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Pumpkin is healthy for you.

Pumpkin is healthy for you.

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Health benefits of Pumpkin seeds.

Health benefits of Pumpkin seeds.

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Easy Pumpkin curry  recipe.

Easy Pumpkin curry recipe.

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Health benefits of WATERMELON 😊

Health benefits of WATERMELON 😊

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Health benefits of Watermelon Seeds.😊

Health benefits of Watermelon Seeds.😊

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Pomagranate : A Healthy, Beautiful  and Delectable Fruit.

Pomagranate : A Healthy, Beautiful and Delectable Fruit.

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Health Benefits Of Pomagranate.

Health Benefits Of Pomagranate.

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Pomagranate seeds : Healthy red pearls.

Pomagranate seeds : Healthy red pearls.

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Pomagranate Juice - Healthy drink.

Pomagranate Juice - Healthy drink.

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Health Benefits of red delicacy - Apple.

Health Benefits of red delicacy - Apple.

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Health Benefits Of ACV (Apple Cider Vinegar).

Health Benefits Of ACV (Apple Cider Vinegar).

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22 Health Benefits Of ACV (Apple Cider Vinegar).

22 Health Benefits Of ACV (Apple Cider Vinegar).

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12 Side-effects of ACV (Apple Cider Vinegar).

12 Side-effects of ACV (Apple Cider Vinegar).

Hello Friends !!! I had already shared health and beauty benefits of ACV in my previous articles. ...

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15 Health Benefits Of Aloe Vera.

15 Health Benefits Of Aloe Vera.

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Health Benefits Of Aloe Vera.

Health Benefits Of Aloe Vera.

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Side-Effects Of Aloe Vera - You must know before using it !

Side-Effects Of Aloe Vera - You must know before using it !

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12 Health Benefits Of Kiwifruit (kiwi).

12 Health Benefits Of Kiwifruit (kiwi).

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More Health Benefits Of Kiwi (KiwiFruit)

More Health Benefits Of Kiwi (KiwiFruit)

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Health Benefits Of Apricot Fruit.

Health Benefits Of Apricot Fruit.

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Amazing Health Benefits Of Dried Apricot.

Amazing Health Benefits Of Dried Apricot.

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Health Benefits Of Apricot Seed (Kernel) Oil.

Health Benefits Of Apricot Seed (Kernel) Oil.

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Health Benefits Of Indian Gooseberry Or Amla.

Health Benefits Of Indian Gooseberry Or Amla.

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Health Benefits And Side-Effects OF Indian Gooseberry Juice (Amla Juice).

Health Benefits And Side-Effects OF Indian Gooseberry Juice (Amla Juice).

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Do you know amla oil or Indian gooseberry oil has great benefits and uses ?

Do you know amla oil or Indian gooseberry oil has great benefits and uses ?

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Tasty and exotic drink for your health..try out this recipe.

Tasty and exotic drink for your health..try out this recipe.

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Review of Knorr Classic Thick Tomato Soup.

Review of Knorr Classic Thick Tomato Soup.

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Review Of Zandu Chyavanprash Avaleha - An Ayurvedic Recipe.

Review Of Zandu Chyavanprash Avaleha - An Ayurvedic Recipe.

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Discover the health benefits of delicious carrots.

Discover the health benefits of delicious carrots.

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Recipes of yummy tomato soup - the taste of restaurant & goodness of purity at home.

Recipes of yummy tomato soup - the taste of restaurant & goodness of purity at home.

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Loose weight by eating these superfoods - Easy weightloss program.

Loose weight by eating these superfoods - Easy weightloss program.

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Incredible health benefits of tomatoes.

Incredible health benefits of tomatoes.

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Delicious & healthy recipes of tomato sauces.

Delicious & healthy recipes of tomato sauces.

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Recipe of mint cold sauce to remain cool and healthy.

Recipe of mint cold sauce to remain cool and healthy.

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Teeth whitening trick recommended by dentist.

Teeth whitening trick recommended by dentist.

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Is your sunscreen safe ?

Is your sunscreen safe ?

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Difference between Sunscreen and Sunblock.

Difference between Sunscreen and Sunblock.

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Best sunscreens of 2018 according to EWG.

Best sunscreens of 2018 according to EWG.

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Sunshine Blogger Award - Simply Beautiful

Sunshine Blogger Award - Simply Beautiful

Sunshine Blogger Award I am extremely happy that I've  been nominated for Sunshine Blo...

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Health Benefits Of Oranges.

Health Benefits Of Oranges.

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How to defeat Coronavirus Covid-19 and stop the spread ?

How to defeat Coronavirus Covid-19 and stop the spread ?

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How to maintain a good oral health as an adult ?

How to maintain a good oral health as an adult ?

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Rationing Our Finite Resources… with Our Eyes Open

Rationing Our Finite Resources… with Our Eyes Open

Two articles published in the latest NEJM issue are devoted to “our finite resources” and the inevit...

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The Other Side of the EHR Mirror

The Other Side of the EHR Mirror

For almost three years now, since the advent of the HITECH Act, and prompted by the exorbitant price...

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Is Meaningful Use Too Successful?

Is Meaningful Use Too Successful?

Approximately a quarter million clinicians and hospitals have signed up for Meaningful Use incentive...

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The 8th Pillar of the Patient Centered Medical Home

The 8th Pillar of the Patient Centered Medical Home

The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care is built on seven principles. Seven is a luck...

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Taxstereogram

Taxstereogram

On Thursday, June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that requiring all indivi...

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EHRs Can’t Talk to Each Other?

EHRs Can’t Talk to Each Other?

When the hypothetical naked, unconscious and alone patient presents at your ER with no immediately e...

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Finding Utility in an EHR

Finding Utility in an EHR

If you are like most physicians in this country, you probably bought yourself an EHR, either recentl...

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The Privacy of Your Digital Self

The Privacy of Your Digital Self

Everybody has a shadow. Although as a small child you may have tried, you cannot separate yourself f...

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Dr. Gawande’s New Shiny Thing

Dr. Gawande’s New Shiny Thing

Dr. Gawande has a new article in the New Yorker suggesting that hospital chains may very well be the...

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Big Trash

Big Trash

Like most home buyers, I toured the house with my family, checking closet space and bathtubs and fin...

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One Little Ewe Lamb

One Little Ewe Lamb

“There were two men in one city: the one rich, and the other poor….. “(II Samuel 12:1-12)Thus begins...

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Curb Your Enthusiasm…

Curb Your Enthusiasm…

High Tech people are very enthusiastic people. We are optimistic, confident and creative and if I ma...

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The Bionic Medicine of Programmable People

The Bionic Medicine of Programmable People

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the clueless, but endearing, enthusiasm of technology peo...

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Verbal Wizardry

Verbal Wizardry

In his dissenting opinion on the health care law, my least favorite Justice, Antonin Scalia, argued ...

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Shocking News – EHRs Work as Designed

Shocking News – EHRs Work as Designed

The health care crowd is abuzz with The New York Times revelation that Medicare billing rates seem t...

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The Big Birds of Health Care

The Big Birds of Health Care

For the first time in this election campaign Mitt Romney came up with a useful “zinger”. During the ...

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The Market for Patient Engagement

The Market for Patient Engagement

Wherever health care reformation and transformation is discussed, sooner or later the imperative of ...

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Remembrance of Docs Past

Remembrance of Docs Past

It was 10 AM and the unmarked glass door was locked. A woman in a brightly colored dress with a big ...

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The EHR Non-User Interface

The EHR Non-User Interface

Every time someone publishes an article or a paper or a blog post that has anything remotely to do w...

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Who’s Afraid of the Medical Home?

Who’s Afraid of the Medical Home?

Obamacare is here to stay, and with it a host of initiatives small and large, some intended and some...

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Electronic Parking Lot

Electronic Parking Lot

I was headed to a meeting downtown yesterday, and finding a place to park in the city is always a ch...

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Meaningful Use – A Pinch of 3 and a Dash of 4

Meaningful Use – A Pinch of 3 and a Dash of 4

While most folks are busy trying to keep up with Meaningful Use Stage 1, and Meaningful Use Stage 2 ...

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The Computer is my Shepherd…

The Computer is my Shepherd…

If this were a business concerned with bottom lines, cash flows and sustainability, this would be a ...

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The Arithmetic of Health Care

The Arithmetic of Health Care

Adam Smith would disagree, Karl Marx would be appalled, and heck even Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand w...

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The Crosshairs of a Triple Aim

The Crosshairs of a Triple Aim

“Better Care for Individuals, Better Health for Populations, and Lower Per Capita Costs” [ihi.org]If...

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Half Gov Half Degov Venti EMR Lite

Half Gov Half Degov Venti EMR Lite

Somewhere between the 20th century Bank ATM and the 25th century Tricorder, lays the EMR that we sho...

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De Novo EMR Design - Part I: Stating the Obvious

De Novo EMR Design - Part I: Stating the Obvious

Our ancestors began using tools millions of years ago and humanity assumed control of the planet it ...

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Dr. Watson is Not a Meaningful User

Dr. Watson is Not a Meaningful User

IBM’s Dr. Watson of Jeopardy! fame has finally completed its residency and fellowships and, presumab...

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De Novo EMR Design Part II: The Quest for Information

De Novo EMR Design Part II: The Quest for Information

The Edwin Smith papyrus ca. 1500 BCEIn Part I of this series, we engaged in a design exercise for an...

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The Destructive Recreation of Health Care

The Destructive Recreation of Health Care

A dark wind is beginning to blow through the tortured landscape of health care in America. At the co...

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Around the Primary Care World in 80 Seconds

Around the Primary Care World in 80 Seconds

We spend a lot of money on health care in the U.S., but we spend a lot of money on other amenities a...

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De Novo EMR Design Part III: Computer… Computer… Hello Computer…

De Novo EMR Design Part III: Computer… Computer… Hello Computer…

Continuing our fantasy journey towards a patient care oriented EMR for primary care physicians, let’...

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The Shell Game of Health-Contingent Insurance

The Shell Game of Health-Contingent Insurance

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll earlier this month, it seems that three years after its...

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Game of Interoperabilities

Game of Interoperabilities

In 2004 President Bush created the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technol...

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Fast Medicine

Fast Medicine

How are you feeling today? Do you feel a bit under the weather? Maybe you have some aches and pains,...

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In Support of Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

In Support of Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

“The Affordable Care Act, the health care law of 2010, created a Prevention and Public Health Fund.T...

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Indentured Servitude: A Silicon Valley Innovation

Indentured Servitude: A Silicon Valley Innovation

“…economic forces determined outcomes with relatively little constraint from political consideratio...

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10 Steps to a Blockbuster Health IT Startup

10 Steps to a Blockbuster Health IT Startup

If you are tired of practicing medicine, or are compelled to be your own boss, or for whatever reaso...

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If You Want to Win, You May Have to Fight

If You Want to Win, You May Have to Fight

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then ...

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Spinning EHR Adoption Numbers

Spinning EHR Adoption Numbers

On May 22nd, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a momentous press release an...

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Health IT – The Right Tool for the Wrong Job

Health IT – The Right Tool for the Wrong Job

Every article, discussion, blog post, comment and casual remark on the subject of Electronic Medical...

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Move Over Big Data – Boundless Information has Arrived

Move Over Big Data – Boundless Information has Arrived

If a mosquito lands on someone’s head and you hit the mosquito with a shovel, is the death of the gu...

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Health Care Transformation – It’s not Personal, It’s Business

Health Care Transformation – It’s not Personal, It’s Business

Why are we transforming health care? Why do we feel compelled to act with such urgency and in such b...

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Should the DoD Buy Epic, or Cerner, or GE, or…?

Should the DoD Buy Epic, or Cerner, or GE, or…?

The Department of Defense (DoD) is in the market for an EHR solution… again. After a lengthy foray i...

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The Holy EHR Wars

The Holy EHR Wars

"In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, ...

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10 Steps to Prepare your Health App for Monetization

10 Steps to Prepare your Health App for Monetization

So you released a health app, now what? While waiting for your creation to do its thing and fix heal...

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The Contrived March to Scarcity in Health Care

The Contrived March to Scarcity in Health Care

A recent survey of physicians, conducted by Tilburt and colleagues and published in JAMA, finds that...

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Cost Effectiveness of Health Information Exchange

Cost Effectiveness of Health Information Exchange

At some point it was decided that the exchange of clinical information between facilities of care is...

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New Medicine – First, Show Me the Money

New Medicine – First, Show Me the Money

This is a warning shot across the bow of the mighty health care ship which seems to be changing cour...

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How to Hang Out Your Electronic Shingle

How to Hang Out Your Electronic Shingle

(Source: forgotten-ny.com)When a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant or any other professional graduated...

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Meaningful Use Stage 2 Beta - A Suggestion

Meaningful Use Stage 2 Beta - A Suggestion

It’s that time of year again when Meaningful Use conversations heat up because all sorts of deadline...

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Alternative Health Information Technology

Alternative Health Information Technology

Say you are a pediatrician in an average middle class lily white suburb and most of your little pati...

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The Passion of the Health Care Fixer

The Passion of the Health Care Fixer

The first President to take a shot at fixing health care was a Bull Moose trying to become President...

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Why Doctors Will Never Ever Like EMRs and How to Change That

Why Doctors Will Never Ever Like EMRs and How to Change That

EMRs are not designed for patient care. Is there anyone working in health IT who can honestly say th...

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The Wishfully Fresh Future of Health IT

The Wishfully Fresh Future of Health IT

Health IT is booming, or so they say. The hotly debated and highly politicized health care reform, a...

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Transforming Health Care: Values and Cultural Preferences

Transforming Health Care: Values and Cultural Preferences

On his campaign trails, Harry Truman used to call on citizens to go out and vote for themselves, in ...

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Meaningful Use of Obamacare

Meaningful Use of Obamacare

Healthcare.gov was “experiencing technical difficulties” again yesterday, but the system is up now. ...

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3 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Obamacare

3 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Obamacare

If you are a staunch conservative who believes that free markets should solve health care, or that p...

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The Upcoming Bipartisan, Bicameral, Doc Fix

The Upcoming Bipartisan, Bicameral, Doc Fix

The Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula was enacted into law in 1997 to tie Medicare payment for s...

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What’s next for Primary Care?

What’s next for Primary Care?

As Obamacare is winding its way through a hellish bureaucratic labyrinth of its own creation, accomp...

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The Implausible Manifestation of a Doctor Shortage

The Implausible Manifestation of a Doctor Shortage

In a New York Times opinion piece Scott Gottlieb, MD joins forces with Ezekiel Emanuel, MD to inform...

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Top 10 Accomplishments of American Health Care

Top 10 Accomplishments of American Health Care

It’s that time of year when the OECD publishes its "Health at a Glance" comparative health indicator...

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VIDERI QUAM ESSE

VIDERI QUAM ESSE

I was reading the popular HIStalk health IT news/opinion site the other day when I ran into a blurb ...

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The Hippocratic Message in a Bottle

The Hippocratic Message in a Bottle

I like reading Dr. Kevin Pho’s blog. I read, or at the very least scan, his diverse collection of es...

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To MU or Not to MU 2, that is the Question

To MU or Not to MU 2, that is the Question

Meaningful Use Stage 2 is now on the clock. Three years after the program began in 2011, and a year ...

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10 Misfortunes We Shouldn’t Blame Obamacare For

10 Misfortunes We Shouldn’t Blame Obamacare For

There is a new report out from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) titled “The Slow Recovery of th...

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What the Heck is mHealth?

What the Heck is mHealth?

Wanted: White knight (shiny amour optional) to save us from ourselves and the wretched lifestyles we...

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Post Removed by Author

Post Removed by Author

This blog post has been removed. My sincere apologies for the inconvenience.

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Is the Nuremberg Code Obsolete?

Is the Nuremberg Code Obsolete?

Long ago and far away, at the conclusion of a worldwide armed conflict, the winning side was shaken ...

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Health Care is Like Katz’s Deli

Health Care is Like Katz’s Deli

Sometime during the last year of the second millennium, I wrote my last letter in response to the la...

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Brace Yourself for Transparency

Brace Yourself for Transparency

It’s here. For the first time in 35 years (or 33, depending on which click bait headline you clicked...

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Our Cheap and Productive Lives

Our Cheap and Productive Lives

So you think there is a war on doctors, don’t you? It certainly looks that way from your particular ...

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Translucency with Turbid Clouds

Translucency with Turbid Clouds

Did you ever read a seemingly inconsequential sentence somewhere and it then just refused to leave y...

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As Health Care Learns and Grows…

As Health Care Learns and Grows…

While grappling with the costs and imperfections of our health care system in recent years, a multit...

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It is Time to Stifle Some Innovation

It is Time to Stifle Some Innovation

Stifling innovation is a very bad thing. As a society it is incumbent upon us to let innovation brea...

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Health Care for the Poor

Health Care for the Poor

There are over 16,000,000 American children (21.8%) who live in official poverty and double that num...

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We are Number Last

We are Number Last

The Commonwealth Fund just published its fourth Mirror, Mirror on the Wall study comparing the U.S. ...

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The Ethics of Big Data Workers

The Ethics of Big Data Workers

A new study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United State...

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Health Care for the Poor: The Sequel

Health Care for the Poor: The Sequel

In a previous post, I described how the American health care system is morphing into a system design...

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Introduction to Hypoliquidemia

Introduction to Hypoliquidemia

The venerable University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston will accept patients with tra...

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The Study You’ll Never Hear About

The Study You’ll Never Hear About

According to a new Commonwealth Fund sponsored study published in Health Affairs, “Small Primary Car...

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The Fallacy of Value-Based Health Care

The Fallacy of Value-Based Health Care

Value-based health care is antithetic to patient-centered care. Value-based health care is also diam...

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BREAKING: Patients Are Not Stupid

BREAKING: Patients Are Not Stupid

In a new Forbes article, David Shaywitz ponders whether patients are the best judges of physician qu...

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Are You an Information Blocker?

Are You an Information Blocker?

The Senate Appropriations Committee has defined a new transgression perpetrated in the committee’s e...

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How Health Care Went Tabloid

How Health Care Went Tabloid

Physicians, whether practicing medicine or not, should not be involved in clinical research. They sh...

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Public APIs: The Ultimate Silver Bomb

Public APIs: The Ultimate Silver Bomb

Congratulations! We have a new buzzword trending in health care IT - Public APIs.  You can say publi...

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Technology for Onesies Twosies

Technology for Onesies Twosies

“We’re not really set up to service onesies twosies… Oh, I’d say at least fifty to even begin a conv...

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Quick Medicine

Quick Medicine

By the time the next decade rolls in there will be no paper charts. There will probably still be pap...

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Teachable Moments: Be Thankful for Gruber

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