all essential for good health.…
What is PHI (Protected/Personal Health Information)?
What is PHI? Protected health information (PHI), also referred to as personal health information, is the demographic information, medical histories, test and laboratory results, mental health conditions, insurance information and…
What is Mental Health? | SAMHSA
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act, and helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.…
Examining the changing definition of medicine in health care
An excerpt from Imposter Doctors: Patients at Risk. On December 17, 2020, television network WGN America featured the book Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician…