Puzzle Pieces ... Low Carb & Thyroid

So ... it' been a while, almost a human gestation period, since I reported my miraculous selenium insomnia cure.  In a nutshell, I started taking Se to see if it might help and within days I was sleeping like a baby through the night.  Although I found adding starches in somewhat difficult at first, I've also recently made clear that I'm eating a good 100g/day most days now ... at least that would be the average ... for starch.  I...

Making forensics faster

Hola Reader,                     There are always bigger hard drives, at least for the near future, and more devices available to individuals every day. While the everyday work flow for an individual is drastically improved, hopefully, by obtaining this additional storage and processing power it only further compounds the amount of evidence a computer...

Drug Discovery and Reductionism for Physicists ... And Others

Having worked both in health IT and in pharma drug discovery, I read numerous pharma-related blogs.From the blog of medicinal chemist Derek Lowe, "In the Pipeline" about reductionism in drug discovery. I believe the observations are more widely applicable to health IT, and to medicine itself. Emphases mine:--------------------------------March 6, 2012 Drug Discovery for Physicists Posted by Derek There's a good post over at the Curious Wavefunction...

AMA News Article Offers Incomplete (and Thus Misleading) Advice on the Legal Risks of EHRs and other Clinical IT

An article was published in the AMA News by Alicia Gallegos, AMA Medical News staff, entitled "Legal risks of Going Paperless." While it is not clear if these are the official views of the AMA leadership, the article is interesting nonetheless.It should perhaps have been entitled "Some of the Legal Risks of Going Paperless, excluding the ones that make the health IT industry look bad:"Legal Risks of Going PaperlessAMA NewsMarch 5, 2012Electronic...

Kode Rahasia dan Penting di Handphone Nokia

Unik Informatika - Ternyata, dalam handphone kita yang ber-merk Nokia, memiliki beberapa kode-kode yang penting, mungkin banyak orang yang masih belum mengetahuinya atau malahan ada orang yang tau tapi tidak mengamalkannya (kirain amal, pake diamalkan segala ? :D).Ya, kode-kode itu mungkin akan sangat berguna bagi pengguna handphone Nokia jika mereka tau detail yang kan mereka dapatkan jika...

5 Akibat Kurang Tidur

Unik Informatika - Tidur adalah sebuah aktivitas yg harus dijalani, minimal orang dewasa tidur 6 jam lah sehari, jadi apa yang terjadi jika tubuh kita kurang tidur?hahaha..bisa beragam kejadian bisa terjadi, jangankan melakukan aktivitas yang berat, kadang aktivitas yang ringan pun akan menjadi sangat berat,jadi ga ada untungnya kita bergadang semalam suntuk..(kecuali ada bola, lebih-lebih...

Another Health IT Mythbuster: Doctors order more X-rays, not fewer, with computer access

This piece is in the Washington Post about a just-released piece in Health Affairs (at this link) by Danny McCormick, David H. Bor, Stephanie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein of Harvard Medical School.(Woolhandler and Himmelstein have written on such topics before, such as in the Nov. 2009 article “Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study”, Amer J Med 123:1; 40-46.)In the abstract of the new article, the researchers...

Gentiva's Odyssey Healthcare Settles Again, Signs Yet Another Corporate Integrity Agreement

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported a legal settlement worth noting.  Here are the basics:One of the nation's largest providers of hospice care has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a Medicare fraud case initiated after a former company nurse in Milwaukee filed a whistle-blower suit.It was the second such settlement in six years for Odyssey Healthcare Inc., which paid the federal government $12.5 million in 2006 after another Wisconsin-based...

sorry for being MIA...we had a rough weekend.  we lost our sweet doggie barron.  we got barron right after warren and i got married and moved into our first home, seven and half yrs ago.  it is not fun being  a grown up and making painful decisions.  it is equally not fun to have to tell little taylor that barron is in heaven.  we know he's safe and sound and no longer...

Courses and Conferences on Health Care Ethics, Corruption, Marketing

Two courses and two conferences of interest to Health Care Renewal readers are coming soon.Short Course: Why Do Physicians Not Make Rational, Evidence Based Decisions?A full-day course at the 14th Biennial European Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making on Sunday, 10 June, 2012 in Oslo, Norway. Taught by bloggers Dr Roy Poses and Dr Wally Smith, the course will address both the effects of cognitive psychological limitations and of external...

Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day Sunday 18th March Make your Mother’s Day with jewellery from Kit Heath!Here are some of our favourites that we think will make the perfect gift for your Mum!Ring O'Roses Earrings £55Ring O'Roses Necklace £70 Ring O'Roses Bangle £150  As well as treating your Mum to a gorgeous piece of jewellery from Kit Heath what else will you be doing to make her day extra special – ironing, washing...