Posts Tagged ‘Richard Asinof’
Migraines – the invisible illness
By Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.com – contributing writer Photo: Molly O’Brien, public relations coordinator, Association for Migraine Disorders Creating a ‘brighter’ research future for migraine research – Association of Migraine Disorders seeks to raise $200,000 to support new research Migraine disorders are a common chronic condition that can be marked by intense headaches and a heightened…
Read MoreCommunity Health Centers at the front lines of fighting COVID-10
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.com, contributing writer on health On Thursday, Nov. 12, three members of the Providence Community Health Centers team will receive the 2020 Meritorious Service Award from the R.I. Public Health Association at the organization’s annual meeting, to be held virtually. The recipients are: Dr. Andrew Saal, MD, MPH, chief medical officer, and…
Read MoreTrouble ahead, trouble behind…
By Dr. Peter Simon, for Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.com Photo: “This is an actual ‘decontaminated’ N95 mask that Albany Medical Center gave a nurse to use,” as tweeted out on Friday, Oct. 23, by Pat Kane. In response, Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency room physician in Rhode Island, responded: “I have no words for how wrong…
Read MoreRI Foundation tackles racial disparities with $8.5M Equity Leadership Initiative
By Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, health contributor Photo: Womazetta Jones, Secretary of RI EOHHS, and Neil Steinberg, president/CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation in August of 2019. An immediate challenge: the need to have an “uncomfortable conversation” about how racism may be embedded in the analytics software algorithms used by Optum, according to findings in new…
Read MoreSteady wins the race? EpiVax’s vaccine hopeful
Photo: File photo by Scott Kingsley – Dr. Annie De Groot, CEO and CSO of EpiVax, one of Rhode Island’s pioneering biotech firms, who is pursuing the development of a COVID-19 vaccine By Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.com A vaccine being developed by EpiVax may not be the first to reach the market, but because of its…
Read MoreTelehealth is redefining the office visit and patient relationships
How the rapid adoption of telehealth as a platform in the delivery of health care is redefining the office visit and the future relationship between patients and providers Call it a moment of Zen, a serendipitous encounter, with profound resonance. Eight years ago, on May 22, 2012, a bevy of national experts came to Rhode…
Read MoreSun Salute – Shri Yoga’s Sunrise Yoga
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.com Photo: Richard Asinof, “Shri Yoga’s outdoor summer sunrise yoga class in the parking lot of its new location has created a new vision for Pawtucket” There are many ways that folks have attempted to maintain their equilibrium of the mind and body during these stressful times of the coronavirus pandemic. Twitter…
Read MoreImproving care for mothers and infants in Rhode Island
By Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.com Rhode Island joins effort to improve maternal health outcomes – Hospital Association of Rhode Island is spearheading the initiative In an effort to combat what is deemed a national crisis in maternal morbidity and mortality, Rhode Island recently became the 33rd state to join the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health.…
Read MoreRI’s conundrum of how best to reopen schools
by Richard Asinof, contributing writer, ConvergenceRI.com The conundrum of how best to reopen schools has exposed a widening gap between science, following the “facts,” and the arm-twisting art of political persuasion In my junk email folder, one of the latest daily missives, courtesy of Constant Contact, arrived on Friday night, Aug. 21, at 9:31 p.m.,…
Read MoreThe office visit is a dinosaur
The changes to the health care delivery landscape in Rhode Island keep occurring at a fast and furious pace, the result of constant disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. A fundamental tectonic shift has occurred, a sea change, in the way that providers and patients are talking to each other – and how providers are…
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