There was a pretty interesting article in the op-ed section of the Wall Street Journal the other day entitled, “‘Alternative Medicine’ Is Mainstream.”  The thrust of the story was that alternative therapies are finally finding their way into mainstream discussions about health and health care.  All by itself, this is probably true - and a good thing.  Here’s the article’s […]

About a year ago, I gave a talk to the Maine Medical Society about health care ten years from now.  I don’t consider myself to be much of a futurist, but in thinking about my remarks at the time, I thought about the road health care had traveled over the previous ten years.  Generally speaking, we’d seen an increase in […]

I’ve written before about the limits and opportunities of health information technology.  HIT, as it’s more commonly known, is just that - health information technology.  It can be an important and useful tool.  But it is the user of that technology - the clinician, the pharmacist, the administrator, the analyst - who ultimately determines its value.  If the […]