• NEJM — Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy - Discussion of conflict of interest in publishing research in journals.

• Bioethics Forum - Google Health: Organizing Your Medical Information - Comment on this blog about a method to display drug/device ads to physicians reviewing a patient's medical record. Is this sort of thing different than a physician reviewing a medical record while writing with a branded pen on branded paper that sits in their office in front of their computer, next to their drug sample cabinet (if they allow these things in their practice). Shouldn’t the conversation be about being an unbranded doctor instead of Google’s implementation?

May 15th through May 18th:

• CCR Product Compatibility List — AAFP Center for Health Information Technology - Adoption list of CCR - not up to date, but gives a glimpse of who has been involved.
• Montana Healthshare - Montana organization to use CCR to improve population health
• Solventus CEND/PHR - A reference implementation of a PHR using CCD, developed by Stephen Waldren, MD and David Kibbe, MD
• PDF Healthcare - A technology platform for enclosing historical documents - can contain a CCR
• SourceForge.net: CCR Acceleration Resources Project - The XSLT transofrm from XML -> HTML for CCR
• www.ccrstandard.com - Continuity of Care Record (CCR)Standard — Resource Site _uacct = “UA-2242673-1″; urchinTracker(); - Home base for CCR
• “I hope that some day you get your wish” - "Medicine has a 100% failure rate" - a discussion of physicians in information technology.
• The WETA Guide to Fine Dining | WETA TV 26 - A nice series on DC treasures
• The Health Care Blog: PODCAST/CONSUMERS/TECH: Interview with Joseph Kvedar, Partners’ Connected Health guru - Information about ConnectedHealth and the EMC pilot they are doing

In hopes of making reporters’ jobs a little easier, we’ve created for journalists an international list of prestigious and independent medical experts who declare they have no financial ties to drug and device manufacturers for at least the past five years. We have nearly 100 experts from a wide array of disciplines. E-mail us at Brownlee.Lenzer@gmail.com, and we’ll be happy to name names.

Are doctors shilling for drug companies on public radio? - By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer - Slate Magazine

Not sure if i meet the prestigiousness criteria, but I don’t have financial ties to drug or device makers.

• Online health sites | Salon Life : Is there a doctor in the mouse? - A rebuttal to Dr. Scott Haig’s article that brought me to NPR in December. I think our profession’s leaders are at our best when we react by innovating. From that perspective, I’m not sure I agree with the tone or approach of the Salon piece. If we don’t like what we see in others, let’s create the type of system that we think is better and promote that.
• State OKs clinics in stores- MassLive.com -
• D.C. Council votes to regulate pharmaceutical reps - Washington Business Journal: - Sweeping regulation of pharmaceutical reps, right in our back yard.