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January 6, 2021“When fixing an aircraft you don’t want to design in the next crash”
The morning of...
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September 28, 2020At this point, it’s clear that we’ll need a significant amount of positive energy to come out on top of 2020. Three quarters done, and the year feels like 24/7 media coverage of a reality show about speed-dating the Four Horsemen of the...
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July 13, 2020Disparities in Cancer Research After COVID-19: Charting the Course from Inspiration to Intervention
When I open my eyes in the morning, hours before my family wakes up, I need a few minutes to collect my bearings. The question...
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June 25, 2020
By Eric Perakslis, PhD & Erich S. Huang, MD, PhD
As states try to reopen their economies against a background of surging COVID cases, we’ve been reminded why we are all taught as children not to run into a burning building,...
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May 19, 2020By: Yousuf Zafar, MDFor years, I—like a great many other clinicians who care for patients with cancer— have wondered what it would take to change the way we deliver and pay for cancer care. While the medical science of oncology has evolved rapidly in recent years,...
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May 9, 2020
Introducing a Two-Part Series
“Are we there yet?”
A question both expected and dreaded by parents everywhere. Usually asked about 10 minutes into a long drive or flight, it not only reflects our children’...
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May 8, 2020By: Rabail Baig, MACreativity and insight were on display as a panel of judges announced the winners of the Duke ASA DataFest: COVID-19 Virtual Data Challenge on May 5th. The contest,...
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May 6, 2020In our house, we try to find each day’s silver lining despite the challenges of the COVID pandemic. These have included seeing long-lost family and catching up with old friends on Zoom. Some are predictable: my 16-year-old daughter has more time...
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April 27, 2020
How the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are confirming the primacy of patient voice in digital health.
Last year I attended the 8th Annual Health Informatics...
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April 15, 2020
What contact tracing is, what is isn’t, and why it’s so important.
From movies such as Contagion and...