by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, EHR
I just ran across a nice Microsoft podcast, The New Surface Podcast Series!, by Alfred Ojukwu (@alojukwu). It reminded me of an idea I presented to some Microsoft folks years ago: What if, by using the Microsoft Surface Hub, we made the exam room the EHR? This...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Deontology, Healthcare Ethics
BigHealth IT’s Christmas in the UK has been delayed for a few months, as the July 1st date for releasing every GP patient’s records to third parties has been delayed. Don’t worry though, it will still be an early Christmas: September 1st. Here’s the key quote...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Fitbit, Google, Wearables
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”― Henry David Thoreau, Walden My old watch is a beat-up Rolex, but,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
Several years ago I was able to use IBM’s Watson Personality Insights to analyze my personality based on how I use Twitter (see IBM’s Watson Artificial Intelligence Analysis of My Personality). It contained both positives (You are philosophical: you are open to and...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Big Data, EHR
Patients have a fluid in their body called blood, which, because of the pumping action of the heart through the arteries cause cyclic transient pressure changes in these arteries. When a nurse physically puts a blood pressure cuff on you they are using a tool called a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Big Data, Social Media
In my recent blog post Sun Tzu, CoVid, And Healthcare Executives, I suggested that healthcare executives don’t understand the current CoVid battlefield. We are no longer fighting CoVid in the lab, we are fighting it on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Here are...
