NSF Fastlane: Party like it's 1999

I know the government is a monolith.I know the government does not have any in-house software developers anymore to write and maintain software.I know these are Troubled Economic Times.But, still, what's up with Fastlane? This system is a dinosaur snail. I've had simple figureless PDFs take a century to distill.NSF, if you fund me, in addition to doing amazing research I'll stick a few of my a-ma-zing undergrads on revamping Fastlane. Actually, I'll...

Oh look, I still have a blog!

Hello Readers!,I know its been awhile but thanks for not sending any threats or rotten fruit. Things have been very busy around G-C with work flooding back in and the new book, which is very behind. This no reason not to try to keep up with all of you and our new research.I'll follow up with a new blog post tomorrow, a simple short one about what many forgot about basic CD/DVD forensics. Until then, did you know I'm google+ and twitter?http://twitter.com/#!/HECFBloghttps://plus.google.com/u/0/?tab=wX#104808728995007755708/postsFeel...

In Michigan, Intentional Alteration of Medical Records is a Felony

I addressed the issue of alteration of electronic medical records and the dearth of truly meaningful penalties at posts such as:"Stroud v. Abington Memorial Hospital: Is This Why Chart Alteration Might Be Appealing?","On Penalties for Alteration of Electronic Health Records"and"UPMC and the Sweet death that wasn't very sweet: How EMRs can detract from a clear narrative, and facilitate spoliation and obfuscation of evidence."A commenter to the...

"Corruption Kills," So Why Is Health Care Corruption Ignored?

An article published last month by PLoS One(1) emphasizes the stark contrast between the likely impact on health of corruption, including health care corruption, and the attention paid to it.  The Methodologic DetailsThe authors performed an ecological, country-level analysis to assess the association of perceived national corruption level (measured by Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index [CPI] using 2008 data)...

Health IT Pundits and Perhaps the Most Logically Fallacious (And Even Cold-Hearted) Statement I've Seen About Health IT to Date

The KevinMD blog has reposted George Lundberg's MedPage Today post "Health IT: Garbage In, Garbage Out", retitled as "Health IT has problems, but is worth the price." I covered Dr. Lundberg's original post at my Nov. 16, 2011 essay "George Lundberg, MD: The Promise of Health IT, and a Caveat."As the KevinMD blog is exceptionally well-read, I expected the HIT pundits to come in with "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" accolades for the...

The Sport Wales Advent Calendar!

The Sport Wales Advent Calendar!This is an advent calendar with a difference; one that will feed the mind rather than the stomach this Christmas! We'll provide you with lesser known facts about Welsh athletes, one for each day of December (Well, that is until the 23rd as Sport Wales will be on our Xmas holidays!) culminating in a quiz to test how much attention you've been paying!Day 22Did you know...