Why Twitter may not be good enough for scientific information and discussion
I appreciate the re-tweet below but I did not say anything remotely close to this sentence: @sevinfo Reading “top” journals only distorts your world – Argument for scrapping peer review at BMJ blogs via @DrVes & @KentBottles http://twitter.com/sevinfo/status/10929698882 My original tweet: @DrVes The naïve concept that the “top journals” publish the important stuff and the [...]
Microsoft software to "replace" radiologists – recognizes organs and structures in medical images
Microsoft Research, Mar 8, 2011: InnerEye focuses on the analysis of patient scans using machine learning techniques for automatic detection and segmentation of healthy anatomy as well as anomalies: Antonio Criminisi is the the researcher shown in the video above. The InnerEye research project focuses on the automatic analysis of patients′ scans by using machine [...]
Integration, Accountable Care Organizations, Care Management and Minimizing Insurance Risk: Cost Center or Source of Revenue?
Are care management nurses a “revenue source” or a “cost center?” The Disease Management Care Blog says the answer depends on who you ask. The issue is likely to repeatedly start coming up in C-Suites large and small when hospitals start tackling readmissions under bundled payments as well as from an expanding list of “hospital [...]
The Dawning of a New Era
Say What? Democrat Compares Republicans to Nazis (HT: Malcolm Pollack) The newfound civility didn’t last long. Political rhetoric in Congress doesn’t get much nastier than the words of one House Democrat during the debate on repealing the health care law. In an extraordinary outburst on the House floor, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) invoked the Holocaust [...]
Today in price discrimination
The Times reports on the more sophisticated use of price discrimination by rock bands: Nearly a decade after “The Producers” introduced the $480 ticket to Broadway, V.I.P. pricing has established itself in the ledgers of rock ‘n’ roll. This summer Justin Bieber fans can pay $350 to attend a pre-show soundcheck. For $800, Christina Aguilera [...]
