"Provide value-for-money in a consumer-facing milieu."

"Tools that distract, tools that mislead, tools causing cognitive overload are simply dangerous in such an environment."

"An almost comical attempt to hold back the tide."

"Since insurance commissioners have obviously not carried out their duty to reform their own industry, why do they want to regulate mine?" The establishment moves against concierge medicine.

A call for evidence-based forensics.

"Children (as in 8-to 18-year-olds) are becoming caregivers (as in giving injections, monitoring medications, talking to doctors and nurses, changing diapers) for their ill or disabled parents, grandparents, and siblings."

"Her desire to avoid treatments tested on animals was in conflict with her desire to live, and she went with the desire that was stronger." Good comment thread.

"How long can we grow this subject before dismembering it to get useful cells?"

Machine-learning. Big plans.

Great design.

Fascinating follow-up to last Tuesday's Part I post on stenting v. bypass surgery and what it implies about the future of centralized healthcare. "How do cardiologists (or any other well-educated, intelligent individuals) get to the point where they are able to act primarily in their own best interests, while insisting to everyone - even to themselves - that they are actually acting in the best interests of others?"

Christopher Lawton in the Wall Street Journal via The Health 2.0 Blog.

Ominous: The "transition to personal responsibility and accountability will probably take place in healthcare sooner or later ... And, the members of the healthcare establishment, working together with Federal and State Government, have the power to drive this change."

Overview of dominating standards.

"I am more worried about the bias I cannot detect but I know is there."

The limitations of brain scan research. "I'm feeling a very large error-related negativity at the moment. Maybe I need a Xanax. Or a religious experience..."

"For insurers who want to outsource, the main question is how to convince patients to hop a 25-hour flight for a triple bypass."

Was it the flaxseed oil?

Fine-tuning hair restoration. Benign cosmetic genomics.

Online Social Network of over 42,000 doctors, medical students and pre-med students.

"The incentive you need to get physicians ... to purchase and use ill conceived, cavalierly designed HIT that saps their time and cognitive focus is not monetary."

Many links to mobile health reports.

for Europeans.

Another view on Google Health Sharing.

"many mainsteam small practice primary care physicians are not prepared to assemble, buy or rent all the components of a medical home team."

From MaryMeets Dolly.com via Biopinionated.

Very good skeptical comment thread.

From Baystate Medical Center's former chief of acute pain, Scott S. Reuben.

"Health Vault's privacy policy states that the information you deposit in the "vault" may be used to display "content and advertising that are customized to your interests and preferences."

Eldercare balance assistance. CNN video.

Interesting live implementation.

"How will software, ubiquitous broadband, wireless, tele-monitoring, telemedicine, globalization, and the Net impact clinical workflow?"

and compliance.

Rotsa Ruck.

Gold Rush excitement over health IT.

Maybe "parents of disabled children will be increasingly viewed by society as being responsible for their child's disease."

Health 2.0 stars get noticed.

Cord blood banks.

Gene detectives.

in mice.