Wade Roush reports on a new set of online tools that let radiologists at Brigham and Women's and colleagues around the world collaborate in real time on X-rays, MRIs and other diagnostic tests.

The Radiology Theatre, built by IBM, uses a bunch of open-source tools sitting atop an IBM platform.

Dr. T matches up Dickinson's "Dropped into the Ether Acre" with photos from one of her tours as an anesthesiologist.

Nearly half blame her for getting herself beaten up.

In addition, a significant number of males and females in the survey said Rihanna was destroying Chris Brown's career, and females were no less likely than males to come to Rihanna's defense.

The commission says it did the survey as part of a new initiative to combat teen dating violence in the city, under a four-year, $1-million grant it received last year.

For a story today on Caritas Christi and the state insurance system, Michael Paulson asked a large number of theologians and priests what they thought. It's a complex subject and he obviously couldn't fit all their thoughts into print. So he posted their complete answers on his blog, along with ten questions Caritas Christi won't answer.

Paul Levy reports on a "town meeting" for Beth Israel staffers to try to come up with ways to cut costs without laying off workers:

... As expected, the response from the staff has been spectacular. People have a terrific sense of community and are quite willing to make sacrifices for the good of their fellow workers. (And, as you can see in the picture above, people are maintaining a good sense of humor, too.) I'm going to post some of their comments for you below so you can get a sense of the sentiment.

Beyond the general feeling, I was very, very pleased when I asked people if they agreed with my predisposition to protect our lower wage earners (e.g., transporters, housekeepers, food service people) from measures we take, even if it means that other people have to give up more of their salary and benefits. The response was overwhelmingly positive. ...

Cardinal O'Malley makes it perfectly clear on his blog: If Caritas Cristi and a partner do win a contract to become the default provider for the state health system, women will be on their own when it comes to abortions or emergency contraception:

... Caritas Christi will never do anything to promote abortions, to direct any patients to providers of abortion or in any way to participate in actions that are contrary to Catholic moral teaching and anyone who suggests otherwise is doing a great disservice to the Catholic Church. We are committed to the Gospel of Life and no arrangement will be entered into unless it is completely in accord with Church teaching. ...

Still, he adds that he is asking the National Catholic Bioethics Center to review the arrangement.

Via Michael Paulson.

Beth Israel Deaconess CEO Paul Levy explains why: Basically, the shrinking economy is now affecting even hospitals.

Caritas Christi Health Care must want in on state health-insurance funds pretty badly if it goes in on a proposed plan that would let participants get abortions and emergency contraception. And yet, people who support those don't trust them, either.

A huge amount of frustration could be solved by simply adding a checkbox to the intial unemployment claim form. Over at DaveWrites, I propose how the Department of Unemployment Assistance should evaluate laid off workers' eligibility for assistance in paying their health insurance premiums at the time claims are filed.

Chillmark Research, a Cambridge consulting firm that analyzes adoption of IT in healthcare, explains (very politely) what the lawyers for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society in Chicago can do with their request that the firm not only delete blog comments that offend them (see the note from "Calvin Jablonski" on this post) but help the lawyers track down the person who posted them.

... HIMSS, we invite you to write a Guest Post that we would gladly post on the Chilmark Research site and highlight it to set the record straight. Seems like a good solution to us but to date it has gone unanswered. ...