by Gilles Frydman | 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...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Jun 4, 2009
It seems somewhere between highly unlikely and impossible for this to happen in this day and age, but Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis had to turn away patients when a power surge took down its electronic medical records system. Yes, that’s right — our...
by e-Patient Dave | May 28, 2009
As soon as you can, stop what you’re doing and devote 20-30 minutes to reading Atul Gawande’s important new article in the June 1 New Yorker, The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care. I don’t claim to be an expert about...
by Gilles Frydman | May 19, 2009
Another post about healthcare “creepware” from Opaque, Inc. While reading the Wall Street Journal health blog, I saw this disturbing piece of information: In a new survey conducted by Mercer, the employee benefits consulting shop, nearly half of the 428...
by Gilles Frydman | May 12, 2009
Magical thinking: the ability to draw conclusions that are based on a person’s desire for what reality should be, not necessarily upon what reality actually is. Cargo Cult HIT:Â Concepts in HIT that follow all the apparent precepts and forms of evidence-based...
by Gilles Frydman | Apr 20, 2009
Neither health professionals nor patients can do it alone. Let’s make no mistake: We are here to participate and to help! e-Patient Dave original story of the health data transfer from his hospital EHR to Google Health PHR is remarkable in many ways and shows...
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