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Trying to Measure the Quality of Health Information on the Internet: Is It Time to Move On?
Patient safety is important, and the safety of internet health data has been an ongoing concern for ages. We now have a great addition to the literature: “Trying to Measure the Quality of Health Information on the Internet: Is It Time to Move On?” It’s an editorial in the new issue of the Journal of [...]
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X PRIZE Blog Rally:
$10M for Health Care Innovators
Scott Shreeve, MD, Senior Health Advisor at The X Prize Foundation and frequent THCB contributor, has asked the health care blogosphere to take part in this blog rally in order to raise awareness about the Healthcare X Prize Foundation competition and encourage public participation in the prize design. Pass the word around and feel free to post [...]
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Meaningful Use: The Elephant IS In The Room
Comparative Effectiveness: a comparison of the impact of different options that are available for treating a given medical condition for a particular set of patients. Such studies may compare similar treatments, such as competing drugs, or they may analyze very different approaches, such as surgery and drug therapy. The analysis may focus only on the [...]
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