Health 2.0 News: Centrifuge for Labor and Behind Healthcare.gov

• Measuring Hospital Quality: The data presented is from The Joint Commission’s 2009 Annual Report on Quality and Safety

• Database of peer-reviewed articles related to the coverage of medicine on Wikipedia

• The Facts About Heart Disease through data visualization

• Centrifuge for Helping Women in Labor: An unbelievable patent

• How well can a screening test predict disease risk?

At the moment the sensitivity and specificity of a lot of genetic tests for complex, polygenic disorders (for which we haven’t yet identified all the genetic variants that increase risk) are unlikely to match those of standard diagnostic or screening tests.  What’s likely is that the predictive capacity of these tests will improve as more variants are identified, and/or if additional non-genetic information is included in the test.

• Behind Healthcare.gov: How Washington Is Drawing Inspiration From Silicon Valley, Twitter

• Statistical analysis is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for people who love stats. It’s 100% free, no registration required.

• Dr. Robot: The Future of Medical Surgery