*I promised I’d share Toronto physician blogs if I found them, so here’s a GREAT one: Dr. Greiver’s EMR. She’s a family doc in North York and was recently featured on the CBC for her > 4 year documentation of the peaks and valleys of running with the Nightingale EMR (one of the ones [...]

The success of electronic medical records (EMR) depends on much more than the EMR itself, but intuitive, smart software is still important. In this post (Merry Christmas!), I will talk about one tough issue in particular, the search problem, and why a “finder” like Google Wave (June, November) might be a good idea. Larger electronic [...]

How about this for an analogy? On reading that the Senate’s health reform bill has swapped the controversial “public option” for a “buy-in” Medicare option + two national private insurance policies (Washington Post), I immediately had a giddy vision of the diagram on the left from Bruce Alberts’ Molecular Biology of the Cell. This diagram [...]

Facebook, Twitter, RSS, etc. may have changed the way I communicate, but in some arenas, the mere acknowledgement of social media still moves at a glacial pace. Naturally, I was surprised to see that the local hospitals’ notice boards had been outfitted with colourful new posters. Privacy tips, they were entitled. The first one I [...]