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Medical Marijuana Amidst President Duterte's War On Drugs

July 24, 2017 Francis Dominic 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">President Rodrigo Duterte said he would not allow the legalization of marijuana, but he supports the use of medical marijuana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Medicinal marijuana – yes, because it is really an ingredient of modern medicine now,” Duterte told reporters. “There are medicines right now being developed or already in the market that contains marijuana as a component.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Duterte said he has seen its ill effects during his youth when his friends got high on marijuana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Marijuana, also known as cannabis, is among the prohibited substances under the Dangerous Drugs Act.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado in 2014 has sparked debates on whether to permit the use of the substance for health purposes in the Philippines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the same year, Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano III filed a bill allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He said cannabis would provide relief to people with a debilitating disease, severe pain, intense seizures and persistent muscle spasms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those who are in favor of the legalization of marijuana believe the substance can benefit patients who remain ill after trying all kinds of medicines and conventional treatments.  </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Department of Health as well as the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Health Research and Development also proposed that guidelines be put in place so that the government can make sure that medical cannabis use won’t be abused. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Albano remains optimistic that his proposal will finally be passed during the 17th Congress despite the president’s ongoing war on drugs. He thinks that Congress would be able to pass the measure so that thousands of Filipinos can be helped and find relief from debilitating conditions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">“We are not decriminalizing marijuana,” Albano says, confident that the Duterte administration will approve his proposal among the other priority measures. He also said that he agrees with the strict controlling provisions surrounding medical cannabis use so that the plant won’t be abused.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I have high hopes under the Duterte administration that this measure would be enacted into law. Finally, there is hope for our people, especially our children, who suffer from medical conditions like epilepsy, cancer, and multiple sclerosis,” Albano says.</span><br />
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Medical Marijuana Amidst President Duterte's War On Drugs

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RxBox gets Upgrade

July 21, 2017 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">During the 2017 National Science and Technology Week, the new RxBox was presented on exhibit. HealthTech.PH has already featured the RxBox in its publications before and the new RxBox is proof of the success it has been in the public health sector.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The RxBox is the result of the cooperation between the National Telehealth Center, The DOST and UP Diliman. According to Dr. Portial Marcelo, director of the National Telehealth Center, the RxVBox can also function as a diagnostic tool since it can monitor the patient’s  heart rate, pulse rate, blood and blood oxygenation. The RxBox enables remote consultations between patients, community health workers, and urban based experts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The RxBox is deployed in remote rural communities and communities that have a high poverty incidence. This is very important to the public health sector since statistics cite that 60% of Filipinos die without seeing doctors and professional medical practitioners. This is more evident in remote rural areas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The RXBox maximizes the capabilities of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) that is now more prevalent. Thus, the use of the RxBox has enabled accessibility to a wider range of Filipino citizens for their healthcare needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The RxBox is capable of the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Blood Pressure Monitor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Measurement of oxygen in the patient’s blood</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thermometer for the patient’s temperature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The RxBox is deployed in 17 regions of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The presence of the RxBox in the recently concluded National Science and Technology Week brings to the fore the continued commitment of the various agencies involved in improving the public health services of the government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HealTech.PH has previously published articles about the RxBox. The links are hereunder.</span></div>
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The Milestones Of Electronic Medical Record

July 20, 2017 Francis Dominic 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the earliest data processing systems originated in the mid 1960’s and focused specifically on clinical data management. As these systems (now known as hospital information systems) began to garner attention, the healthcare industry began to see the development of electronic medical record systems. The original systems were nowhere near as functional as modern methods of maintaining medical information. Also in the 1960’s, the development of the Problem Oriented Medical Record by Larry Weed introduced the idea of using electronic methods of recording patient information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shortly thereafter, in 1972, the first electronic medical record system was developed by the Regenstrief Institute. Although this technology was the first of its kind, due to high costs, the systems were not initially attractive to physicians and used instead by government hospitals and visionary institutions. Into the 1990’s, personal computers were becoming more affordable and the Internet emerged. These innovations allowed for faster, easier access to information and the introduction of health information online – setting the stage for web-based EMR’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1991, the Institute of Medicine made the case that by the year 2000, each physician’s office should be using computers in their practice in order to improve patient care. Although it was not turned into law, the Institute did provide a variety of recommendations to achieve that goal. As the emergence of EMR’s continued, there were also adjustments made to the rules and regulations surrounding privacy and confidentially of medical records. In 1996 the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was introduced in response to growing issues facing healthcare coverage, privacy and security in the United States. To follow disclosure and confidentiality regulations included in HIPPA, organizations have begun to shift to electronic systems to comply with these laws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With the emergence of web-based software in the early 2000’s the need for electronic medical record systems to be developed through remotely-hosted systems became evident. The ability to access information remotely or store on a remote-system, made the electronic method of keep records more appealing and ultimately more affordable for physicians to implement into their practice. During President George W. Bush’s time in the Oval Office, the budget for healthcare IT projects was doubled; a new sub-cabinet position of National Health Information Coordinator was created, as well as the call for an industry-wide adoption of electronic health record systems by 2014. This mandate has been supported by President Obama as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a piece of legislation aimed at directing additional funding and incentives to healthcare professionals who adopt these electronic medical systems and follow the concept of “meaningful use” by the year 2014.</span></div>

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Are Privacy Concerns A Threat To Electronic Medical Record?

July 20, 2017 Francis Dominic 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">Doctors are supposed to be nosy. It's not just that they examine your naked body inside and out and record all its imperfections. Physicians are trained to peer into your life, past and present, and ask all sorts of sensitive, if not uncomfortable, questions. Have you ever used marijuana or cocaine? How about steroids? How many sexual partners? Ever had a sexually transmitted disease? An abortion? Had sex with the same sex? How much do you smoke or drink? Have you used Botox or had plastic surgery? Have you been depressed or been treated for mental illness? And how about your marriage—or marriages?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You get the gist; the experience is intrusive. But the doctor-patient relationship was never meant to be other than confidential and privileged and solely for the benefit of the patient. Patients expect it, or they would not be forthcoming. And doctors take the Hippocratic oath, pledging to hold sacred their patients' secrets. This pledge of confidentiality, however, is now challenged by a world where computers rule and health information falls into many hands. One might well ask whether medical privacy is just too outmoded a concept for today's information-hungry world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Most of us are aware that the risk to privacy of any information increases exponentially with each additional person whom we tell. This is especially true for electronic communication. Social networking members, who have shared what they thought was private information with “friends,” have too often found that the information is now accessible far beyond what they ever imagined; now it is permanently engraved in cyberworld. These observations rightly raise concerns when information in a medical record is involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">People are asking whether any kind of electronic records can be made safe. If one is looking for a 100% privacy guarantee, the answer is no. But then, paper records are not 100% secure either. There have been cases where paper medical records, especially parts of them, have disappeared. There was a case where boxes of patient records from a doctor’s office were found in a garbage dumpster and a case in which stolen medical records were recently found washed up on a Maine shore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On a hospital unit, a patient’s paper record (chart) is often available to anyone with a white coat, a badge that looks like the identification badge of the agency, and the courage to pick up the chart. With an electronic record, it is more difficult for an unauthorized person to gain access to a healthcare record. To do so a person needs more than a white coat and a badge; the person also needs a login name and a password. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To answer the question posed by the title, despite opposition from those who have a vested interest in not having an EHR, or even an EMR, such as drug companies whose drugs are creating previously uncovered side effects, or agencies that make money by repeating lab tests, electronic health records are a plus. This does not mean that efforts to protect healthcare data should be lessened. It does mean that we need to acknowledge the considerable progress already made in protecting healthcare data and the progress that will continue to be made. No, the records will never be 100% safe; but the benefits outweigh the risks, and no information, once shared, is ever 100% safe from disclosure.</span></div>

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Carrots And Improved Eye Sight: Truth Or Myth?

July 17, 2017 Francis Dominic 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">You may have been told or heard that “carrots are good for your eyes” but not for the reasons that most people think.  Most people when they hear that statement assume it means you won’t need glasses or it reduces the need for them.  The need for glasses is determined by the optics of the eye (how light rays are bent)  which is more related to genetics and eye structure than the nutritional state of the eye tissues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carrots are rich in the supply of beta-carotene, a carotenoid, that is made into Vitamin A by your body.  However, if your body doesn’t need Vit. A, it doesn’t make more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What vitamin A does is help with your ability to see by allowing the receptors in your eye to work more efficiently.  Vitamin A is needed in the chemical processes that occur that change light signals into electrical signals that get sent to the vision center in the brain.    It is especially needed for night vision.  Often times though poor night vision is the result of uncorrected vision problems that glasses would help with.  A state of the art, anti-glare treatment on the lenses also maximizes the sharpness and comfort of the night vision as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Actually, other vegetables are probably better for your eye health overall.  Spinach leaves or other dark leafy vegetables like Kale are better due to the amount of lutein and zeazanthin carotenoid pigments as well as vitamins and minerals.  All darker colored fruits and vegetables with red, orange, dark green, yellow and purple colors are going to be great for the eyes.   Pale colored iceberg lettuce doesn’t count, it’s basically fiber.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So while you might think, “A salad a day keeps the eye doctor away, ” this is partially true.  At least in regards to the health of the eye.  If your eye does not refract light correctly, no food in the world will make it focus better.  Only a lens in front will make you see clearly.  So go ahead, eat those carrots and other veggies to help keep the eyes healthy.   Just make sure to leave off the ranch dressing.</span>

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Here Is Why People With Diabetes Need To Have Regular Eye Check-ups

July 17, 2017 Francis Dominic 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">Diabetes is a disease that affects the body’s ability to produce or use insulin effectively to control blood sugar (glucose) levels. Although glucose is an important source of energy for the body’s cells, too much glucose in the blood for a long time can cause damage in many parts of the body, including the heart, kidneys, blood vessels and the small blood vessels in the eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the blood vessels in the eye’s retina (the light sensitive tissue lining the back of the eye) swell, leak or close off completely — or if abnormal new blood vessels grow on the surface of the retina — it is called Diabetic Retinopathy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You may not know your eyes are harmed until the problem is very bad. Your doctor can catch problems early if you get regular eye exams. This is very important. The early stages of diabetic retinopathy don't cause changes in vision and you won't have symptoms. Only an eye exam can detect the problem, so that steps can be taken to prevent the retinopathy from getting worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even if the doctor who takes care of your diabetes checks your eyes, you need an eye exam every 1 to 2 years by an eye doctor who takes care of people with diabetes. An eye doctor has equipment that can check the back of your eye much better than your regular doctor can. </span><span style="font-size: large;">If you have eye problems because of diabetes, you will probably see your eye doctor more often. You may need special treatment to prevent your eye problems from getting worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The doctor will check your vision using a chart of random letters of different sizes. This is called the Snellen chart. </span><span style="font-size: large;">You will then be given eye drops to widen (dilate) the pupils of your eyes so that the doctor can better see the back of the eye. You may feel stinging when the drops are first placed. You may have a metallic taste in your mouth. </span><span style="font-size: large;">To see the back of your eye, the doctor looks through a special magnifying glass using a bright light. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, even without Retinopathy, Something to remember: diabetes can cause vision in your eyes to change. If your blood sugar levels change quickly, it can affect the shape of your eye’s lens, causing blurry vision, which goes back to normal after your blood sugar stabilizes.</span>

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<span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever heard of "Artificial Eyes" or medically called, "Ocular Prosthesis"? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Implanting a prosthetic eye (ocular prosthesis) is almost always recommended after an eye is surgically removed due to damage or disease. This implant supports proper eyelid functioning. The need for this may follow after an injury, glaucoma, eye infections and eye tumors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is this exactly? An ocular prosthesis, artificial eye or glass eye is a type of craniofacial prosthesis that replaces an absent natural eye following an enucleation, evisceration, or orbital exenteration. The prosthesis fits over an orbital implant and under the eyelids. Though often referred to as a glass eye, the ocular prosthesis roughly takes the shape of a convex shell and is made of medical grade plastic acrylic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Artificial eye-making has been practiced since ancient times.  The first ocular prostheses were made by Roman and Egyptian priests as early as the fifth century BC.  In those days artificial eyes were made of painted clay attached to cloth and worn outside the socket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It took about twenty centuries for the first in-socket artificial eyes to be developed.  At first, these were made of gold with colored enamel.  Then, in the latter part of the sixteenth century, the Venetians started making artificial eyes out of glass.  These early glass eyes were crude, uncomfortable to wear, and very fragile.  Even so, the Venetians continued making them and kept their methods secret until the end of the eighteenth century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After that, the center for artificial eye-making shifted to Paris for a time, but by the mid-nineteenth century, German glass blowers had developed superior techniques, and the center for glass eye-making moved to Germany.  Shortly thereafter, glass eye-making was introduced in the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Presently, ocularists and eye surgeons have always worked together to make artificial eyes look more realistic. For decades, all efforts and investments to improve the appearance of artificial eyes have been dampened by the immobility of the pupil. One solution to this problem has been demonstrated recently in a device based on an LCD which simulates the pupil size as a function of the ambient light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">he process of making an ocular prosthesis, or a custom eye, will begin, usually six weeks after the surgical procedure, and it typically will take up to three visits before the final fitting of the prosthesis. In most cases, the patient will be fitted during the first visit, return for the hand-painting of the prosthesis, and finally come back for the final fitting. The methods used to fit, shape, and paint the prosthesis often vary between ocularist and patient needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The care required for an ocular prosthesis, outside of regular polishes and check-ups with ocularists, typically revolves around maintaining moisture of the prosthesis and cleanliness. Removing the ocular prosthesis for cleaning outside of the ocularist's office is not required, but some patients prefer it. Patients find that after they've adjusted to their ocular prosthesis, they barely notice a difference in feeling between their artificial eye and their real eye.</span>

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