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History Rhymes with the Psychedelic Boom

Bill of Health

After decades of being associated with insanity, violence, and social disorder, psychedelics are now being embraced as potential wonder drugs. Seeing drugs through this mythological lens prevents us from accessing their potential benefits, while exposing us to the real possibility that they could make things worse.

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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Jane Sarashon

” For pharma/drug companies and health insurers, 3 in 10 consumers also ranked these medical segments as “poor” providers in the U.S. The post Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Top Chief Compliance Officers To Follow

MedTrainer

I’m continually impressed by the profound impact that healthcare chief compliance officers and other similar roles have on their organizations. I’ve compiled my list of top healthcare compliance professionals to follow on LinkedIn, along with places to look for other community experts.

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Atropos Health Announces Strategic Financing to Fund International Expansion and Support Key Channel Partnerships

Healthcare IT Today

This platform is designed to meet the demands of health systems and life science companies working to solve increasingly global, diverse, and data-intensive healthcare problems. The funding enables Atropos Health to accelerate commercial and development opportunities outside the U.S., using its proprietary technology and approach.

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The Suicide Rate in America Increased by 40% between 2000 and 2017. Blue Collar Workers Were Much More At Risk.

Health Populi

The data can be quite granular with information on mental health diagnoses and treatments, toxicology tests, and stressors such as health problems, relationship-, financial- or work-related challenges. Referring workers to financial and other helping services. The post The Suicide Rate in America Increased by 40% between 2000 and 2017.

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Why Mental Illness Is Not the Cause of Gun Violence

HIT Consultant

The problem is not the sacred cow, we are told, but this “other thing,” despite the fact that simple math demonstrates that the other thing minus a gun rarely if ever results in mass casualties. Since Uvalde, the other thing mentioned most often is mental illness. That’s not a question that requires much thought.

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Day 4 Notes from the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Healthcare Law Blog

You all have seen the many published articles and studies detailing the effect of the pandemic leading to significantly increased anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. If you include substance abuse disorders (opioid, alcohol, other illegal and legal drugs) as well, the numbers and costs continue to grow.