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Diagnosis Overkill: How to do more about doing less?

May 5, 2017 By Naveen Rao 2 Comments

Diagnosis Overkill: How to do more about doing less?

This is the final post of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.”   “It isn’t enough to eliminate unnecessary care. It has to be replaced with necessary care.” – Dr. Atul Gawande Given the forces of business, technology, and science that are expanding medical ...

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Filed Under: 3, interoperability Tagged With: Diagnosis overkill, medical guidelines, patient decision

Diagnosis Overkill: Diagnosis genomics will break the medical diagnosis

May 4, 2017 By Naveen Rao Leave a Comment

Diagnosis Overkill: Diagnosis genomics will break the medical diagnosis

This is the fourth installment of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.”  Genomic sequencing is playing a growing role in genetic sequencing for research and drug development. Today, patient testing is generally reserved for those who have already had a preliminary ...

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Filed Under: 3 Tagged With: aetna, BaseHealth, Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, Diagnosis overkill, FDA, genetic testing, genomics startups, Interpreta, Mayo Clinic, misdiagnosis, NewCo Shift, Newtopia, overtreatment, PatientsLikeMe, Proove

Diagnosis Overkill: Chatbots and the diagnosis democracy

May 3, 2017 By Naveen Rao Leave a Comment

Diagnosis Overkill: Chatbots and the diagnosis democracy

This is the third installment of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.”  Dr. Jay Parkinson of Sherpaa recently weighed in on the medical chatbot and the slow but steady automation of primary care. He notes the value proposition in deploying bot technology to do things ...

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Filed Under: 3 Tagged With: Baidu, Buoy, chatbots, Diagnosis overkill, HealthTap, Lemonaid, Nurx, Sherpaa, WebMD

Diagnosis Overkill: Understanding overdiagnosis

May 2, 2017 By Naveen Rao 1 Comment

Diagnosis Overkill: Understanding overdiagnosis

This is the second installment of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.”  Why are so many Americans getting diagnosed and treated inappropriately in the first place? Dr. Hardeep Singh, a leading researcher in this space, breaks down how the process of diagnosing a ...

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Diagnosis Overkill: Consumerism, bots, genomics, and the overtreatment epidemic

May 1, 2017 By Naveen Rao 2 Comments

Diagnosis Overkill: Consumerism, bots, genomics, and the overtreatment epidemic

This is the first of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” Business and technology trends are disrupting the medical diagnosis as we know it. “Virtually every family in the country, the research indicates, has been subject to overtesting and overtreatment in one ...

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Filed Under: 3 Tagged With: affordable care act, atul gawande, diagnosis, Diagnosis overkill, over diagnosis

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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