| Articles by Todd Kunkler |
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| |  | My Precious...My Precious: Five Third-Party Add-ons and Downloads for iPod Obsessives
It occurred to me the other day as I was fiddling around with iTunes that somehow or other it has transpired that I am the owner of two iPods... |
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| |  | Did We Nuke the Duke?
In 1956 John Wayne made a movie about Genghis Khan, called The Conqueror. This film is interesting for many reasons. The main one? 91 of the 220 people working on the movie developed cancer. |
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| |  | If Everybody Agrees Primary Care is Broken, Why Can't We Fix It?
Rising costs. A flawed payment system. More patients. Less time. The signs are obvious within primary care medicine, but how can we fix it? |
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| |  | The Dossia Dossier
There’s a major new player in the PHR market that has the backing of some of the largest corporations in the US. |
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| |  | Is Online CME an Effective Tool for Teaching Physicians?
How many physicians have had the experience of selecting an online CME program in part based on the high marks awarded by previous participants, only to find the program to be dull and inadequate? |
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| |  | Are Higher Medicaid Payments for Physicians the Solution to Providing High-quality Care to Minority Patients?
Racial and ethnic disparities in primary health care are in part systemic in nature, and the lower resources flowing to physicians treating more minority patients are a contributing factor. |
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| |  | Top 5 Cardiology Blogs… Sort Of
A little poking around on the Internets confirmed that quite a few good-to-very-good blogs run by cardiologists have gone dark in the last year or so. |
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| |  | Cardiology Reimbursement Under the Knife Again
Barring action by Congress, July 1 is the deadline to stop a 10.6% cut in Medicare physician payment.
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| |  | Does Cultural Competency Training Improve Quality of Care?
A considerable body of literature has been created that addresses healthcare disparities from social, cultural, economic, and other causes. |
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| |  | One-of-a-kind Clinical Trial to Study Use of Pacemakers
Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine received a $15 million grant to conduct a five-year trial that will investigate whether utilizing pacemakers to administer beta-blocker therapy improves survival in patients. |
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| |  | Medicare Cardiology Payment Cut Deadline Fast Approaching
The ACC advocacy website notes that supporters last week were unable to get the necessary 60 votes for a cloture vote. |
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| |  | What is Cultural Competency?
The field of cultural healthcare competency is not yet standardized, and many years of research are just beginning to bear fruit and their findings are being codified into official rules. |
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| |  | 5 Educational Online Heart and Cardiology Animations and Videos
There exist online many high-quality websites from trusted sources that feature videos and animated depictions of the inner workings of the heart and the functions of the various components of the circulatory system. |
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| |  | Planning to Attend the Quality Healthcare for Culturally Diverse Populations Conference?
The 6th National Conference on Quality Healthcare for Culturally Diverse Populations will discuss “Partnerships for the Future: Supporting Practitioners and Advancing the Field through Innovation, Policy, and Research.”
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| |  | Best Online Cardiology Resources You’re Not Using: dave.md
With all the content aggregators and other resources online that point users toward useful websites, it’s hard to fathom how a site as well conceived and valuable as dave.md could remain so relatively unknown. |
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| |  | AIDS Crisis in the Latino Community?
AIDS rates in the nation’s Latino community are increasing to the point that they have reached what experts are calling a simmering public health crisis.
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| |  | California Bans Trans Fats in Restaurants
California has passed a law banning trans fats in restaurants, bakeries, delicatessens, cafeterias, and other businesses classified as “food facilities.” |
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| |  | US HIV Incidence Higher than Estimated
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that new technology and methodology it has developed show that the incidence of HIV in the United States is higher than was previously known. |
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| |  | Going Online to Fight Obesity
A recently launched study will examine the effects of obesity and explore methods for teaching participants about prevention. |
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| |  | Can You Remotely Hack a Pacemaker?
According to a VentureBeat article, the worlds largest hacker convention, have figured out how to turn off someones pacemaker via remote control.
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| |  | New Site for Cultural Competence
As more data comes to light confirming the negative effects on health outcomes in ethnic minority patients, the need to promote culturally competent care has become more important. |
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