Google’s Deep Mind, Artificial Intelligence, and Your “Private” Medical Records
I encourage physicians and healthcare executives to read the 2017 Health and Technology journal article: Google DeepMind and healthcare in an age of algorithms, the cautionary tale of the behind the scenes (and somewhat questionable) relationship between part of...
My Best Blogging Advice for Physicians
A blog post can be short if it clearly makes the point.
Physician: Too Busy to Blog? Then Blog While Walking.
As a physician, about the only thing I value more than time is my health, so I wanted to write a quick tip for physicians about how to combine these two values to maximize benefit. This tip requires one skill and three tools. The one skill is the ability to speak...
Artificial Intelligence, HIPPA, and The Problem of Privacy
As I attend AINextCon Seattle this week and listen to the speakers from organizations such as Microsoft, Didi, Pinterest, or LinkedIn one theme comes out all the time: the more data they have from more users, the better the results. Now let me be clear here. When...
Is Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Research Declining?
Is the research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications within the healthcare beginning to taper down? Certainly looking at the graph above, the published research suggests this is the case, however this may just be a reflection of AI efforts within the...
Why I am Going to AI NEXTCon Seattle
This week, about a mile from my home, one of the top Artificial Intelligence (AI) conferences on the West Coast is being held : AI NEXTCon Seattle. I'm excited because I'm going! This begs the question: why, as a physician, I am so excited about going? It's certainly...
Healthcare 3.0 and Ethics
First, let's talk Web 3.0. Web 1.0 is the static webpage of the late 1990s. The website is simple a page, presenting information to you. Web 2.0 is the formation of community, circa 2007. It includes elements such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs. Here, as opposed to...
Medicine, Twitter and the Value of Play
Let me start here. We physicians don't get a lot of points for play (and Play’s cousin - Creativity) within the practice of medicine. Moms don't bring their 5 year old son in with severe strep throat to be placed on an antibiotic that hasn't been used before; They...
Twitter in Emergencies: Healthcare Can Learn from Hawaii’s False Missile Threat Alarm
There will be a lot healthcare systems can learn from Hawaii’s recent false alarm regarding an incoming missile. Much of this will center around the relationship between system complexity, human error, and system failure - subject which all doctors understand. Some...
The Golden Rule of Social Media for Healthcare
There are many rules for social media use within healthcare. Usually these will come down from upon high via an organizations HR department, with strict attention to obeying HIPPA rules, and with a focus on not embarrassing the organization. These will be rules on...