Matthew's Blog
Should AI Social Media Analysis be Used to Hire Physicians?
Using IBM Watson, here is a Personality Portrait based on three of my recent blog posts using artificial intelligence and natural language processing: Summary You are heartfelt, somewhat insensitive and skeptical. You are solemn: you are generally serious and do not...
AI Podcast Review: The Deepmind Podcast
For physicians and healthcare executives who are looking for a brief introduction into leading-edge artificial intelligence (AI) research, I recommend listening to the short, eight-part DeepMind Podcast. DeepMind is an AI startup based in London and was recently...
Will AI-Enabled EHRs worsen Cascades-of-Care?
The paper Cascades of Care After Incidental Findings in a US National Survey of Physicians is an important read for anyone who believes artificial intelligence is going to lower healthcare costs. A "Cascade-of-Care" is a medical workup that expands exponentially after...
Physicians, Bill Gates, and 0.887 Tweets per Day
When I talk to physicians about Twitter, they often tell me they think it's a waste of time Perhaps they are right. But then I will pull up Bill Gates’ Twitter account, started in 2010 (see his first tweet below), and ask them why— if indeed it is such a waster of...
What Netflix Can Teach Healthcare
I once read Netflix runs 400 A/B tests on their website at any given time. What this suggests is that each day they are evaluating multiple ways to incrementally improve their website. Why? Because they see their website as a core part of their business. It isn’t seen...
Healthcare’s Lowest Hanging Social Media Fruit: The Pinned Tweet
I can't fathom is why most healthcare organizations don’t spend more time selecting and creating a meaningful “pinned tweet”. (For those of you who don’t know, a pinned tweet is a self-selected tweet which lives right below your profile, and visually will often become...
Moravec’s Paradox applied to Electronic Health Records
Moravec’s Paradox is: the observation by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning (which is high-level in humans) requires very little computation, but sensorimotor skills (comparatively low-level in humans)...
Patient Records: Is it EHR or EMR?
Should we refer to a patient’s digital medical records as their Electronic Medical Record (EHR) or their Electronic Medical Record (EMR)? Well, according to HealthIT.gov , part of “The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)” which...
Why Healthcare Doesn’t Retweet More Trusted Content?
As of the morning of January 7th, the attached @CDCFlu tweet had only been retweeted 116 times, and, by my count, only 16 retweets were done by healthcare organizations, mostly small and local. the rest of the retweets were done by individuals. So far this year, per...