September 2008

Matthew Holt is a ubiquitous presence in the online world of Health 2.0. He is the proprietor of The Health Care Blog, essential reading that promises to tell you everything you always wanted to know about the health care system.

Last year, I promised myself not to accept waiting in line for the iPhone "classic" and was fortunate enough to sneak into an Apple store late one night to purchase one without any hassles.

Dean Heller, MD, President of VideoMD—an online library of physician-created, patient education videos—explains the benefits to both patients and physicians of www.videomd.com.

With the ranks of hospitalists already over 20,000 strong and growing every day, hospital medicine is the fastest-growing medical specialty in the history of American healthcare

The big question for academic hospital medicine is: with the cadre of hospitalists ballooning to 20,200 in 2007 and projected by the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) to hit 30,000 by 2010, are there enough teachers to go around?

The National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Leapfrog Group, the Joint Commission, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are just a few of the many national and local payers and regulatory agencies that have developed indicators to monitor quality of care.

As clinicians, we are increasingly accustomed to using EMRs in the hospital, as well as practice management and billing systems in the office.

Ballistic injuries may be diagnostically challenging because of the unpredictable trajectory of projectiles and the possibility of their migration via the enteric, vascular, genitourinary, or central nervous systems.