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links for 2008-05-15
Tantek's Thoughts — 2008 February
Google Talk Status to Twitter
Newsvine - Emily, Jacob most popular baby names
TransforMED Offers Free Medical Home Assessment Tool -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
TransforMED Offers Free Medical Home Assessment Tool -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
links for 2008-04-24
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links for 2008-04-13
links for 2008-04-12
Dose response relationship between physical activity and mental health:
links for 2008-04-10
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links for 2008-04-08
links for 2008-04-06
(Video) Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do : DivineCaroline
links for 2008-04-05
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links for 2008-04-02
Informed Consent
links for 2008-04-01
links for 2008-03-31
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links for 2008-03-19
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links for 2008-03-16
Google could be superseded, says web inventor - Times Online
links for 2008-03-10
links for 2008-03-09
Google Health
Mike Arrington's 23andMe DNA Results
Developing mobile VoIP: or why I hate all the mobile industry
Trends in Acute Otitis Media-Related Health Care Utilization -- Pediatrics
Mark is still dead
FeedSync
Can we solve these problems with IT?
Mark
JAMA -- Abstract: Antibiotics and Topical Nasal Steroid for Treatment of Acute Maxillary Sinusitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial, December 5, 2007, Williamson et al. 298 (21): 2487
links for 2008-01-16
3rd UPDATE: Vytorin Fails To Benefit Artery Vs. Statin Drug
Informatics Comeptency Evaluation
Nasal Saline for Chronic Sinonasal Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Open Source, White Plains, Healthcare
links for 2008-01-09
links for 2008-01-07
Bug Labs: Products
links for 2008-01-06
links for 2008-01-05
WebserviceX.NET :: Web Services
links for 2008-01-04
AMNews: Jan. 7, 2008. Click to play: YouTube and similar sites have more doctors getting ready for their close-ups ... American Medical News
links for 2008-01-03
MedCommons
Information Overload
PamFax - Send faxes to any fax number in the world
Parenting: Apparently it is not that hard | oomsa
Family Medicine Digital Resource Library Highlight
To innovate you need:
links for 2007-12-11
Fred Trotter » My life and thoughts, often about FOSS in medicine
Urban Dictionary: webinar
links for 2007-11-27
FMDRL: Pharyngitis quality of care in a retail health setting
links for 2007-11-26
AMIA Primary Care Informatics Working Group
links for 2007-11-11
Bill introduced to repeal low-flow toilet requirement
Look what they brought back from Denver!
links for 2007-10-27
Misys to Revolutionize Small Medical Practices
HL7 RIM: An Incoherent Standard
Get your Treo to work with your corporate Excahnge Server
links for 2007-10-21
links for 2007-10-20
Google Health?
links for 2007-10-19
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links for 2007-09-30
Digium Acquires Switchvox
EHR Security report
links for 2007-09-25
links for 2007-09-23
links for 2007-09-22
links for 2007-09-20
links for 2007-09-17
Expire Bush's account?
links for 2007-09-14
links for 2007-09-10
"Newborn's Physician" - not "pediatrician" - finally!
links for 2007-09-08
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links for 2007-09-01
links for 2007-08-30
links for 2007-08-27
links for 2007-08-26
Medlogs 2.0 .. coming soon!
Guy Kawasaki & the art of the 5-sentence email | 43 Folders
links for 2007-08-15
Dave Winer: Benevolence in Business
Family Doctors, Family Farmers and ATMs
links for 2007-08-10
links for 2007-08-09
Publix to offer 7 popular prescription antibiotics for free
links for 2007-08-07
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian suspect in banana ordeal
Head, shoulder, foot! - Found+READ
Epocrates Insights
My last one? ... Twitter / Jacob Reider: baby delivered finally.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Is Google on Crack? | PBS
Camping
Physician Loses License for Prescribing Antibiotics
links for 2007-05-11
Joost Invites available
links for 2007-05-04
Physicians, Patients, and the Electronic Health Record: An Ethnographic Analysis
Role of Family Medicine in Care of Children
Nasendusche = "Nose Shower"
MRI scanner steers magnetic particle in live animal's blood
links for 2007-03-24
links for 2007-03-17
Customer Service - Heathcare, IT and Cell Phones
links for 2007-03-09
Fibromyalgia: Fact or Fiction? A Multi-disciplinary Approach
Spring Training is like Medical School
Agile Development
Free CallerID Reverse Lookups Mashup
links for 2007-02-13
Faughnan's a grown-up now!
links for 2007-02-12
links for 2007-02-09
Testing IMified
Google Calendar for office schedules
Homeland security reaches the anus
Medlogs Version 3
Perspecitve <> Intelligence
links for 2007-02-06
MySpace for Healthcare?
Connectile Dysfunction
Silly Sign: Computer It's for staff use only
What makes a good doctor = what makes a good plumber.
This is NOT a garbage can
Medical Student Tries to Attack Family with Meat Cleaver
Ny Times on Circumcision
Illegal food?
Faughnan's pointer
NNT Online: Sinusitis, otitis, pharyngitis
My Invention was already patented.
Relax NG
Lenovo X60
More links for today
P4P?
Men on Finasteride for Hair Loss Have Lowered PSAs
Google Calendar revealing PHI?
links for 2006-11-25
links for 2006-11-24
links for 2006-11-18
VOIP to gtalk (and back!)
links for 2006-10-27
Hmm .. I went to writely tonight .. a...
Future of Family Medicine Education?
links for 2006-09-28
links for 2006-09-26
Amphetamine Psychosis
Misys Healthcare Hiring Physicians for Clinical Insight Group
links for 2006-09-17
links for 2006-09-02
links for 2006-08-30
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links for 2006-08-26
Physician's First Watch Reviwed
Must-have item for air travel
links for 2006-08-23
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links for 2006-08-13
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links for 2006-08-01
links for 2006-07-25
The EHR consolidation begins ..
"I don't Judge people"
EHR != redunction in health care costs
Wiki for the Intranet in healthcare
Physician's First Watch
New residents, 2006
On the Medlogs Controversy ...
Do you need styled text in the EHR?
Charmglow Grill recall
CHD risk estimator: another gem found on FMDRL
How to bill 25 molluscum lesions on the belly?
Youth Risk Behavior
Forehead Hickey from suction-cup pen
links for 2006-06-05
What's new at FMDRL - perineal repair curriculum
Medical Education Resources
EHR Focus group in SF?
Writely Invites, Google Calendar SMS tricks
Family Medicine Notes ...
Google Calendar
EMR Survey!
Red Sox (Spring) Fever, Pesky's fractured fibula, Sunscreen
The Ethics of Humor?
RFC3219 - for nerds only
Onfolio
links for 2006-03-10
Writely acquired by Google
Osler - the oldest new medical weblog
Terry Francona invokes HIPAA
FMDRL RSS feeds
The Promise of Family Medicine
Lenovo Keyboard
Lenovo x41 tablet Mini-Review
Flock
RSS tutorial for STFM Board
Caryl Heaton's Plenary
Mobile Healthcare Alliance
links for 2006-01-24
A Medical Education Digital Resource Library - FMDRL
RSS Reading Lists - Applications for healthcare?
MinuteClinics?
Technology in Healthcare Slides
Patients' use of the Internet for Health Information
Grammar?
links for 2006-01-01
Medlogs RSS?
links for 2005-12-25
links for 2005-12-21
EHR Interface May Contribute to Medical Errors
RHIOs: The Next Big Thing?
links for 2005-12-16
E-prescribing errors
links for 2005-12-10
Time spent in face-to-care patient care
Bioethics weblog
links for 2005-12-09
STFM's Bookstore now Online
National Physicians' Alliance
New additions to Medlogs.com
Web Host Trouble
VOIP in Healthcare - Version 1.0
Swikis
links for 2005-11-22
links for 2005-11-15
links for 2005-11-11
links for 2005-11-09
links for 2005-11-08
links for 2005-11-02
links for 2005-10-30
EBM?
VOIP, SwitchVox, SSL
links for 2005-10-24
links for 2005-10-23
Avaya SoftPhone
Gianotti Crosti Syndrome
Amoxicillin and tooth enamel
links for 2005-10-20
FMDRL
Flock - More web 2.0?
Remember The Milk, Web 2.0 in healthcare
EBM for the busy physician
Google RSS reader
Peanut Allergy
Google and Sun = GoOpenoffice?
Medical Blogs etc.
Grand Rounds #53 Published
Grand Rounds #53 - almost
Grand Rounds
PBX for the Medical Office
USb Flash Phone
SwitchVox Review - Part I
Movabletype Enhanced Editing
MT 3.2
Asterisk Review
"The PBS of Medical School"
"I never though that I needed counseling until you mentioned it"
"My appointment was 47 minutes and he talked for 45 of them"
Medlogs OPML ...
Google Talk
Blogging again
Folder Sync
Pitted Keratolysis
Stumble
Apple iMac G5 - DOA & service troubles
Medical Office Telephone Systems
Dead blog?
Google labs
20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors
Nutrition
STFM Demo wiki link
Future of Family Medicine - Joe Scherger's talk at STFM
Usability again
ADD teacher rating scale
Medlogs, Asterisk & Earwax
Vocabularies in research
Medical Vocabularies, bad laptop .. ugh
Otitis Media: hold the antibiotics
CPOE causing medication errors
EHR implementation, etc ..
Emotional stress can precipitate severe, reversible left ventricular dysfunction
Neti Pot
Doc - are there supposed to be two holes there?
Advertising Anyone?
Medlogs Updated again
Lingo VOIP, Time Servers, NTS, ReplayTV
World population
Weblog posting, Audio CME
BMJ.com closing free access
Belief Systems
Blogrank
Back from Vacation ... journalists, professional writing, HIPAA
More on otitis media
Fake Medical Weblogs - viral replication
Influenza is here!
More Medical Weblogs
Usability again ;-)
Google = Usabilty, Medical Software != Usability
Family Medicine Digital Resources Library
referrals again
Scanning at home
Primary Care = Good
Medical Podcast version 0.5
Gmail goes POP, flu vaccine delivery
BloggerCon III - Medicine
PubMed Text Lookup
More on usability
e-learning
Otitis Media
Bandwidth
Red Sox Fever
Lancet: 100,000 civilians dead in Iraq
Schilling Tendon Procedure
When to make a referral?
Poll: Tennesseans favor Kerry on Healthcare
Insulin Dosing
OnCalls Scheduling Software now Syncs with PDA
Medical Weblog Usefulness
George Soros
Competition for google: Clusty
Medlogs Milestone - 200 Medical Weblogs!
Not Enough Generalists?
Hospitalists - a good idea?
Family Medicine - What is it?
EMR Usability
Red Sox
TinyMCE, medblogs, etc
e-prescribing
Centor Scores, etc
Is Burning Toast Unhealthy?
EMR / EHR bibliography
Gmail, google, etc.
ATOM feeds: havoc for medlogs
AMIA, NAPCI & Primary Care
Spirometry resources
Medlogs.com survey
Updates - back from vacation
Vacation
Physician Suicide
Psychiatry in Primary Care
Voice-recognition
Best BETs
Lyme disease
Feeling Important
Medlogs Comments -- please!
Antibiotic Prescribing - Still too much
DDX of Pinna cellulitis
Firewall/Router
Moblogging
Speech Recognition
Law and medicine
Comments and RSS
Is it Cancer?
Medlogs: RSS and comments
Goin to the ER
Billing woes ...
Geek Notes
Imaging for back pain, PSA, etc
Zafirlukast for yeast infections (!)
Smoking is ...
Is This Child Dehydrated?
drugref.org
A Primer on Summer Safety
Cholesterol lowering
Mercury not in vaccines
Billing for depression
For-Profit Hospitals Costlier
Make Saline Spray at Home
HubMed
Zed Med
A Simple, Accurate Method to Confirm Placement of Intra-articular Knee Injection
EHR pilot project provides FPs some playtime
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommendation on HRT
Medical Weblogs - FAQ
Primary Care jobs?
Epidural analgesia and c-section rates
The 12 types of medical students
Graduation, free e- MDs medication database, evening hours
Medical Weblogs V 2.0 beta
Medlogs - another upgrade
Neckties harbor pathogens
Medlogs upgrade
My Left Arm for a Gmail Account
Childless couple told to try sex
Is Medical Arrogance Striking Again?
STFM, Medlogs, etc
STFM
PDA as a polling tool
Clinical Systems: Usability
Soarian
What Residents Don't Know about Physician-Pharmaceutical Industry Interactions
CLL
Informatics Education
Newborn Neurologic Exam
Stupid and Dangerous
Trichomonas
NAPCI
Web Strategy
Smoking in pregnancy
A Treatable Cause of Painful Breastfeeding
How Should Parents Protect Their Children From Environmental Tobacco-Smoke Exposure in the Home?
Technology and Medicine
Pneumonia Severity Index Calculator
CRP again ...
Physician Fears
Expert Patients
Computerized Guidelines
CRP is really useful
Macrolide Resistance
Infrastructure Project Would Enable Patient-Created EMRs
Rabbit Medicine
Topics
Family Medicine Education
Science and Politics
AAFP Monograph - Aging
CCR vs EHR
EMR Selection - More
EMR Usability
Thyroid Masses
Sandifer Syndrome
Shared decision-making
NAPCI news
Will Mothers Discuss Parenting Stress and Depressive Symptoms With Their Child’s Pediatrician?
HINARI - Health InterNetwork
The end of Supersize
pdanet
NAPCI
Treo 600
ESF
Yahoo and RSS
Technical Pearls
Lending Library
Trust
Informatics Review
Fetal Monitoring
Habits
Blinking
Online Communication
IgA Nephropathy and Mastitis
Google
Momdocs
Office Work
epocrates
CME and Medlogs
Early common infections may play a protective role in the aetiology of childhood leukaemia
Popular Entries
Coldfusion Weblog
Handout for cerumen
Ears / Harvard / Boston
LED Headlamp
Ears
Chronicle of Acute PVR Disorder
BMJ
BMI Calculators
Don't treat h.pylori?
Speling
Dr Bob on obesity
How we act at the bedside
Thalassemia - diagnosis in 5 seconds or less
Granfalloons
Prescription Medications Online
On Medblogs
Gabapentin & Headaches
Quinolones and tendon rupture
K
Rectal Exams
Is azithromycin or amoxicillin-clavulanate preferred for the treatment of children with persistent or recurrent otitis media?
More on EBM
POEMS and Diabetes - Beware expert reviews
Delfini
Dr Bob goes to Africa
Shots
omphalitis
SASNY
Pediatric Asthma
CME at BMJ Learning
Guidelines, screening
More on otitis
Myers - Briggs clone
No antibiotics for ear infections
Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
Smoking kills ...
Prevnar shortage
David Pepper MD - Stops Crime
Coenzyme Q10 Decreases Cardiac Events
toy safety
RSS - Shellen - Winer - Atom
NHS
Flumist
Specialty Care
Steffie Woolhandler
Clinical Pearls
More Pertussis
Antibiotics: less is more
Reducing diagnostic tests in primary care
Wearable Communicators
Socks
Benevolence
Medicare Prescription Program
Anticlue
Howard Dean is lying
Beta Blockers and Depression
Medical Informatics
John Faughnan
Linux Medical News
Colace does nothing
Teflon Flu
AAFP EHR
Soarian
Paper as a User Interface
Primary Care Office Information System
AAFP and NAPCI
AAFP EHR Project
AMIA Meeting
Antibiotic oversue and allergies
Crestor
Scabies
Living Wills and Health Care Proxies
Internal Medicine
Pap Smears
Prostate Screening
Doctor redefines visits with phone, e-mail
Developmental Pediatrics
Guidelines
Antipsychotics
Magical Thinking
South Beach Diet
Basal Cell Carcinoma
Bad Physicians ...
Free Computers for the disabled
Medlogs
Breasfeeding protects girls but not boys
Serum Tumor Markers
Johnny Damon
Dean's Letters
Forbes article on medical weblogs
Timing of Initial Cereal Exposure in Infancy and Risk of Islet Autoimmunity
Conversion Reaction
Plagiocephaly
The Physical Exam
Family Medicine Notes
Another view on Pneumovax
When a patient dies ...
Hemochromatosis
Bed and pillow covers ineffective for asthma
The Health Care Blog
Umbilical Granuloma
How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?
Google Adsense
BloggerCon - Medblogs discussion
Generics again
Genomics
Generic pharmaceuticals
The importance of patient preferences in treatment decisions and challenges for doctors
Trigger Thumb in Children
Shots 2004 now available for PocketPC
Just-in-time Database-Driven Web Applications
Duct tape, e-scripts
Do Public Schools Teach Voiding Dysfunction? Results of an Elementary School Teacher Survey
Drugstores embrace E-prescription system
Dr Robot
P e n i s grows on boy's arm
Diabetes prevalence
Soccer Mouthguards
Family Physicians Make a Substantial Contribution to Maternity Care
Otitis Media (again)
Frog egg reveals malaria drug mechanism
PPI Battles
Statin wars
pharmacy representative evaluation form
Informatics Review
Smallpox update
Medicine, business and technology
RelayHealth Replacement
Conversions, caluclator in Google
BNP Reiveiw
What is premature thelarche?
Pediatrics: RSV and risk or Serious Bacterial Infection
Search, Medical Weblogs Pitch
Losartan is first line?
hand-arm vibration syndrome
Medlogs
coreynahman.com
COMET trial
Bandolier
T-tubes for persistent middle ear effusion?
New Medications
Quinolones for Streptococcus pneumoniae? No thanks (still)
MicroEKG Manual
ADHD and maternal smoking
Cheap (and better) baby sheets
Weblog Rounds
Gross Anatomy
The Physician's Guide to Assessing and Counseling Older Drivers
New Menomune VIS
Vaccinations in Pregnancy
The Head-Hunt study
Oncalls RSS Version 2
Medical Weblogs
Oncalls and RSS
Health Searches Online
Comparing Apples and Oranges
Viagra ads banned
Intel to aid Alzheimer's research
Digoxin in heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias
HCV testing
Diabetes Prevention
psa -again
Wireless in Medical Schools
Medical Information Access Card
VA system's EHR
The Death Clock
Smoking and Panic Attacks
Electronic ID tags
BREAST EXAMS
Drug plan will work wonders -- for industry
Another Snomed article
Sinusitis
Snomed and UMLS
Medlog Meetings?
Bottled Water
Medlical Weblogs Start Page
Snomed
Free ICD-9 Lookups
EHR trends - survey results
HHS & Snomed make the deal
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
Sarcoid Handout
Saline Nasal Spray - Make it at home!
Patients and Physicians - good "fit"
Cancer Detector
Health Talk
Hospital WB Logs
Web - Based Signout Lists
Healthcare Rationing
Serotonin Syndrome
Order Sets - CPOE
Micromedex Survey
Physician Order Entry
Asthma Patient info
Counterfeit Lipitor
Pharmaceutical Trademarks
ABC of interventional cardiology
Miracle Baby Grew In Liver
Standard for Continuity of Care Record
ASTM International, HIMSS and Massachusetts Medical Society Align to Establish New Continuity of Care Standard
Partnership for Clear Health Communication
New Medlogs ...
British Journal of Cardiology
Google Compute
TV physicians
Osler's Comments ..
Sock of the month club
New Weblog tool
Medical Errors in Primary Care
Medscape RSS
Pain Genetics
Anxiety
Pneumoccal Vaccine
Unnecessary Antibiotics
Naturopathy and Otitis
Patient Information
Lyme Disease: Duration of treatment
Persistent Pain
CHolesterol screening
Dave Winer
Evidence-Based-Medicine Tools for Your Palm-Top Computer
HIPAA Privacy Complaint
Treating Neck Pain
Folic Acid Reduces Homocysteine
Immunizations During Pregnancy
CPOE Advisory Group
Toronto for free
PSA Screening
Isabel
Educated Guesswork, Obesity & Cancer
ACEP Meeting
Patient - Initiated Testing
Macromedia
Weblog Comments
SARS - Canada
Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia
Medical Dictionary
Suctioning Meconium
SARS Toronto
AMNews: Medlogs
Cervical Cancer Screening
AHRQ Screening Guidelines
Medlogs
SARS Travel Kit
Flumist - for Winter 2003-2004
Topamax and Zonegran for eating disorders.
Alternative Medicine
Pertussis Immunization
Future of Family Medicine
SARS in Ontario
Family Physicians & Mental Health Care
Babies on Bikes
Coding, Health Reminders, etc
Informatics Review
The Choice of Outpatient CPR's: Questions to Ask
Choosing Battles Wisely
Is There a Doctor in the I.T. Department?
Duration of SSRI trial
Hypertension in Diabetes
Primary Care in the United States