MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'irony'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:29:49 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4566277&cid=t_118578_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fironically-enough.html From /r/politics, March 9th, 2011 (Source: Graphictruth) Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4566277 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:27:00 +0100 4566277 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4203210&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.crossoverhealth.com%2F2010%2F11%2F25%2Fgettingreal%2F Relevant (rĕl’ə-vənt) 1. Having to do with the matter at hand; to the point I read with amusement Susanna Fox’s redux review about the relevance of Health 2.0 in general and in changing patient’s behavior specifically.  Here questions reveals her bias in a very limited definition of Health 2.0 that I attempted to abolish originally in some of my bantering with Matthew Holt. I always saw Health 2.0 as a “movement” that would not be defined so much by its technology but rather enabled by it. As an “enabler”, the technology can help people do new things in new ways but I never believed technology in and of itself  had the power to truly change health, health behaviors, or health care delivery in and of itself. That is why my definition of health 2.0 was always ... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4203210 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:52:37 +0100 4203210 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3644950&cid=t_118578_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2010%2F06%2Fi-almost-wasted-my-entire-morning-at.html This article contains big factual errors *in its #1 example*. Trying to slam my headline ""Steve Jobs Tries to Cover Up Apple's Racial Profile," the author erroneously states that Apple simply refused a Freedom of Information Act Request from a pesky newspaper, so there's no attempt to cover anything up.In fact, Apple was never sent a FOIA request, nor did it every "deny" one. It's absurd to think it would since FOIA applies to the government not the private sector.What *did* happen is that Apple fought for 18 months to prevent the release of taxpayer-owned data about its workforce on the grounds that a racial breakdown was a competitive trade secret. This claim was called "absurd" by FOIA expert and University of Pacific prof John Sims. Stanford Law's Richard Ford was among those calling ... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3644950 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:04:00 +0100 3644950 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3505157&cid=t_118578_180_f&fid=38604&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fmakeitgreat%2F%7E3%2FTJ2lKpZz7Gc%2F Interesting video that made me smile. It’s got all the new social networks and Internet superstars made fun of, all in just 2 minutes 45 seconds. Not sure if this makes me feel better or worse about myself. Don’t judge, just watch. Are you a new dork like me? Embrace it! Unleash your inner dork. (Source: Phil Gerbyshak) Phil Gerbyshak blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3505157 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:20:00 +0100 3505157 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2674337&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.crossoverhealth.com%2F2009%2F08%2F05%2Fclear-shocking-google-health-back-to-life%2F * This is the second part of my commentary on the June HealthVault Connected Care Conference in Seattle. I hope to use this post to motivate my good friends at Google Health into taking a much more public, visible, and proactive role in the health conversation. More importantly, it is a call to Google HQ to wake up to the opportunity within health care to leverage their current tools and technology to create a platform that others can use to enable the creation of a next generation health system. The scene was familiar, but it didn’t take away the tragedy. A young motor vehicle accident victim was involved in a head on collision with a drunk driver. The blunt trauma to the chest had created a literal mish-mash of complex internal injuries. The ambulance crew had attempted multiple times... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2674337 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:10:46 +0100 2674337 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2602056&cid=t_118578_111_f&fid=38039&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsomedaynurse.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F14%2Fhoney-im-home%2F My preceptor told me last night that it seemed I was born to be a nurse. It was the greatest thing anyone has said to me in a long time. My practicum is turning out to be such an amazing experience! My preceptor does a great job of letting me set my own priorities with patients and figure out my own way of organizing the shift. All the nurses are open to answering questions and explaining new procedures, and we are always looking up the answers to clinical questions we run across during the night. The patients are really challenging. I love neuro, and we also get a fair amount of surgical step-down and ICU overflow, which keeps things interesting. Was it only five years ago that I made the decision that will impact the rest of life? It was so spontaneous that decision is a misnomer. I star... How I Spent My Nursing Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2602056 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:30:39 +0100 2602056 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2584238&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.crossoverhealth.com%2F2009%2F07%2F08%2Fcpt-codes-why-physicians-always-get-screwed-thanks-ama%2F CPT Codes Set of health care procedure codes based on the American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology Established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing specific items and services provided in delivering health care. Daniel Palestrant comes right back from his opening salvo of last week to continue his crusade against the AMA. In another hard hitting email blast sent out to his 100,000 physician community he lays out the case of how the CPT system, maintained and propagated by the AMA, actually holds physicians hostage to the insurance cycle of care. He also lays the groundwork for the new retail health care economy where CASH will be king, relationship with the provider will be DIRECT, and physicians and patients will once again re-establ... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2584238 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:32:57 +0100 2584238 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2399069&cid=t_118578_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fclinical-cognitive-dissonance.html Both Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan point out that the New York Times has drifted far afield from reason, reacting in common - and much the same way - to a NYTimes obituary of a US Military Veteran - describing his experience in a Chinese prison during the Korean war as torture - when the things described, when done by us, are described in terms such as "enhanced interrogation."Greenwald goes on, however, to note an observation from the NYT in another story they probably think completely unrelated:"I learned from reading The New York Times this week (via The New Yorker's Amy Davidson) that Iraq is suffering a very serious problem. Tragically, that country is struggling with what the Times calls a "culture of impunity." What this means is that politically connected Iraqis who clearly b... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2399069 Fri, 08 May 2009 18:24:00 +0100 2399069 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2258288&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.crossoverhealth.com%2F2009%2F03%2F12%2Fferrari-medicine-we-dont-need-more-horsepower%2F Horsepower (hôrs’pou‘ər) n. A unit of power in the U.S. Customary System, equal to 745.7 watts or 33,000 foot-pounds per minute. The power exerted by a horse in pulling I had the opportunit to present to the Managed Care Executive Group yesterday in Chandler, AZ. In a beautiful desert setting, this group of executive IT folks from regional health plans gather to share ideas that will propel them forward in the year ahead. I was the final keynote of three densely packed sessions. The other key noters did a wonderful job describing in thorough detail with graphs, charts, and well documented trends the challenges in our health care system. Given their depth of coverage, all that was left for me was to highlight as succinctly as I could was my perception of the problem with ... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2258288 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:11:43 +0100 2258288 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2173649&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.crossoverhealth.com%2F2009%2F02%2F10%2Fan-unnecessary-effort-wuesthoff-health-pays-for-eob%2F Unnecessary (ŭn-nĕs’ĭ-sĕr‘ē) adj. Not necessary; needless. Serving no useful purpose or function You have got to love it, huh? Did you see the most recent series of lawsuits just announced by the AMA. They must just be loving the opportunity to pile on their arch nemesis insurance companies at a time when their very future is in question.  It looks like the “price of opacity” is going to get a lot higher (will blog on that later). Apparently, there is also a “price of transparency” being offered up in the market as well. In a very interesting article (a take off of my Million EOB March post?) from Wuesthoff Health System revealed that they are actually paying consumers to have access to the EOB’s from other hospitals for specific prices of... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2173649 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:48:06 +0100 2173649 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2104897&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviesoundclips.net%2Fmovies1%2Ffindingnemo%2Ffish.mp3 Scheme (skēm) n. A systematic plan of action A secret or devious plan An orderly combination of related parts “Usual and customary” just became “Transparency and consistency” The United Health Group, in what will become a sweeping decision (interesting interview with author here) within the Health Insurance industry, was just levied a $50M wrist slap by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for their participation in “a scheme to defraud consumers by systematically underpaying the nation’s patients by hundreds of millions of dollars over the last decade.” While United denied any wrong doing and continues to stand by the database their subsidiary Ingenix developed to determine what appropriate reimbursement rates should be, they appear to be on the... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2104897 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:40:48 +0100 2104897 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2098285&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.crossoverhealth.com%2F2009%2F01%2F12%2Fsales-objection-2-mumps-is-dead-no-its-actually-epic%2F Epic (ĕp‘ĭk) n. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero. A series of events considered appropriate to an epic Epic is a beautiful surfing slang word to describe a day, a swell, or a ride that is totally out of the ordinary, transcending into a state of pure awesomeness. It is also an appropriate term to use to describe an interesting statistic I saw recently. I have not written about VistA for a while, but there appears to be a resurgent interest in the media regarding it to which I will contribute. In my last post I describe the “platform issue” as a significant barrier to commercial adoption. Another major hurdle is the unique MUMPS programming language and database from which it is co... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2098285 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:47:52 +0100 2098285 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1952608&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.crossoverhealth.com%2F2008%2F11%2F12%2F50m-dollar-men-win-the-linux-medical-news-freedom-award%2F Revolution (rĕv‘ə-lū’shən) n. The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another. A sudden or momentous change in a situation I am deeply honored and profoundly grateful to be recognized, along with my brother Steve Shreeve, as the 2008 winner of the Linux Medical News Freedom Award. While this is a niche award in a niche space, it is highly symbolic in recognizing individuals who are “crying in the wilderness” regarding the promise and potential of open source within health care. The award comes with the bitter irony of course, in the history and historicity of the events which have led to it being awarded. On the positive side, Medsphere was born as a revolutionary force within the Health Care information technology world. The company was f... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1952608 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:55:11 +0100 1952608 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1865867&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.crossoverhealth.com%2F2008%2F10%2F09%2Fgoing-back-to-cali-from-cease-and-desist-to-this%2F California (Kal ee for neah) n. The most populous state in the United States of America Bell weather state for multiple social, cultural, and legal issues Currently governed by the Governator and a health regulatory staff that needs some technology tutoring Three months ago, there was a huge hubbub about genetic testing in California. In a dramatic effort, albeit totally misguided, the California Department of Health sent “cease and desist” letters to multiple vendors who were offering genetic testing services directly to the consumers. They were concerned by the cost, the accuracy, the ability for medical professionals to interpret the results, and the potential for harm to the consumers. However, with many technology advances that outpace the regulatory apparatus, this one ... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1865867 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:50:30 +0100 1865867 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1853933&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.crossoverhealth.com%2F2008%2F10%2F04%2Fhealth-fool-point-oh%2F Disintegrate (dĭs-ĭn‘tĭ-grāt‘) v. To become reduced to components, fragments, or particles. To lose cohesion or unity To decompose, decay, or undergo a nuclear transformation. Ouch. I remember attending a high school football game as a wide-eyed sixth grader. Not only did I get to hang with the big kids, but I got to see big kid things like my first girl fight. It was right after the half-time crowds had headed back to the stadium, and these two high school girls with big hair, big earwings, and even bigger four letter word vocabularies circled up for the battle. I remember jostling for positioning and the bizarre fascination of watching this girls just reduced to primal visciousness, hair pulling, clawing (literally), and ultimately a whirling mass of confusion rolling... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1853933 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:40:32 +0100 1853933 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1845270&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.crossoverhealth.com%2F2008%2F10%2F01%2Fcapitalism-in-health-care-do-you-still-believe%2F Capitalism (kăp’ĭ-tl-ĭz’əm) 1. An economic system based on a free market, open competition, profit motive and private ownership of the means of production. 2. Descriptive of a system that encourages private investment and business, compared to a government-controlled economy where investment money is obtained from private sources (shareholders). I, along with everyone else, has been walking around hollow-eyed given the speed of the recent financial meltdown. 100 year old firms disappearing in a weekend, markets roiling with every bit of news, experts clamoring about the greatest calamity ever in the recorded history of finance, and politicians actually working weekends to attempt to rescue the largest and most important financial system in the world. This is serious busine... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1845270 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:48:28 +0100 1845270 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1664890&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcrossoverhealth.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F29%2Fact-iii-vista-will-find-a-way%2F VistA (vĭs’tə) n. Abbreviation for “Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture” The integrated electronic health record that powers the largest health delivery organization in the United States (who still achieves the best clinical health outcomes of any care delivery organization in the US). The catalyst that allowed the VA to transform from an epithet everywhere to the best care anywhere I still remember the original Jurassiac Park by Michael Crichton that I consumed during my evolutionary biology course in college. One particular line has always stuck with me, and Jeff Goldblum got it exactly right in how he delivered it during the movie. When describing the improbability that these once extinct dinosaurs could be reproducing on the island, ... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1664890 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:32:30 +0100 1664890 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1623138&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcrossoverhealth.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F14%2Fstatewide-telemedicine-network-a-modern-anachronism%2F Anachronism (ə-năk’rə-nĭz‘əm) n. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: I continue to read with interest articles describing new telemedicine projects. I just don’t get it. What are these guys doing? You don’t need a telemedicine network fraught with complicated hookups, poor screen quality, and difficult communication interfaces. The new telemedicine network is called the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T (invented by Al Gore in 1994) which in case you didn’t know obviates your “telemedicine initiatives”. I mean seriously, who is sponsoring all these things anyway?... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1623138 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:33:57 +0100 1623138 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1475587&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcrossoverhealth.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F28%2Fmamma-mea-culpa-ingenix-goes-open-source%2F Mea Culpa (mā‘ə kŭl‘pə) n. 1. An acknowledgment of a personal error or fault 2. A statement of acknowledgment expressing regret or asking pardon I have long been a big fan of Ingenix and their mission of using information analytics to help create value. They are an impressive organization with a plethora of technology, products, and services designed to unlock the hidden value of information. They are huge, pervasive, and can be found in nearly every health plan portfolio or health care infomediary arsenal. They have an impressive vision, strong financial backing and performance (have created an additional $1B to bottom line the last five years), and are poised to lead the information age in health care. They are also controversial because to date they have been solely foc... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1475587 Thu, 29 May 2008 02:51:55 +0100 1475587 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1232192&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=36694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcrossoverhealth.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F13%2Ffollow-the-leader-shepherds-vs-sheepherders%2F Hireling (hīr’lĭng) n. 1. One who works solely for compensation 2. One who is employed by another 3. A person willing to perform a menial task for a fee I grew up in rural Clovis, California on a 2.5 acre ranch house. We had chickens, turkeys, a large garden, a creek running through our back yard, an old horse, and bunch of sheep. I never knew why we had the sheep because no one in our family ate lamb, we didn’t use their wool (although we tried to shear them once), and they were a disaster to take care of. Sheep are not particularly smart, are exceptionally skiddish, and will do exactly the opposite of what you want them to do. I remember spending many frustrating hours trying to drive them from one adjacent pasture to the other. A close family friend who lived nearby w... Crossover Healthcare blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1232192 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:13:25 +0100 1232192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3029892&cid=t_118578_111_f&fid=38039&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsomedaynurse.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F01%2F13%2Fevery-day-im-hustlin%2F I’ve been thinking about some art for a tattoo to cover up some old self-harm scars in my upper arm. I’ve thought of a lot of rebirth, metamorphic symbols: phoenixes, butterflies, dragonfish…but this might be the best tat I have ever seen. It would ruin the irony to explain it too much. image credit I really dig the unicorn. The invisible pink unicorn is kind of an unofficial symbol of solidarity among some atheists. Not sure either artist or body had that in mind, but it’s cool. (Source: How I Spent My Nursing Education) How I Spent My Nursing Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3029892 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:01:54 +0100 3029892 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=696815&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=34657&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscottshreeve.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fopen-source-20-return-of-jedi.html Jedi (jed ī) n. 1. Keepers of the peace of an ancient and noble monastic organization2. Possess an innate ability to tap into the "force", an incorporeal energy field generated by all living organisms and permeating the universe and all things within.3. Members of the Jedi order fight for peace, justice, and open sourceA few months ago, I posted some of my growing concerns about the dilution of the term "open source" and the ongoing irrelevance of the Open Source Institute. Seems this was a pervasive feeling in the open source community such that Michael Tiemann, Red Hat's VP of Community Affairs, and the current president of the OSI, determined it was time to “stand up” to the misappropriators (paraphrase and highlights added): Dana Blankenhorn's story has finally pushed me to respon... Scott Shreeve, MD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=696815 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:29:00 +0100 696815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=623335&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=34657&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscottshreeve.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fmyopia-20-technology-versus-movement.html Myopia (mī-ō'pē-ə) n. A visual defect in which distant objects appear blurred because their images are focused in front of the retina rather than on it; also called nearsightedness or short sightedness. Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning. In a recent post to HISTalk, my friend and colleague Matthew Holt of Health Care Blog fame attempts to clarify the definition of Health 2.0 by narrowing it to “just…easy to use software that encompasses search, wikis, blogs, video, online communities, mashups, and other stuff”. Essentially all the traditional concepts of Web 2.0 but applied in healthcare context. I believe this definition is not only unnecessarily limiting, but particularly shortsighted given the growing reform movement within the broader healt... Scott Shreeve, MD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=623335 Sat, 19 May 2007 00:20:00 +0100 623335 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=611592&cid=t_118578_113_f&fid=34657&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscottshreeve.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fwhy-i-read-histalk-and-you-should-too.html Satire (săt'īr') nA literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.I have long been a fan of HIStalk - the must widely read blog for the HIT industry. I have had the pleasure to meet Tim in person, and since I am swore to secrecy on his identity, I can only say that meeting him in person has only made reading his material that much more enjoyable. Not only is HISTalk a highly informative roundtable, but the blistering sarcasm peels back the hype (folly, vice, and stupidity as well) with caustic clarity.The most widely read blog entry I have personally written has to do with the "Software FreeDumb: Adware within Healthcare" which exposes the frailties of the Practice F... Scott Shreeve, MD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=611592 Sun, 13 May 2007 23:43:00 +0100 611592