Health IT Pundits and Perhaps the Most Logically Fallacious (And Even Cold-Hearted) Statement I've Seen About Health IT to Date info

Health IT Pundits and Perhaps the Most Logically Fallacious (And Even Cold-Hearted) Statement I've Seen About Health IT to Date in healthy blog. The KevinMD blog has reposted George Lundberg's MedPage Today post "Health IT: Garbage In, Garbage Out", retitled as "Health IT has problems, but is worth the price." I covered Dr. Lundberg's original post at my Nov. 16, 2011 essay "George Lundberg, MD: The Promise of Health IT, and a Caveat."As the KevinMD blog is exceptionally well-read, I

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Health: Energy drinks + sports could equal danger

Energy drinks + sports could equal danger in healthy blog. Robyn Norwood, USA Today, says some athletes are turning not to ‘roids or blood doping, but the legal booster Red Bull.Meaning caffeine. Lots of caffeine. I remember a big debate on coffee when I was in HS—when could kids drink it.Now, docs have to write in PEDIATRICS that caffeine is bad for kids and adolescents and should not be chugged during sports or physical activity.This stuff can whack our your heart. Or even cause seizures.

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Health IT Pundits and Perhaps the Most Logically Fallacious (And Even Cold-Hearted) Statement I've Seen About Health IT to Date info

Health IT Pundits and Perhaps the Most Logically Fallacious (And Even Cold-Hearted) Statement I've Seen About Health IT to Date in healthy blog. The KevinMD blog has reposted George Lundberg's MedPage Today post "Health IT: Garbage In, Garbage Out", retitled as "Health IT has problems, but is worth the price." I covered Dr. Lundberg's original post at my Nov. 16, 2011 essay "George Lundberg, MD: The Promise of Health IT, and a Caveat."As the KevinMD blog is exceptionally well-read, I

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Health IT Pundits and Perhaps the Most Logically Fallacious (And Even Cold-Hearted) Statement I've Seen About Health IT to Date info

Health IT Pundits and Perhaps the Most Logically Fallacious (And Even Cold-Hearted) Statement I've Seen About Health IT to Date in healthy blog. The KevinMD blog has reposted George Lundberg's MedPage Today post "Health IT: Garbage In, Garbage Out", retitled as "Health IT has problems, but is worth the price." I covered Dr. Lundberg's original post at my Nov. 16, 2011 essay "George Lundberg, MD: The Promise of Health IT, and a Caveat."As the KevinMD blog is exceptionally well-read, I

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"Corruption Kills," So Why Is Health Care Corruption Ignored? info

"Corruption Kills," So Why Is Health Care Corruption Ignored? in healthy blog. An article published last month by PLoS One(1) emphasizes the stark contrast between the likely impact on health of corruption, including health care corruption, and the attention paid to it.  The Methodologic DetailsThe authors performed an ecological, country-level analysis to assess the association of perceived national corruption level (measured by Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions

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In Michigan, Intentional Alteration of Medical Records is a Felony info

In Michigan, Intentional Alteration of Medical Records is a Felony in healthy blog. I addressed the issue of alteration of electronic medical records and the dearth of truly meaningful penalties at posts such as:"Stroud v. Abington Memorial Hospital: Is This Why Chart Alteration Might Be Appealing?","On Penalties for Alteration of Electronic Health Records"and"UPMC and the Sweet death that wasn't very sweet: How EMRs can detract from a clear narrative, and facilitate spoliation and

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Health: HIV patients not getting best care

HIV patients not getting best care in healthy blog. David Brown, Wash Post, Nov 29, 2011, says only 28% of Americans with the HIV virus are getting tiptop care.The goal is to suppress the virus so it’s no longer detectable—only a little more than a quarter have achieved that. This is according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The problem is people who don’t know they have HIV—for those in treatment, 77% have suppressed the virus.More than 75% of those who find they have

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"Corruption Kills," So Why Is Health Care Corruption Ignored? info

"Corruption Kills," So Why Is Health Care Corruption Ignored? in healthy blog. An article published last month by PLoS One(1) emphasizes the stark contrast between the likely impact on health of corruption, including health care corruption, and the attention paid to it.  The Methodologic DetailsThe authors performed an ecological, country-level analysis to assess the association of perceived national corruption level (measured by Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions

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