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(HC)3 - Health Care Cubed: July 2011
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Sunday, July 17, 2011. The Perfect Patient is. Boring. For my board, the American Board of Family Medicine, part of the "Maintenance of Certification" program is passing a patient simulation program. It's pretty sophisticated. I was presented with a patient. I typed in my questions to the patient for the history. Did a physical. Made an assessment and recommended treatment. I followed the patient for 1 year (in the span of about 90 minutes). For an hour or two, it was kinda nice to be the doctor to the p...
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(HC)3 - Health Care Cubed: May 2011
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Saturday, May 7, 2011. Health Care and Paying Fishermen to Catch Plastic. The European Union Commissioner of Fisheries announced this past week a plan to start paying fishermen to catch plastic, instead of paying them to catch fish, in order to prevent depletion of fish stocks and provide an alternative source of income. Click here. For a story about it from the UK's. Most news outlets were filing this story under the "Odd News" category, but this story should have went straight into the "Health" section.
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(HC)3 - Health Care Cubed: Because No One Wanted to Publish It: The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data Collection
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Sunday, October 26, 2014. Because No One Wanted to Publish It: The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data Collection. Although we fly the flag of improving human health, we need to continuously and carefully consider how we conduct ourselves with the biomedical big data that people have generously trusted us with. I have attached the paper below. Bioethics, biomedical data, biomedical informatics, population health, public health, big data. American Medical Informatics Association 2012). Principle of Least Intrus...
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(HC)3 - Health Care Cubed: 3-D Printing Shows Us How Industrialized Health Care Can Be More Person-Focused
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Sunday, January 6, 2013. 3-D Printing Shows Us How Industrialized Health Care Can Be More Person-Focused. I heard a story on NPR. About 3-D printers and how they will significantly change our lives, just like the steam engine, the telegraph and the personal computer did for us in the past. What's a 3-D printer? Basically, it's a box that is controlled by a computer that creates objects. What kind of objects? How about industrializing health care? As we try to move the dial on health care quality, we some...
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(HC)3 - Health Care Cubed: Why It's Important to Us that World is Mad that the Australian Open Women's Champion Took a "Medical Timeout"
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Saturday, January 26, 2013. Why It's Important to Us that World is Mad that the Australian Open Women's Champion Took a "Medical Timeout". Victoria Azarenka, a Belarusian tennis player who is currently ranked #1, just won the 2012 Australian Open. However, her journey to the title was not without a controversial hiccup that speaks volumes to the health care world. If Azarenka had left the tennis court to pop an anxiety medication, would that have been any different than if she had left to be shot full of...
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(HC)3 - Health Care Cubed: There is Value in Being Sicker than Other Wealthy Nations
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Sunday, January 13, 2013. There is Value in Being Sicker than Other Wealthy Nations. A few days ago, the Institute of Medicine, IOM, released a report which showed that health outcomes of the United States are worse than other wealthy nations. The IOM is part of the National Academies. They are supposed to be an independent organization that works outside of government to give advice to decision makers and the public. A 4 - 5 minute YouTube video from the IOM about the report is embedded below. Tim is a ...
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(HC)3 - Health Care Cubed: November 2012
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Friday, November 30, 2012. More Fiscal Cliff Noise: Tax Employer Based Health Insurance Premiums. I'm sure that everyone is sick and tired of hearing about the so-called "fiscal cliff", but here's one I haven't heard of yet: Why not tax employer based health insurance premiums? Well, beside having a lot, and I mean a lot, of mad people, you suddenly have employees stepping up to the plate to help reduce health care premiums, and subsequently health care costs. (Remember? My posting.) Click HERE. Tim is a...
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(HC)3 - Health Care Cubed: April 2012
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Up in the sky! Oh It's just technology. Published online recently by. Archives of Internal Medicine. A study showed that older, frail patients who used telemonitoring did not. Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Where did "Every Person, Every Place, Every Time" come from? What's the meaning behind it? More recently, our Southern California leadership came up with the same tagline. It's no accident or coincidence, since we're all aligned with trying to improve lives. Every person" initia...
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(HC)3 - Health Care Cubed: January 2013
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Saturday, January 26, 2013. Why It's Important to Us that World is Mad that the Australian Open Women's Champion Took a "Medical Timeout". Victoria Azarenka, a Belarusian tennis player who is currently ranked #1, just won the 2012 Australian Open. However, her journey to the title was not without a controversial hiccup that speaks volumes to the health care world. If Azarenka had left the tennis court to pop an anxiety medication, would that have been any different than if she had left to be shot full of...
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