Checklist Health Can your health be reduced to a bunch of numbers? American medical care is about to test that idea. Beware the results. Checklists – and the checked off numbers – do not a healthy population make. Why Are Checklists Taking Over? People love numbers. They like to count things. Medical care costs enormous […]
A Grand Farce – Electronic Health Records and You (10/6/14)
Follow the Money Sometimes comedies are really tragedies. The Electronic Health Record has become required by government fiat. It has promised much – better care, better health, lower costs. About $24 billion in subsidies have been spent, with total costs in untold billions. The end result – a colossal boondoggle proving – beyond the shadow […]
The end of medical privacy – and how to prepare for it (7/13/11)
Prepare For the End Mark Zuckerberg has declared that privacy is dead. Though he’s done his bit to achieve that state, he’s right. And he’s about to become ever more correct. Americans should view the recent hacking information scandals in Britain with alarm, because the same problems are now here – or will be. If […]