Monthly Archives: March 2016

Article I’m interested in: “Machine Learning and the Profession of Medicine”

Darcy AM, Louie AK, Roberts L. Machine Learning and the Profession of Medicine. JAMA. 2016;315(6):551-552. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.18421.

> Must a physician be human? …

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=2488315

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Report on a workshop of interest

Collaboration Between Health Care and Public Health:
Workshop Summary (2016)

http://www.nap.edu/download.php?record_id=21755

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Paper on correcting MCoD data I need to read

Published recently in PHM: “Drug poisoning deaths in the United States, 1999–2012: a statistical adjustment analysis” by Christopher J. Ruhm http://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12963-016-0071-7

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New Scientist did an article on VA

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077535-diagnostic-app-can-reveal-cause-of-death-without-a-doctor/

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