The Latest Cavalcade of Risk Is Up!
Wenchypoo (wise and a wastebasket) hosts the latest Cavalcade of Risk with a “Mostly Insurance” Edition.” There are posts that are categorized in the “insurance” basket and then there are some that are in what the DMCB thinks fit the “interesting” basket like Stuxnet and tax scams. Well worth a read and not just because [...]
The Real Business Model For Virtual Medical Office Visits (and it’s not increasing access)
“Stand up, bend over and letme see that itchy rash!” In another lesson on how its clinical world is changing, the Disease Management Care Blog recently witnessed a “virtual″ computer-based video patient-physician office visit. The patient seemed to like the convenience, while the physician reminded the skeptical DMCB that most of any medical diagnosis is based on [...]
Anticoagulation for PE: start it in the ER
From Chest: Results: In-hospital and 30-day mortality rates were 3.0% and 7.7%, respectively. Patients who received heparin in the ED had lower in-hospital (1.4% vs 6.7%; P = .009) and 30-day (4.4% vs 15.3%; P less than .001) mortality rates as compared with patients given heparin after admission. Patients who achieved a therapeutic aPTT within 24 h had lower in-hospital [...]
The Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) Updates The PCEHR Web Site – What do We Now See?
I checked to see if the new release of the PCEHR ConOps was available today. The website has been updated. Personally controlled electronic health records Like many other countries, Australia’s health care system is facing increasing challenges to the sustainability of current health care practices. The personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) system is being [...]
Equipoise: No Help for Ethical Deliberation
This post might seem a bit off the wall for this blog, but I’ll defend it by noting that we discuss ethical issues at the medicine-Pharma interface, and so unavoidably touch on the ethics of drug research more generally. The article I will discuss here (subscription required) makes some excellent points that have not previously [...]


