Over the last two weeks, I have been engaged in an email discussion with a young woman who is trying to decide where to attend medical school. I shall call her Ms. X.Ms. X has been accepted to numerous schools and has narrowed her options to two: School 1 is a private school in Boston (not Harvard), and school 2 is a public school in suburban New York City ...
Adam Rothschild, MD
Restricting nuclear cardiac stress testing in favor of stress echocardiography
Dr. William Follansbee is the chairman of the American College of Cardiology/American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ACC/ASNC) task force on non-invasive cardiac imaging and the director of nuclear cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Cardiovascular Institute.He recently published an editorial in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette in which he criticized the local Blue Cross/Blue Shield carrier, Highmark, for restricting the use of nuclear cardiac stress testing in ...
Who benefits from computerization of patient-specific clinical information?
Electronic health record (EHR) systems are big news (and big money) these days.Our government is pushing adoption and “meaningful use” of EHR systems because computerizing patient-specific clinical information can benefit our nation’s health care system. The primary focus has been on the benefit to the care of individual patients, but computerizing patient-specific clinical information can also benefit other parties in the health care system.I believe that there are 6 major ...
