Is Colonoscopy the Best Colon Cancer Screening Test?
The medical arena, like society at large, is permeated with self-interest. This reality makes me very skeptical that comparative effectiveness research, which I support, will get airborne. In medicine, every…
Fight the Flu. It Starts with You.
Influenza (better known as the Flu), has always been a potentially deadly illness, but most strains can be fought off by young healthy people. A person with influenza or a…
Digital Health 2013: Innovating Partnerships for Better Care
With the kick-off of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, digital health was found to play an increasingly prominent role. From panel discussions to product launches, there was a…
A New Culture of Learning by John Seely Brown
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. Thomas Watson, Founder–IBM If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. Thomas Watson, Founder–IBM John Seely Brown, fondly referred to…
When and How Much TasP is Value for Money?
This is a joint post with Mead Over and Denizhan Duran. This is a joint post with Mead Over and Denizhan Duran.In mid-2011, one of the biggest developments in HIV/AIDS…
Reframing Gun Control as a Public Health Issue
Gun proponents have worked hard to characterize unfettered firearm ownership as a bedrock constitutional right, to be protected at all costs. Gun proponents have worked hard to characterize unfettered firearm…
FCC Chairman: A Telemedicine Convert?
Now that the FCC, after two years of foot-dragging, has finally approved the plan to spend the $400 million appropriated for broadband expansion in rural areas, you might get the idea that the…
5 Ways Doctors Can Generate Extra Revenue In and Out of Your Practice
In this era of declining reimbursements and uncertainty, physicians need to become more proactive in finding innovative ways to bring in extra revenue. Most doctors are conditioned to believe that…
Influenza Season Is Here, and It’s a Bear
Posted in Clinical EducationDiversionsThe season 2011-2012 is shaping up to be a nasty one from coast to coast, including here in flyover land. Posted in Clinical EducationDiversionsThe season 2011-2012 is…
