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A Patient is Not a Shunt

By EVAN FALCHUK Some people may tell you that health care IT will solve many of the quality and cost problems in health care. I don’t believe them. I know a 70-year old man named Carlos (not his real name)... Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 05 2011 11:29 AM by The Health Care Blog

The Greater Fool

By PAUL LEVY In the last four decades, we have witnessed a series of investment "bubbles" that have all collapsed. It seems that there is no end to the number of people with cash who will be intoxicated by a... Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 07 2011 7:13 AM by The Health Care Blog

Cruel Shoes

By JOHN HENNING SCHUMANN, MD A thirtysomething friend of mine, let's call her Sally, started running last year in an effort to get in better shape. As often happens in these scenarios, Sally developed some foot pain. So she went... Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 09 2011 12:26 PM by The Health Care Blog

Exploitations of Immortality

By FRANK PASQUALE, JD Rebecca Skloot’s remarkable book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has quite a following among health lawyers. As an excerpt from the book explains, Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same... Read...

Published Thu, Feb 10 2011 9:15 AM by The Health Care Blog

NIH and New Drugs — New Study Says 1 in 5

By MERRILL GOOZNER For most of the past decade, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have competed over who could pour more money into the National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. But the party is over. The...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2011 4:51 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: pharmaceuticals, Merrill Goozner, NIH, NEJM, Drug development

Venture Capitalism & Radiology

By SAURABH JHA MD Can radiologists make their way to Silicon Valley? In this episode of Radiology Firing Line, Ajay Kohli MD, a physician entrepreneur, explains what it takes to make a medical app. Listen to our conversation here. Saurabh Jha is a contributing...

Published Thu, Jan 17 2019 6:56 AM by THCB

Filed under: Saurabh Jha, Radiology Firing Line Podcasts, Radiology Firing Line Podcast, Start-Ups, medical apps, physician entrepreneur

The Perfect Storm: When Parkinson’s Patients Enter the Hospital

By HOOMAN AZMI MD, FAANS When a patient enters a hospital either in an elective or more urgent manner, the main focus of the care team is to address the chief complaint. Other diagnoses, while important, may not receive as much attention. While this may...

Published Wed, Jan 23 2019 6:31 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Hospitals, Parkinson's Disease, Hooman Azmi, neurology, Hospital-related complications

Radiology Firing Line | Meet the Patients

By SAURABH JHA Should Radiologists talk with Patients? In this episode of Radiology Firing Line Podcast, Ian Amber MD, assistant professor of radiology at Georgetown University advocates for patient interaction. Listen to our conversation here. Saurabh...

Published Mon, Jan 28 2019 7:58 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Saurabh Jha, Radiology Firing Line Podcasts, Radiology Firing Line Podcast, Ian Amber, patient interaction

Checking Boxes

By HANS DUVEFELT MD I pay $500 per year for UpToDate, the online reference that helps me stay current on diagnostic criteria and best treatment options for most diseases I might run into in my practice. They also have a rich library of patient information...

Published Fri, Feb 01 2019 8:18 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, primary care, EMR, Hans Duvefelt

Innovation Amidst the Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 3 – Clinical Decision Support

By COLIN KONSCHAK, FACHE and DAVE LEVIN, MD The opioid crisis in the United States is having a devastating impact on individuals, their families, and the health care industry. This multi-part series will focus on the role technology can play in addressing...

Published Wed, Feb 06 2019 9:04 AM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Tech, Data, Opioid epidemic, Dave Levin, Colin Konschak, clinical support, APIs

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 69 | Pre-HIMSSanity!

Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are pregaming HIMSS at WSJ Tech Health. In this episode, Jess asks me about my biggest takeaways from WSJ Tech Health—and what we’re looking forward to at HIMSS. We’ll be at booth #5594 with SMACK...

Published Sat, Feb 09 2019 8:28 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, HIMSS, HIMSS 2011, SurveyorHealth, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Captureproof, Tag.bio, Happego, Visolyr, Ouchie, DotHealth, Bluestream, Inpharmd, Safe, WSJ Tech Health

Medicine is Not Like Math

By HANS DUVEFELT MD We do a lot of things in our head in this business. Once a patient reports a symptom, we mentally run down lists of related followup questions, possible diagnoses, similar cases we have seen. All this happens faster than we could ever...

Published Thu, Feb 14 2019 7:45 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, value-based care, Hans Duvefelt, Quantification

For Your Radar — Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation

By VINCE KURAITIS and DEVEN McGRAW Two years ago we wouldn’t have believed it — the U.S. Congress is considering broad privacy and data protection legislation in 2019. There is some bipartisan support and a strong possibility that legislation will...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2019 8:15 AM by THCB

Filed under: Policy, Privacy, Vince Kuraitis, Data, Health policy, Artificial intelligence, Facebook, analytics, AI, Tech platforms, machine learning, GDPR, techlash, legislation, data protection, Deven McGraw, ML, Patient rights

Advance Practice vs Primary Care

By SAURABH JHA MD In this episode of Radiology Firing Line Podcast, Danny Huges and I discuss a JAMA paper: A comparison of diagnostic imaging ordering patterns between advanced practice clinicians and primary care physicians following office-based evaluation...

Published Mon, Feb 25 2019 7:34 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, primary care, Radiology, Saurabh Jha, Radiology Firing Line Podcasts, Radiology Firing Line Podcast, RogueRad, JACR, advanced practice

“Public Charge” is a Public Health Disaster in the Making

By PHUOC LE MD I was born in a rural village outside of Hue, Vietnam in 1976, a year after Saigon fell and the war ended. My family of four struggled to survive in the post-war shambles, and in 1981, my mother had no choice but to flee Vietnam by boat...

Published Fri, Mar 01 2019 8:57 AM by THCB

Filed under: Politics, Health policy, Immigration, health equity, public charge, refugees, Phuoc Le

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