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A deep look at the structural issues in health and medicine. A place for fresh ideas & new perspectives ~ open-source thoughtware.
Medicine: Where have the stories gone?
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Medicine: Where have the stories gone?
Suneel Dhand, MD
Contributing Writers
7 hrs ago
Print Me a New Arm, Please
Print Me a New Arm, Please
I just realized that I hadn’t ever really written about two hot trends in health care: bionics and 3D printing. I better get to it before…
Kim Bellard
3 days ago
A Toast (or a few) to your Health
A Toast (or a few) to your Health
Better self-management coming to a pocket or purse near you
Contributing Writers
Apr 4
The Patient’s Oath
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The Patient’s Oath
by Richard N. Foster[i]
Contributing Writers
Feb 3
Nuance, Digital Health, Innovation, Data, Language, Humanity.
Nuance, Digital Health, Innovation, Data, Language, Humanity.
Medicine is both an art and a science; only innovating the science does a disservice to the patient. #humanityplease
Jordan L. Shlain MD
Aug 6, 2015
Designing the Future of Healthcare
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Designing the Future of Healthcare
Prescribe Design: 12 Design Challenges for Healthcare
Prescribe Design
Sep 20, 2015
The Invisible World of Viruses
The Invisible World of Viruses
Andrew Hessel
Contributing Writers
Mar 17
A 311 for Healthcare is the Future
A 311 for Healthcare is the Future
Primary care has traditionally been an initiative led by a primary care doctor in scheduled exam rooms in a clinical office setting. They…
Jay Parkinson
Mar 24
Healthcare is Shifting, but can it get out of its own way?
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Healthcare is Shifting, but can it get out of its own way?
By Bill Bunting
Contributing Writers
Mar 29
Care Plans: History, Landscape, and Future
Care Plans: History, Landscape, and Future
A three-part series to inform, assess, and provoke
Beth Herlin
Mar 17
An Invisible Epidemic — When your body attacks itself — Autoimmune Disease
An Invisible Epidemic — When your body attacks itself — Autoimmune Disease
How Reframing the Data Unveils a Public Health Crisis Bigger than Cancer and Heart Disease Combined.
Bonnie Feldman
Jan 29
Under the Influence
Under the Influence
A new analysis by ProPublica found that doctors who receive money from drug companies do, in fact, tend to prescribe more brand name drugs…
Kim Bellard
Mar 21
What is Tincture?
What is Tincture?
Let’s get real - really real
Jordan L. Shlain MD
Sep 17, 2015
Compassionate Realism ~ The Art of Medicine in the Context of Death and Dying
Compassionate Realism ~ The Art of Medicine in the Context of Death and Dying
Written in memoriam and dedication to my Grandpa, Bud Rosenthal. (written in 2002 and published in San Francisco Medicine)
Jordan L. Shlain MD
Mar 28
Administrative Bloat and the Opportunity for Price Transparency
Administrative Bloat and the Opportunity for Price Transparency
By Marc-David Munk, MD
Contributing Writers
Mar 30
Genetic Testing for the Masses: Worth It or Not?
Genetic Testing for the Masses: Worth It or Not?
At the end of last year, the Wall Street Journal wrote about a study of employee wellness program from Aetna that included a genetic…
Naveen Rao
Mar 16
Pressure: The Trajectory of Innovation
Pressure: The Trajectory of Innovation
A landmark NIH study made headline news in September 2015. People might be able to reduce heart attacks, heart failure and stroke by almost…
Alan Greene
Sep 25, 2015
Tell Me That Good News Again
Tell Me That Good News Again
Hey, there is some good news about hospitals’ seemingly endless appetite for acquisitions/mergers/consolidation. A new study suggests that…
Kim Bellard
Mar 24
Double Trumped: Trump Fails on Trade and Healthcare
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Double Trumped: Trump Fails on Trade and Healthcare
It’s hard not to know that Donald Trump thinks U.S. has been “killed” on trade deals. According to Trump the reason for “losing so badly…
Stephen Buck
Mar 24
The Future Won’t Be What You Think
The Future Won’t Be What You Think
Many of us are feeling pretty smug about our use of 21st century technology. We love our laptops/tablets/smartphones, and have acquired an…
Kim Bellard
Mar 14
Five Reasons why the End of Meaningful Use is the Beginning of Meaningful Digital Health…
Five Reasons why the End of Meaningful Use is the Beginning of Meaningful Digital Health…
By David Lee Scher, MD
Contributing Writers
Mar 10
Nutrition and Cancer: Where do we go from here?
Nutrition and Cancer: Where do we go from here?
Susan Bratton, Savor Health
Contributing Writers
Mar 4
There They Go Again — Time for some Pharma soul searching
There They Go Again — Time for some Pharma soul searching
I didn’t want to write about pharmaceutical companies. They get enough bad press, and adding to it almost seems like piling on. If Valeant…
Kim Bellard
Mar 3
Here’s an Unusual Tip: Just Do Nothing
Here’s an Unusual Tip: Just Do Nothing
Why do we humans always feel the urge to fill every second of our lives with mundane, useless actions? Almost like mindless, instinctual…
Gautam Gulati
Mar 1
Only Ever Two Choices: Iterate or Fail
Only Ever Two Choices: Iterate or Fail
Kyra Bobinet, MD, MPH
Contributing Writers
Feb 29
Perspective: From a Data Parasite
Perspective: From a Data Parasite
I guess I qualify as a research parasite, according to the recent editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The…
Fred trotter
Feb 27
So That’s What Bitcoin Is For
So That’s What Bitcoin Is For
The tech, law enforcement, and privacy worlds are abuzz with the recent decision by Apple to refuse to help the FBI crack the security on…
Kim Bellard
Feb 21
Can Medical technologies actually talk to each other?
Can Medical technologies actually talk to each other?
Interoperability will be healthcare IT’s biggest trend in 2016 as the industry finally sees momentous forward movement.
Sanjeev Agrawal
Jan 11
Blame It On the Old Me
Blame It On the Old Me
New research from Johns Hopkins suggests that if you want to have better habits, you probably should have made better decisions in the past…
Kim Bellard
Feb 15
Brother, Can You Spare a Thousand Dollars?
Brother, Can You Spare a Thousand Dollars?
In game theory, the diner’s dilemma is the situation where, when people agree to split a restaurant bill evenly, the average bill goes up…
Kim Bellard
Feb 6
The Connected Health Design Paradox
The Connected Health Design Paradox
Joseph Kvedar, MD
Contributing Writers
Feb 4
Suffering in the Intensive Care Unit…should not happen.
Suffering in the Intensive Care Unit…should not happen.
Rebecca Guenard is a science writer whose work has been published in Scientific American, Mosiac, and The Atlantic, among others. She lives…
Contributing Writers
Feb 3
The Evidence Is In: People Want to Collaborate with Their Doctors and Co-Produce Their Clinical…
The Evidence Is In: People Want to Collaborate with Their Doctors and Co-Produce Their Clinical…
Originally published on the blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine
Daniel Z. Sands, MD
Feb 2
From the Inside: Andy Slavitt and Karen DeSalvo on ‘Electronic Health Records’ Incentive Programs…
From the Inside: Andy Slavitt and Karen DeSalvo on ‘Electronic Health Records’ Incentive Programs…
By ANDY SLAVITT and KAREN DeSALVO, MD
Contributing Writers
Jan 27
Good to See You Mr. President
Good to See You Mr. President
Richard N. Foster
Contributing Writers
Jan 22
Your Digital Twin Is Worth More Than You
Your Digital Twin Is Worth More Than You
It used to be said that the human body was only worth pennies, based on its minerals (although that has been updated to $160), If one…
Kim Bellard
Jan 20
DA BLOG -The Lewin Report
DA BLOG -The Lewin Report
Uh Oh — Health Care Costs Are Skyrocketing Again!
Contributing Writers
Jan 19
Does Insurance give Assurance — what if it doesn’t?
Does Insurance give Assurance — what if it doesn’t?
Let’s say you have a product that you just can’t get the public to want. You market the heck out of it, you sell a bunch of different…
Kim Bellard
Jan 7
EHR — Electronic Health Record or Electronic Handcuff Rabbithole
EHR — Electronic Health Record or Electronic Handcuff Rabbithole
You wouldn’t — I hope — still drive your car while trying to read a paper map. Hopefully you’re not holding up your phone to follow…
Kim Bellard
Dec 31, 2015
It’s a Doc’s Life
It’s a Doc’s Life
There is an old expression “it’s a dog’s life” used to describe a life that is hard and unpleasant. That expression is probably outdated…
Kim Bellard
Dec 29, 2015
Can Finland teach us a thing or two about the future of health (and wearables)? Looks like ‘yes’.
Can Finland teach us a thing or two about the future of health (and wearables)? Looks like ‘yes’.
By Jody Ranck, DrPH ~ Author of “Connected Health: How Mobiles, Cloud and Big Data Will Reinvent Healthcare” (2012) and health strategist.
Contributing Writers
Dec 22, 2015
Our Politics Are Killing Us
Our Politics Are Killing Us
Doctors train to find the diseases behind the symptoms and signs. But, social diseases, like poverty, are usually hidden behind the ones…
Rajiv Bhatia, MD
Dec 18, 2015
Stanford MedicineX — Video — Propublica panel on data transparency and the Surgical Scorecard and…
Stanford MedicineX — Video — Propublica panel on data transparency and the Surgical Scorecard and…
unintended consquences
unintended consquences
Jordan L. Shlain MD
Dec 8, 2015
Portability of Information Solves Interoperability ~ Part II: 2020 - The Data Democracy
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Portability of Information Solves Interoperability ~ Part II: 2020 - The Data Democracy
We Americans, we’re sick and tired of being sick and tired. We’re tired of reading that the interoperability of our health data is only a…
Anil Sethi
Nov 30, 2015
A Data in The Life ~ a Tincture series ~ Part I: The Data Democracy 2020
A Data in The Life ~ a Tincture series ~ Part I: The Data Democracy 2020
October 12, 2020
Anil Sethi
Nov 23, 2015
Does the British National Health Service (NHS) have a future?
Does the British National Health Service (NHS) have a future?
A lot is being said in the media about the future of the NHS right now… It is a system with tremendously high ideals, and is our finest…
Warris Bokhari
Nov 8, 2015
Boomers cough up a gigantic healthcare hairball ~ Can Millennials comb it?
Boomers cough up a gigantic healthcare hairball ~ Can Millennials comb it?
Healthcare’s hyperinflation-driving fortress has been impenetrable to forces trying to disrupt it over the last couple decades. Whether…
Dave Chase
Nov 10, 2015
~ Return on Investment vs. Return on Impact ~
~ Return on Investment vs. Return on Impact ~
What is the real ROI we can expect by designing health as opposed to tinkering.
Prescribe Design
Nov 9, 2015
Weight-Loss — i’ve got an app for that…..and it doesn’t work)
Weight-Loss — i’ve got an app for that…..and it doesn’t work)
NOVEMBER 2015
Contributing Writers
Nov 9, 2015
Corporate Wellness Programs Lose Money
Corporate Wellness Programs Lose Money
by Al Lewis and Vik Khanna
Contributing Writers
Nov 7, 2015
The Cell…. Reimagined
The Cell…. Reimagined
I’ve been obsessed with biology every since I was a kid. It started all the way back from the time when I had to make regular visits to the…
Nikhil Buduma
Dec 27, 2014
Thinking Outside the Bottle and Inside the Packaging
Thinking Outside the Bottle and Inside the Packaging
by Stephen Buck
Stephen Buck
Oct 28, 2015
WHY WOMEN INVESTING IN AND CHAMPIONING WOMEN IN TECH MAKES SENSE
WHY WOMEN INVESTING IN AND CHAMPIONING WOMEN IN TECH MAKES SENSE
Denise Terry
Contributing Writers
Oct 16, 2015
Whistleblower Doctor Warns About Hospitals Hiring Physicians
Whistleblower Doctor Warns About Hospitals Hiring Physicians
By Jay Hancock of Kaiser Health News — October 7, 2015
Contributing Writers
Oct 11, 2015
Thoughts on the Digital Health Gold Rush
Thoughts on the Digital Health Gold Rush
The following post also appeared today in the new Oliver Wyman Health blog produced by Oliver Wyman’s Health & Life Science Practice.
lisasuennen
Oct 9, 2015
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