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Testing, Testing: The health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is that a bad thing?

jdondoyle wrote 1 week ago: Dr. Atul Gawande has written an essay in the new issue of The New Yorker concerning the use of pilot … more →

Tags: Medical Economics, Health Care, Public Health

From the Hospital to Bankruptcy Court -- in today's NYT

jdondoyle wrote 3 weeks ago: by Kevin Sack NASHVILLE — Some of the debtors sitting forlornly in this city’s old stone bankruptcy … more →

Tags: Medical Economics, costs of health care

NYT Magazine receives letters in response to the Brent James article

jdondoyle wrote 3 weeks ago: Four letters were received by the Magazine commenting on the original article in the Nov. 8 issue … more →

Tags: EBM

Checking the Right Boxes, but Failing the Patient ... from the NY Times

jdondoyle wrote 1 month ago: By DENA RIFKIN, M.D., November 16, 2009 The voice on the phone was authoritative, even brusque. A fa … more →

Adding Health Advice to Online Medical Records - in the NY Times

jdondoyle wrote 1 month ago: By STEVE LOHR     Published: October 6, 2009 Adam Bosworth developed the technology for Keas, a syst … more →

Tags: Online Resources, Physician-patient communication; Internet, Patient education

NY Times Magazine:: Making Health Care Better 1 comment

jdondoyle wrote 1 month ago: By DAVID LEONHARDT Published: November 3, 2009 I. During one of our first conversations, Brent James … more →

Tags: Quality of Care

From the NY Times: To Help Healing, Doctors Pay More Attention To Pain

jdondoyle wrote 1 month ago: by Patti Neighmond     November 16, 2009 The old notion that pain is somehow “good” for … more →

Tags: Diagnosis

NIH Offers Daily Med, NEJM Comments

jdondoyle wrote 1 month ago: DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA appro … more →

Tags: Online Resources, Drug Therapy

NIH Offers Daily Med, NEJM Comments

jdondoyle wrote 1 month ago: DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA appro … more →

Tags: Online Resources, Drug Therapy

New patient info handouts available on MedlinePlus

jdondoyle wrote 1 month ago: Today, MedlinePlus released a new version of the A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia that includes approxi … more →

Tags: Patient education

The Quality Data Warehouse Project

jdondoyle wrote 1 month ago: From the Life as a CIO Blog by John D. Halamka MD Next Steps for our Community Quality Registry I … more →

Tags: Info Technologies, EMRs and EHRs

From PEW: The Rise of the e-Patient-Trends in the Use of Digital Technology for Health Purposes

jdondoyle wrote 2 months ago: … more →

Tags: Info Technologies, EMRs and EHRs, Patient education, Pati

From NPR: How The Modern Patient Drives Up Health Costs

jdondoyle wrote 2 months ago: by Alix Spiegel The doors to the clinic had been locked for over an hour, and the last light in the … more →

Tags: Patient education, patient, patient activism

American Academy of Family Physicians Launches Consumer Alliance With First Partner: The Coca-Cola Company

jdondoyle wrote 2 months ago: Seems like strange bedfellows to me (JDD) Coke in US family doctors alliance By Jonathan Birchall in … more →

Tags: Nutrition, Diet

AMIA 10X10 at Utah

jdondoyle wrote 2 months ago: The University of Utah’s contribution to the AMIA 10×10 is an introductory survey course … more →

Tags: Info Technologies, informatics

Review of Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Paperback)

psoriasisnaturaltreatment wrote 2 months ago: First, as a quick proxy of how good it is, and as a way of enticing busy readers, I should note that … more →

Tags: Psoriasis Natural Treatment, Medical, Medical Nursing, Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Picador, 0312427654, Internal Medicine (General), Diseases

Not Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Medical School2 comments

Connie Casad, MD wrote 3 months ago: As I begin this journey of “blogging” I feel quite ill-equipped as writing has never been much of a … more →

Tags: General Health

Practicing Medicine in the Age of Facebook--from the NEJM

jdondoyle wrote 3 months ago: by Sachin H. Jain, M.D., M.B.A. In my second week of medical internship, I received a “friend … more →

Tags: Scholarly Publishing, web 2. 0, Social Media

Kaiser Family Foundation offers Side-by-Side Comparison of the HC Reform Proposals

jdondoyle wrote 3 months ago: Achieving comprehensive health reform has emerged as a leading priority of the President and Congres … more →

Tags: health-care reform


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