The Medical Blog Network is adding featured contributors. I am pleased to introduce David Donohue, MD and Robert Lamberts, MD.

Dr. Donohue, based in Delaware, is a practicing internal medicine physician, a champion of universal health coverage and an accomplished information technologist. He shares our great passion for improving healthcare quality and helping the real people navigate what he calls by an ominous term of "Medical Matrix".

Dr. Lamberts is a family doctor, leading a small primary-care practice in Georgia. He holds the distinction of being one of the first small-office docs who successfully implemented EMR and derived quantifiable benefits. He received numerous HIMSS awards and is a living proof that health IT naysayers are offbase, as we wrote before.

Welcome to the new members of HealthVoices community.

Both Robert and David will contribute to our new Healthy Living column, dedicated to helping people stay healthy, well and away from the rest of our healthcare system. They already kicked off the columns with general health advice on obesity and sleep apnea, based on their personal practice experience.

Robert will be also sharing his first-hand EMR adoption experience with other docs in our Physician EMR Review column. He is starting with a post about his qualifications and the importance of Main Street perspective, as opposed to pontifications of self-important "experts" out of touch with daily practice of medicine.

So what are these columns all about ?

Every HealthVoices member gets a free personal blog, with user's own URL. General member posts can be about anything and get assigned to Personal Musings category. We already have an initial post from a member expressing concern about MRI Side Effects.

Topical columns are organized around audience interest and populated by regular contributors. Our initial column lineup is listed in the top of the left sidebar and is expected to grow over time. If you would like to suggest a topic area, feel free to drop us a note.

We look forward to seeing you around as readers and contributors.

UPDATE: More on the reasons for medical bloggers to join a network.