Why Healthcare Organizations Should Delete their Facebook Reviews Section
If you are a healthcare organization, delete your Facebook Reviews Section. It’s bad for business, and, whether or not it is legal, it's certainly ethically dubious. Healthcare visits can be intensely emotional, resulting in an binomial distribution of highly negative...
“STEM” or “STE” + “M”?
We hear a lot about the need to develop more Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) students. We usually hear this term from either a government education official or a tech. industry representative, and invariably they both lump all four...
Software, Healthcare, and Dehumanization
Recently , in a discussion with a software developer from Microsoft (and after sprouting my new-found Python programming baby wings!) , I mentioned my hypothesis: Healthcare has created a new patent class - the digital patient - and often this class of patient...
The AI Holy Grail of Healthcare
“As the true grail will bring you life, the false grail will take it from you.” These are the words uttered by the Grail Knight in the movie “Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade”. https://youtu.be/A0TalLrtZ24 I believe these words apply to to Healthcare's...
Fitbit: Moving from Data to Wisdom
Data. Fitbit, is exceptional good about capturing data. Through its devices, scales, and app, data such as steps, sleep, heart rate, weight, and food are all easy to capture. Information. Fitbit, on both its app and platform, also displays this data in a very user...
The Creation of Real and Digital Patient Hybrids
In graduate school, as I was working towards my Master’s Degree in Physics, I remember the lecture when Quantum Mechanics fell into place for me. It was the lecture on Wave-Particle Duality. Wave-particle duality, simply stated, is that a quantum entity can have the...
Questioning Health
Is a 29-year-old winner of the wheelchair division of The Seattle Marathon healthier then an obese 22-year-old video game player? Is a competitive triathlete taking a cholesterol-lowering medication healthy? Is there such a thing as a healthy 75-year-old? How about a...
Healthcare CEO Tweet Frequency: The Bill Gates Rule
If you can convince your Healthcare CEO that Twitter is a gateway technology from Healthcare 2.0 (Social Media) to Healthcare 3.0 (AI, Blockchain, Semantic Web, etc), and they decide to try it, then how frequently do they need to tweet? I suggest using what I call...
Blog Post Review from Fierce Healthcare: Apple’s Entry Into the EHR World
In the Fierce Healthcare (@fiercehealth) blog post When it comes to medical records, experts see the potential for Apple to succeed where others have failed, the author Evan Sweeney ( @DB_Sweeney) makes two key points. First, Apple's potential for success is using...
Python Programming or TV?
Learning Python for Machine Learning, considering ethical systems of thought for Artificial Intelligence applications within healthcare, or creating a definition of health valid for Semantic Web applications is hard. Watching MSNBC or Fox News and yip-yapping about...