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How Would You Spend $100 Million?

Matt Mattox | Axial Exchange | January 29, 2013

Picture one hundred million dollars. 1,000 units of $100,000. Health systems routinely spend that much on a new EHR system. Keep in mind that EHRs are software systems that no one seems to love, that have dubious impact on care quality, and that are fundamentally ill-suited for the patient-centric future of healthcare. Nevertheless... Read More »

Incoming President Of IOM Outed As Member Of Boards Of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Medtronic And Pepsico

Roy M. Poses | Health Care Renewal | February 24, 2014

We just discussed how the new CEO of the National Quality Forum was revealed to be a member of the board of directors of Premier Inc, and discussed the implications of this apparently intense conflict of interest. Read More »

Just What The Doctor Ordered: Med Students Team With Chefs

Kristin Gourlay | NPR | September 18, 2013

[...] "I think it's forward thinking to start to see, to view food as medicine," he says. "That's not something that's really on our radar in medical education. But with the burden of disease in the United States being so heavily weighted with lifestyle disease, I think it's a very, very logical next step." Read More »

Look How Quickly The U.S. Got Fat (1985-2010 Animated Map)

James Hamblin | The Atlantic | April 11, 2013

This shows the percentages of the U.S. population medically defined as obese, which means a body mass index of 30 or greater. BMI isn't an ideal metric to evaluate obesity, but it's still what the U.S. standardly uses. Read More »

Modern Medicine May Not Be Doing Your Microbiome Any Favors

Staff Writer | NPR Books | April 14, 2014

There are lots of theories about why food allergies, asthma, celiac disease and intestinal disorders like Crohn's disease have been on the rise. Dr. Martin Blaser speculates that it may be connected to the overuse of antibiotics, which has resulted in killing off strains of bacteria that typically live in the gut. Read More »

New Cancer Cases Worldwide Expected To Skyrocket

Nanci Hellmich | USA Today | February 4, 2014

Cancer deaths worldwide are predicted to rise from 8.2 million annually to 13 million a year with two decades, according to a new report. Read More »

New Evidence That Sugar Is Harming Our Hearts

Alice G. Walton | Forbes | February 3, 2014

If the torrent of studies suggesting that sugar is bad for our health wasn’t quite enough, new research again suggests that added dietary sugar increases the risk of death from heart disease. Read More »

New Tool Takes Measure Of Public Health

Staff Writer | Healthcare IT News | August 26, 2014

It has historically been difficult for public health officials — especially at cash-strapped state and local departments — to  gauge whether their outreach and initiatives really work. A new tool from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Health Partners aims to change that...

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No Bitter Pill: Doctors Prescribe Fruits And Veggies

Allison Aubrey | NPR | September 12, 2013

It was the Greeks who first counseled to let food be thy medicine. And, it seems, some doctors are taking this age-old advice to heart. In New York City physicians are writing prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables. That's right, 'scripts for produce. Read More »

NYC Doctors Are Now Prescribing Fruits And Veggies

Katherine O'Marra | NPR | July 24, 2013

Doctors typically give patients prescriptions for medications. But a new program in New York City has doctors prescribing fruits and vegetables to obese or overweight patients. Read More »

Obesity And The AMA

Vik Khanna | The Health Care Blog | June 27, 2013

Last week’s announcement by the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) council on science and public health cheered me. It said that the AMA should not designate obesity a disease, because doing so was unlikely to improve health outcomes and because the most widely utilized obesity metric — the body mass index or BMI — was simplistic and flawed. [...] Read More »

Prediction: Health Wearables To Save 1.3 Million Lives By 2020

Brian Dolan | MobiHealthNews | December 16, 2014

Smart wearable devices may help save 1.3 million lives by 2020, according to a prediction made by Switzerland-based firm Soreon Research. According to the analyst group: “Smart wearables, a set of sensors attached to the body with a direct link to smart devices, are the most industry-disrupting innovation as well as a major opportunity to transform the healthcare system.”...

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Psychiatric Tsunami: 1 In 5 Children Now Have A Mental Disorder

Bill Wilson | The CARB Syndrome Project | May 24, 2013

Last week the CDC released a report titled “Mental Health Surveillance Among Children — United States, 2005–2011”. For the first time the US government has taken a close look at the incidence and prevalence of common childhood disorders such as ADHD, depression, anxiety disorders, serious behavior problems and similar conditions. Read More »

Public Health Departments Get Nods For Novel Data Use

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | July 18, 2013

Three local health departments in Oregon, North Carolina and Colorado have won awards from the National Association of County and City Health Officials for data- and IT-driven projects in sustainable transportation planning, health disparity reductions and mobile immunization collections. Read More »

Rethink Data, Transform Healthcare - Unlocking The Value Of Health Data

We are all consumers of healthcare and therefore have a vested interest in its future. As an observation, being an outsider to this sector, the healthcare global system looks increasingly broken as the rate of change and complexity increases. At the same time, my empathy is with those people working inside the profession that provide high quality, compassionate healthcare, and support. But maybe more help is needed to handle the relentless challenges and changes at the edge. Read More »