by e-Patient Dave | Jul 9, 2010
Yesterday’s post “Why Gary Schwitzer joined” sparked a lot of discussion, online and off. Why not turn it into a series?? The next to submit is Kent Bottles MD, president of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI). He’s deep, as...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 7, 2010
Did you know that a major aspect of the Affordable Care Act (aka the health reform legislation) was significant funding to revamp primary care? I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t. There’s $10 billion (with a B) in funding for research in the first ten...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 16, 2010
Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, provided excellent evidence yesterday regarding the need to look past abstracts of journal articles if accuracy matters to you: His own post on Embargo Watch: “More thoughts on ASCO: How the embargo policy can...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 11, 2010
I’ve only been studying healthcare for two years – far less than most people on this blog – and I hesitate to be overly assertive. But I have, finally, reached the point where I feel confident in citing cases where people are simply being...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 4, 2009
There’s a new resource for a vital e-patient skill: reading health news responsibly. It helps us be smarter before we bring new findings to the attention of other patients and our providers – not to mention smarter for our own benefit. When “Doc...
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