Health System

Computer System Makes ‘Chain’ Of Health Care Stronger, Safer This is a pretty interesting article about U Mich. project to build a hospital information system that puts together a whole chain of information. Sounds like it would do a lot of good. But, actually, the in-hospital information is only part of the information that could be linked together potentially. If ...

This Boston Globe article highlights how under-siege the drug companies feel. The Rodney Dangerfield’s of the health system, they don’t get no respect. “We save as many lives, if not more, than firemen and policemen — millions, if not hundreds of millions, of people,” Ohlstein ( a scientist) said in an interview. “But I’m never in a situation where someone ...

Dutch Patients Start Using Online Nursing (TechNews.com) First robo-doc, now Nurse Nancy online. What next?

Patients happy with robo-doc A new study at Johns Hopkins finds that many hospitalized patients prefer visits from their own physician to those of the physicians on duty, even when those “visits” are virtual “telerounds.”