HHS says that it wants transparency, but its actions speak differently A few months ago, the two of us (Brian Klepper, top photo, Michael Millenson, bottom photo) – both long-time advocates for transparency and accountability – posted separate comments on Secretary Mike Leavitt’s blog. Brian asked Secretary Leavitt to square his support of "Chartered Value Exchanges” with […]
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‘Mountains Beyond Mountains’
Tracy Kidder book helps explain motivations of doctors who practice international ‘relief’ medicine With my busy schedule, I don’t have much time to sit down and read, so when I am able to do that, it is precious for me. I’ve just finished Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, subtitled "The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, […]
Boston’s Ken Mandl and Issac Kohane in an NEJM “must-read” Doctors Ken Mandl and Issac Kohane of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children’s Hospital Boston; and the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School — both in Boston, have written a "must-read" article […]
Protecting your family and the environmentIt’s hard to know these days just what to do with the old medicines in your medicine cabinet. It seems one way or another, they’re a threat to other human beings. Recently we learned that if you throw them out, and especially if you flush them down the toilet, they […]
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Access Excellence
Nurturing as an anecdote to bullying This week’s program on bullying in our nation’s schools has touched a vein and drawn an immediate response from young and old alike. The damage done by bullying extends into the future. The messages I received reinforced that disconnection and anger and despair are predictable byproducts of lives absent […]
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School Bullies
The damage they do is serious and long-lastingRecently the problem of school bullying reared its ugly head. The airwaves featured a youngster in Arkansas, progressively and deliberately isolated, abused, tormented and damaged. The problem is large, complex and pervasive, according to the American Medical Association. How large a problem? A 2001 study of nearly 16,000 […]
The Chief Knowledge Officer of Britain’s National Health Service, Sir Muir Gray, on Health Care’s ProgressOver the last year or so, I’ve written a lot about how health care information will become increasingly available to consumers and health care business, and how this access will drive new decision-support capabilities that will profoundly change how health […]
