MONDAY
February 9, 2009
Clinical Benefits of Social Media (Part 1) - Wireless Insulin Pumps
HealthTechnica
An example from YouTube.
Life Outside the Bell Curve, a.k.a. The Limitations of the Evidence Base
Health skepticism about EBM.
Personalized Genomics: A Critical Review!
The Gene Sherpa: Personalized Medicine and You
Conference slides, commentary and a good comment thread. Also, "gizmo idolatry."
Matt Cutts hacks his WiiFit for biometrics
The Quantified Self
Illustrative show-and-tell by a famous Googler about open architecture, digital literacy and personal technology.
TUESDAY
February 10, 2009
Should patients be treated as customers, and if so, are they always right?
KevinMD.com - Medical Weblog
Information Security Concepts in Healthcare: Authorization
HealthTechnica
The complexities of secure EHRs.
Software FREEdom -- Adware within Healthcare Reconsidered
Crossover Healthcare
An analysis of Practice Fusion "fremium" EHR.
WEDNESDAY
February 11, 2009
"Triumph of Hope Over Experience" department: Healthcare IT as totalitarian tool?
Health Care Renewal
Health IT isn't worth the billions.
How Electronic Medical Records Can Be Used To Test Drug Efficacy
IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today
Mining large EMR databases could "circumvent studies too costly or unethical for clinical trials." In silico rather than in vivo.
More on senescence and allograft rejection
Ouroboros
It's now how old the kidney is, it's how old the kidney feels.
Diverse 'connectomes' hint at genes' limits in the nervous system
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news
The complete wiring diagram (connectome) of a neural circuit.
Google Peer Review!? [A Blog Around The Clock]
ScienceBlogs Channel : Technology
GPeerReview, "a decentralized social-network of reviewers and papers."
Now Wait Just A Dadgum Minute
The Covert Rationing Blog
A study of "colonoscopies without using sedation ...
examining the willingness of American patients to tolerate pain and suffering far beyond current standards of care, in order to save the system some money."
A Shared Roadmap and Vision for Health IT
The Health Care Blog
The alphabet soup of standards, organizations and accreditations needed to synch health IT.
Collaboration Key to Affordable, Safe Health Care for All
The New Health Dialogue
Case Study: Virginia Mason Medical Center
Your genome will be public
The Quantified Self
Sicussion about the "inevitable public status of all individual human genomes."
THURSDAY
February 12, 2009
In ‘Sobering’ Finding, Care Coordination Doesn’t Save Money
WSJ.com: Health Blog
No panacea with the medical home.
Nanotech is booming in India
NanomedicineCenter.com
"The number of publications skyrocketed from 2,200 in 2007 to nearly 21,000 at the end of 2007."
Arizona Data Base for Physicians and Pharmacists to locate the “Doctor-Shopping Patients”
The Medical Quack
Scientists Read Minds With Infrared Scan: Optical Brain Imaging Decodes Preference With 80 Percent Accuracy
ScienceDaily: Neuroscience News
Cool hat.
Free, open-source software enables innovation with popular but tricky lab technique
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news
A new tool for designing and optimizing complex electrophoresis problems.
"Voodoo Correlations" in fMRI -- Whose voodoo?
Neuroskeptic
Review of Ed Vul et. al.'s "Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience".