As a business owner, you’ve worked hard to build your company up from the ground, and you’d do anything to keep it safe. There are many ways risks could occur within a business. Some of these have the potential to ruin a business, while others may pose a threat to human health. As a business owner, it’s your job to make sure that your business, the building, employees, and yourself are kept as safe as possible. Here are some tips on how to keep your business safe in today’s world.
Practice and preach health and safety rules
Following health and safety rules and regulations in the workplace is imperative for any business. Failure to do so could push your employees to reach out to a workers compensation law firm, which could eventually lead to hefty fines and, even worse, injury or death. Depending on your business, there may be extra rules and regulations to follow. For example, if your staff are expected to operate machinery, there will be rules surrounding that too. Read up on these rules, practise them, and preach them to every staff member to protect yourself, their health and safety, and your business from scrutiny.
Protect your business premises from theft
Theft can happen at any time and by anyone and sometimes, it’s not necessarily a targeted occurrence! If your security is poor, passers by could quite easily break in and damage – not to mention steal – everything you’ve worked hard for. Equip your business premises with security cameras, secure lock systems, and an alarm that will alert you and the police should someone try and break in.
Technology is significantly changing the world around us. It is optimizing our lives and causing sociopolitical issues simultaneously. One of the most prevalent and pivotal ways technology can improve our lives is by using it to make our bodies and minds healthier. Perhaps the most important way new technologies can help is by curing and screening for diseases. Cervical health is being facilitated with technologies that are offering insight, preventative measures, and treatments for deadly diseases like cancer and HPV.
Cervical Cancer Screenings
One of the many ways that technology is improving health is through cancer screenings. This is especially relevant for cervical cancer. Medical professionals are finding new methods to provide accurate, efficient, and cost-effective identification for the women who at risk for cervical cancer.
Cancer in the cervix is the seventh most common cancer among women. Currently, cancer screening in the cervix uses HPV DNA testing that is combined with cytology. But this method requires visits that are both costly to the patient and the society at large.
New screening methods include diagnostics, which detects either the presence of HPV or the integration of the virus into the host cell, proliferation of the cancer, and detection of epigenetic changes in the person or the virus. According to a study from the US National Library of Medicine, these new screening techniques are showing great promise for detecting cervical cancer.
Your body requires energy to perform every single activity during the day. You extract vital calories from your energy stores continuously and not only when you’re physically active, like when you’re trying to carry your luggage up, and the elevator is broken. That is, you burn some number of calories even when you sit in a chair reading a book, or sleep, enjoying sweet dreams. That is why you need an accurate and precise TDEE calculator.
Anyone striving to keep control over their weight can’t suffice without tracking their calories. The calculator is the only thing that controls how many calories you consume and spend, so you can spot the time when you’re eating too much and spending too little, and reverse the proportion. Plus, when you’re sweating intensely during a workout, the calculator lets you know whether the amount of calories you’re burning off is enough to keep your body in the desired shape.
If you’re satisfied with your weight and simply want to maintain it, you need the calculator too. It is the only way to track the energy consumed and the energy expended. Although it is essential to keep track of calories, it is even more crucial to get calories from products with a balanced amount of nutrients and macronutrients according to the acceptable macronutrient distribution ranges (AMDRs). You can surely lose weight eating just hamburgers, but the cost would be your health.
What is TDEE?
TDEE means Total Daily Energy Expenditure. It is an evaluation of the total calories that an individual spends every day while engaging in their ordinary activities as well as physical training. The human body requires energy supply to carry out all its activities, irrespective of how insignificant it may appear to the human sense. The body burns calories even at rest, not to mention during a vigorous training. Actually, there is no single minute when your body is not working and spending energy. Summing up all the calories you burn, you get the Total Daily Energy Expenditure number (TDEE).
Logically, the TDEE varies and largely depends on how active you are throughout the day. Hours spent curled up on the sofa flicking through the channels burns nothing compared to the amount of calories you’d burn tracking in the mountains. The amount and intensity of activities carried out by a person is most likely to determine their weight and fitness. Whether you get the «overweight», «obese», «underweight», or «normal» result during a regular medical check-up greatly depends on your lifestyle. Every health specialist would recommend paying attention to your diet as well as physical activity if you wish to melt excess fat.
When discussing possible answers to the question, “What is my TDEE calculator?” there is an all-important need to understand how the body produces energy and spends it on the various activities that it performs. When food is chewed up and swallowed, it can be said that a person is fueling their body for a road trip. The food that they put in their mouths contains energy in the form of calories. It is these calories that are burnt by the body while you’re walking to the supermarket to buy more food. A vicious circle called life.
In some cases, the TDEE calorie calculator may help in explicating underlying reasons why a person is getting overweight by comparing the energy consumed to the energy expended.
If you like the idea of working in healthcare but do not want to go through several years of school after getting bachelor’s and master’s degrees, you may want to choose a tech-related job. The industry is changing rapidly because of advancements in technology. If you want to have a tech-related career, it all starts with getting the right training.
Preparing for a Career In Healthcare
Many times, jobs in the field require at least a bachelor’s degree. But many require a master’s, and even if your dream job doesn’t, it might be a good idea to consider getting a graduate degree anyway. That’s because it can open more opportunities for you, but paying for school can be difficult, so research your options.
Look for scholarships or grants to help cover part of the cost. To cover the rest, consider taking out student loans with a private lender in order to pay for your graduate medical degree. That way, you will not have to worry about getting work while you are in school.
Health Services Manager
In this career, expect to be directing and planning health-related services. Professionals with this job are often called healthcare administrators or executives. You might specialize in a certain area in an organization. Often, these managers oversee a company’s compliance to regulations and laws that apply to healthcare. They’ll make sure a company adheres to the right standards. They will make changes as needed to patient-related services, and they have an influence on the procedures, processes, and policies of a company. To get a job in this field, you will need to have at least a bachelor’s degree, but many organizations want you to have a master’s degree. You can study administration to gain problem-solving and technical skills. Expect to take courses in laws, hospital management, and ethics.
By Devin Partida, technology writer and the editor-in-chief, ReHack.com.
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the medical industry with one of its most significant challenges yet. While the virus has pushed health care systems to their breaking point, some positives have arisen from this hardship. The demand for digital health services has skyrocketed, and many of these tools will continue to improve health care after the pandemic.
Healthcare organizations have had to turn to new technology in response to the extremes of COVID-19. In doing so, the medical industry has become more resilient, safe and efficient than ever. Many of these technologies are so advantageous that they’ll become standard practice in post-COVID medicine.
Many digital health services will remain long after researchers find a way to halt the pandemic, but here are five of the most significant.
1. Remote Consultation Services
Few medical technologies have been as crucial during COVID-19 as telemedicine, specifically remote consultation. Between January and early June, telehealth adoption rose by 50% as concerns over catching the virus in hospital waiting rooms grew. In April, remote consultation accounted for almost half of all Medicare primary care visits.
Now that so many health systems support remote consultation, it won’t likely go away. These services have improved public safety and made health care more accessible. In a nation where access to health care has traditionally fallen short, that’s an indispensable resource.
Digital health aims at some of the biggest healthcare challenges, including lowering costs, fostering engagement and improving health outcomes. However, before achieving these goals, it must win over providers and payers to secure physician buy-in and reimbursement.
The first step is defining the digital therapeutics (DTx) landscape. There are so many new technologies hitting the healthcare scene that it can be hard to tease apart the differences.
Here’s what providers and patients need to know about digital therapeutics and how they can start holistically integrating the breakthroughs into the services they provide.
Digital therapeutics vs. digital health vs. telehealth
Nowadays, you often hear these terms used interchangeably. Indeed, there is a lot of overlap between them, but it is important to distinguish between them.
In a recent digital therapeutics services report , the health experts at Star Global defined the differences as the following. Digital health is the broadest category and refers to the use of digital technologies, including online platforms, wearable technologies, connectivity and sensors to enhance healthcare delivery efficiency. It’s focused on driving personalization and on-demand care.
Digital therapeutics are a subset of digital health. Digital therapeutics deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions and refers to a broad swathe of products and services designed to address stakeholder needs across the healthcare ecosystem.
Most DTx products are patient-centric, but there are some like the AI virtual assistant and diagnostic toolkit Suki. By smoothing out the provider workflow, it creates more time and interaction for providers to have with patients.
By Jerry Rankin, strategy director of healthcare interoperability, Infor.
Jerry Rankin
The unrelenting if unpredictable movement of continental plates builds new mountain ranges and reshapes continents, but for the most part, we do not notice their progress. Such a shift has come to healthcare.
This spring two US Federal agencies, ONC and CMS, announced complimentary Final Rules, signaling tectonic movement in healthcare interoperability. These rules are very consequential for the industry, but while no one can claim that they went unnoticed, the industry has been understandably instead fixated on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the federal agencies involved have pushed the implementation timelines back by roughly six months.
The Final Rules
On May 1, 2020, the ONC published a Final Rule implementing provisions of the 2016 21st Century Cures Act. Known in the industry as the “Information Blocking and Health IT Certification” Final Rule, the Provider and EHR focused rule requires developers of Certified Health Information Technology (e.g. EHRs) to make standard APIs available for the delivery of individual and population records, as well as defines the data set and transaction standards of the APIs to be United States Core Data Set for interoperability (USCDI) and FHIR, respectively.
In a parallel action, the CMS issued a ruling implementing provisions of the Cures Act, known as the “Interoperability and Patient Access Rule,” leveraging “Conditions of Participation” in Federal Health programs. The finalized rule requires payers to provide a Patient Access API which gives patients access to certain health data including personal data.
These rules represent an important federal nudge to the industry to move in the next few years to implement and adopt standard, digital friendly APIs for the exchange of key patient information, eliminate policies and practices of health IT vendors, providers and other data holders that constrain the free flow of healthcare data, and, importantly, bring payers and consumers into the interoperability discussion, enabling data to flow across the healthcare ecosystem.
These rules are just the tip of the iceberg, though. The industry has been hard at work for years developing the FHIR API standard, and there are abundant examples of voluntary industry led collaborations working to improve and streamline healthcare leveraging FHIR. For example, the HL7 Da Vinci Project sponsors collaboration among payers, providers and HIT vendors working to define standards-based implementations to improve some of the more costly workflows in the industry. In addition to adoption by traditional HIT vendors, even IT “gorillas” are adopting FHIR. We recently saw this with the launch of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare which extensively leverages FHIR APIs and data standards.
What to expect for payers and providers?
Payers and providers and their health IT vendors have a great deal of work to do on a tight timeline to meet the requirements put in place and to simply keep up with the pace of change in the industry. Given the massive investment in and footprint of legacy systems, there is a vast amount of work to do to connect systems and data to the emerging FHIR API ecosystem.
Every day, all over the world, countless people put their lives in the hands of doctors, nurses, surgeons, psychiatrists, and other medical professionals, hoping and expecting to receive the care and attention they need to deal with a wide range of medical ailments and complaints.
In the vast majority of cases, these medical professionals are able to meet the needs of their patients to the best of their abilities, but in some cases, the errors of human nature occur, leading to an inaccurate diagnosis, an incorrect prescription, or even a serious surgical error.
Studies and statistics show that more than 250,000 deaths occur every year in the US because of medical errors. It’s a frightening statistic, reminding everyone that even doctors don’t always get things right, while also reminding medical professionals of the incredible weight of responsibility that sits on their shoulders every time they talk to a patient or prescribe a treatment.
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the medical industry with one of its most significant challenges yet. While the virus has pushed health care systems to their breaking point, some positives have arisen from this hardship. The demand for digital health services has skyrocketed, and many of these tools will continue to improve health care after the pandemic.