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e-Patients Are Proud Deviants!

by | Jun 15, 2009

The wonderful Atul Gawande delivered this past Friday a commencement address, titled “Money,” to the graduates of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He touched on and expanded on the theme of his groundbreaking article “The Cost...

e-Patients Demand: Put An End To
Data-Hugging Disorder

by | Jun 4, 2009

“Statistics should be the intellectual sidewalks of a society, and people should be able to build businesses and operate on the side of them” This quote from Hans Rosling is part of a speech where he presented the following: Database-hugging disorder (Dbhd): A...

David Kibbe & Mark Leavitt : Openness vs. Opacity

by | May 30, 2009

Background information: The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) is currently in a monopolistic situation since it is, for the last few years, the only entity allowed to certify EHRs. The HITECH act of ARRA mentions specifically the...

Getting health insurance with a pre-existing condition

by | May 29, 2009

Thanks to Amy Tenderich (@DiabetesMine) for mentioning this CNN Empowered Patient entry that could be of real use to many: “Tips for getting insurance when you have a pre-existing condition ” The tips: Become a group of one If you’ve been laid off,...

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