What’s to Become of Primary Care? Or, Something to Do with Computers

You may not be ready to admit it even to yourself, but you know it’s changing. Permanently. Some say it’s for the better. Others say it’s fo...

JASON: The Great American Experiment

The distinguished JASON group of anonymous scientists and academics that provides consulting services to the U.S. government on matters of d...

Teachable Moments: Be Thankful for Gruber

So there is this guy from MIT or Harvard, or some other place where they teach our leaders how to lead, and his name is Jonathan Gruber. Mr....

Quick Medicine

By the time the next decade rolls in there will be no paper charts. There will probably still be paper floating around in various capacities...

Technology for Onesies Twosies

“We’re not really set up to service onesies twosies… Oh, I’d say at least fifty to even begin a conversation… There’s no money there, and su...

Public APIs: The Ultimate Silver Bomb

Congratulations! We have a new buzzword trending in health care IT - Public APIs.  You can say public APIs everywhere you used to say intero...

How Health Care Went Tabloid

Physicians, whether practicing medicine or not, should not be involved in clinical research. They should never be consulted on development o...