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If You Are A User Or Just A Fan Of Contact Lenses, Then You Must Know About This..

July 16, 2017 Francis Dominic 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">Currently, there are more than 125 millions people worldwide who are using contact lens regularly. </span><span style="font-size: large;">What they may not know is that wearing contact lenses put you at risk of several serious conditions from self limiting to sight threatening diseases such eye infections and corneal ulcers. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Our eye normally fights infections through a variety of defense mechanisms. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Our tears are anti-bacterial in nature and blinking helps to wash off bacterial organisms or any foreign bodies from the surface of the eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, when you wear contact lenses, the effectiveness of both functions are inhibited. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Thus, bacteria, fungus and parasite can bind to the surface of the contact lens that sits against the eye. If those organisms infect the corneal surface they can destroy the delicate corneal cells, which can lead to scarring and vision loss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To make matter worse there is a huge influx of cosmetic lens (decorative lens) wearers today. </span><span style="font-size: large;">These lens are gaining great popularity among movie and music fanatics, inspired by stars like Lady Gaga and films like Twilight. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Cosmetic lenses are sold everywhere, legally and illegally. </span><span style="font-size: large;">These lenses carry the same or even higher set of dangers than a typical contact lenses as people tend to handle them less appropriately. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Poor methods of usage include sharing the lenses, wearing ones that are either too big or hard and some even dyed their own cosmetic lenses!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">he risks associated with contact lens wear are the same for all types of contact lenses (eg, rigid, soft, extended wear, daily wear) that are worn. Wearing contact lenses increases the risk for several serious conditions, including eye infections and corneal ulcers. These conditions can develop quickly; in rare cases, they can even result in blindness. The degree of risk is different for daily wear vs extended/overnight wear, as well as for different types of lens materials.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Risk is defined by the most serious adverse event that can occur, which in the case of contact lenses is microbial keratitis. A prospective study was conducted to determine the incidence of contact lens-related microbial keratitis in Australia. The study evaluated the incidence of microbial keratitis, as well as the rates of microbial keratitis among various modes of contact lens wear (daily wear, daily disposable, and extended wear) and types of contact lens materials (conventional hydrogel, silicone hydrogel, and gas permeable). The investigators reported on 151 cases of contact lens-related microbial keratitis; of the ophthalmic practitioners who participated in this study, 81% responded. The rates obtained were based on a denominator of 10,000 contact lens wearers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vision loss from microbial keratitis may be permanent. It all depends on when the diagnosis is made. If it is caught early and diagnosed properly followed by treatment, there may be no ulceration or scarring. (The scarring that develops from the corneal ulcer can cause permanent vision loss.) If the ulcer is centrally located in the cornea, permanent vision loss may occur, depending on how deep and invasive the ulcer is.</span>

Contact Lens Eye Diseases Eye Health Ophthalmology Update If You Are A User Or Just A Fan Of Contact Lenses, Then You Must Know About This..

Currently, there are more than 125 millions people worldwide who are using contact lens regularly. What they may not know is that weari...

Marijuana On Glaucoma Treatment

July 15, 2017 Francis Dominic 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">Glaucoma is a disease of the optic nerve, the cable that carries visual information from the eye to the brain. Damage to the optic nerve from glaucoma can result in vision loss and blindness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Treatments that lower the pressure in the eye both lower the risk of developing the optic nerve damage that defines glaucoma, and the risk of pre-existing damage getting worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Despite the treatments available for lowering eye pressure, such as eye drop medication, laser treatment, and operating room surgery, there are some individuals for whom these treatments either do not sufficiently lower the eye pressure, or cause unacceptable side effects. In these situations, both glaucoma patient and physician look for alternative therapies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the commonly discussed alternatives for the treatment of glaucoma by lowering IOP is the smoking of marijuana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The idea that marijuana can be helpful in treating glaucoma dates to the 1970s. Studies conducted then showed that smoking marijuana lowered the IOP of people with glaucoma. As a result of this research, additional studies were conducted examining whether marijuana or its active ingredient, a compound known as THC, could be used to keep IOP lowered. This research was supported by the National Eye Institute, a division of the federal National Institutes of Health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The research found that when marijuana is smoked or when a form of its active ingredient is taken as a pill or by injection, it does lower IOP. However, it only lowers IOP for a short period of time—about three or four hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This short period of time is a major drawback for the use of marijuana as a glaucoma treatment. Because glaucoma needs to be treated 24 hours a day, you would need to smoke marijuana six to eight times a day around the clock to receive the benefit of a consistently lowered IOP. Because of marijuana's mood-altering effect, smoking so much of it daily would leave you too impaired to drive, operate equipment or function at the peak of your mental ability.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Scientists are still exploring whether the active ingredients in marijuana may yet offer a glaucoma treatment. However, such developments require much more research and are many years from becoming a reality.</span>

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Glaucoma is a disease of the optic nerve, the cable that carries visual information from the eye to the brain. Damage to the optic nerve...

Pagadian City Health Office integrates with CHITS

July 12, 2017 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">The Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS) is now in its 14th year of operations in the country. CHITS is part of the National Telehealth System wherein medical services for the public are linked electronically. CHITS is part of that system as well as the RxBox.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These systems enable the various health centers to be connected and can transmit needed information in the conduct of public health service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The City of Pagadian has already improved its capacity in providing health care to its citizens. The city's four main health centers are all integrated with CHITS and it is the first city in the Zamboanga Peninsula to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The training of its city health office staff has recently been concluded with regards to its electronic medical records system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The University of the Philippines (UP) Manila – National Telehealth Center undertook the training of the city health office staff through the initiative of Pagadian City Mayor Romeo Pulmones and the City Health Officer, Dr. Noel Ceniza. The training and deployment of CHITS were undertaken in the districts of Sta. Lucia, San Pedro, Balingasan and San Jose, all of the has coverage on 54 barangays in the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The training was attended by 22 health workers last May 17 -19, 2017. Participants in the training were physicians, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, IT practitioners and even members of the sanitation department.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The training included subjects such as the importance of good quality data, practice of ethics in 3Health, Basic CHIT Modules that were composed of general consults, maternal care, lying-in, hygiene, family planning and even Philhealth reports.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With their efforts in acquiring information technology resources in health, the Pagadian City Health Office envisions to lead the way in eHealth in the region.</span></div>
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Rebranded Nokia Health Devices

June 28, 2017 The Mail Man 0

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which acquired Withings of France last 2016 is now rebranding these health
monitoring and recording products.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was
announced in the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain. By then, all
Withings devices will be sold under the brand of Nokia. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nokia’s newly branded health
offering includes smart, connected devices such as watches, scales, a
thermometer and blood pressure monitors, all designed for daily monitoring of
parameters such as physical activity, weight, blood pressure, sleep, heart rate
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
devices such as watches, scales, blood pressure monitors and thermometers  are designed to monitor physical activity,
weight, blood pressure, sleep and heart rate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> These devices such as the Nokia Steel watches
can track daytime activity, rest and sleep. With the thermometer, it has 16
infrared sensors that can take temperature readings from the temple to the side
of the head.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ensures that the readings will be most accurate since the sensors can take up
to 4,000 readings in 2 seconds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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connected hairbrush can analyze the quality of the user’s hair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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data can be stored in the Nokia Health Mate app. This will record the complete health
history of the user. Trends can be monitored by the app and is useful in
following wellness programs and data collation that can be utilized in
improving the user’s health. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">These
devices can enable the user to check and monitor all kinds of their personal
health data daily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nokia has been keeping up with new
trends in electronic medical records keeping, vital signs monitoring and health
technology applications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are stand alone or can be
used to connect with other devices and will allow a more complete and
comprehensive health related information that can be used in monitoring the
health conditions of the users. Particularly, these can be very useful in cases
of diabetes, heart disease and hypertension management of the users and their doctors.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PH Student is NatGeo’s Everyday Genius

June 07, 2017 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">A 20 year old software engineering student from Central Philippine University (CPU) won the grand prize in National Geographic’s Everyday Genius contest.  John Elmer Loterizo to the plum with his Patient in-transit Diagnostics System (PaDS).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">PaDS is an app that sends a patient’s diagnostics prior to arrival to any hospital that is a critical component in patient management during emergencies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “PaDS was an idea created through my observation of the protocol in emergency cases here in the country.”  “As I come to read news articles on patients not being accepted in hospitals here in the country because of the lack of facilities and the like, the chances of that patient receiving the immediate care becomes slim,” Loterizo said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">PaDS is a communications link between an emergency medical responder and a medical practitioner that is awaiting for the arrival of a patient in transit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time and information are of the most critical essence during times of emergencies and having advanced knowledge of conditions and diagnostics of a patient will spell the difference between life and death during most cases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the Philippine setting, emergency cases had to contend with traffic in urban areas while in rural areas, the distance between primary health centers and tertiary hospitals with the proper equipment to handle such cases is an ever present factor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As experienced by Loterizo himself, “It’s based on my personal experience,”  “I  had a hypokalemia  at around 2 a.m. I was rushed to the hospital because I had difficulty breathing but to no avail, I had to wait for a couple of minutes before being entertained. After I was entertained, the doctors still had to query me about my medical history before giving me some form of initial treatment and subjecting myself to some tests,” Loterizo related</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The wide use of smartphones in the country is a boon for solutions in addressing such critical cases. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">PaDS work as a private two way conversation between a medical practitioner and the attending emergency medical responder on-site. This is of importance when the recipient hospital is not yet aware of an incoming emergency case and PaDS will advance information to the hospital so that preparations for the proper management of the case can be made before the actual arrival of the patient. </span></div>
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Paper Documentation And Its Effects On Healthcare

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<span style="font-size: large;">A question that almost everyone can relate to: How long was the longest, most boring time you've spent in the doctor's office or the nurses' station waiting for the retrieval or initiation of your records using papers?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One study conducted among physician trainees in a certain hospital sometime 2013 came up with a conclusion stating that " Trainees' current clinical documentation workload may be a barrier to optimal patient care and to resident and fellow education. Residents and fellows report that clinical documentation duties are onerous, and there is a perceived negative effect on time spent with patients, overall quality of patient care, physician well-being, time available for teaching, and quality of resident education.". </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paper documentation has been married to healthcare for quite a long time already. It has almost became the heart of every health care practitioner, to the point where it has gained the spotlight more prominently than the patients themselves. However, not only does this require considerable time from healthcare workers, it also means some drawbacks for the general health care delivery to individuals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More specifically, in the aforementioned study, results show that Over a 2-month time frame, 1515 trainees in 24 specialties completed the survey. Most (92%) reported that documentation obligations are excessive, that time spent with patients has been compromised by this (90%), and that the amount of clinical documentation has had a negative effect on patient care (73%). Most residents and fellows reported feeling rushed and frustrated because of these documentation demands. They also reported that time spent on these tasks decreased their time available for teaching others and reduced the quality of their education. Respondents reported spending more time on clinical documentation than on direct patient care.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paper documentation takes up so much time, that some physicians can accidentally forget the medications and other considerations for the patients. That's quite alarming, isn't it? </span><br />
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From Paperwork To Paperless: Electronic Medical Records

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<span style="font-size: large;">For years, we have been used to the sight of medical secretaries, nurses, and doctors flipping over and spending valuable time retrieving and analyzing paper documents. However, our time has evolved and has become more rapid, that it's too "retro" to wait and scan over that medical sheet from the dusty drawer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paperwork can take up a significant amount of space, and this requirement will only get bigger as the number of documents you accrue grows. Furthermore, documents will typically need to be stored close to hand so that they can be accessed as quickly as possible. If they are located on another floor or in a different building, you could experience severe productivity losses when retrieving forms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nevertheless, since hospitals all over the world have started investing on ELECTRONIC MEDICAL/ HEALTH RECORDS, communication and the process from getting a consultation to doing medical procedures has never been so convenient and fast. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">EHRs and the ability to exchange health information electronically can help you provide higher quality and safer care for patients while creating tangible enhancements for your organization. EHRs help providers better manage care for patients and provide better health care by Providing accurate, up-to-date, and complete information about patients at the point of care, Enabling quick access to patient records for more coordinated, efficient care, Helping providers more effectively diagnose patients, reduce medical errors, and provide safer care, Improving patient and provider interaction and communication, as well as health care convenience and the list just goes on. </span></div>
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