Lately I've been considering whether to include model credibility in the new NIH requirement for a section on "Authentication of Key Biological and/or Chemical Resources Plan" Are our models a "biological resource" ? - they are not a piece of tissue or an enzyme or a cell but they are not simply der...

I vote for Option 1. My concern is that the committee is setting its mandate to be broader and broader to the point where it is becoming unfocused. This was also my concern about what seemed to be a broadening from healthcare to more general non-clinical simulation issues in prior meetings (eg simul...

I thought I would elaborate on my skepticism re 10 simple rules that I expressed during the meeting today. My notes below were from a prior version so I realize that some of these rules have already been deprecated. Overall I have no strong objection to any of this but find it hard to see that this ...

reposting? from aug 2 It is easy, all too easy, to fill the table quickly and completely -- although there is often not sufficient time to properly do all of the things that you are checking off on the forms (note that most MDs make an effort to at least do something for each system checked off so t...

>programmer who wrote the code would have to experience what the >doctor has to go though - if only for a week. Data entry can be made >easier by using defaults, similarities, and suggestive graphics. I have some 2nd hand acquaintance with the people who work at Epic, one of the major firms in the E...

It was noted in the recent meeting that there are already computers in the clinic -- they are used for EMR primarily and for PubMed search secondarily. Jacob noted in an email to me: "So there are models there already - what is the main obstacle for more models. And you mentioned EMR a point that is...