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More Data != Better Data

The World Wide Web is terrifically empowering because it carries a nearly infinite wealth of knowledge on innumerable entwined topics right into the leisure of your home. The caveat to this blessing is...

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Black Bags to Robots: 100 Years of Medical Progress

There was once a time when doctors did house calls*. Then a population boom, decreasing physician/patient ratios and new hospital technologies largely obsoleted personal house visits. For the past 50...

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Back to School (health records for kids)

Summer is just about over and that means a return to school for many children around the nation. Mixed into the stack of papers your child will bring home might possibly be an immunization form from...

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Health IT Blogs All Mapped Out

What does the healthcare blogosphere look like? That is, how are all the healthcare IT blogs interconnected? To begin to answer this question, we’ll need some idea of the composition of health IT...

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Dissecting the “Real Age” Phenomenon

Recently a number of websites have been offering “real age” calculators which, upon asking a number of health/lifestyle questions, attempt to predict how long you will live. The difference between how...

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Generation X Doctors to the Rescue

It’s no secret that many doctors are, if not technophobic, at least VERY SLOW to implement new technologies. To wit, according to the report called “Health Information Technology in the United States:...

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HealthVault: Microsoft Insecurity

Microsoft, the megalithic, oft-hated vendor of  only marginally-useful software, announced today in the Wall Street Journal that it would be offering free personal health records on the Web via its...

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Celebrity or not, HIPAA applies

Actor George Clooney was admitted last month to the the Palisades Medical Center after a motorcycle accident. The temptation to look at Mr. Clooney’s medical file was just too much a couple dozen...

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Broken Medicine Rant

What’s wrong with Medicine today? Let’s design the most inefficient, error-prone, hackable system for transmitting medical information. We’ll start by having persons with notorious handwriting,...

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More Broken Healthcare

I just have three things to say. First of all, the word is pronounced PRE-scription not PER-scription. Secondly, if we’re talking medicinal, you want to know something that is broken in the health care...

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