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Prevention is the Best Investment

by | Apr 9, 2008

David Brown over at the Washington Post wrote an article yesterday noting that prevention isn’t necessarily cheaper than “doing nothing” and letting people get sick. Well, “Duh,” I say. Prevention is an intervention, it’s just an...

Lookout for Illness! Here it Comes!!

by | Apr 3, 2008

Shannon Brownlee had a great piece in the Washington Post the other day about how, as we live older, and hopefully more healthy lives, we’re being reminded more and more often of all the things that are wrong with us. Out of breath? Maybe you have...

Technology as a means, not an end

by | Feb 14, 2008

I was part of a brainstorming session yesterday about the role of technology in health and health care, in preparation for a June 2008 Ix conference here in DC. Here is one of the quotes I captured from another participant: Technology is always framed as an end and it...

ePatients and the Shape of Medical Knowledge

by | Jun 14, 2007

David Weinberger, a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center, speaks eloquently on the way digitization of information is changing the way we define knowledge. In a recent presentation he made at a Library of Congress conference he argues that the increasingly universal...

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