Chuck Grassley’s Questions for Health IT – He Should Use Social Networks As Most of His Answers Can Be Found There

Financial incentives may be an area though not covered by Social Networks but after reading the rest of the requests, people are not shy on Social Networks and if one of the software companies blew it, it’s all over the place. All you have to do is a quick scan on Twitter for starters or for that matter use a search engine and find a few issues that way. I truly love the question about training, and perhaps Mr. Grassley should experience a little bit of this first hand as until you have b

Bill Moyers highlights Latino Health Access

PBS has been surprisingly good the past few weeks. It has highlighted Latino heritage month in a way that is relevent and interesting–usually it feels more like you get a month worth of stories about music. Not saying I have a problem with that, and I’ve really enjoyed PBS’s Latino Music series. But it’s nice to know that Latinos are beginning to be recognized in complex interesting ways that reach past ‘typical’ Latino fair (i.e. we’re all Mexicans, immigration is the only political issue on ou

Information On Pedometers

by Henry Calhoun With the newly found interest in health and physical fitness, many are once again looking for the best alternatives. One way to boost your physical activity on a daily basis is to buy a pedometer. For those who do not know what a pedometer actually is, it is simply a small hand held device whose job it is to track how many steps you take daily. Wearing a pedometer will allow you to see how many steps you actually take every day and to see how well you fare reaching the 10,00

One Hell of a Training Program Needed – The Bottom Line to Success in Health IT

First of all I would like to say thank you for the recognition from Dr. Crounse at Microsoft. As he mentions this is a huge project to train physicians and let’s throw in patients too, as they are part of the ultimate solution, everybody gets involved as it’s no longer for “those guys over there'” only. Good point here too on how many doctors in the US may or may not know who Dr. David Blumenthal is and as Dr. Crounse mentions they are just too busy taking care of patients and all the re

Sick Ana Ivanovic Ends 2009 Tennis Season

Former world number one Ana Ivanovic has ended her 2009 tennis season early after an upper respiratory track infection prompted her to withdraw from the upcoming China Open. Ivanovic has issued a statement recapping her disappointing year and her hopes for the future. Full text of Ivanovic statement I guess having to withdraw from Beijing is an appropriate ending to a very disappointing season. This trip to Asia has been a big disappointment and I have struggled with my health pretty muc

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