by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, EHR
When you build a new house, who gets to decide which hammer type (claw hammer, framing hammer, dead blow hammer, common hammer, sledge hammer, blocking hammer, brick hammer …) will be used during construction? Is it the home developer? No. Is it the home buyer?...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Digital Platforms
Take a look at the image above, the Center for Disease Control’s homepage (preferably on your smartphone, since that’s the way we should initially assess at most websites today), as it was on 1/27/2020. Note how the information about the Coronavirus is so dominant?...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Big Data, EHR
Recently, in the Health IT Social Media Galaxy ( granted, a rather small galaxy), there has been much attention paid to EPIC CEO Judy Faulkner’s response to the proposed Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations—regulations which may make it easier for patients to...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Health, Politics
The Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 killed between 20-50 million people and the attached image shows what it looked like for various cities. We have known for some time that pandemics can hit at any time. We have known for some time that with air travel (also known as...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity
In November 2019, I completed NaNoWriMo, which stands for National Novel Writing Month. It’s an online non-profit, in which thousands of people from all over the world endeavor to complete a +50,000 word rough draft of a novel in one month—the month of November. My...
