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By Leslie Kernisan, MD I assume by now that you’ve heard the news: Google wants to tackle aging. Specifically, they announced this week the launch of Calico, “a new company that will focus on health...
View ArticleAn Example of Bad Design: This App’s Interface for Entering Blood Pressure
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View ArticleWhat PHR Should I Use? It’s Complicated.
By LESLIE KERNISAN, MD A friend called me the other day: he is moving his 93 year old father from New England to the Bay Area. This is, of course, a relatively common scenario: aging adult moves — or...
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By MATTHEW HOLT Seth Sternberg was a founder at instant message service Meebo, which was acquired by Google in 2012, and like many tech guys he’s next decided to try to change the health care...
View ArticleMy Own Story of ALS
By AL LEWIS I would like to introduce our newest regular contributor, Al Lewis. Some of you might recall him from his guest-postings, sometimes offensive, usually controversial but always based on both...
View ArticleSix Awkward Concerns in My OpenNotes
By Leslie Kernisan, MD I found out this past weekend that the VA will be making clinician progress notes available for patients to view on the MyHealtheVet portal. In other words, the VA is going...
View ArticleThe Four Things You Should Absolutely, Positively Do For Somebody at Risk of...
By Leslie Kernisan, MD Do they need a PET scan to confirm the presence or absence of amyloid plaque? More importantly, would doing such PET scans make meaningful impacts on patients’ health? Those are...
View ArticleTruth At the End of Life
By Elaine Waples Most of us have spent some time thinking about our own deaths. We do it with a sense of dreadful curiosity, but then we push it aside with “well, we’ve all got to go sometime.” Unlike...
View ArticleThe Cost of Dementia: Who Will Pay?
By Michael D. Hurd Dementia is a chronic disease of aging that robs people of cognitive function, leaving them unable to tend to even the most basic activities of living. But demented persons can live...
View ArticleWho Will Solve Healthcare For Our Parents And Grandparents? Probably Not Google.
By Leslie Kernisan, MD I assume by now that you’ve heard the news: Google wants to tackle aging. Specifically, they announced this week the launch of Calico, “a new company that will focus on health...
View ArticleAn Example of Bad Design: This App’s Interface for Entering Blood Pressure
By LESLIE KERNISAN, MD Here’s a design approach that I really, really dislike: the scrolling wheel that is often used for number entry in iOS apps: I find that the scrolling wheel makes it very...
View ArticleWhat PHR Should I Use? It’s Complicated.
By LESLIE KERNISAN, MD A friend called me the other day: he is moving his 93 year old father from New England to the Bay Area. This is, of course, a relatively common scenario: aging adult moves — or...
View ArticleSeth Sternberg talks about Honor
By MATTHEW HOLT Seth Sternberg was a founder at instant message service Meebo, which was acquired by Google in 2012, and like many tech guys he’s next decided to try to change the health care...
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