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An Epidemic Of Disillusioned Doctors?
Last week I was ready to quit medicine. I was seeing a new patient with diabetes, heart disease, anemia, hypertension, osteopenia, hypothyroidism, reflux, depression and pain in every part of her body... Read More »
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An Open Letter To Health Entrepreneurs
Throughout my journey in medicine, I’ve been asked countless times why healthcare moves so slowly. Many of the same technological challenges have existed for years, if not decades, and despite numerous attempts to invade/disrupt/revolutionize the healthcare space, these efforts have altogether been more amusing than fruitful. Read More »
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An Open Letter To Washington, D.C. From A Physician On The Front Lines.
I am writing this letter because I feel that our leaders and lawmakers do not have an accurate picture of what it actually entails to become a physician today; specifically, the financial, intellectual, social, mental, and physical demands of the profession. Read More »
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An Overview Of The AHRQ Patient Engagement Guide
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released its patient engagement guide on July 8. The insights contained in the Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Safety and Quality were field tested at 3 medium-sized hospitals across the country. Read More »
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Analysis: Obamacare Can't Fail
The standard of success for the Affordable Care Act keeps getting weaker. Whether in enrollment numbers, federal savings, or the workings of its website, the White House has repeatedly lowered the bar for the law when it has missed expectations, replacing initial standards with ones that are lower, squishier, or nonexistent. Read More »
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Analytics In Healthcare: The Nervous System Of IT-Enabled Healthcare
iHT² recently announced the release of “Analytics: The Nervous System of IT-Enabled Healthcare.” This complimentary report will help executives from areas of focus for the Analytics: The Nervous System of IT-Enabled Healthcare research project including creating a nervous system and solid infrastructure foundation [...]. Read More »
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Anatomy Of An Electronic Health Record Zero-Day
How a dangerous security flaw discovered in one of the most pervasive electronic medical record platforms in the U.S. was found and fixed before it could do damage Read More »
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Another Senior VA Official Steps Down
Veterans Affairs deputy secretary W. Scott Gould has resigned. The news was first reported by Federal News Radio. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki put out a statement via the department’s web site... Read More »
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AnsibleWorks Raises $6 Million To Grow Popular Open Source Enterprise IT Automation Solution
AnsibleWorks, Inc., the company behind Ansible, the popular Open Source IT automation solution, announced today the completion of a $6 million dollar round of funding led by Menlo Ventures. Read More »
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Antibiotic Use In Chickens: Responsible For Hundreds Of Human Deaths?
In the long back and forth between science and agriculture over the source of antibiotic resistance in humans — Due to antibiotic overuse on farms, or in human medicine? — one question has been stubbornly hard to answer. If antibiotic-resistant bacteria do arise on farms, do they leave the farm and circulate in the wider world? And if they do, how much damage do they do? Read More »
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Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Are A Genuine Threat We Must All Fight
Advances in medicine are in jeopardy. Doctors, governments, drug companies and patients all must change their behaviour Read More »
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Antibiotic-Resistant Diseases Pose 'Apocalyptic' Threat, Top Expert Says
Chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies tells MPs issue should be added to national risk register of civil emergencies Read More »
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Antibiotics And The Meat We Eat
SCIENTISTS at the Food and Drug Administration systematically monitor the meat and poultry sold in supermarkets around the country for the presence of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. These food products are bellwethers that tell us how bad the crisis of antibiotic resistance is getting. And they’re telling us it’s getting worse. Read More »
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App Aims To Reduce Maternal Mortality
Hesperian Health Guides has developed a smartphone application designed to guide pregnant women, midwives and health workers in rural areas through a safe pregnancy and delivery. Read More »
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App Lets Amputees Program Their Own Bionic Hands
Double-amputee Jason Koger used to fly hundreds of miles to visit a clinician when he wanted to adjust the grips on his bionic hands. Now, he's got an app. Read More »
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