The Ethical Challenge of Deep Learning
Most patients, most of time do fine, despite what a doctor does. However, sometimes , due to skill and some good luck, a doctor save lives. On the flip side, even if you are Marcus Welby, (or Dr McCoy from Star Trek ), a doctor will lose lives. But this is not a...
Healthcare CEOs, Eigenvector Centrality, and National Prescription Drug Take Back Day (April 28)
The Opioid Epidemic is a multi-faceted problem, and isn’t going to be solved by just one thing, but taking unused mediations of the street will help a little. April 28th 2018 is the DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, which last year resulted in the take...
How Lifesavers Can Save Lives: A Physician’s Social Media Suggestion
After being inspired after watching an interview with Andrew Clarke, CMO of Mars, here’s a creative way Mars (the parent company of Wrigley, which is the parent company of Lifesavers) could use social media to save children's lives AND improve their brand in the...
A Brief History of The WHO
Here’s a great article which summarizes the history of the WHO: A Brief History of The World Health Organization. If you had to summarize it in one word, that word would be “visionary”. In a world which every day is becoming ever more connected, this article is more...
The Argument Against Telemedicine for Acute Care
Although the business model for telemedicine for acute care appears strong on its surface - with the combination of customer convenience being location independence at its core - the medical and human model is much weaker. First of all, regarding the medicine of...
CDC Twitter Accounts as The Kernel of a Trusted Retweet List
Here’s the list of the CDC-managed Twitter Accounts as of 2016. CDCEmergency https://twitter.com/CDCEmergency 2 CDCgov https://twitter.com/cdcgov 3 CDC_eHealth https://twitter.com/CDC_eHealth 4 CDCFlu https://twitter.com/CDCFlu 5 NIOSH https://twitter.com/niosh/ 6...
A Tweet as Haiku
“Foamy tides erase My legacy of footprints. Was I ever here?” This is an example of a nicely crafted haiku, taken from the article “How to Write a Powerful Haiku”. Haiku is a powerful form of poetry, with the structural rule of three unrhymed lines of 5-7-5 syllables...
The Binomial Distribution of Facebook Reviews for Healthcare Organizations
Facebook has been having a difficult week, but this does give us an opportunity to reflect on what Facebook is, and what it means, in particular with regards to the truth. When considering its role in patient complaints and reviews for healthcare organizations, here...
My Top Three Design Tips for All Things Social Media in Healthcare
My Top Three Design Tips for All Things Social Media in Healthcare: 1. Mobile first. 2. Mobile first. 3. Mobile first. Got it?
What Healthcare Needs to Learn from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
In the next few months, a lot is going to be learned about the relationship between Facebook, Cambridge Analytics, and the data of their users. The technical details will be interesting, as will observing the downfall of the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, or watching ...