Drugs, IV Shortages, and AI Shenanigans This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2024 The show that gives you a quick insight into the latest news, twists, turns, and debacles going on in healthcare with my friend and co-host Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of August 2024 The show that gives you a quick insight into the latest news, twists, turns and debacles going on in healthcare withmy friend and co-host Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners and myself, where every diagnosis […]
Snooze or Lose The latest pick-up in the press with a clickable link from Axios is How to get more sleep (Americans need it), which frustratingly fails to include a proper reference to the actual source paper or data. The notation “Data: Apple Heart and Movement Study” suggests the data came from this study group […]
A Recap of May’s Healthcare News This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of May 2023 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. Trillion Dollar Chips This month ChatGPT continues to be a focus and trending […]
This week I am talking to Alex Jahangir, MD, (@alexjahangir) Vice president for business development, vice-chair of orthopedic surgery, and director of the division of orthopedic trauma at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, (@VanderbiltUP) as well as the executive medical director of the Vanderbilt Trauma, Burn, and Emergency Surgery Patient Care Center. He is the author […]
This month is our final episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2022 and a close-out to the year As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. We discuss the latest news out of China which is grappling with […]
Conference Season Opens This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of November 2022 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. This week we discuss the recent spate of conferences and some of the highlights and positives […]
Month before This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of May 2022 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. This month we discuss the shortage of clinical professionals in particular nurses that was temporarily ‘solved’ (this […]
Vaccine Logistics This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of January You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovation in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach […]
Greetings Professor This week I am talking to Dr. Kathleen Carley, Ph.D., Professor at Carnegie Mellon University – School of Computer Science – Institute for Software Research & CEO of Netanomics. She heads up the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) that focuses on combatting disinformation online. In this recent feature on NPR: Nearly Half […]
The History The term “Snack Oil Salesman” has long been used and associated with seedy profiteers who sell fake wares to an unsuspecting public, and that is the way I use the term here (ironically the origins were at odds with this). But the term is relatively well understood as a metaphor for individuals who […]
Staying Relevant In 2009 we watched and were entertained by The Repair of the Hubble Space Telescope We were still knee-deep in the Financial Crisis that began in 2007 The Icelandic banking system collapsed taking the government with it Michael Jackson died The NY Yankees won the World Series (Go Nats!) Mobile Phone Technology use […]
Your Internet, Your Access We are dependent on our pipe/connection to the information highway, the internet. But who controls and manages that pipe continues to impact what you have access to, the information you see and hear and ultimately who gets to succeed in our new world. So it has been surprising to watch as […]
This months episode of “News you can use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September 2019 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach out […]
Speech Recognition is Hard Why did it take so long for speech and speech recognition technology to hit mainstream? You can trace the technology back at least as far as Bell Labs who claimed the first major success in the field in the 1930’s when telephone engineers developed the famous Voder a speech synthesizer that was unveiled to […]
Is this Reality Why is there so much focus on twitter and the list of influencers and how much does this really matter? It’s easy to get sucked into this “influencing” story and look for followers, highlight the impressions and even game the system by finding the publishers of influencer lists or maybe even making […]
Keeping Up With Innovation in Healthcare Starting this month I will be running a monthly review of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio You can listen in to the first episode and read more about it here where I discuss topics ranging from Healthcare insurance and surprise billing, […]
Moneyball for Medicine This week I am talking to Richard Milani, MD, (@rvmilani) Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Ochsner Health System and Preventative Medicine and Clinical Epidemiologist and Cardiovascular specialist. We met at the HIMSS 2019 AMDIS Pre-Conference: Reengineering Healthcare Delivery through Innovation. His presentation resonated with me as he focused on the importance of the underlying […]
You’ve Been Cloned Have you had the misfortune of finding an account that has duplicated your life and details and set up as if they are you – if not I’m going to suggest it’s just a matter of time. I have, multiple times and it’s not pleasant and hard to stop – there is […]
Where has the Kindness Gone As someone remarked to me just recently The kindness has gone It can certainly feel that way sometimes and while my general position is to think like a proton – always positive it has been challenging over the last few months to maintain this position. I posted this over the […]
It was with interest I read a recent Viewpoint article in the Journal of American Medical Associations (JAMA) titled: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) in the Digital Age, Determining the Source Code for Nurture authored by Dr. Freddy Abnousi, the head of healthcare research at Facebook, along with a couple of other authors, Dr. John Rumsfeld, Chief Innovation Officer […]
The Challenge of Security for Humans In the lead up to BlackHat and DefCon conferences I am talking to one of the leaders in that space and especially Social Engineering Chris Hadnagy (@HumanHacker), CEO & Co-Founder of Social-Engineering.com (@SocEngineerInc) and author of several books on the topic including a new one due out this summer ”Social […]
Bryan Vartabedian (Doctor_V) – Incremental Steps to Success with Electronic Health Records This week I am excited to be talking to one of the early trailblazers in social media who sits at the intersection between healthcare and technology Dr. Bryan Vartabedian, Physician Leader at Texas Children’s Hospital and @Doctor_V on twitter. Despite being a physician raised […]
Defeating Loneliness Birthdays Its been an interesting journey on birthday celebrations for me personally. Going back to my childhood and I have some fond memories of birthday celebrations organized by my mother in whatever place we happened to be. No small feat given the transient nature of many of our homes. Thinking back I am not […]
Despite living in the DC Metro area for many years I have never managed to attend this event finding myself unavailable and traveling outside the area. This year I was able to attend the 4th Annual event finding it had grown by 15% from the previous year and now boasts over 700 attendees with an incredibly rich set of […]
