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'Miserable' Doctors Prescribe A Different Career

Celeste Headlee | NPR | April 17, 2014

A lot of children grow up wanting to be doctors, but now some physicians are discouraging others from joining the profession. What has changed over the years?

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How are Clinical Decision Support Artifacts Tested Today?

In October 2018 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Request for Information (RFI) for a Natural Test Collaborative (NTC). Through a series of questions, the RFI seeks opinions and information about "The development of a national testbed (notionally called the National Test Collaborative (NTC)) for real-world testing of health information technology (IT)" and "Approaches for creating a sustainable infrastructure" to achieve it. The scope of this RFI is daunting. It might be useful, rather than to try to tackle this whole topic broadly but superficially, to take just one Clinical Decision Support (CDS) domain and show as completely as possible how testing is currently done.

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Open ImmuCast: An 'Open Source' Immunization Forecasting Web Service

Press Release | Scientific Technologies Corporation | March 18, 2013

STC is thrilled to introduce Open ImmuCast™, a free and open source immunization forecasting web service now available to public health entities in the U.S. STC’s over twenty years of experience in developing immunization evaluation and forecasting solutions and the implementation success of the forecasting algorithm combine to make Open ImmuCast™ a reliable and proven product. Read More »

State Of Health: Prevention Is What Matters

Deepak Chopra | LinkedIn | March 24, 2014

I have been in the health industry for the last forty-five years. When I was doing my residency and fellowship in various Boston hospitals our main attention was on sickness. For the most part this is still the case.

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Why Doesn’t Everyone Have A Pocket Ultrasound Machine?

Janice Boughten | KevinMD.com | May 1, 2014

For about 2 years now a tiny ultrasound machine has been part of my standard physical exam tools as I take care of patients in the hospital and in the outpatient clinic. In November 2011, I first picked up an ultrasound transducer in a continuing medical education course on bedside ultrasound for emergency physicians...

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