Peter Yellowlees

To Publish Or Not To Publish? Fame Is The Key.

The publishing industry is in a mess. I have just spent the last six months working with a well known literary agent who has been trying to sell my latest book to one of the big five publishing houses. I am a nationally known expert my field, have wri... Read >

The Use Of Online Healthcare Is At A Tipping Point

Online healthcare is becoming more accepted by both patients and doctors, and is, I believe, finally at a tipping point. By 2015 online communication between patients and doctors and the routine use of multimedia information will be the norm. Patients ... Read >

Asynchronous Telepsychiatry is feasible

A new study by researchers at the UC Davis School of Medicine has found that psychiatrists can accurately assess a patient's mental health by viewing videotaped interviews that are sent to them for consultation and treatment recommendations. The approa... Read >

What is Meaningful Use?

$19.2 billion in Recovery Act funding has been designated to modernize the health care system by promoting and expanding the adoption of health information technology, but what is going to happen? Like it or not, all health professionals will be significa... Read >

Can your doctor read your mind?

There is considerable research being undertaken on new ways of communicating. And I don't just mean communicating with each other as we talk, sing, shout or cry. I mean ways of communicating with other objects, such as cars, computers and other electronic... Read >

Health Informatics specialists are essential to reform and transform our health system

Much of the American health system is outdated, inefficient and excessively expensive. Many have written about what is wrong with our system, and how important is the process of health reform. But relatively little has been written about what is required ... Read >

Questions for your doctor?

I had a rewarding experience last week when one of my patients asked me a range of excellent questions about their condition. I had just diagnosed them as having an anxiety disorder. This patient was clearly concerned about possible medication side effect... Read >

Jobs in health informatics are becoming plentiful

The way most doctors and health care professionals do their jobs has hardly changed over the past thirty to forty years. Contrast this with the enormous changes in, say, transport, manufacturing and telecommunications! But hang on to your stethoscopes!... Read >

How to talk back to your doctor?

When was the last time you visited your doctor? What was it like? What happened? How did you communicate? Were you listened to? Were you able to develop, or deepen, your therapeutic relationship with them? Who else was part of the consultation? Was your d... Read >

Virtual Reality in Medicine - many evolving uses and advantages

Virtual reality techniques, involving three-dimensional imaging and surround sound, are increasingly being used in diagnosis, treatment, and medical education. Initial applications of virtual reality in medicine involved visualization of the complex data ... Read >

Virtual Reality Medical Education in Second Life

Increasing numbers of people are using the Internet for the provision of all sorts of health services, from prescribing, through consulting to setting up automated self-treatment programs. But what about using it for education and therapy? After all, in t... Read >

Should we measure the quality of blogs?

Blogs have now become ubiquitously available. Just as the Internet is widespread and accessible, becoming cheaper, better understood and more user-friendly and flexible, so are blogs becoming more common and important. Access to blogs is increasingly via ... Read >

Why public health insurance is essential to save American lives.

The current debate on health reform is getting lost in the numbers and dollars game in Congress. The arguments have become about price. What is the cheaper option? How can we pay for it? What is the best value? It is about the health insurance industry de... Read >

Health care reform - will Dr Obama be able to cure the US health system?

Let's pretend that President Obama is actually Dr Obama, and that his job is to diagnose and treat the US Health System. What will he find, how will he go about it, and what will be the outcome? The process of diagnosis is relatively straight forward. ... Read >

Online healthcare is a game changer

Dr Stanley Borg, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, recently wrote that "whatever your views on the flaws and failures of the US health care system, you have to admit that things are changing. Make no mistake: online care is a game change... Read >