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Volume 13 • Issue 3• $5.00 September 2016
THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS
E D U C AT I O N ADDICTION
FIU Reactivates MHSA Program in
Health Services Administration
BY DANIEL CASCIATO
Adegree in health services administration can help
you open doors to positions within the healthcare
sector as well as help others reach for higher levels
of employment. The Health Services Administration
Rema Deo Program at Florida International University (FIU) offers a
Security and contemporary plan of study for students wishing to pur-
Privacy for sue careers in health services administration.
Telemedicine Students can earn both an undergraduate and graduate Dr. Christopher
La Tourette La Riche
BY REMA DEO degree in health services administration. These degrees
'Addiction Is
While telemedicine may not be will academically prepare graduates to qualify for posi-
perfect, it enhances efficiency Never Just
and productivity of medical tions in management and leadership within a healthcare
treatments by not only making informa- Addiction'
tion available to patients electronically, organization up to and including executive positions such Sal Barbera
it also offers multiple options for a as a CEO. BY LOIS THOMSON
quicker contact with patients rather
than bringing them in for a traditional The undergraduate program (BHSA) is designed to pre- "Addiction is never just addiction; it's
consultation or follow-up, resulting in addiction plus something else. And I
increased convenience and reduced pare students to enter a health care organization and pursue a middle-management think we're really good at figuring out
costs. Patients in remote areas could get the 'something else'." That's how Dr.
access to specialists without traveling to level position providing oversight and management. The BHSA degree will also pre- Christopher La Tourette La Riche
see them for each appointment. Remote describes the work he does when helping
patient monitoring becomes a lot easier pare a student to continue their education and enroll in a graduate program in health patients at Lucida Treatment Center.
with telemedicine technology. Consul-
tation between specialists is also facili- services. Dr. La Riche said about his work, "We
tated with telemedicine, thereby im- treat addictive disorders and substance
proving overall patient care. The Virtual The newly reactivated MHSA program will enroll its first cohort in the Fall 2016 abuse disorders – although the word
Doctor is here to stay! 'abuse' isn't used anymore, because that
semester and will provide students with a state-of-the-art academic plan focused and was quite stigmatizing. So we started
This is all possible due to advances in using the term 'substance use' disorders."
technology. But where there is technol- Continued on page 16 Dr. La Riche explained that addictive dis-
ogy, there needs to be security, privacy orders "cause chronic changes in brain
and control. With cybercrime and med- REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION circuits leading to the pathological pur-
ical identity theft rising at an alarming suit of reward (by using substances),
rate, telemedicine channels, data and Construction Legends Partner despite the hazardous consequences." In
equipment are just as vulnerable or other words, people continue to do
even more vulnerable than traditional to Create NV2A Group something that initially gives them pleas-
treatment channels, and therefore must ure, even though they know the consid-
be secure. Processes followed for BY VANESSA ORR erable risks that are involved.
telemedicine must be as private as in a
traditional consultation in order to Agustin Arellano, Sr. is well-known in health care con- He gave an example of a physician
properly protect patient health informa- struction circles; more than 40 years ago, he started who did lines of cocaine in between see-
tion. Telemedicine also falls under the his own company at the age of 26, where he special- ing patients, arguing that it didn't affect
scope of HIPAA, so medical practition- ized in health care and higher education facilities his work; but he eventually got caught
ers must ensure that their annual including projects for Baptist Health, the University and lost his license. "The hazardous con-
of Miami, Jackson Memorial, HCA, Mt. Sinai, and sequences are so clear in someone so
Continued on page 15 many others. After selling his company to con- obviously intelligent, and yet they con-
struction giant OHL in 2008 to create OHL- tinue to do it. They have a pathological
Arellano Construction Co., he stayed on as pres- pursuit – and we all have the same reac-
ident and then chairman, but decided about tion: How could you be so foolish? How
three months ago that something was missing.
“Talking with my son, Agustin Jr., who was Continued on page 31
the company’s CFO, we realized that we just
had more fun when we were partners in our
own company,†he explained. “It was in the
back of our minds to start a new company
when we were approached by two gentlemen
who ran two of the largest construction compa-
nies in Florida - Gilberto Neves and Jesus
Vazquez - and they suggested that we start a
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