In the 1950s, computers were mammoth machines, rightly thought to provide utilitarian services like the electric company or public works. The field of informatics launched in the 1950s. The American Medical Informatics Association defines it: …
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NtC 15: Can We Really Fix Healthcare?
In a previous NtC episode, I shared my thoughts on the need for a new normal in healthcare to address the challenges and, to quote Hamlet, its “sea of troubles.” And creating a new normal …
Continue readingNtC 14: Build Our New Normal
The pandemic of 2020 upended our lives and created a new normal for how we go about our daily lives. As we emerge from that time, what have we learned? How have we adapted? And …
Continue readingNtC 13: Only Those Who Adapt and Change Survive
Healthcare is undoubtedly one of our most complex industries, with its many inputs and outputs and impact on patients, families, and the people caring for them. Twenty-first-century healthcare is our country’s most challenging industry, beset …
Continue readingNtC 12: The Healthcare IT Conundrum
Healthcare ranks as a high-knowledge and technology-intensive industry. The range of high knowledge and technology-intensive devices for healthcare diagnostics and treatments is immense and constantly growing. Similarly, software advances in data analysis, artificial intelligence, informatics, …
Continue readingNtC 11: You Say You Want a Revolution
When the Beatles released their song “Revolution”, the radical political left severely criticized it. John Lennon, the song’s author, sympathized with the need for change but rejected using violence to achieve those ends. Like Lennon, …
Continue readingNtC 10: A Platform to Leverage Revolutionary Healthcare IT
Let me start with what I define as revolutionary healthcare information technology. It offers clinicians, researchers, and administrators potent tools to drive the clinical and administrative processes to deliver high-quality, safe, accessible, and investment-responsible medical …
Continue readingNtC 9: Navigating the Modern-Day Hippocratic Code
In episode 3 of this series, I shared the pillars of a new, expanded Hippocratic Code updated for today’s information-driven healthcare. The Code includes four mission-critical tenets: Quality care and patient safety, care access, outcomes, …
Continue readingNtC 8: How Much is that PET Scan in the WIndow?
Anyone who has run a company knows that paying close attention to expenses is critical to the business’s long-term survival. Let’s take a coffee shop as an example. The owner must know the monthly rental …
Continue readingNtC 7: Isn’t It Really Just About the Outcome?
Ask any physician, and they will say that a positive outcome is, preferably, the successful treatment of a patient’s illness or the completion of the appropriate therapeutic intervention. A patient’s response will vary depending on …
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