Arcadia, the leading population health management and health intelligence platform, announced it is hosting a full schedule of events at HIMSS22 that will focus on how the health data platform is fueling healthcare transformation at scale.

The HIMSS22 Global Health Conference & Exhibition, to be held in Orlando from March 14 to 18, is where professionals throughout the global health ecosystem connect for education, innovation, and collaboration. HIMSS members and healthcare professionals — from CIOs and senior executives to providers and payers to IT consultants and entrepreneurs — attend this influential conference and trade show to learn about the greatest challenges and opportunities facing the healthcare industry.

Hear from Arcadia customers in HIMSS General Education Sessions

Arcadia customers will share detailed case studies and lessons learned in HIMSS General Education Sessions.

Building ACO analytics: Identify Opportunities, Measurement, and ROI: Leaders from Summit Health will share their approach to implementing advanced analytics to drive value-based care (VBC) performance. Learn how they leveraged analytics to prioritize, execute, and measure data-driven initiatives for success under advanced payment models. Friday, March 18; 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. ET; Room W307A; Session #299. Endorsed by HIMSS CIO Experience.

Harnessing Data to Advance Quality of Care: Frederick Health explains how they invested in data governance, data aggregation, and analytics to drive population health initiatives. Learn how effective data governance helped them ultimately drive better patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care. Wednesday, March 16; 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET; Room W414A; Session HA9.

Learn from fellow healthcare leaders in dedicated forums

Arcadia will bring together thought leaders and customers in focused sessions to address some of health IT’s biggest challenges.

Lunch and Learn: Data science for clinical impact — building a predictive analytics ecosystem. Arcadia’s director of data science Michael Simon, PhD has most recently been recognized for his work on the drivers of long-COVID, but his longtime focus has been on designing predictive algorithms that surface patients in need of intervention and promote better health equity. Explore best practice for implementing predictive analytics for your populations, from the importance of training algorithms on a massive, diverse, longitudinal data asset to best practices for avoiding implicit bias. Thursday, March 17; 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. ET; Room 203B. Registration required — request a lunch invitation.

Forum: Accelerate value-based performance — even when the low-hanging fruit is gone. Tackle strategies for advanced value-based care organizations to surface opportunities to continue to drive performance under increasingly complex risk-based payment models. Hear from leaders at Rush Health, Summit Health, Castell, and other pioneering organizations via case studies and interactive panel discussions. Wednesday, March 16; 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. ET; Room 202A and 3 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.; Room 202A. Attendance limited to value-based care leaders; request an invitation.

Forum: Achieving interoperability takes more than an envelope: How do you deliver population-level interoperability? Join fellow CIOs and CAOs along with leaders from KLAS, Arcadia, Rush Health, Castell, IMSNY, and others to share strategies and avoid interoperability “gotcha” moments for effective, outcome-driven information-sharing inside and outside your walls. Tuesday, March 15, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. ET; Room 202C and 3 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET; Room 203B. Attendance limited to information technology and analytics leaders; request an invitation.

Get to know Arcadia

Meet the team, get a demo: Walk away with a better understanding of how to harness the power of diverse data, advance global health outcomes, and drive strategic growth for your organization. March 15, 10 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.; March 16, 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. ET; March 17, 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET. Booth #2711; HIMSS22 Exhibit Hall.

Additionally, Arcadia is hosting two social events:

Evening at Universal with Arcadia: Unwind in the fresh air and enjoy a taste of the Island life. Kick back and enjoy tropical drinks and a buffet dinner with your HIMSS colleagues and the Arcadia team. Guests will receive complimentary park passes to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. March 15; 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.; Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville at Universal Studios. Invitation required.

Sips and socks happy hour: Join us for happy hour to network with peers and snag a limited-edition pair of Arcadia socks. March 16; 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.; Booth #2711; HIMSS22 Exhibit Hall.

“After months of too many video calls and remote meetings to count, our team is looking forward to some much-needed in-person interaction at HIMSS22 with partners, stakeholders, prospects and old friends,” said Michael Meucci, chief operating officer, Arcadia. “Please stop by Booth #2711 or one of our informative forums to learn how to revitalize your organization’s care and research with data-driven insights. We look forward to seeing you in Orlando!”

For more information about Arcadia’s schedule of events at HIMSS22 and to request an invitation to any of our exclusive events, see the event page.

About Arcadia

Arcadia is dedicated to happier, healthier days for all. We transform data into powerful insights that deliver results. Through our partnerships with the nation’s leading health systems, payers, and life science companies, we are growing a community of innovation to improve care, maximize value, and confront emerging challenges.

The World Health Organization (WHO) as well as the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) are urging social media firms and other numerous digital platforms to follow worldwide guidelines for recognising trustworthy health information providers on their channels. In December 2021, a worldwide cluster of public health experts gathered by BMJ as well as WHO reviewed the principles, which were first published in a NAM document in 2021. The report from the WHO in context to the meeting is now accessible through download.

According to Victor J. Dzau, President of the NAM, digital platforms provide a one-of-a-kind assistance to enable global access to supreme-quality health data, and that they hope these published principles will be a springboard for fruitful collaboration between public health, industry, and consumer advocates to preserve and promote people’s health around the world.

According to Andy Pattison, Team Lead, Digital Channels, in WHO’s Department of Digital Health and Innovation, the rapid dissemination of health misinformation by way of digital platforms has become a severe cause of concern to public health internationally. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, WHO has collaborated with technology companies to provide online access to high-quality health information in order to keep people safe and informed. He adds that every platform has a responsibility to defend their users’ safety and health. To preserve public health, they encourage all digital platforms to include the new worldwide principles for identifying reliable sources of health information in their guidelines, safety policies, and enforcement.

Sources must be science-based, impartial, transparent, and accountable to be deemed trustworthy according to the criteria. Platforms and consumers can utilise the NAM paper’s list of material qualities to analyse a source’s compliance with these principles.

The concepts and traits are universally applicable to worldwide circumstances, according to participants at the WHO summit in December 2021. However, they noted that factors such as language, culture, the influence of the source of information, and political opinions within the country can influence what is seen as credible. Participants suggested that content creators use the concepts and traits to boost their own credibility, and that media literacy training for the broader audience be promoted as a complementary tactic. The conference report includes these and other practical recommendations.

During a January 2022 meeting of WHO’s “Tech Task Force,” a standing group of members from over 40 major technology companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, TikTok, and YouTube, the NAM and WHO encouraged the tech companies to follow the principles.The WHO will continue to collaborate with NAM and other organisations to support digital platforms that provide high-quality health information.

One of the very first patients on the NHS to receive a pioneering sickle cell medication says she was “overjoyed” to receive the “paradigm-shifting” new drug. Loury Mooruth, who is 62, of Walsall, West Midlands, happens to be one of the first patients to receive crizanlizumab which was administered at Birmingham NHS Trust, the first novel medication for sickle cell disease in more than two decades. Crizanlizumab, a novel medicine, will reduce chronic pain, A&E visits, and significantly enhance patients’ quality of life.

As many as 5,000 individuals could be treated over the next three years thanks to an NHS drug agreement, significantly sooner than would have been possible otherwise. Sickle cell has been a part of her entire life, Loury stated after her first treatment. People look at her and believe she is alright, but they have no idea how much agony and anguish she goes through, not to mention the numerous trips to A&E.

As per her, when she has a sickle cell crisis, it feels like someone is ripping a knife through her joints, especially her hips and legs. Loury adds that every time she considered taking this new medicine, tears welled up in her eyes and that she is ecstatic and overjoyed now since this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her as well as her family. She strongly feels that other folks who are eligible for this medicine should come forward and get it.

Crizanlizumab, which is administered via a transfusion drip, prevents a sickle cell crisis by attaching to a protein found in blood cells. Patients with sickle cell disease have monthly episodes that make it difficult to continue working or doing other daily activities. The medicine is predicted to cut the number of visits to A&E by two-fifths for sickle cell patients.

The Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust is one of ten new specialist sickle cell disease treatment centres being established across the UK. Patients from all over the country will be able to receive the new treatment through their consultant at one of these clinics. It is worth noting that people with African or African-Caribbean ancestry are significantly more likely to have the inherited disorder.

It is indeed amazing that the first NHS patients have been offered this ground-breaking and historic new medication for sickle cell disease, the first in almost two decades, says Dr Bola Owolabi, NHS Director of Health Inequalities, who also happens to be a GP in the Midlands. This breakthrough treatment, according to him, will improve patients’ quality of life, cut trips to the emergency room in half, and ultimately save lives. They have been able to give the newest and most recommendable treatments to patients at such a convenient price for taxpayers thanks to the NHS’s commitment to this treatment. Crizanlizumab is the latest in a long line of NHS medication deals that have seen patients benefit from cutting-edge therapies such as a life-changing cystic fibrosis treatment for youngsters and a ground-breaking new drug that can greatly lower the likelihood of cancer returning.

They are happy to see the first sickle cell patients now have access to this life-changing breakthrough medication, remarked Kye Gbangbola, MBA, chair of the Sickle Cell Society. Others, as per him, who are eligible are encouraged to do the same.

Sickle cell crises are excruciatingly painful and cause major disruptions in daily life. They believe that this innovative treatment will give many sickle cell patients a new lease on life. Gbangbola adds that sickle cell disease is a disease that is underserved and underappreciated, so it’s wonderful to see new medicines being developed after more than two decades. They hope that this is only the beginning of a slew of innovative medicines that will enhance the lives of sickle cell patients.

Uncountable queues of patients who have been waiting for their turn for the NHS will now be able to access care and also check their waiting time at their finger tips, all because of the new online health platform that has been launched on February 24.

Called My Planned Care, the platform has been built in conjunction with the patient groups and happens to be one of the latest measures taken by the NHS to tackle the backlog caused by COVID-19. What this platform will end up doing is allowing patients as well as their carers to have a hands-on experience with all the information ahead of their appointment, which will include any operation or treatment by way of touching a button. In the first phase itself, almost 5.5 million patients out of a total of 6 million patients appearing on the wait list will have access to the site and will know the average waiting time at their local hospital for any specialist area they wish to receive treatment for.

From hereon, 137 NHS trusts that are spread across England have put out the data that will be on the site, which is hosted by nhs.uk. This comes a couple of weeks after an elective recovery plan by the NHS was rolled out in order to ensure that the services are fit for the future. The platform in the coming months will see an expansion too, and it will include personalised information as well as support for patients who have been on the waitlist, helping them stay put and fit till the time their turn comes. It will also let them understand how best to manage their symptoms.

As far as future expansion is concerned, stopping smoking and diet and exercise advice should be included so that the patients can get ready for their operation. All this should lead to a quick and seamless recovery. Not only that, but targeted support packages will be implemented to assist patients who have been waiting the longest for their procedures or who are in greater need.

Notably, the general practitioners as well as primary care teams will also be provided information, which in turn will help them have more informed conversations with their respective patients. The elective recovery plan, which was put in place a few weeks back, had already set a blueprint for the measures that would be undertaken to address the backlog plight and, in a way, tackle the long waits with expanded test capacity and enhanced checks and treatments.

According to Stephen Powis, who happens to be NHS England’s national medical director, the treatment of more than 60,000 patients suffering due to COVID-19 over the past two years has impacted routine care, and the staff are doing whatever is in their capacity to decrease the inevitably increased backlog. He adds that it can be extremely frustrating for patients, and this online arrangement will help them and their families get crucial information on how much longer they will have to wait, therefore making them feel more informed.

Sajid Javid, secretary of health and social care, believes that this one-of-a-kind platform will continue to provide patients with greater certainty about their own care across all boundaries. He further confirms that My Planned Care will help put patients in control with faster diagnosis closer to home.

As part of a plan, he confirms, to put a brake on the COVID backlog, they look to deliver more than 9 million treatments that involve scans as well as operations in the next couple of years. There are more than 100 diagnostic community centres being rolled out in collaboration with the NHS that aim to ensure that by March 2025, nobody waits more than a year for surgery.

Peter Soelkner featured on the “Molecule to Market” podcast

Peter Soelkner, one of the managing directors at Vetter, recently sat down with Raman Sehgal of the “Molecule to Market” podcast to share his personal background, the history of Vetter, and the ambitious goals the company is striving towards today.

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Introduction

Do you use smartphones?

Do you like to idly spend time unhindered by the useless orders given by your dad and mom?

I know you can not resist giving it a first thought, aren’t you?

If you are affirmative of this, though…I fear you are addicted to the Internet!!

Regardless of age group, millions of people are seen getting repulsed from worldly affairs and find their abode in Facebook and Instagram’s virtual world and the surreal world of Video Games.

According to an exciting figure, around 77% of American people go online every day.

The study takes a dip into the reasons that propel the young generation to go mad after the Digital world. In addition, the factors that are held accountable for the perceived degradation of people will be discussed in the study.

Although rehabs take care of people undergoing drug and alcohol addiction, not many rehabs treat patients with digital addiction problems. For example, Infinite Recovery provides drug and alcohol addiction treatment in Houston.

Digital Addiction: An overview

Digital Addiction emanates from impulsive and uncontrollable obsession and is perceived among people across ages. Digital Addiction acts to carry away people from the real world to the virtual world.

According to experts on human psychology, digital Addiction is an emerging domain of cyberpsychology.

Digital Addiction explores the problem faced by people exposed to the excessive use of digital platforms, mainly social media platforms and video games. People being preoccupied go mad after digital gadgets and mobile devices ignoring all practical scenarios of socio-economic constraints.

Digital (Internet) Addiction And Its Typology

Digital Addiction could be broadly classified into five types. They include Net Compulsions, Cybersex Addiction, Cyber Relational Addiction, Compulsive Information Seeking, and Computer Games.  

Net Compulsions

Under this, people resort to the habit of involving themselves in stock Trading, Gambling, online auctions, online buying, and selling. All above could negatively affect the financial situation of the individual.

Cybersex Addiction

Individuals lose their sense of decency and find themselves involved in pornography, adult websites, sexual chat rooms.

Cyber Relational Addiction

Here people involve themselves in establishing relationships in the virtual platform that has no social registration and is hence considered unethical.

Consequently, it harbors unnecessary expectations among people. People, therefore people turn socially alienated. Here the person neglects its closed ones.

Compulsive Information Seeking

Information seeking through different sources goes on to reach a point of obsession wherefrom a return turns out to be complicated. Constantly seeking information turns an individual passive and unproductive.

Computer Games

Under this, the age group comprising Gen Z and Millennials get affected by video games that transport themes in the imaginary fairy tale land.

Why Technology And Addiction Work In Collusion?

It is needless to say that technology orchestrated terrible consequences in collusion with inquisitive human nature. Games like Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Tetris continuously incite the combativeness of the people. They challenge them to use their energy insensibly. Consequently, they are drawn by the challenge and meet dire consequences.

Above all, long-term Addiction consequently drags people into the land of uncertainty, where they find themselves jeopardizing their academics and professional careers.

This acts to invite far-reaching consequences so far as the individual is considered. It could also be mentioned that internet users cannot come out from the negative influences without being repeatedly made aware of the negativities.

Technology has immense potential, and people need to extract its benefits rather than swaying its emotion with the flow. It makes an entire generation lead astray ultimately.

Factors That Negatively Influence Digital Addiction Among Masses

Several factors negatively impact an individual. Factors like Interpersonal relationships, loneliness, excessive expectations from life, and self-control lower self Esteem are prominent.

Interpersonal Relation

Supposing an individual is not having compatibility with their partner. In that case, he can turn back from the ordinary course of life and move into depression.

Loneliness

Excessive Addiction to video games could make oneself dissociated from worldly affairs. So, you better hurry up and be busy with your mates instead of playing video games sitting alone in your room.

Excessive expectations

If an individual expects too much from life and the expectations get thwarted, it might move entirely into the digital world. This sojourn offers temporary relief but creates troubles in the long run.

Apart from the factors mentioned above, there are other factors like Academic Stagnation and Compulsive actions. This acts to invite a negative influence on an individual.

Facts And Figures On Digital Addiction

To vindicate the negative influence of Internet influence, let’s supply some facts and figures on this.

• According to a study conducted in the USA, it is found out that around 77% of Americans use the Internet to serve their personal as well as professional needs.
• Around 26% of the people are using online platforms constantly.
• The figures on Child involvement in Digital technology emits grave concerns.
• It is found out that the children aged between 8 and 10 spend an average of 8 hours a day in electronic media. Children aged between 10-18 spend around 11 hours on the Internet.

The positive side to the study is that around 11% of the people don’t use the Internet.

The vast data produced negative repercussions in different diseases by which people get afflicted. For example, according to a study –

• 14% of the Digitally Addicted people grapple with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
• 15% for Social Anxiety Disorder.
• 14% for Borderline Personality Disorder.
• 57% for Depressive Disorder.

So, nay-sayers on digitization could establish their claims vehemently.

But, it can never be refuted that the digital world’s influence on the progress of society is immense.

The digital world has enabled people to explore different fields of study and improve upon knowledge, and the Internet has constantly become a tool to serve the needs of curious human minds.

Conclusion

Therefore it could be concluded that Digital addiction has only hurled us into the pit of different kinds of disorders.

The scenario is detrimental to health and invites far-reaching consequences and repercussions so far as the economy of the society of a nation is concerned.

Hence it could be understood that excessive tendency towards digital media, as well as games, work to dismantle the psychological aspects of the youth.

Notwithstanding the harm caused by excessive use of the Internet, it could not be denied that digital prowess has armed people and motivated them to explore new areas of knowledge and learning incessantly.