by Gilles Frydman | Jun 15, 2009
The wonderful Atul Gawande delivered this past Friday a commencement address, titled “Money,” to the graduates of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He touched on and expanded on the theme of his groundbreaking article “The Cost...
by Gilles Frydman | May 18, 2009
As the meme is now firmly accepted, I thought we ought to have another round of definition crowdsourcing. If you use the term please stop here for a minute and let us know what it means to you. I will summarize the responses and use the results to update the wikipedia...
by e-Patient Dave | May 13, 2009
John Halamka’s blog has a new post today announcing that the National Library Medicine has mapped 93% of his hospital’s “problem list” codes to the SNOMED CT set of clinical data codes that’s widely used. For more info on data formats see...
by Gilles Frydman | Apr 30, 2009
An Op-Ed piece at the healthcare blog, written by 2 MDs from Harvard Medical School is pretty clear! For those of us who believe the time has come for participatory medicine, the following quote is particularly interesting: Empowering patients should be the first step...
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