E-HEALTH INNOVATION
Blue Pill or Red Pill?
The electronic medical record could save the clinical trial, cut health care costs, and improve the value of research.
COMMUNICATING MEDICINE
The Importance of Narrative in Communicating Evidence-Based Science
Scientists who espouse only evidence—without narratives about real people—struggle to control the debate, and typically, they lose.
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
From the Bedside to the Desktop
Desktop medicine is altering the ways doctors diagnose and treat disease and improving health care outcomes. But medical training for how to use this new approach to health is still in the Stone Age.
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