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Engage With Grace
The following post was written by Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace Team. Here's an image of the slide, and below is the post that many are sharing today. (The original PowerPoint slide is linked within the post.) Please see comments at end. We make choices...
Reducing Disparities, Spreading Improvement
Josh Seidman asks a very good question that goes toward our discussion of spreading improvement and the digital divide, "If [targeted] interventions... have been shown to have an enormous impact on the health of these populations, maybe Ix and related initiatives can...
Illness in the Age of ‘e’: A case study in participatory medicine
Last month, the Connected Health Symposium at Harvard Medical School saw a first: a full-length case study in participatory medicine, described concurrently by both the patient and his physician. The physician was our own Danny Sands MD, and the patient was our...
No *other* conflict of interest, huh?
What's wrong with this picture? While continuing to search for information regarding the collective statistical illiteracy issue covered a couple of days ago, I found a brand new article in the New England Journal of Medicine. As an exercise I decided to reorganize...
Lies, Damn Lies And Statistics: Collective Statistical Illiteracy
Everyone knows the supposed origin of the phrase. But as you can see here it goes back to Medicine: "Look at the dozens of operations by me this year without a death," says the operator. His less enthusiastic neighbor thinks of the proverbial kinds of falsehoods,...
Making sense of health statistics
Cross-posted from my own blog, with a late p.s. from this morning's paper When John Grohol read my post the other day about evidence-based medicine, he steered me to a paper worth reading: Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics. (Update Dec 15...
Your Health Information at Your Fingertips
Nancy B. Finn is a journalist with an expertise in the implementation of digital communications in health care and shared this story about personal health records: I was recently hospitalized. Fortunately I did not have to go through the emergency department but was...
Confessions Yield Debate
David Kibbe's THCB post, Confessions of a Physician EMR Champion, has stirred debate in the comments section including some key insights from our own Gilles Frydman, who points out the need to add "patients" to the list of stakeholders, and Christine Gray, who writes...
Using Aggregate Data to Help Public Health
Public health is different than our personal health. Most people take for granted the role public health agencies play in our lives, but its primary emphasis is tracking disease data across the country in order to prevent a nationwide epidemic or pandemic. Nobody...
The Risks of Going All Digital
We constantly assume that writing the blogs posts is one of the ways to help shape the dialogue on medicine and healthcare reforms. I suppose that for many participants in this blog it has become a very serious occupation, one that they consider worth the effort, both...
Information Silos Are Everywhere. But So Is The Internet!
Information Silo:Â An information silo is a management system incapable of reciprocal operation with other, related management systems... "Information silo" is a pejorative expression that is useful for describing the absence of operational reciprocity. Derived...
Do Doctors Read?
Okay, after monitoring e-patients.net and The Health Care Blog, I have to ask: Do doctors read? And if so, what? I know four things from my own experience (and watching "Grey's Anatomy"). First, physicians are busy often exhausted individuals who deal with...