Blawg Review goes green

16 years ago

Today's edition of Blawg Review at Green Patent Blog celebrates Earth Day by examining the EPA's stance on greenhouse gases,…

Draft guidance on rendering PHI unusable or indecipherable posted; comment period runs through May 21

16 years ago

The federales posted today, for a brief comment period, proposed guidance on how to render PHI unusable, unreadable or indecipherable…

MGH pediatric heart surgery: Volume, volume, volume, or, How low can you go?

16 years ago

Today's Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts General Hospital has voluntarily suspended operation of its pediatric cardiac surgery program, following two…

Health Wonk Review is up

16 years ago

The collective self-delusion edition of Health Wonk Review is up at Glenn Laffel's Pizaazz.  Read all about "progress" in health…

All the blawgs that fit, we print

16 years ago

A tribute to journalism not being dead yet, the current edition of Blawg Review is up at Jordan Furlong's Law21. …

Blog Rally to Help the Boston Globe

16 years ago

We have all read recently about the threat of possible closure faced by the Boston Globe.  A number of Boston-based…

CVS and Google Health: adding lots of prescription data to PHRs

16 years ago

Users of Google Health can now import their CVS prescription data into their PHRs.  Not the first pharmacy to hook…

Library of Congress blawg collection is up and includes HealthBlawg

16 years ago

The Library of Congress "harvested" snapshots of about a hundred blawgs over the past couple of years and has now…

The Leapfrog Group's hospital safe practices scores don't correlate with inpatient mortality figures

16 years ago

A study published in the current issue of JAMA concludes that self-reported Leapfrog hospital safe practices scores just don't correlate…

Health insurance mandates: Geez, good thing Obama isn't pushing them, 'cause he'd get tied up in litigation for forever

16 years ago

San Francisco's municipal health insurance mandate is in the news again this week.  The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld…