With a staggering amount of waste, as documented in the recent JAMA study, a key question is whether our health care system can produce the same or better outcomes for less money—in other words, can it become more productive or… Read More ›
Informatics/Internet in Medicine
JAMA Forum: Risk, Benefit, and Fairness in a Big Data World
By Christine Cassel, MD, and Andrew Bindman, MD There is much hope and even more hype that research using big data derived from a large volume of electronic health records, in combination with claims and a variety of health-related sources,… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Are Virtual Physician Visits About to Become Mainstream Medicine?
Virtual physician visits and telemedicine, once viewed primarily as a means to help provide care to individuals in rural areas or to link physicians in rural areas to specialists or colleagues in academic centers, are now also being considered as… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Building a Better Health Care System: the Work Ahead
Here are 4 health care proposals that have been made by politicians running for office. How many do you agree with? 1. “[Health care reform] should expand competition in the marketplace, it should empower consumers and patients to make healthcare… Read More ›
JAMA Forum: Using Health Care Data to Track and Improve Public Health
Each year, County Health Rankings releases a report and an interactive website with detailed health data for every county in the United States. Most of the data available, however, are several years old. For example, for the 2014 report, measures… Read More ›
Texting the Way to Reduced Diabetes Risk
A 14-week text messaging program helped dozens of people in a pilot study become more aware of their diabetes risk and make healthier dietary choices, according to new research. The pilot was part of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program,… Read More ›
Author Insights: Drug and Device Companies Give Millions of Dollars to Groups Offering Online CME
Some medical communications companies such as Medscape/WebMD that offer online continuing medical education (CME) programs receive millions of dollars from pharmaceutical and device manufacturers and share information such as a physician’s licensing number and specialty with unnamed third parties, warn… Read More ›
