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Is the End of Search the Beginning of Personalized Prevention?
By Joseph Kvedar, MD This past week, Google had its annual developers conference, Google I/O. One of the more provocative talks, called “The End of Search as We Know It,” was by Amit Singhal, who is in charge of search for Google. The vision, as...
Universal EHR? No. Universal Data Access? Yes.
By William Hersh, MD A recent blog posting calls for a “universal EMR” for the entire healthcare system. The author provides an example and correctly laments how lack of access to the complete data about a patient impedes optimal clinica...
A Brief Introductory Course In Personalized Medicine: Read the Chart!
By Ricki Lewis While we’re busy debating the pros and cons of clinical genome sequencing and tossing around buzzwords like “personalized” and “translational” medicine, I’ve recently caught some health care providers ignoring the archaic s...
MOOCS of Note: Free Hopkins Online Course in Patient Safety
By Peter Pronovost, MD If you follow the world of higher education, you have heard of MOOCs—massive online open courses. Open to anyone, anywhere, these free classes can attract tens of thousands of students whose hunger to learn outweighs the fact...
The Oregon Experiment Revisited
By Ashish Jha, MD It has been a couple of weeks since the landmark Oregon Experiment paper came out, and the buzz around it has subsided. So what now? First, with passage of time, I think it is worth reflecting on what worked in Oregon. Second...
From Boston to Oklahoma -Lessons for the Regional Trauma Response System
By Mashid Abir, MD & Stewart D. Wang, MD Monday’s massive tornado ripped through Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, devastating homes and businesses and killing at least two dozen people. The disaster came just over a month after an explosion at...
By Neil Jordan As we look back over the past year and some of the amazing medical breakthroughs like wearable robotic devices, genomic sequencing and treatments like renal denervation that are improving people’s lives, it bears reflection on w...
Medicine in Denial: What Larry Weed Can Teach Us About Patient Empowerment
By Leslie Kernisan, MD [This post is the third and final part of a commentary on “Medicine in Denial,”(2011) by Dr. Lawrence Weed and Lincoln Weed. You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.] It seems that Dr. Larry Weed is commonly referred to as...
By Rob Lamberts, MD It feels dangerous to write this, but…my practice seems to be working. I am now running and hiding from lightning bolts, meteors, or stray arrows shot in the air by a Scottish soldier. I am also expecting a raid on my office b...
Hospitals’ Twenty First Century Time Warp
By Jeff Goldsmith There has been a lot of controversy in health policy circles recently about hospital market consolidation and its effect on costs. However, less noticed than the quickened pace of industry consolidation is a more puzzling and larg...
By Michael Fleming, MD Years ago, as a family physician in Louisiana, I made house calls. Certain patients were too sick or too hurt to get to my office. Sometimes a condition or injury had worsened, requiring my evaluation bedside. I would visit pat...
By Shiv Gaglani What if the next time you step into your doctor’s office for an examination, she reaches into her white coat pocket and pulls out an iPhone instead of a stethoscope? That’s the idea behind The Smartphone Physical, a re-ima...
If You Want to Stop Hospital Harm, Don’t Call a Capitalist
By MICHAEL MILLENSON The Leapfrog Group has just released its latest report grading the safety of hundreds of individual hospitals, but the real news isn’t the“incremental progress.” It’s how a group started by some of the most powerful corp...
Wal-Mart Could Transform Care–But Does It Want To?
By Dan Diamond “Why is Wal-Mart speaking at a health care summit?” the company’s vice president for health and wellness, Marcus Osborne, rhetorically offered up at a conference back in January. “Wal-Mart’s in retail, we&...
The Great Pharma Conspiracy That Wasn’t.
By DAVID SHAYWITZ The birthers, it turns out, aren’t the only ones with wacky conspiracy theories; evidently a lot of people out there really think there are cures “They” don’t want you to know about. In particular, there seems to be a surpri...
Using Price Transparency Data Within the Hospital
By David Halpert, MD Last week, CMS unilaterally released chargemaster data from 300 hospitals around the country. As David Dranove summed up well in his recent piece, this is an old hat. Yes, there are big variations in hospitals’ chargemaster...
Did Angelina Do the Wrong Thing?
By SHIRIE LENG, MD A woman’s mother dies at age 56. A blood test is done. The woman finds out she has a genetic pre-disposition to cancer. She takes what action she thinks she needs to take. A familiar story repeated over and over again every day....
Wal-Mart Could Transform Care But Does It Want To?
By Dan Diamond “Why is Wal-Mart speaking at a health care summit?” the company’s vice president for health and wellness, Marcus Osborne, rhetorically offered up at a conference back in January. “Wal-Mart’s in retail, we&...
New Developer Contest: Create a Cancer Survivor Tool
By Adam Wong, ONC and Abdul Shaikh, NCI ONC and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are challenging app developers to create new tools to help cancer survivors. The new Crowds Care for Cancer: Supporting Survivors Challenge is asking app developers t...
When Private Hospitals Cherry-Pick, Teaching Hospitals Pay the Price
By Joanne Conroy, MD I always believed that, if we could harness the entrepreneurial spirit of the American physician, we could be capable of great things. Physician decisions drive much of what is good and bad about our health care system. Their pen...
By Fred Trotter (This is a preview of a talk that I am going to give today at Healthcare::Refactored, with Karen Herzog) There are two definitions of the word “Hacker”. One is an original and authentic term that the geekdom uses with respect. T...
Is the Online Health Clinic the Wave of the Future?
By Jason Shafrin HealthPartners argues that the answer is yes. In a 2013 Health Affairs article, they argue the following: HealthPartners in Minnesota launched an online clinic called virtuwell in late 2010. After more than 40,000 cases, we report a...
The Leapfrog Group and the Spring 2013 Hospital Safety Score Release
By Leah Binder Q: Have hospitals improved since the first Hospital Safety Score last year? A: We saw an incremental improvement in the scores, though it is not as rapid or as dramatic as we would like. For the Spring 2013 Hospital Safety Score, there...
Why Angelina May Actually (Gasp) Be Wrong.
By SHIRIE LENG, MD A woman’s mother dies at age 56. A blood test is done. The woman finds out she has a genetic pre-disposition to cancer. She takes what action she thinks she needs to take. A familiar story repeated over and over again every day....
By JAMES SALWITZ, MD Dear Ms. Jolie, Thank you for your bravery and leadership in the battle against breast cancer. In a small way, through my patients, I understand the challenge and pain it took not only to undergo prophylactic mastectomies, becaus...
