Matthew's Blog
Why Telemedicine Won’t Work For Acute Care
Here are the 4 different types of acute care medicine: #4 Bad care is giving a patient an antibiotic they don't need for a 3- day cold. #3 Marginal care is refusing an antibiotic for a 3-day cold and having a patient leave the encounter upset and angry about wasting...
Leveraging Mobile Phones for Organ Donation
Within the iOS Health app, when clicking on the Medical ID icon, adults are only a fews seconds away from become an organ donor. (see above) There are over 80 million iPhones in the US. Most of these have this capability. (Android phones also have apps for this...
IBM’s Watson Artificial Intelligence Analysis of My Personality
How good is Artificial Intelligence at Analyzing Personality via Twitter? Well, let's see home well IBM does using Watson's free Personality Insights tool. Here's my AI-enabled personality analysis after analyzing 29,929 words ( about 1/2 of a novel's amount of...
The Value of Nice Tweets
We all know that tweets with photographs and videos have higher engagement than stand alone tweets. Some say up to 1200% more engagement. We also all know that tweets with humor get more engagement. Finally, and sadly, we also knowt highly negative tweets - tweets...
Data, AI, and the Future Companies of Healthcare
Facebook. Google. IBM. Microsoft. Apple. Amazon. Physicians: Start getting your digital resume together and start looking at purchasing a skateboard, because in the next few years chances are high that many of you are going to be working for one of these companies. ...
Learning from My Photographer’s Journey
I am not a great photographer. Although I have a good understanding of the theory behind photography, and although I have read several books on the subject (including my cameras’ users manual), I won’t be doing any shows of my work in the new few months! But for...
80% of EHR Data is Unstructured. Or is It?
80%. I run across this number all the time in healthcare articles about the potential use of artificial intelligence within healthcare. It is the percentage of “unstructured” data contained in electronic health records (EHRs) - data which is prime real estate for...
My Takeaways From a Recent MIT Artificial Intelligence Course.
I just just finished a 6 week MIT-Sloan course on AI, called: Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy. It was an excellent course, and it exceeded my expectations. Here are three of many takeaways for me which stand out: Artificial Intelligence...
Social Media, ROI and a Webinar Bootcamp
ROI. Return on Investment. These are the words which can bring Social Media Marketers to their knees. Look, I know several healthcare organizations which have revenue approaching haf a billion dollars per year, but who only have 2-3 social media people working for...