General Healthcare News
From A Healthy Blog: In a new study published in the JAMA this week, a group of scientists from the Mayo Clinic and Germany investigated the amount of radiation caused by computed tomography (CT) scans. Conclusion: the median amount of...
Came across an interesting photo sharing group for some very good pathology images at Flickr. Here is the snapshot on the group: About Pathology and Lab Medicine This public group is for images relating to the practice of diagnostic pathology...
'GMA' Tries Out Three Web Sites to See How They Would Advise Patients Came across a story on ABC News looking at use of web-based physician consulting services by providing a list of symptoms to three sites and their responses. ...
Awhile back I wrote a few notes entitled "Stethoscopes, EMRs and EHRs - what is all the data worth?" They were essentially musings about my own experiences with health records, patient data and some thoughts dealing with...
Dr. Wes has a recent post on price-breaks for the uninsured (table courtesy of Dr. Wes). While the names may mean little to folks outside of greater Chicago - an interesting bill, the Illinois Fair Patient Billing Act, recently...
In the past I have blogged about Mayo Clinic Facebook and Mayo Clinic YouTube channel and commented about the use of Web 2.0 tools at our institution. As a brief follow up since those posts there are now over 4,500...
