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This week I am talking to Maggie Ehrenfried, Managing Director, Development LifeNet International (@LNInternational). LifeNet International is an organization working hard across Sub Sharan and East Africa to change that. This non-profit which touts its incredible efficiency operates through an “amplification of local resource” model to build and strengthen in-country capacity in the healthcare delivery chain. They […]
Coping with Jet Lag Do you have trouble with Jet Lag and have tried all the various suggestions and various remedies? There’s hope for you yet if you are still struggling to adjust your clock when you move from one time zone to another in the form of an App – designed and built by […]
The Opioid Epidemic 130 people die from an overdose of an opioid every day in the United States. Death from overdoses reached a staggering 47,600 people in the United States in 2017 – to put that into perspective that’s a 130 people per day, or 1 person every 11 mins, and now in the top 10 causes of […]
Encryption Algorithms Under Siege Over the course of history, the development and subsequent breaking of encryption standards have been a constant cycle. As new keys were developed so they were broken and the speed of with which new keys were broken has increased. Modern day encryption “Data Encryption Standard” or DES was launched int he […]
The Fake Science Factory In hindsight, the Waset publishing organization (I’m not linking to it so as not to help their SEO – waset DOT org) should have refunded Chris (Suggy) Sumner’s money when he asked for it, but the rest of Science thanks them for not doing that. So launched a year-long deep dive into […]
and improve the quality of healthcare!HealthImaging featured a report Medical errors cost U.S. $17 billion in 2008 which estimated that This figure amounted to 0.72 percent of the $2.39 trillion spent on healthcare that year in the U.S. The study identified the sources based on medical claims estimating: 564,000 inpatient injuries (1.5 percent of all […]
A recent Dustin Comic like all good comics hit the proverbial nail on the head Unfortunately the healthcare reform fails to address key aspects to the incentive problem in healthcare. The system remains centered on measuring what we do for patients rather than the end result. There are moves by employers and the insurance industry […]
As is often the cases conflicting information in the media on the benefits of screen, x-rays and healthcare.This piece in the NY Times: CT Scans Cut Lung Cancer Deaths, Study Finds suggests that annual CT Scans of current and former smokers reduces the risk of death form lung cancer: Annual CT scans of current and […]
Through provoking piece in the Washington Post today – Health Reform’s Next Test by Jim Yong Kim and James N Weinstein at Dartmouth Hitchkcock. As they state It is well known that U.S. health-care costs, as a share of our economy, are the highest in the world but that compared to other industrialized countries, our […]
In an interesting article in HealthAffairs this month “Mixed Results In The Safety Performance Of Computerized Physician Order Entry” (abstract only – subscription required for full article) the authors carried out a simulation of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) effectiveness. It is a unique study with a relatively small sample size (62 facilities) that was […]
