BEATRIX HEALTHCARE LLC
CASSELBERRY, FLORIDA

The About Herbs mobile app provides you with comprehensive, objective information about herbs, botanicals, supplements, complementary therapies, and more. It’s important to tell your doctor or another qualified professional that you are using a dietary supplement. The reason for this is that an active ingredient in the product could interact with — increase or lessen — the effect of other medicines you’re taking. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not evaluate the safety and labeling of dietary supplements before they are sold. Also, the clinical effects of these products are often difficult to predict due to lack of human data. The potencies of herbal supplements are influenced by plants or plant parts used, harvesting and processing methods, and the amounts of active compounds absorbed. We encourage you to discuss any safety concerns with your doctor before using these products. It’s not just new businesses coming to Lake Nona, but also current companies expanding their work and support of creating new healthcare technologies. , talked about their ecosystem of support for innovative entrepreneurs. Their I-Corps program is a bootcamp for those who want to launch their idea into a successful business. Dr. O’Neal talks about some of details of the program, “It’s 5 weeks long and it forces the entrepreneur to talk to 70 people to teach them how to listen. Startups want to pitch but they are taught to listen and ask questions about what they do and what the challenges are. It helps them to know if their idea has a market fit BEFORE they meet with investors.” I-Corps utilizes the Guidewell Innovation Space at Lake Nona that facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration so that the start-ups can also work with each other to create more robust solutions. wants Florida Hospital to increase its contribution to the ecosystem of healthcare development, especially the support of the entrepreneur, by partnership with the clinicians to develop and test the innovation that assists in getting the product to market quickly. “We need to innovate because healthcare is in a crisis state at the macro and micro level and you can see it is not sustainable. Incremental change is not enough, we need disruption, the uber-ization of health care.” Florida Hospital has radically changed the way it innovates to respond to this trend. An example is SMARxT, a company working on smart technology for real-time monitoring of medication compliance. Florida Hospital worked with SMARxT on a trial with transplant patients. “SMARxT’s prototyping lab sits in a medical office building next to main campus with rapid, real time feedback and adjustments done within hours – this accelerates innovation.” according to Keith. They want to talk to small companies about their ideas and even have InnovationX- a shark tank for healthcare startups. “Integrative Medicine to me means integrating an individual patient’s care, anything and everything that will help them get better. Being integrative means you look at all aspects, it is truly the interaction of their goals and the goals of the medical team. It’s not just about what the doctor thinks, but what the patient thinks as well.” Why is this revolutionizing cancer care? Because Integrative Medicine techniques are shown to improve survival and lessen side effects of treatment. The National Cancer Institute even has an that provides information to practitioners as well as patients and caregivers. “We are doing our patients a disservice when we are not understanding the obstacles for them to get healthy and sometimes it can be unlikely things. If someone is not taking their medication because they need to pay for childcare, can we find a way to get them help for childcare? That to me is integrative medicine because you are reducing the stress that is getting in the way of getting them healthy or getting in the way of their treatment,” says Robinson. How did Dr. Robinson get involved in Integrative Medicine? “As a neuropsychologist, one of the prime topic areas that I was very fascinated about was psycho-neuro endocrinology and immunology. In those fields we are looking at how people are psychologically impacted in the function of some major symptoms in the body. So I can tell you the more stressed you are, the more it affects the hypothalamic adrenal axis as well as cortisol and adrenaline and other neuro-hormonal catalysts through the system… I understood by what I was doing in my own research that how we think impacts our health down to the level where it changes functions in the brain. For example, my dissertation looked at how stress can impact cognitive aging… and that lead me to how stress can impact the immune function. My work at the VA looked at how veterans could cope with stress to have a better life. So as a neuropsychologist I was looking at ways to reach these veterans’ stress-I was sending them fishing, teaching them how to meditate, and then the opportunity came up to work with Orlando Health and it was too interesting to turn it down.” My main concern <with> technology <is that>-we are getting a huge amount of folks that will go online and will say-here is a new integrative approach, maybe under the title of alternative medicine. Because people aren’t educated on good research and understand good research so they can get misled. People will sell all kinds of things under the integrative medicine umbrella that really aren’t valid and are frankly quackery.” In other words, not much integration of different techniques or solutions, not much in discussing what is empirically proven, very little linkage with western medicine and a great deal of advertising. This website and app was developed by a pharmacist and botanical expert to assist patients in making an informed choice about the benefits of herbs as well as interactions and contraindications. Therefore, if you were interested in turmeric you would be able to see its purported uses, how it works (or doesn’t according to research studies) ,patient warnings, interactions and side effects. It is comprehensive, unbiased, clinically research based, easy to use, and combined with the traditional medical care. You can also download their app to take the information anywhere.