Mystery Diagnosis
I absolutely love this series It shows the importance of getting a good history, and putting the pieces of the puzzle together. “Be a Lumper, not a Splitter” Copyright My Medical Student Life 2010 at mymedicalstudentlife.blogspot.com
A Golden Parachute for Captain Outrageous
A year ago, I posted about leadership and governance problems at Northeast Health Systems, a small hospital system located in neighboring Massachusetts. The colorful story included leaders who solicited money from the community but concealed what they were doing from the same community, an adolescent pregnancy pact after the hospital system refused to provide confidential birth control [...]
Toward Meaningful Usability: Five Keys to Creating Physician- Centric CPOE (Wait – The Terms "Safety", "Risk" and "Error" Are Missing)
In a 2011 “White Paper” from a company PatientKeeper entitled “Toward Meaningful Usability: Five Keys to Creating Physician-Centric CPOE” (PDF), an organization whose motto is “Enabling Physicians to Focus on Patients … Not Technology“, I again note a common phenomenon. Certain verboten terms are absent. What might those terms be? More on that in a [...]
The Time Has Come for A National Registry for Parkinson’s Disease
Our Armchair Attendance at the 2010 Parkinson’s Action Network (PAN) Forum A few days ago we signed in to “attend” the 16th annual PAN Research and Public Policy Forum in Sunnyvale, CA without having to venture into the midwest cold. We stayed from beginning to end, no mean feat when one of us has PD. We really [...]
Variability 3.0
In yesterday′s post, the Disease Management Care Blog pointed out that heath care variability is not only unavoidable but ultimately welcome. While amateur futurists point to “personalized genomic medicine” as the ultimate driver of variation, the DMCB respectively disagrees. It believes the promise of genomic medicine exceeds reality. In contrast, there are other cultural forces [...]
