Michael Chary and I presented our tutorial, Analyzing Twitter for Public Health Research , at the Medicine 2.0 World Congress in Maui just r...

I'm glad some people choose to share their health data - be it RunKeeper routes and times, or WiThings weights or blood pressures, or th...

I've been reviewing episodes of NBC's The Night Shift for EPMonthly. Specifically, I took the pilot, then episodes 5-8, while Dr. ...

I've been a proponent of social media for over a decade. Broadly distributing the tools for sharing one's thoughts just seemed like ...

I once chided my med school roommate for entering dozens of numbers into his landline phone's high-capacity speed-dialer. After programm...

Last month I got on stage at SAEM's Annual Meeting, and said ( among other things ) that excelling at medical education through social n...

Welcome, readers from Clinical Decision Making 2014 in sunny Ponte Vedra. The most recent version of my slides (some tweaks from what...

I was very pleased this year to participate on two panels at SAEM in Dallas.  On Thursday, I joined Michelle Lin and (remotely) Rob Coo...

This month, EPMonthly ran an article about the cost of poorly-designed EHR on ED operations . The EPMonthly authors - Augustine and Holste...

I'm honored to be presenting this afternoon at the New York Emergency Medicine Health Policy Assembly, organized by the Emergency Depart...

This Monday at ACEP's Scientific Assembly I'm presenting at the Learning Lounge on the topic of smartphone apps for physical exam a...

Welcome, readers from Clinical Decision Making . You've got a PowerPoint version of my talk on your USB drives; here's the link to t...

There's a research paper making the rounds in the press and on social media , about Facebook usage in an emergency department. It...

I've pretty much kept my distance from the right-wing noise machine. They don't often talk about my professional interests, and when...

While I've been focusing on peer-reviewed writing these days (though what could be more peer-reviewed than a blog?) you can see some of ...

We hear it all the time: one of the benefits of EHR will be to get a handle on physician practice variation . Between states, and even withi...

No one chooses emergency medicine for continuity of care. It's undoubtedly rewarding for most doctors to help manage patients through gr...