How We Ration Care
There are not very many good things you can say about a deep recession. But from a researcher’s point of view, there is one silver lining. This recession has given…
Nursing Home Compare Overall Complete
The redesign of the federal Nursing Home Compare website, which lets consumers file complaints more easily and compare facilities based on quality measures, is complete. The overhaul — which was…
Are MD/MBAs Real Doctors?
A lot of my business school classmates had worked as engineers. They were drawn to the intellectual challenge and rigor of the engineering field and liked the relatively high salaries…
Tobacco Control Policies; Scaling Up Incentives
As the world readies for the upcoming UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases, the importance of good tobacco control efforts has been (yet again) affirmed. Along with this renewed interest…
Cloud Computing for Healthcare; Compliance, Disaster Recovery & Business Sustainability
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)’s financial stimulus plan for the meaningful use of EMR systems and IT services has motivated the healthcare industry to quickly…
FDA Has A New Training Program for Medical Device Reviewers
This is good thing and it’s the same process that should and does take place when creating medical records, seeing and understanding both sides of the story. We also know…
Busan is in the air: GAVI gets in front
One of the good things about a big international meeting is that agencies become motivated to deliver on commitments made at earlier big international meetings. As aid-world gears up for…
Shifting Caseload and Markets in Tissue Ablation
Technologies to therapeutically ablate tissue (via destruction and/or removal of abnormal tissue or creation of a therapeutic lesion as in blocking errant electrical pathways in arrhythmia) represent a remarkably diverse…
Using Open Source Software in Safety-Critical Medical Devices
Earlier this year the nice folks at O’Reilly Associates were kind enough to invite me to speak about how to use open source in safety-critical medical devices. The open source…
Spine Surgery Map
Spine surgery is a broad area of clinical practice encompassing treatments for many different conditions encompassing degenerative disc and other spinal diseases, congenital and adult spinal deformities, autoimmune diseases of…
