Taubman Health Sciences Library Blog- Blog Retired
- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Tag Archives: IOM
Shorter Lives, Poorer Health in the US: New IOM report
From the National Academies Press: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, … Continue reading
The Well quiz: Cutting health costs
The New York Times Well blog has a quiz, along with links to the Institute of Medicine report on waste in the American health care system. How well did you do?
Posted in A bit of fun for a Friday
Tagged health care quality, health care reform, health policy, IOM, utilization
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Interested in the health and environmental costs of food?
A prepublication edition of Exploring Health and Environmental Costs of Food: Workshop Summary is now available from the National Academies Press. The U.S. food system provides many benefits, not the least of which is a safe, nutritious and consistent food supply. … Continue reading
For the Public’s Health: Investing in a Healthier Future
Just released by the National Academies Press: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to examine three topics in relation to public health: measurement, the law, and funding. IOM prepared a three report series–one report on … Continue reading
Crisis standards of care – Disaster response
Just out from the National Academies Press is Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response. Catastrophic disasters occurring in 2011 in the United States and worldwide–from the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, to the earthquake and tsunami … Continue reading
Health Datapalooza June 5-6
The Health Data Initiative Forum III: The Health Datapalooza will be held June 5 and 6, 2012, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The event brings together a diverse group of data experts, technology developers, entrepreneurs, policy … Continue reading
Posted in Lectures/symposia
Tagged data, DHHS, health policy, health technology, IOM, mobile resources, research
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IOM Report: Integrating Primary Care and Public Health
Public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy. It takes a society to practice public health – Healthy People 2010, 2nd ed., With Understanding and Improving Health and … Continue reading
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