These are dark times for health care everywhere. I'm here to help you decipher the terms. We keep hearing it: budgets are tight; ...
Why Medicine Can't Be Managed
If twenty-odd years of administrative meddling should have taught us anything, it's that all the plans in the world for medicine and hea...
A Proposal for Disruptive Regulation of EHRs
The latest salvo in the interoperability and information-blocking debate comes from two academic experts in the field of informatics, and ...
Health Care Viewed from Alpha Centauri
If someone was sitting on a veranda somewhere in the Alpha Centauri system, reading about health care in America of planet Earth, one woul...
Back to the Future Garden of Eden
The very first thing Adam and Eve did after acquiring the wisdom to distinguish between good and evil was to cover themselves up and hide ...
Excerpts from a Doctor's Personal Journal
Guest Post by ANONYMOUS PHYSICIAN 4/18/13 …finally certified as a PCMH with NCQA. We’re meeting Meaningful Use requirements and are busier...
The DoD EHR: Ah Hell, Let's Try Again
The health information technology (HIT) world has been hit by a watershed event like no other. The Department of Defense (DoD), widely res...
Measuring the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Sixty years ago, before he became a controversial figure in the field of psychiatry, Dr. Thomas S. Szasz co-authored an article for the Ar...
How much is that PCMH in the Window?
Much has been written about the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of primary care, both complimentary and critical. Most evaluati...
The Quantified Doctor-Patient Relationship
In a previous post we explored the doctor-patient relationship, which according to many is an important factor influencing the health care...
The Middle-Aged Consumer in the Coal Mine
Whenever you read a health care article, paper, book, blog post or even tweet, that substitutes the term consumers for patients, and the t...
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