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JAMA: Reducing the Trauma of Hospitalization

by | May 6, 2014

Thanks to member Marilyn Mann for sharing this free article in JAMA with a suggestion on how to better personalize the patient’s hospital stay – really sensible suggestions. One reads them and wonders why they are not in place already. An excerpt: Stress...

Times science reporter asks: “Ever hit a paywall?”

by | May 4, 2014

Thanks to Twitter friend @CourageSings for this tip. I retweeted it, but I know a lot of readers of this blog will answer “yes” and might not see the tweet: Ever hit a paywall trying to access a scientific paper? For a story, would love examples from...

New paradigm in data sharing and analysis?

by | Mar 27, 2014

A Perspectives piece I wrote was published this week by iHealthBeat – Unlocking the Power of Health Data. In it I argue for patient-controlled sharing of rich data, as opposed to HIPAA-regulated stripping of identifiers in order to eliminate the risk to patient...

#patientgate – digital recordings change everything

by | Mar 12, 2014

Glyn Elwyn, a very smart guy/MD who’s currently thinking deep thoughts at Dartmouth, was a participant at the undisclosed location on the undisclosed project I was involved in two weeks ago. He’s posted a real barn-burner on BMJ. Its headline:...

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