Now This Will Be A Fun Tender To Watch! I Am Not Sure All The Ducks Are Actually Aligned.
The following announcement appeared yesterday. Tender Call Marks New Stage in e-health Development The Australian Government’s personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) system took a further step forward today with the call for an organisation to evaluate the benefits and capabilities of the new system. 17 December 2010 The Gillard Government’s personally controlled electronic health [...]
Two peas in a pod
Two stories with similar themes: Southcoast — M.D. Anderson The Southcoast Hospitals Group in southeastern Massachusetts recently announced an affiliation with the physicians from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas. An excerpt: The M. D. Anderson Physicians Network affiliation is offered selectively to qualified community hospitals and their medical staffs in the U.S. only [...]
Preventing diagnostic errors and the interaction of cognitive and system problems
Interesting post by Gordon Schiff at the Health Affairs Blog: This “systems vs. cognitive” polarity, so prevalent in analyses of error causation, strikes me as an highly artificial and false distinction. If I am an emergency room physician taking a history to sort out a patient’s back pain and fail to elicit a key piece [...]
Covering Uninsured College Students in Texas: The Role of Student Health Insurance
Covering Uninsured College Students in Texas: The Role of Student Health Insurance Review Available at Amazon Check Price Now! *** Product Information and Prices Stored: Apr 24, 2011 10:57:31
Medical Futility at the ASBH in San Diego
The ASBH Annual Meeting is coming up in just under two months.  There are several sessions related to medical futility. Thursday, October 21st from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. Paper Session (109): Concerns in the NICU Too Expensive to Treat?—Tragedy, Finitude, and the NICU (Charles C. Camosy, Fordham University, Bronx, NY) Who Makes It to the [...]
