Author: mikepsinn

Structural Changes Leading to the Health Explosion

Let’s zoom in and see what happened in the last couple of centuries leading to this explosion. We see on the timeline are two primary groups of factors: Research Improvements Incentive Improvements Research Improvements Schools of Medicine An influx of new state-affiliated pharmacy schools in the 1880s and 1890s helped to raise the level of the practice […]

Project Coordinator

Additional Program Coordinator responsibilities include: Planning and coordination of a program and its activities Ensuring implementation of policies and practices Maintaining budget and tracking expenditures/transactions Job brief We are looking for a competent Program Coordinator to undertake a variety of administrative and program management tasks. You will help in planning and organizing programs and activities […]

Standardized Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

The results from thousands of studies available in a free database at clinicaltrials.gov. However, they all use different outcome measures, so it’s difficult to aggregate the results to generate meta-analyses. Thus, it’s difficult for a patient or physician to derive the best actionable information from this disparate pile of information. Our goal is to convert […]

Posthumous Health Data Donation by Default

Over a billion people are suffering from uncured chronic diseases. Medical progress is unacceptably slow due to the costs of research. However, there’s tremendous value in the information contained within health records. This data could help answer a range of public health questions that require data on people’s health over a long time period — […]

International Biobank Health Data Sharing

Numerous health conditions affecting large parts of the population remain under-researched.  As a result, hundreds of millions of people continue to suffer from devasting diseases, such as Alzheimer’s dementia or Parkinson’s disease. The data required for scientific progress actually already exists in the form of electronic medical records, health insurance spending records, diet data, pharmacy […]

Microbiome Optimization Initiative

There is likely no other area of medical research with more potential for reducing the suffering of chronic disease than the billions of tiny passengers inside our guts. There is increasing evidence showing that the dynamic changes in the gut microbiota can alter brain physiology and behavior. Cognition was originally thought to be regulated only […]