by e-Patient Dave | Mar 26, 2014
It’s five years since the ARRA/HITECH legislation was passed that pretty much mandates that American medicine has to computerize. Policies created since then have been enormously effective at moving adoption forward. We still need vast improvements of the user...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 25, 2014
Five years ago last week, I posted this. A lot has changed since then. Next week I’ll be re-posting what happened next, back then. The subject is still just as valid, so do think about it. Here’s a “reprint”: _________________ I want you to...
by Casey Quinlan | Nov 18, 2013
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his “Ninety-Five Theses” to the wooden doors of Wittenberg Cathedral, sparking a global reformation of the Christian faith that’s still going on today. In the 1950s and 1960s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked to drive inclusion for all in...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Aug 27, 2013
A few months ago, I complained about the layout of one of my doctor’s offices. There’s a rough layout drawing of the office waiting area to the side there. I’m standing just in front of the number 1, while people are sitting along the wall behind me....
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2013
Just a quick note on something I’m happy to say we’ve been hollering here for years: A lot of what passes for “evidence” from peer reviewed medical journals is scientifically weak, and has never been verified by an independent lab. That means...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 17, 2013
Last year during TEDMED 2012, in “The cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine”: Ben Goldacre on the missing data, we covered the vitally important news that a lot of medical research has gone missing, leading to a severely corrupted foundation for evidence-based...
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