Fun framing using Seinfeld. Though in a piece about disrupting healthcare, it’s a little striking that patients, clinicians, and measurable…
Morning Headlines 12/27/17
RFI — Indian Health Services HIT Modernization
Indian Health Services issues an RFI seeking help developing a health IT modernization strategy as it prepares to migrate away from VistA.
Regional Variation of Computed Tomographic Imaging in the United States and the Risk of Nephrectomy
A study concludes that the overuse of CT scanning correlates with an increase in discovery of unrelated kidney tumors and an uptick in clinically unnecessary kidney surgeries.
Orlando Portale – My Year End Rant
Health IT strategist Orlando Portale calls on health IT evangelists working the speaker circuit to invest time learning how machine learning algorithms work before telling audiences that they will solve health IT’s woes.
My kidney cancer was discovered accidentally 8 years ago when I volunteered to test a new 64-slice CT scanner at my hospital. The kidney was removed and my life was saved. I have become a real believer in diagnostic radiology.