Author: bllogg

Social Determinants of Health (SDH) Figure 1. Gini coefficient One of the most neglected social determinants of health is access to adequate transportation. While housing, education, social inequality (as reflected … Read More

According to email from the Feds, “in week four of the 2020 Open Enrollment period, 703,556 people selected plans using the HealthCare.gov platform.” Of course, this just means that folks … Read More

What is Comprehensive Medication Management? The standard of care that ensures each patient�s medications (whether they are prescription, nonprescription, alter. The accuracy of prescribing for patients has improved remarkably during … Read More

Guns have become a public health problem in the U.S.A.  Perhaps it is not the guns but the people who own and use them in nefarious and/or dangerous ways. Americans … Read More

While we’re primarily focused right now on Open Enrollment v7.0, November is also a time to be thinking about Long Term Care, both its cost and how to fund it. … Read More

Recently it came to light that Google and Ascension Health have entered into an agreement wherein Google has been given access to medical health data held by Ascension. It now … Read More

Dr. Emilie Scott was only a few months into her first job when she started hearing the complaint: She was spending too much time with each patient. Like many primary … Read More

New WHO-led study says a majority of adolescents worldwide are not sufficiently physically active, putting their current and future health at risk. The first-ever global trends for adolescent insufficient physical … Read More

Heh:

From a friend’s daughter: “Hi, I’m Vanessa Leahr and I live with multiple chronic health conditions including a connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Complex Regional … Read More