ADA’s 80th Scientific Session wrapped up today, and there was a lot of ground covered, despite the fact that we all watched from our...

John Halamka’s blog had a guest blogger, Amy Stiner, who related her story of a tortuous, difficult, painful path of getting her son’s...

Our UCSF Clinical Informatics group met a few months ago with several representatives from a major Health IT vendor. The vendor, we’ll...

“But who is going to pay for it?!” This has been the common refrain for years. The world of diabetes care experienced this dilemma...

Epic’s User Group Meeting (UGM) is a Healthcare Conference The Epic EHR is so ingrained in healthcare now that the UGM conference is...

The current paradigm of office visits every three months for PWDs (people with diabetes) is not the right model (nor is it for other...

I recently had the fortunate opportunity to be part of the inaugural UCSF Lean Launchpad course, formed by Erik Lium and Stephanie Marrus...

I gave a talk yesterday to a great crowd at the annual UCSF CME conference, Diabetes Update.  The slides from my presentation, “The...

I spent a few hours this morning watching the livestream of the MedX conference at Stanford organized by Dr. Larry Chu.  From the...

It was a true honor and a pleasure to be invited to be part of the UCSF Unusual Thinkers panel at Dreamforce 2012 yesterday in San...

Does this sound like something that has happened to you?  You are driving, you stop at a red light, and all of a sudden you find that...

Published in an Online First this week by JAMIA was the extension of the original DiaTel study published in Diabetes Care in 2010.  The...

On Wednesday, I was in New York along with other members of GreenDot to make our presentation to the judges and audience as...

DiabetesMine is sponsoring a contest asking for people with diabetes to tell everyone about their biggest needs in a 2-3 minute video....

In this interview, Wil Yu, the special assistant of innovations and research and director of ONC’s SHARP (Strategic Health IT Advanced...

The deadline for submissions to the 2012 Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge is March 23rd. This is an opportunity for innovative...

When mentioning the West Wireless Health Institute, I also should have mentioned Qualcomm Life, their 2net wireless platform, and the...

I recently learned about the West Wireless Health Institute in San Diego, founded by philanthropists Gary and Mary West, and with...

This is a good two months overdue, but still worth putting out there.  This article from iHealthBeat asked 9 health IT experts about the...

New study published by Harry Fischer and colleagues in Denver shows increased participation in care by diabetes patients who received...