July 2008
30 posts
Coming Soon: Dr Jay Parkinson’s Hello Health... →
Another nice blog post about Hello Health. Thanks Christine!
Contentious Relationships Between Doctors and... →
Hello Health will be like when you are dating someone and it’s a rocky, rocky road and then you find the one you love and realize what you used to know was just one big mess.
Even the customs guy knows me.
I recently returned from Quebec City through Newark and was going through customs. I filled out my customs form and stepped up to the Customs Officer at the computer. He asked me what I do and I told him “I’m a physician.” He looked at me and said “Do you make house calls?” I told him I only make house calls. He said “I know you! I read a story about you a...
Racked: Storecasting: Hello Health Says Hi to... →
Nice to hear that the local blogs are picking up on the Hello Health launch.
Online, R U Really Reading? Is the internet... →
So the academic discussion is now being had regarding whether or not, reading on the internet is actual reading in the traditional form. Some say online reading is more engaging and beneficial and other’s say that To Kill a Mockingbird is better for the brain. I say it’s apples and oranges.
Steven Johnson wrote a book a few years back called Everything Bad is Good For You that...
MedPedia →
For God’s sake…finally. This is the kind of thing we’ve needed for quite some time. Kudos to those who run this site. They were able to get some big names behind their efforts. The others who have tried to do this have so far unfortunately failed. Hopefully this one will take off.
A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss →
Locally grown food is one of the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint. And now someone has wrapped an interesting business model around it. Hopefully it works.
What Medicine Owes the Beatles →
No Beatles = No CT Scan
John McCain Can't Read This Column →
Gothamist: More Than Neglect in Kings County... →
This is horrible. She was literally waiting for over 24 hours to be seen.
Just another reason why our country ranks 37th in the world for healthcare systems.
Live Show This Week
reggiewatts:
Reggie Watts is performing solo at Joe’s Pub this Thursday night.
Tickets + info
One of the best things you’ll see and hear…
Slipstream - On a Small Screen, Just the Salient... →
Excellent description of how to think when building interfaces.
Radiohead Use Fancy Technology in Camera-Free... →
“I always like the idea of using technology in a way that it wasn’t meant to be used, the struggle to get your head round what you can do with it. I liked the idea of making a video of human beings and real life and time without using any cameras, just lasers, so there are just mathematical points— and how strangely emotional it ended up being.”
Rentometer - Get House and Apartment Rental Comps... →
This was a long time coming. I was wondering just a few weeks ago why someone hasn’t made such an awesome site like this for rental prices. Nice to know I pay “very close” to the median rent in my area. It’s still a friggin’ $2100 a month humble little railroad-style apartment but that’s NYC.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to do this for healthcare...
The iPhone App Store is up. →
There are a few healthcare related apps. However, nothing looks practical for physician use except ePocrates.
Once again, we have to look toward other industries like Salesforce and The Omnigroup to help physicians practice better medicine. Even developers understand that physicians have no incentive to use technology even when it’s free…hence the reason why 95% of the healthcare...
My petition to the FDA (and subsequent lawsuit)... →
While I was working with Sidney Wolfe at Public Citizen, he and I wrote a petition to the FDA along with the Illinois Attorney General to petition the FDA to include a black box warning on fluoroquinolone antibiotics warning of spontaneous tendon rupture.
Sid just emailed me and said we prevailed.
Public Citizen is literally the only full-time watchdog group in America keeping an eye on the FDA...
Hello Health.com →
Your friendly 21st century neighborhood doctor…
We’re launching July 15th at 105 Berry Street in Williamsburg…it’s a lovely storefront with old pressed tin ceilings and big hardwood plank floors.
Medical travel to Thailand's Bumrungrad... →
My aunt, who has been living in Saudi Arabia for the past 28 years, says this place is like a little medical utopia — just as described by Kenneth Mays, the Marketing Director for Bumrungad.
Money Quote:
“VG: So that model is very different than the US model, which tends to be reactive. So do you have, say, a list of set prices that you post on the door, that the people can even...
Beyond Keywords: Structure and Intelligence from... →
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the... →
The scientific method will be dead soon.
I’ve been grappling with this issue as I’ve been thinking about the platform we’re building. It was at one time so confusing — all of these medical data models constructed years ago — ICPC-2, ICD-9, ICD-10, soon ICD-11, and the list goes on.
Does Google have all of these ultra rigid database models to ensure it finds what...
Watchnoahkalina:
Weezer cover Radiohead’s Creep, live in Portland
Hospital video shows no one helped dying woman →
This is what happens when reimbursement is skewed towards specialists and procedures and away from primary care. People in need of mental services (which is of course horribly not reimbursed) are left dying in the waiting room while staff and security mosy on by.
I’m sorry but these policies stem from the very top. Bush and his lackeys did absolutely nothing to even start to solve our...