Your Invitation to the Open Marriage of FHIR, BPM+ Health and Medical Algorithms While open relationships can be problematic, [...]
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Is population health the future of healthcare? Physicians are told population health strategies will solve many of our current [...]
Primary care physicians often have the unique task of deciding whether a patient who presents with an uncommon constellation [...]
Algorithms are used in many fields, such as finance, engineering, and aviation. They are used in healthcare, but the [...]
Medical History A 55-year-old white male has degenerative arthritis of the knees. 10 months ago, the patient underwent total [...]
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One of the most fearful events in medicine and population health is an infectious disease outbreak. From the recent [...]
First receiving mention a few years ago, precision medicine, has entered the spotlight with a request for $215 million [...]
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"Algorithm" is a term that has a long and rich history in mathematics. However, it is a term that [...]
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As physicians, we recognize the importance of evidence based healthcare. Having evidence to back up our decisions strengthens our assessments [...]
What did you do the last time you were stopped at a railroad crossing? Did you even look at [...]
As people try to rebuild their lives after disasters such as Hurricane Harvey, Irma or Martha and the recent [...]
Farmers tend to be frugal. When they slaughter an animal there is very little that goes to waste. Gustavus [...]
Depending on your age, you may or may not remember the original Pokemon craze in the United States many [...]
Keeping an Eye on the Prize: 10 Basic Rules for Clinical Algorithm Development While at the HIMSS16 conference last week in [...]
Telemedicine has come a long way over the past 20 years. Modern technology has made it accessible to an [...]
Summary and response to the New York Times Well article: Think Like A Doctor: Thinner We present a succinct [...]
As algorithms in medicine become more widely accepted--as they now are in other disciplines--they will eventually become ubiquitous. The [...]
Summary and response to the New York Times Well article: Think Like A Doctor: Limping Along We present a [...]
Clinical trials play an important role in evidence-based medicine. It is necessary to know how a therapy performs under [...]
Some aspects of medicine have not changed very much over the centuries. As new decision support systems become available [...]
In September, 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report titled Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. This report [...]
A medical algorithm (medical calculator) that is used by itself can solve a specific problem. However, medical algorithms must [...]
Big data is a hot topic now, as massive amounts of data are being collected on everyone. People are [...]
“In March, 2015, Apple released an open source software framework designed for medical and health research, helping doctors and [...]
GA Miller studied the limits of human cognition. He found that the number of discrete items that a person [...]
Years ago you could find patient charts on the oncology or transplant service that were a foot thick or [...]
While medical algorithms can be valuable decision support tools, calculating them by hand can bite you. With hand calculations, [...]
Nearly every physician who has worked in an emergency department will concur with the fact that MRI or CT [...]
