A surprise move by ONC/HHS indicates the wheels may be falling off health IT reform at about the same rate they've fallen off Democrats' broader health reforms.
David Blumenthal and his staff have unveiled two separate plans to test and certify EHR technology products and services. We don't think this is a good idea. We've supported the purpose and spirit of the ARRA/HITECH incentive programs, and believe ONC's/HHS' re-definition of EHR technology puts it on a trajectory to improve the quality and efficiency of health care in the U.S. But this recently-announced two-stage EHR technology certification plan bears all the marks of a hastily drawn up blueprint that, if rushed into production, could easily collapse of its own bureaucratic weight.
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8
March
From: Paul Longmore,
longmore@SFSU.EDU
Deadline March 15, 2010
Call for Papers and Proposals: The Question of Rights
San Francisco State University will host a conference September 16-17, 2010 exploring the question and place of rights in history, politics, andsociety.
Rights, both individual and collective, have long been a theme in American society, often seen in conflict with state power. We welcomepapers on assertions of rights by insurgent groups, resistance to rights claims, and governmental efforts to suppress or promoterights, in areas including but not limited to: civilliberties;disability rights; labor and economic rights; feminismandantiracism; immigration; environmental justice; access to healthcare;
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5
March
There are bloggers out there whom I wish would post more often, largely because the quality of the posts is so high. Stuart Rennie, over at Global Bioethics Blog, is one of them. Rennie has a fascinating take on a review by Sally Satel of Swazey and Fox's excellent new contribution to the sociology of bioethics, Observing Bioethics. Satel, Rennie says, states that bioethicists should avoid "getting involved more centrally in issues of global suffering and social justice," largely because of the risks of politicization.
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3
March
From: SMITH K.M.
The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics
International Interdisciplinary Conference
17-18 February 2011
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease Durham University, UK
Venue: Hatfield College, Durham, UK
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 July 2010
This conference will discuss the history of the relationship between aesthetics and medical understandings of the body. Today's vogue for neurological accounts of artistic emotions has a long pedigree. Since G.S. Rousseau's pioneering work underlined the importance of models of the nervous system in eighteenth-century aesthetics, the examination of physiological explanations in aesthetics has become a highly productive field of interdisciplinary research. Drawing on this background, the conference aims to illuminate the influence that different medical models of physiology and the nervous system have had on theories of aesthetic experience. How have aesthetic concepts (for instance, imagination or genius) be grounded medically? What effect did the shift from animal spirits to modern neurophysiology have on aesthetics?
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25
February
The Marmot review final report – Fair Society, Healthy Lives –
proposes new ways to improve everyone's health and reduce inequalities that it describes as 'unfair and unjust'.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot
University College London - Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, London – UK -
February 11, 2010
It concluded that, although health inequalities are normally associated with the poor, premature illness and death affects everyone below the wealthiest tier of English society.
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16
February
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 8th Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine, will be held the weekend of October 8-9, 2010, and hosted by the Department of History and program on the History of Science, Technology, Environment and Health at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. The seminar is organized and coordinated by graduate students across North America working in fields related to the history of medicine. Our mission is to foster a sense of community and provide a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate research by peers from a variety of institutions and backgrounds. For more information, including previous years’ programs, please visit * www.jointatlantic.org*.
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12
February
http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/diseasedisability.html
Newberry Library
Center for Renaissance Studies
Symposium on Disease and Disability in the Middles Ages and Renaissance
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library
Due to space restrictions, registration in advance is required (see
below).
9:30 a.m. Coffee and continental breakfast
10:00 a.m.
Disability in the Middle Ages
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8
February
The (not huge) world of Health 2.0, participatory medicine and ePatients has been fretting itself about a comment Susannah Fox (all hail) elevated into a post called “What’s the Point of Health 2.0”.
Here’s an excerpt from the comment from DarthMed,
The remaining 95% of “patients” out there are not motivated to become informed, or invest the time/energy/money in using any of these tools. These are the folks that know that fast food isn’t healthy, but are just too tired to choose differently. Some (emphasis on some) will do a standard google search when they receive a new diagnosis at best. Yet these are the folks – often folks with multiple chronic (often preventable) health problems, many overweight, on multiple medications, sometimes social problems – that have the real issue that needs fixing.
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6
February
Jeffrey Lacasse (Ariz. State Univ.) and Jeffrey Leo (Lincoln Memorial University)have published an article in PLoS Medicine entitled Ghostwriting at Elite Academic Medical Centers in the United States. Like all articles in PLoS Medicine, the article is available full-text, open-access. The article lacks an abstract, but here isan excerpt of theBackground section (citations omitted):
Medical ghostwriting, the practice of pharmaceutical companies secretly authoring journal articles published under the byline of academic researchers, is a troubling phenomenon because it is dangerous to public health literature is thus a serious threat to public health . . .
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2
February
*Call for Papers: Collected Volume of Essays on Early Modern Disability*
Abstract: 500 words (Due Date: April 1, 2010)
Editors: Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood
Accepted abstracts will lead to scholarly essays (c. 5,000-6,000 words) to be included in a proposed book collection tentatively entitled “Disabling the Renaissance: Recovering Early Modern Disability.”
While Renaissance scholarship in the past few decades has been interested in all sorts of new identity histories, too little work has been undertaken on early modern disabled selves as such. Accordingly, we are interested in essay submissions that call attention to how recent conversation about difference in the early modern period has often overlooked or misidentified disability. This volume will present early modern disability studies as a productive theoretical lens that can reanimate existing scholarly dialogue about Renaissance subjectivities even as it motivates more politically invested classroom pedagogies.
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29
January