Personalized Prevention, Part IV
Earlier this year, I wrote a series of posts on the topic of Personalized Prevention. This is a term I coined to apply to the intersection between genomics and connected…
Recognize This Face?
I recently stumbled on a short BloombergBusinessWeek news item that said, in part:“Facebook Inc. (FB), owner of the world’s largest social-networking website, last month acquired Face.com, the Israeli maker of technology that helps…
Pay for Performance Attacks Medical Quality: Lincoln Lucks Out
Why does Pay for Performance (P4P) make most physicians reach for Maa Why does Pay for Performance (P4P) make most physicians reach for Maalox? I have devoted a good portion…
Social Learning in Medicine = #socialQI
The idea of supporting the medical profession though collaborative models of information flow, learning, and healthcare improvement has been bouncing around the house of medicine for years. There has always…
What’s In? What’s Out? The Popularity Contest in Psychiatric Drug Use
“Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold.” That’s what Will Rogers famously thought–but he had obviously never met Xanax.Sometimes looking…
Healthcare’s Dirty Secret – 15 Million Patient’s Private Information Exposed Since 2009
Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to an earlier blog post entitled “Paper Records More Susceptible to Breach than Any Other Medium – are you next?”, I decided to…
Beat the Heat (As Best You Can) with These Simple Tips
If you’re stranded at home without air conditioning, even an hour in the heat can feel like a slow crawl through the Sahara. Many of us have been able to…
Texas Finishes at Bottom of Federal Survey of Care Delivery
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality just released its latest ranking of health care delivery. The state of Texas — along with its 1 out of every 4 persons…
Sometimes You’ve Just Got To Do It Yourself: Bipolar Infographic
Every so often I get to jonesing for a good infographic.Like most people long for a drink or caffeine, I want a large visual that tells me just about everything…
Baby Boomer Bop: 15 Great Songs About Aging and Growing Older
Music is the soundtrack to our lives. As children, we’re cooed to sleep by lullabies. As adults, songs attach themselves to significant mile markers: a first kiss, a fun vacation,…
