Recent Articles
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Identifying symptoms of acute depression
Dr. Abimbola Farinde Mental HealthcareDepression can develop in any individual regardless of age or gender. It is a common mental disorder, and the incidence of depression increases each day. In order to improve the changes of a positive outcome, the symptoms should be identified almost immediately upon onset, but there are cases where it can sometimes take years to identify.
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Scaffolding: Helping all students reach academic excellence
Erick Herrmann EducationEducation can be seen as the act of helping students learn new content, concepts and skills over time by teaching the steps necessary to master the skills being taught. Teachers need to provide scaffolding for students to reach each skill or concept and achieve at higher levels.
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How do you achieve hypergrowth? Count on the customer
Tonya Eckert MarketingThere's no question that your targets' attention is your most precious commodity — especially in this age of multiscreen attention deficit. You are competing with every piece of online content, and the odds are stacked against you.
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How to turn your pastor’s vision into reality without wearing out…
Deborah Ike Religious CommunityYou're in a staff meeting and your senior pastor mentions that he has an idea. Immediately, you start getting concerned (and then feel guilty for being concerned). You've been down this road before. He comes up with a great idea that you fully support; however, you know there’s a ton of work required to make it happen. Oh, and this is in addition to your team's day-to-day responsibilities, plus he wants it implemented ASAP.
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Blue Button gets boost from AHIMA
Pamela Lewis Dolan Healthcare AdministrationDuring its annual meeting Oct. 28 in Atlanta, the American Health Information Management Association launched an initiative aimed at expanding use of Blue Button technology. Blue Button was launched in 2010 by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as a way of making health information more accessible to veterans. Soon after, the concept was embraced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Defense and quickly became the gold standard in patient engagement.
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Consumers must also be held accountable for medical credit cards
Dr. Jonathan Kaplan Healthcare AdministrationConsumers interested in various veterinary or medical services that are typically out-of-pocket may pay for those services with a credit card. But if they don't have a credit card due to a less-than-stellar credit rating, they may have to turn to a medical credit card. These come in the form of iCare and CareCredit. These medical credit cards have come under fire lately in a recent New York Times article and follow-up editorial.
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Food for thought: Continuous career development
Karen Childress Medical & Allied HealthcareWatching medical dramas unfold on television, one might conclude that doctors are never bored. How could they be when they're constantly solving rare and complex medical mysteries, sharing their wealth of knowledge with eager medical students and residents, and duking it out with administration as they advocate for patients in need?
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PFPS: High-intensity exercises shown most effective in rehab
Heidi Dawson Sports & FitnessThe latest recommendations from new research regarding the rehabilitation of patellofemoral pain syndrome concur with the long-accepted form of treatment for this condition. The difference with this research is that the results suggest that exercise intensity is key to success.
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The Flying Circus: Unlikely prospects
Garth WallaceA new feature begins with this issue as COPA eFlight presents the first of weekly chapters from “The Flying Circus,” a fun book by Canadian aviation humorist and former COPA publisher Garth Wallace.
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The evolution of the disc golf tournament series
Justin Weilacher Recreation & LeisureEveryone dreams of winning on the PDGA National Tour, playing every event, traveling the country, living the disc golf life. I dream of that anyway. For me, I found the game too late for that to be a reality. I have too many responsibilities and obligations to make the leap. Not to mention that I don't have the game for it. But I could win my local disc golf series.