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AccendoWave - A Pain #Data Company Women ‘not being listened to’ are not receiving proper diagnosis in both public and private systems, health minister says. A Top 4 Global Health Equity Solution and Top 15 Global Remote Monitoring Company, AccendoWave, benchmarks objective brain wave pain data (specialty, gender, age) and has nine #pain databases: Emergency Department, Maternal Health, Oncology, MSK, Medical Surgical, ICU, #Women, Adults, Seniors to eliminate bias, improve outcomes and reduce health care costs. If desired, AccendoWave can also create customized pain databases for partners that can be accessed on the Datavant platform. https://lnkd.in/gj_GJFvP

If you are involved in the health policy space...   If you are concerned about the rising cost of healthcare...   then BACK and NECK PAIN matter to you.   This is THE MOST EXPENSIVE CONDITION in the US. Seriously.   Most systems aren't incentivized to improve this. On the contrary, the incentives encourage systems to maximize utilization (and billing), whether or not it's making a difference for patients. Not good.   This fantastic article, published with Intermountain Health data and practice standards, helps us understand what the heck is going on. It's not rocket science: Measure outcomes, know how to prognosticate with the outcomes data, and judiciously utilize resources accordingly.   "The fee-for-service health care delivery system provides little incentive to limit wasteful care among those unlikely to benefit. If validated prognostic tools are developed that accurately estimate the probability of benefit or harm at a population and individual level, it would help promote value-based care in physical therapy as safe and effective." -article authors   Thanks Intermountain Rehabilitation Research and Physical Therapy Teams!   Great work Gerard Brennen, Greg Snow, Kate Minick and Joel Stevans! The content of this post is my own and does not reflect the position of my employer.   #valuebasedcare #qualityimprovement #backpain #healthcarecosts #physicaltherapy

Conservative management first (especially spinal manipulation) for neck and back pain continues to be recommended by evidence, research and data to decrease medical costs and waste, improve function and decrease pain for patients, resulting in less fragmentation costs and medication. Why are these concepts continuing to be challenged and ignored?

The first thing we all need to STOP doing is simply restating statistics we all know so well. The first thing we need to START doing is listening to women and those that take care of them are saying. The French writer Balzac once wrote: "your age may be judged by the amount of pain that you feel when presented with a new idea." And now for the second thing we must all do...stop feeling the pain and instead embrace youthful new ideas. We need to educate governments and the primary care practitioners, who are first to experience the frustration of these women and the last to have the knowledge of what to do. Imagine...general practice textbooks no longer mention endometriosis, something 50% of adolescents w/ dysmmenorrhea have that see primary care doctors. Beyond education, early access to noninvasive diagnostic testing is key. Endosure (www.endosure.com) and companies like Ziwig stand ready to fill the void, providing accurate noninvasive tests for endo to change the paradigm while improving diagnosis and finding the cure. Here is a glimpse of the future coming at us quickly (https://lnkd.in/e4xHFpnP) The only question is are we ready to listen or will we instead feel the pain of premature aging?

New healthcare strategies for treatment of the chronic pain disorder fibromyalgia (FM) with focus on fast diagnostics is urgent needed! 💥 Assessing the impact of FM in Denmark through a 1994-2021 cohort significant challenges were revealed. With 9712 FM subjects and 5946 spouses, findings indicate higher comorbidities, healthcare costs, and societal burden compared to matched controls, even years before establishment of the FM diagnosis. Notably, a 22% employment rate post-diagnosis and 50% on disability pension 10 years later emphasize the need for enhanced healthcare strategies.  FM's substantial health and socioeconomic consequences necessitate targeted interventions. This study was done in collaboration between Fibromyalgi- og Smerteforeningen, VIVE – Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd, and The Parker Institute. The study was done by Kirstine Amris, Rikke Ibsen, Pernille Hurup Duhn, Judi Olsen, Karoline Lolk, Jakob Kjellberg and Lars Erik Kristensen. Find link to article in comments. This dilemma might be of interest to Videnskab.dk

👏 Great to see the commitment to gold standard digital health evidence generation by Kaia Health. Beyond demonstrating clinical outcomes improvement, impressive integrated analysis of cost-effectiveness, and even demonstration of the relationship between usage behavior and symptom improvement. #digitalhealth #evidence #dtx

There is too much fragmentation in the health system. Fragmented patient information, pockets of innovation, poor interoperability - all resulting in multiple overlapping systems and places where useful data can be held. That’s why a federated data platform is a great idea in principle, however we need the equivalent for patients. The article below relates to an endometriosis app. Basically, it’s a tracking and management app. There are thousands of them, for all different conditions. Diabetes, Kidney disease, Parkinson’s, ME/ CFS, etc etc. People rarely have one chronic health issue, especially as they get older. Which means they may need to use multiple apps to effectively manage them. That can’t be the answer. We need one patient facing record that provides generic tracking and management capabilities (like Patients Know Best ) that then facilitates plug and play with specialist modules such as one for endometriosis. It shouldn’t look to provide everything itself (as many #EPR providers try to do). It should be truly open but with safeguards for patients, their core record and their data. It should be linked to the NHS app and nationally backed. Patients need this. In fact they deserve it. Why can’t we make it happen? Mohammad Al-Ubaydli , Patient Safety Learning , Helen Hughes , Liz Ashall-Payne , ORCHA , Science & Engineering Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA) , Picker , Mark Duman MRPharmS , Michael Watts , Hassan Chaudhury HonFAPM , Vijay K. Luthra , Dr Saif Abed , NHS England, Dr. Zhong Wei Khor, Alf Collins , Stella Vig Vin Diwakar

🔄 **Revolutionizing Musculoskeletal Care: Direct Access vs. Physician-First Systems** 🏥 **Objective:** - 🎯 Compare costs and clinical outcomes between direct access and physician-first systems for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in US civilian health services. **Methods:** - 📊 Database search (PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Reviews, PEDro) till May 2019. - 🤝 Inclusion criteria: Civilian US, MSDs, direct access or physician-first, and extractable outcomes for cost, function, or physical therapy visits. - 🚫 Exclusion: Early/delayed physical therapy access compared with physician-first. - 📈 Five retrospective studies met criteria. **Results:** - 💰 Direct access reduced physical therapy costs (d = -0.23), total health care costs (d = -0.19), and number of visits (d = -0.17) compared to physician-first. - 🩹 Disability decreased in both groups. - 📉 Functional outcome improved significantly more with direct access. **Conclusions:** - 🌐 Direct access is more cost-effective with fewer visits and greater functional improvement than physician-first in the US civilian health care system. - 🚀 Impacts spine-related MSDs, providing a cost-effective alternative. **Impact:** - 📚 Findings inform health care policy, promoting cost-effective health care access for MSDs. **Keywords:** #DirectAccess #PhysicalTherapy #HealthcareCosts #MusculoskeletalDisorders 🔄💼💪

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Empower yourself to provide better care to all patients. Let's work together to bridge gaps in cultural understanding within healthcare. 🌍 Share your thoughts with us in the comments below! #PatientCare #CulturalAwareness #InclusiveHealthcare https://wix.to/p4Uj9iW Check out my blog post https://wix.to/GGOn7YK #newblogpost