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Standard & Poor’s U.S. Consumer, Retail, And Health Care Weekly Review (May 23) – Video

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In this segment of U.S. Consumer, Retail, and Health Care Weekly, Standard Poor #39;s Managing Director Bob Schulz discusses the actions we recently took on Ev...

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More access to health care may lead to unnecessary mammograms

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27-May-2014

Contact: Raul Reyes rareyes@utmb.edu 409-747-0794 University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

GALVESTON Researchers have concluded that providing better access to health care may lead to the overuse of mammograms for women who regularly see a primary care physician and who have a limited life expectancy.

The cautionary note from researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is that screening women in this category could subject them "to greater risks of physical, emotional and economic suffering."

Dr. Alai Tan, a senior biostatistician in UTMB's Sealy Center on Aging and lead author of the study, said that "there has been little systematic attempt to define guidelines that would help determine when breast cancer screening might not be appropriate or overused.

"The American Cancer Society guidelines on screening, for example, have had no upper age limit," Tan wrote in the study. "This is different from the case with prostate-specific antigen screening, where both the American Cancer Society and the American Urological Association have longstanding guidelines that exclude men with a less than 10-year life expectancy."

The study was published in the June edition of Medical Care, the official journal of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association.

Using data from 2006 through 2009, researchers studied about 5 percent the Medicare claims filed during that period by women whose life expectancy was less than seven years. They further studied where the women lived and whether they had a primary care physician.

In general, the researchers found that the use of mammograms decreases as a woman's life expectancy grows smaller. However, they found that the general downtrend as a woman ages could be offset by better access to health care.

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Citrus Health Network aspires to implement universal health records

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Healthcare is changing fast in the United States, and many industry providers are scurrying to keep up. Citrus Health Network, a behavioral/mental health organization, is striving to create a system that will make it easier for healthcare providers to access and use patient electronic health records. TheCUBE hosts Jeff Frick and Steve Kenniston sat down with Citrus Health Networks director of IT, Renato Nodarse, at EMC World 2014 to discuss the companys plans for the future of health care.

Citrus serves the Dade County and Broward County areas of Florida, providing behavioral health services. It utilizes VDI solutions from VMware and Vblock storage solutions from EMC to offer IT services to its 300 users, providing them with mobility and connectivity. The companys applications are 100 percent virtualized, from its SharePoint installation to its proprietary behavioral health application.

According to Nodarse, there is a different set of metrics for behavioral health and few software solutions out there are capable of doing those metrics effectively. Citrus wants to create a more streamlined system that connects behavioral health data with primary care data. Essentially, when healthcare providers access an electronic record for a patient, they will be able to view a patients entire medical history, including physical health care, rather than relying on the patients memory when they fill out forms.

Eventually, he said, everyone will have an electronic health record, and silos of information will merge. The healthcare industry will share health data universally, and the whole of a persons health history will be available to providers. The next step is to determine the best way to analyze and manage that Big Data. Nodarse talks about this and more in the full interview, which you can watch right here.

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Technology, Policymaking, and the Future

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Speakers: Joel Garreau, Principal, The Garreau Group; Author, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies, and What It Means to Be Human, and Michael Rogers, Founder, Practical Futurist; Futurist-in-Residence, New York Times Company Presider: Lee Brenner, Cofounder and Publisher, HyperVocal.com May 23, 2014 Council on Foreign Relations

BRENNER: OK, welcome to the today's Council on Foreign Relations meeting. My name is Lee Brenner. I am the Co-Founder and Publisher of hypervocal.com, which is a next generation news and media company.

I also co-host a Sirius XM show called "Politics Powered by Twitter," looking at how politics and policy have been altered, changed and are affected by social media and what is playing in the prism of social media.

So great to have you all today. We're going to talk about the future, right? So we've got a lot -- lot to cover. But really focused on policy, technology, how those things interact. I've got great -- two great people with us, Joel Garreau, who's a Lincoln Professor of law, culture and values at Arizona State University, the New America Foundation. He spent almost 40 years at "The Washington Post," covering...

GARREAU: Forty.

BRENNER: Almost 40.

GARREAU: Almost 40, yes, yes.

BRENNER: And covering society and culture and how things were changing in this country. And things are changing. We also have Michael Rogers who's Founder of Practical Futurist, is one of -- former titles, Futurist-in-Residence at "The New York Times," also has a great title.

But I'm going to ask each of them to just give a -- a quick one-minute overview of what they kind of are paying attention to and kind of jump into a conversation for a bit. And we'll open it up to your questions halfway through.

So let's start first with Joel.

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Freedom from Schizophrenia, A Twin’s Quest: Cyndi Shannon Weickert at TEDxSydney 2014 – Video

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Freedom from Schizophrenia, A Twin #39;s Quest: Cyndi Shannon Weickert at TEDxSydney 2014
At 17, Cyndi watched with disbelief as her twin, Scott, descended into madness. Pained by Scott #39;s schizophrenia and not satisfied with available treatments, she aimed to find a cure. Cyndi...

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