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Too on the nose...
#Healthcare #USpol #Insurance

"Scottish medical schools receive £100k for sustainable healthcare training"
#Scotland #Sustainability #Healthcare

Scottish medical schools receive £100k for sustainable healthcare training
A collaboration between Scotland’s five medical schools has received £100,000 from the Scottish Government to support the integration of sustainable healthcare into undergraduate medical degrees.

CVS settles insulin fraud pricing for $36.5 million.
CVS laughs heartily while counting it's 3 BILLION in PROFIT this year alone.
#M4A #Healthcare #LuigiWasRight
https://www.njoag.gov/attorney-general-davenport-announces-new-jersey-has-joined-36-5-million-settlement-with-cvs-pharmacy/

Trump & the GOP are trying to kill you.
#trump #gop #healthcare

What, the person in charge of the English #NHS deeply #corrupt? who could possibly have expected it.
#Corruption
#HealthCare

"A Nigerian teen is turning agricultural waste into biodegradable sanitary pads"
#Nigeria #Health #Healthcare

A Nigerian teen is turning agricultural waste into biodegradable sanitary pads
For many Nigerian women, access to sanitary pads remains a challenge. Even those who can obtain them, the prevalence of single-use menstrual products creates problems of its own. They contain plastics and chemicals and are not eco-friendly generating large amounts of waste. After learning that many traditional sanitary pads used contain up to 90% plastic […]

For the love of god, we've had transcription software for decades that will take your spoken words and transcribe them without trying to add in other stuff. Yes, sometimes they get the words wrong, but at least they're not hallucinating about topics they are not designed to understand or opine about.
#AI #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Medical #HealthCare #Doctors #AIHallucinations

“Transcripts created by 12 of the 20 programs contained incorrect information like capturing a different drug than was prescribed by the doctor.”
12 of 20 is a 60% failure rate.
Seventeen of the 20 systems missed key details about patients’ mental health issues. “
17 of 20 is a 85% failure rate.
THESE SYSTEMS ARE NOWHERE CLOSE TO ACCURATE AND SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR HEALTH MATTERS OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT IS IMPORTANT.
#AI #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Medical #HealthCare #Doctors #AIHallucinations

Private member's bills rarely if ever turn into law, but I am proud that my MP is bringing this forward. We need to take the stigma out of Mental Health and drug addictions treatment and this is one way to help.
"The bill, The Mental Health Parity Act, proposes that mental health, addictions, and substance use services into Canada’s universal, public health care system. It would introduce framework for the federal government to partner with provinces and territories to provide public coverage, and is modelled after the Canada Health Act. It will also include provisions to promote public accountability to reduce regional disparities in coverage.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #HealthCare #health #MP

*Right underneath* the massive headline from the Auditor General of Ontario warning of AI ‘hallucinations' in medical AI transcripts used by Ontario doctors, there is another article with the headline
“Artificial Intelligence shows promise in emergency room diagnosis”
NO! There is not promise. There are CLEAR DANGERS being pointed out by responsible adults.
"“Inaccuracies in medical notes generated by AI scribe systems could potentially result in inadequate or harmful treatment plans that may potentially impact patient health outcomes,” the auditor’s report said.”
Auditor General story: #AI #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Medical #HealthCare #Doctors #AIHallucinations

How to make health systems climate-resilient? I am pleased to announce:
Climate-Resilient Health Systems for Sustained Value Chains, Healthcare Access and Services
#health systems can be made climate resilient, with two novel conceptual frameworks on
• sustained access to #healthcare
• maintaining healthcare provision
for identifying failures & guiding #adaptation.
#ClimateChangeAdaptation #PublicHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Research #Science

#Healthcare #US #Insurance #CPAP
So my CPAP started displaying a message on start up that it's motor has exceeded it's rated hours; fortunately it still works for now.
Called to get a replacement. Insurance said I needed a prior auth from my doc.
Doc says they don't issue prior auths (which I should have flagged when talking to insurance). Now insurance says to get my CPAP pressure/info from the local durable goods provider who somehow is in network with every damned insurance I've been on in 30 years (in US healthcare...go figure).
They can't give me that info; they need a script from the doc for pressure and other data.
Finally insurance upends all of it and says I need a new sleep study before I can get a replacement CPAP. Not a 'new' one, just the one I've been prescribed and provided, replaced b/c it's End Of Life.
That will take THREE visits and I won't have a new CPAP until SEPTEMBER.
MF I could have a god damned stroke if this machine cuts out.
sigh

““The reason that we want to help spread the word is two-fold,” said Amy Miller.
“People are interested in coming here to work in health care. Obviously, we’re so grateful to be here. But I want the community here to know that it’s working and to continue with that momentum. And I want to let people in the States know that this is an option, that it’s a real option.”
#BCPoli #BC #HealthCare #HealthCareInfusion #Canada #USA #TheAmericanFascist #Immigration