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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
Telemedicine is taking the medical will academically prepare graduates to qualify for posi-
world by storm. And one can eas- Never Just
ily see why. Telemedicine, the tions in management and leadership within a healthcare
remote diagnosis and treatment of Addiction'
patients by means of telecommunica- organization up to and including executive positions such Sal Barbera
tions technology, allows healthcare pro- as a CEO. BY LOIS THOMSON
fessionals to provide services in ways not
known before in traditional medical The undergraduate program (BHSA) is designed to pre- "Addiction is never just addiction; it's
appointments. addiction plus something else. And I
pare students to enter a health care organization and pursue a middle-management think we're really good at figuring out
While telemedicine may not be per- the 'something else'." That's how Dr.
fect, it enhances efficiency and produc- level position providing oversight and management. The BHSA degree will also pre- Christopher La Tourette La Riche
tivity of medical treatments by not only describes the work he does when helping
making information available to patients pare a student to continue their education and enroll in a graduate program in health patients at Lucida Treatment Center.
electronically, it also offers multiple
options for a quicker contact with services. Dr. La Riche said about his work, "We
patients rather than bringing them in for treat addictive disorders and substance
a traditional consultation or follow-up, The newly reactivated MHSA program will enroll its first cohort in the Fall 2016 abuse disorders – although the word
resulting in increased convenience and 'abuse' isn't used anymore, because that
reduced costs. Patients in remote areas semester and will provide students with a state-of-the-art academic plan focused and was quite stigmatizing. So we started
could get access to specialists without using the term 'substance use' disorders."
traveling to see them for each appoint- Continued on page 16 Dr. La Riche explained that addictive dis-
ment. Remote patient monitoring orders "cause chronic changes in brain
becomes a lot easier with telemedicine REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION circuits leading to the pathological pur-
technology. Consultation between spe- suit of reward (by using substances),
cialists is also facilitated with telemedi- Construction Legends Partner despite the hazardous consequences." In
cine, thereby improving overall patient other words, people continue to do
care. The Virtual Doctor is here to stay! to Create NV2A Group something that initially gives them pleas-
ure, even though they know the consid-
This is all possible due to advances in BY VANESSA ORR erable risks that are involved.
technology. But where there is technolo-
gy, there needs to be security, privacy and Agustin Arellano, Sr. is well-known in health care con- He gave an example of a physician
control. With cybercrime and medical struction circles; more than 40 years ago, he started who did lines of cocaine in between see-
identity theft rising at an alarming rate, his own company at the age of 26, where he special- ing patients, arguing that it didn't affect
telemedicine channels, data and equip- ized in health care and higher education facilities his work; but he eventually got caught
ment are just as vulnerable or even more including projects for Baptist Health, the University and lost his license. "The hazardous con-
vulnerable than traditional treatment of Miami, Jackson Memorial, HCA, Mt. Sinai, and sequences are so clear in someone so
channels, and therefore must be secure. 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
Continued on page 15 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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