Digital Health

APRIL 1, 2018

Note to readers: I originally wrote this piece in May of 2014. I was reminded of it today when a colleague from work suggested I look at the Spurious Correlations website, which I hadn’t checked out in a while. While we don’t often call it “Big Data” anymore, having moved on to the new jargon […].

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 1, 2018

Just as the airline industry creates a “manageable cockpit” to keep pilots from being overwhelmed, it’s time the healthcare industry takes steps to protect doctors and other clinicians. “For many clinicians, the work of healthcare has become undoable,” write Christine A. Sinsky, M.D., and Michael R. Privitera, M.D., in an opinion piece in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 1, 2018

For years many have argued that it’s wrong for research that’s funded by the government (i.e. taxpayers) to be hidden from the people who paid for it (taxpayers) by hiding the results behind paywalls. This tradition not only makes it harder for taxpayers to share in the benefits of what we paid for, it makes it harder for as all to examine, frankly, how good the research was.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 1, 2018

The government needs better information to know whether the country is training enough future doctors to meet patient needs, according to a Government Accountability Office report. In a new report, the GAO recommended that HHS get a better handle on those data to help ensure government funds that go toward paying for residency training are being used effectively.

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Medicine and Technology

APRIL 1, 2018

April 2-8 marks ?National Public Health Week (NPHW). Each day is marked with a specific public health theme: Monday, April 2: Behavioral Health Advocate for and promote well-being Focus on and advocate for improved access to mental and behavioral health services. Use education and training to de-stigmatize mental health diagnoses and encourage people experiencing mental illness to seek treatment.

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