The End of Theory?
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of January 2020 and my attendance at CES and
You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach out direct via the contact form on my website, send me a message on LinkedIn or on my Facebook page (DrNickvT), or on Twitter tagging me (@DrNic1) and #TheIncrementalist or you can click this link to generate a ready-made tweet to fill in:
As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Avaap. We discussed a recent Wall Street Journal Article: Drugmakers Turn to Data Mining to Avoid
Expensive, Lengthy Drug Trials. We have seen this in th update to the Framingham Heart Study, which if all goes to plan, the UCSF study (dubbed Health eHeart) will be the broadest such study ever completed. The overall concept was covered in an article in Wired some time back End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete.
We discuss the article: HHS’ new health IT rule would hurt Epic and Wisconsin’s economy by Tommy Thompson that sounded like an appeal to stop data sharing in healthcare. Listen in to hear a different perspective on this opinion piece that appears to suggest data blocking.
And we review Stanford’s “Data Driven Physician” report which suggests in the DigitalHealth world that 1 in 2 doctors are getting educated and prepared in their education (for the record I believe we are and will continue to be woefully unprepared as I said here)
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