May 11th, 2010 by Maria Gifford in Announcements, Better Health Network, Medblogger Shout Outs
Tags: Better Health, Call For Submissions, Grand Rounds
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Grand Rounds will be hosted by Better Health on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010.
Please send your medical blog submissions via email by 12:00AM midnight CDT on Sunday, May 16th, to: maria.gifford@getbetterhealth.com.
Please include:
- “Submission for Grand Rounds” in the subject line of your email.
- Your name (blog author), the name of your blog, and the URL of your specific blog submission.
- A short summary (1-3 sentences) of your blog post.
(NOTE: There is no specific theme for this session of Grand Rounds.)
For more information, please see the Grand Round Submissions Guidelines. We look forward to receiving your submissions and featuring them here next week.
April 27th, 2010 by Nancy Brown, Ph.D. in Announcements, Better Health Network, Health Tips
Tags: Adolescent Health, e-survey, Family Medicine, General Medicine, Online Health Assessment, Preventive Health, Preventive Medicine, Primary Care, Santa Clara County, Teen Health, Teenagers, teens, Vive health coaching, WAY2GO, Wellness Assessment for Youth to Get Organized
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The Wellness Assessment for Youth to Get Organized! (WAY2GO!) is an online survey for teens that asks questions about their nutrition, exercise, sexual, safety, substance use, emotional and social health, and provides an immediate individually-tailored report with resources.
The report also links teens to free Vive health coaching that teens can use to develop a personal wellness plan that includes regular messages sent to their computer or cellphone to support their health goals (e.g., remembering medication, packing a lunch, not using the computer for more than an hour at a time, etc.) Read more »
This post, WAY2GO: New Online Health Assessment For Teens, was originally published on
Healthine.com by Nancy Brown, Ph.D..
April 17th, 2010 by David H. Gorski, M.D., Ph.D. in Announcements, Better Health Network, Health Policy, Medblogger Shout Outs, Opinion, Quackery Exposed, Research
Tags: Academic Medical Centers, CAM, Canada, Complimentary and Alternative Medicine, Diet and Exercise, Dietary Studies, Homeopathy, Medical Academia, Medical Schools, Medical Students, Meditation, NCCAM, NECSS, Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, Quackademic Medicine, Reiki, SBM, Science Based Medicine, Yoga
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One advantage of having a blog is that I can sometimes tap into the knowledge of my readers to help me out.
As many readers know, a few of the SBM bloggers (myself included) will be appearing at the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS) today (Saturday, April 17). Since the topic of our panel discussion is going to be the infiltration of quackademic medicine into medical academia, I thought that now would be a very good time for me to update my list of medical schools and academic medical centers in the U.S. and Canada that have embraced (or at least decided to tolerate) quackademic medicine in their midst. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Science-Based Medicine*
April 5th, 2010 by Toni Brayer, M.D. in Announcements, Better Health Network, Health Policy, News, Opinion
Tags: 100000 Lives Campaign, Aging, Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services, CMS, Dr. Don Berwick, Healthcare Law, Healthcare Legislation, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare reform, IHI, Institute For Healthcare Improvement, medicaid, Medicare, Pediatrics, Seniors
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President Obama likes to shake things up. He has named Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Medicare and Medicaid Agency known as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This is a huge government agency with a budget of over $800 BILLION a year. That is more than most countries in the world have. Dr. Berwick would be a major force in implementing the new health laws and changing Medicare to be more efficient and cost effective.
The average person probably doesn’t know who Dr. Don Berwick is, but he is a big name in the healthcare industry. A pediatrician by training, he is the president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and is a national leader on quality and patient safety. By telling stories that people can relate to, he is a transformational leader for reducing hospital errors and reducing variability in care. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at EverythingHealth*
April 2nd, 2010 by DavidHarlow in Announcements, Better Health Network, Health Policy, Humor, Medblogger Shout Outs
Tags: Grand Rounds, Health Bloggers, Health Wonkery, Health Wonkishness, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare reform, Medical Blog Carnivals, Medical Bloggers
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This week, healthcare reform looms large in the minds of medical blog carnival hosts. Evan Falchuk’s healthcare reform edition of Grand Rounds is up at his See First blog. Rch Elmore hosts the current Health Wonk Review at his Healthcare Technology News (check out the flying pigs photos and more; cf. the HealthBlawger’s “First Hundred Days” edition of Blawg Review for another reference to flying pigs).
The next edition of Health Wonk Review will be hosted right here on April 15th. The themes we will be exploring in that bi-weekly exegesis of health wonkery include the following:
- Metaphors
- Lying
- Song (esp. the blues)
- Art (esp. painting, drawing)
- Inventors and their contraptions
- Fast food
- Liberation
- Cosmetic surgery/medical spas
- Impressionist 19th century novels
- Immenseness
- Mortality
- Racial integration
And, of course…
Please submit your best examples of health wonkishness in these categories no later than 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday April 14th, thank you (extra points for early submissions), and come back on the 15th to learn more than you ever wanted to know about healthcare policy and to see the meaning of these categories revealed. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at HealthBlawg :: David Harlow's Health Care Law Blog*
