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By DAVID KIBBE Preface by e-Patient Dave: This is a story of bad data gone wild, wrong info that spreads. It starts with a story from the 1600s, which applies all too aptly to our EMR situation today, in which…

By LAWRENCE L. WEED & LINCOLN WEED Preface by Michael Millenson: Lawrence L. Weed published a seminal article in the Archives of Internal Medicine on using the medical record to improve patient care back in January, 1971. To give you…

This past week at the Health 2.0 conference, A.D.A.M., Inc demoed their recently launched iphone application Medzio, which connects users with a network of healthcare services and free expert health advice. It’s a very cool application and an exciting new…

By Matthew Holt For those of you who weren’t at Health 2.0 Meets Ix to hear from the mouths of the four horsemen (Halamka, Sands, Zeiger & deBronkhart) here is Google’s Roni Zeiger’s version of what went wrong with the…

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced a new call for proposals for Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records, a $10-million national program to stimulate innovations in personal health information technology. Project HealthDesign will…

The theme of my next Live Q&A will be health IT and electronic medical records.
Primary care physician Rob Lamberts will be taking your questions. Blogging at the acclaimed Musings of a Distractible Mind, Dr. Lamberts is one of the minority of doctors who has successfully implemented and integrated electronic health records into his daily [...]

The following is a reader take by Rahul Parikh.Where is the line between true and false advertising? And should we be more careful when the claims an ad makes has potential health consequences for children and communities?
Let’s ask newspapers that question about big adverts they’ve printed from Generation Rescue, an autism advocacy group, the [...]

The following op-ed was published on April 23rd, 2009 in the USA Today.
As a primary care doctor, it’s heartening to hear President Obama call for “the largest investment ever in preventive care.” That means more people, for one, will be undergoing tests to screen for various forms of cancer. But this might be one of [...]

Are drug companies putting money where their mouths are?
In a new trend, the pharmaceutical industry is offering what the NY Times calls, “money-back guarantees,” essentially paying for treatments if their drug fails.
For instance, the makers of the osteoporosis drug Actonel will pay “$30,000 for a hip fracture . . and $6,000 for a wrist [...]

Medicare is considering throwing more bureaucracy our way.
As MedPage Today reports, because Medicare was “concerned about a rising number of hospice patients who survive longer than six months,” they are now requiring physicians to write a narrative to “describe the clinical evidence supporting a life expectancy of six months or less.”
Even worse, this comes on [...]