Matthew's Blog
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...
The All of Us Program : Big Data Meets the NIH and the Citizenry
The All of Us Program, part of the Precision Medicine Initiative, is currently beta testing and will be ramping up in 2018. So what is it? Basically, it is a program which intends to develop a cohort of over 1 million participants to track and correlate various...
Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, and Informed Consent
Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires three things to work. High processing speed. Large amounts of data storage. Large amounts of data collection. The first two are localized technology innovations. These are done in the confines of labs, both public and private,...
For Most People, Most of the Time, Digital Technology is Unhealthy.
For most people, most of the time, digital technology is unhealthy. By most people, I mean 95% of adults. If I meant children, it would be 99%. By most of the time, I mean 99%. By digital technology, I mean 1.0 technology - which includes TV, 2.0 technology - which...