PHE - Resources

Recommended by Gina Soloperto: "Applying lessons from behavioral economics, health systems are using "nudges" to influence the choices clinicians make."

"The use of telehealth services has expanded dramatically since the onset of COVID-19, driven by necessity and enabled by emergency changes to the policy landscape. To assess the implications of this broad expansion, the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, Center for Public Health, and FasterCures analyzed recent policy updates and trends related to telehealth and put forward a series of actionable recommendations. This brief discusses recent legislative and regulatory changes and identifies opportunities to scale access to services, foster health equity, and support innovation in the months and years ahead."

"People Science is a tech-led platform that will connect health minded people, research scientists, and healthcare providers in an effort to unlock the potential of alternative medicines. Too little is known about alternative medicines like medical cannabis, prebiotics and probiotics, nutritional supplements, psychedelics, and other plant-based medicines. That's about to change. Our goal is to help people understand which alternative medicines can best help them on their path to wellness. Doctors will learn more too. By connecting health minded people with doctors and research scientists on our cutting edge platform, C.H.L.O.E., we will advance our collective knowledge of alternative medicines. This will also assist manufacturers to develop better products backed by rigorous scientific testing and research."

DeAunne Denmark, MD. Phd "This is a good recent webinar with some details about how their platform works on both patient and enterprise sides, and frames why "context" is so important, and how it can be analyzed as a part of imperfect, complex real-world datasets. Drives home that the types of analytics needed for this are actually not new - used extensively already on consumers for marketing, sales, etc. and have been for awhile. Also good segment about patient consent and data rights - values, integrity, respect."

ERIC J. DAZA Digital WISDOM: Esametry An n-of-1, single-case, or single-subject study is an idiographic, within-individual study of one person's recurrent characteristics and patterns under various exposure or treatment conditions. These exposure periods make up repeating intervals that can be accurately described as a set of partitioned time series of variables (e.g., outcomes and predictors). The core idea is that there are stable periodic or cyclic patterns that are predictable.

"I strive to advance the science of individual well-being by bridging and communicating statistical concepts with precision and empathy. I'm a data science statistician with 18+ years of experience. I build study design and analysis methods for individual-focused digital health using an n-of-1 / single-case causal inference framework."

Discovered by Dr. Kurisu, "Great marketing and such. The model seems very similar to Luna but leaning heavily on wearable and lifestyle devices etc…" "Evidation's mission is to empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes. Evidation measures health in everyday life and enables anyone to participate in ground-breaking research and health programs. Built upon a foundation of user privacy and control over permissioned health data, Evidation's Achievement platform is trusted by millions of individuals-generating data with unprecedented speed, scale, and rigor. We partner with leading life sciences and healthcare companies to understand health and disease outside the clinic walls."

Folks, this recent piece on Medium will help us all get a sense of the big vision driving Dr. Cahana's passions. "UHI Universal Health Income, on the other hand is designed to encourage healthy behaviors (such as vaccinations, prenatal care, periodic or annual check ups) and discourage risky behaviors (like smoking, addiction, not adhering to treatment or in the case of COVID- avoiding social distancing)."

This is the site for the symposium where Dr. Cahana is speaking. Conference is set in Dubai.

"How to negotiate the nation's top hospitals for cancer" It's National Cancer Awareness Month, and NBC senior national correspondent Kate Snow joins TODAY with a look at the world-class cancer care that's available if you just know who and how to ask. A cancer survivor describes how she chose her care. Among the recommendations for people with a cancer diagnosis: Work with a medical advocate, and don't delay.

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"It is therefore imperative to invest in decentralized and privacy preserving technologies, like blockchain, verifiable computing and federated learning to create cyber-resilient systems. We need to invest in providing self-sovereign digital identities (DID) to all (SDG 16.9), because without an identity we are invisible. We are unable to access healthcare, vote, open a bank account, get employment and at risk for exploitation and trafficking. Owning our digital identity provides accurate population data, while governments and organizations can monitor key demographics, public health indicators and deliver basic human services and socio-economic planning without the risk of surveillance and exclusion."

"Cahana broke down the possibilities presented by distributed ledger technology. "Blockchain offers an operational environment that allows us to analyze data at its source. We don't need to create these huge data banks that can be hacked and manipulated. We don't need to bring the data to the algorithm, the algorithm can go to the data. It is called federated learning which is like machine learning together with privacy-preserving technologies," said Cahana. "The idea of introducing a whole token economy into healthcare is to transform people from health service consumers to health and wealth producers. As opposed to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, genomics, telemedicine, and all these things that are innovative and are general-purpose technologies that make things faster, better and cheaper, blockchain really is disruptive in the business model. It really transforms digital healthcare from patient-centric to patient-driven. People can drive their own health similar to how they invest in their wealth.""

By Alex Cahana 1. Why isn't there a doctor in the house? First reason: MD's hate HIT (health information technology) 2. Most MD's have no idea what Blockchain does, let alone what it IS

"Earlier this year, clinical trials of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines indicated that both immunizations appeared to protect for at least six months. Now, a study in the journal Nature provides some hopeful news that these mRNA vaccines may be protective even longer [1]."

"Given the startling statistics of the opioid epidemic, it's no surprise that many are searching for safer ways to manage their pain. Whether they want to avoid the risks associated with conventional medications or feel they've exhausted other options, more and more people are turning to cannabidiol (CBD) for pain. So, what exactly is CBD? Does it really relieve pain? What does science say? Let's look at some CBD facts and examine the evidence around using CBD for pain."

Christina P. Kantzavelos: "I created this journal because it didn't exist. I was couch-bound due to #lymedisease and a plethora of other diagnoses and symptoms and needed a way to track my physical and mental symptoms, document my nutrition, meds/supplements, challenges, successes, while focusing on self-love, gratitude and visualizations. I needed a way to see the light at the end of the tunnel. "

"At HealthSTAR Patient Engagements (HPE), we are both brand partners and advocates for the patient. We bring innovation and experience to patient engagement with a caring approach. Leveraging over two decades of commercial success and proprietary technologies, HPE uses a proven, holistic approach to patient engagement, from strategy and content development to support and logistical services, with a comprehensive foundation of compliance, data management, and analytics. We call it the Ecosystem of Patient Engagement. "