It is insufficiently known that when asked, patients are very willing to share their medical information with researchers but much less so with public health authorities or third party companies ...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-first-step-towards-saner-more.html
My colleague John Brownstein just shared these worrying projections for Ebola epidemiology.
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2014/09/worrisome-trends-in-ebola.html
If you want to see just how Ebola is spreading (and soon regressing?) , this article provides the view and insight of how it’s done. Ten years ago, these data would percolate slowly, compiled ...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2014/08/near-real-time-tracking-of-ebola.html
The ICD-10 diagnostic classification system is due to be adopted by US healthcare systems this year. However, new legislation would defer that change by at least a year . Who would have thought t...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2014/03/classification-system-worthy-of.html
Approximately 3 years ago, we held a clinical bioinformatics summit to discuss with international leaders in genomics, genetic testing and clinical laboratory procedures what it would take achiev...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2014/03/achieving-clarity-in-cancer-genomics.html
If, as F. Scott Fitzgerald is reported to have said, action is character, then the current crop of Harvard medical students are impressive characters. Amid all the din about who controls publica...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2014/03/scholar-medical-publication-diy-by.html
Does the analysis of the citation of publications of research adequately measure the impact or worth of the research reported upon? Does the percentile rank assigned to an investigator initiated ...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2014/01/battle-of-beauty-contests.html
Many of us have had the following experience. We find an interesting illustration and use it for a scholarly presentation or for a class. Then a well meaning compliance officer will notify us tha...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2014/01/welcome-news-from-wellcome-collection.html
There is a problem that is well articulated by one of our students, Jean Fan. To quote her: According to the US Department of Commerce, girls (women, females, Homo sapiens with two X chromosom...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2013/10/help-get-more-women-into-science.html
This report in Scientific American , just in time for the Halloween season, demonstrates that incorporeal beings take great interest in obesity, adipokines and leading laboratories at Harvard Uni...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2013/09/ghost-stories-for-scientists.html
This (http://swartz-report.mit.edu/docs/report-to-the-president.pdf ) is a report that Professor Abelson helped author on the behalf of MIT. It is chock full of lessons for education institutio...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-thoughtful-and-useful-report-on-aaron.html
I've written in the past about the bottleneck in innovation in electronic health records and how the design of such systems with substitutable "apps" would go a long way towards overcoming that...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2013/07/innovation-to-grow-and-track-growth-of.html
Use our data please. But for us. See WBUR's CommonHealth blog
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2013/06/make-our-data-for-for-us.html
Here's a very nice application of lightly used data sources about Dengue , a scourge of underdeveloped countries. As in so many areas of public health, this huge health burden is woefully under-d...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2013/04/getting-big-about-mapping-dengue.html
A number of crowd-sourced infection monitors such as FluNearYou (by our own Dr. J. Brownstein ) have reported an apparent upsurge in influenza-like illnesses over the last wee k. The CDC has not...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2013/01/epidemic-or-epiphenomenon.html
I was recently called out by one of my colleagues for saying that ontologies were boring, this despite my own doctoral work on knowledge representation. Motivating my glib comment was an image ...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2012/12/take-this-ontology-and-shove-it-or-why.html
It is not too often that one is driven to read a report from a regulatory agency. Even rarer are the instances when we find prismatic examples of engineering and organizational leadership in thes...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2012/11/learning-from-fda.html
I recently obtained a copy of a presentation by Elsevier representatives describing how they price their publications for different academic (i.e. university) customers. They describe how they pl...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2012/10/no-publication-without-taxation.html
I was recently informed that I have to take an on-line course about conflict of interest and then document all commercial activities. I was then informed of the same duty three more times. Becaus...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2012/09/yet-another-healthcare-research.html
Thirty teams world-wide are apparently hungry enough and willing to contribute to making genomic medicine possible. Their efforts will help reduce to practice a game that to date is only within ...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2012/08/hungry-for-dna-games.html
Let's say you are looking for a disease biomarker. Hopefully, one better than prostate specific antigen . Next time you or your student reach for a pipette to see if a gene is expressed in a part...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2012/08/billions-and-billions-of-gene.html
An insightful naïf learning about the difficulty of sharing one electronic health record from one hospital to another might reasonably ask "Why don't they just create a standard for data sharing...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2012/07/unstandardized-standards.html
Should we enable the following conversation between any website and your web browser (e.g. Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome)? > YOUR WEB BROWSER: "Hello website potentiallyInter...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2012/06/mad-men-and-mad-nerds.html
Countway Photo Day from CBMI on Vimeo .
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2012/06/meta-directory-of-countway-community.html
My esteemed colleague L.J. Wei often reminds us that health outcomes which are not as hard-edged as death can be misleading. For example, the early press, decades ago, about the uncovering of ea...
http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2012/06/dearth-of-death-fatal-wound-to-medical.html