Computers and Language Translation
Long before the health care industry became so enamored of electronic medical records, researchers were struggling with the problems of how to enable a computer...
Category: health care reform
WordPress Learning Curve
O.K. O.K. I haven’t posted for a while. I haven’t lost interest in health care reform, health care issues, or regulation of health care by experts w...
big business medicine/electronic medical records/health care reform/nursing shortage/primary care nursing
There is a nursing shortage (Myth #3)
Note: Even back in 1992 when we wrote Modern Medicine, the focus of patient care had become the patient’s chart, not the patient. Because there w...
Technology Drives up Cost of Medical Care (Myth #2)
In Modern Medicine: What You’re Dying to Know, we talked about the high cost of technology because this was about the time hospitals were jumping on the M...
Top Down and Bottom Up
In the early days of developing expert systems, there was a lot of talk about whether such systems should be built from the top down or the bottom up. The artif...
