Traditional drug and device research aims to show whether a drug or device has a some positive effect, and doesn’t kill or hurt any more people than not using it. Comparative effectiveness research (CER), in contrast, compares the drug or device with all...
[By Joe Flower, from the May 17, 2010, issue of H&HN Weekly] The country seems to have shifted in less than 18 months from a slogan of “Yes We Can!” to “Oh, well…” and a shrug, then back to “Cool! I think. What was that,...
By Joe Flower, from Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly, 1/19/10Below the fold and off the radar, way out of the range of town-hall screamers, talk show ranters and headline writers, and even largely outside the awareness of most policy wonks and health care...
Howard Rheingold has a pain in the butt – a big one – but how he is handling that fact is one snapshot of the rising power of social media in health care.Howard is a veteran futurist. Onetime editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, one of the founding figures...
Sharp, funny, and far too true: If airlines worked like health...
At this week’s Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, we interviewed innovators in healthcare IT. Here’s the first interview, Dr. Lou Cornacchia, a neurosurgeon who has spent 5 years developing a fully integrated electronic medical record system for...
