Does Your Healthcare Organization Take the Opioid Crisis Seriously Digitally? No.
Take a look at your healthcare organization’s website home page right now. Is there any information about the opioid crisis? Is there a well displayed link to an opioid resource page? Is there a help line? Is there information on proper opioid disposal? Chances...
Why A Doctor is Going to The Digital Summit Seattle
Why am I spending two days to attend a Digital Marketing Conference today in Seattle? It’s mostly going to be attended by people from marketing, and most of the speakers are from the high-tech area. So of what possible interest is this to a physician? A lot. ...
The Computer Screen: EHR is the Second Patient in the Room
In the paper Keystrokes, Mouse Clicks, and Gazing at the Computer: How Physician Interaction with the EHR Affects Patient Participation, the authors studied 32 physicians engaging with 217 patients as the used an EHR. It was observed that the amount of time a...
Assumptions, Digital Technologies, and Healthcare
In Physics, you have to know your assumptions. For example, the Einstein assumed the speed of light was constant, he was able to develop the Special Theory of Relativity, and eventually the General Theory of Relativity. Over the last 100 years, both in Astrophysics...
Is Technology’s Tendency to Dehumanize Always Bad?
We often think new technologies, such as AI and Big Data, are dehumanizing in the healthcare domain. We're right. They are. But is dehumanization always a negative? Not necessarily. Consider the possibility that a facet of dehumanization is actually non-judgement....
The Zuckerberg-Facebook Testimony – First Take
The Zuckerberg-Facebook congressional hearings make one thing clear: There is a wide gap between what lawmakers understand about Social Media/AI and what Silicon Valley understands about it, particularly regarding privacy and content ownership. Trying to put Facebook...
What Healthcare’s Social Media Folks Can Learn From Katy Perry using ikigai
I love learning about Social Media principles form my betters, and when it comes to Social Media, there are few people better than Katy Perry. 2 billion, 465 million, 849 thousand, and 832 views. Wow! That's a lot of views. Remember ikigai - the confluence of...
Hashtags (#) as a Social and Digital Technology – What #MeToo and #MAGA Have in Common
Lots of things to learn from the Tony Robbins - #MeToo Movement, but I'd like to focus on the idea around hashtag-based “Movements” both as a social technology which uses digital technology, vs. the hashtag digital technology itself. Consider the relationship of the...
Does AI need a Hippocratic Oath?
At the end of the Hippocratic Oath, we have the following words: And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding...
Online Physician Recruiting – Showing What Makes You Unique
Physician recruiting is becoming increasingly competitive. This is unfortunate for most healthcare organizations, particularly in the context of the recent rush of health group mergers, which results in a regional standardization in salary and benefits. In a...