Category Archives: Health care

Where Our Health-Care and Innovation Systems Both Fall Down

December 10, 2007 – 11:52 am

Maybe it’s because I have the subject of innovation on the brain these days, but I couldn’t help thinking about it as I read Atul Gawande’s article The Checklist in the December 10 issue of the New Yorker. Because Gawande is a practicing surgeon, as well as an amazingly gifted writer, he has always been [...]

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An Overview of Systems Biology

November 19, 2007 – 3:57 pm

Back in 2003, the National Research Council commissioned me to write a chapter about “systems biology” for a report they were doing on the relation between biology and information technology. Since the report, which eventually appeared as Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology (2005), was radically reorganized after my assignment was done, [...]

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The New Genomic Medicine

November 7, 2007 – 9:36 pm

One of the most frustrating things about our relentlessly partisan debate over health care is that the proposals on every side are so-linear. Are drugs too expensive, and do too many people lack insurance? Subsidize them. Are malpractice awards spiraling out of control? Cap them. Is the total cost of health care growing faster than [...]

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