When asked about the research that went into the design of the iPad, Jobs replied “None, it’s not the consumer’s job to know what they want.”
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Web 3.0 Data-Mining for Comparative Effectiveness and CDS
Comparative effectiveness research, supported by data mining, allows organizations to identify affordable therapies that enhance patient care.
Continue readingSay No to Paper
Going forward I will never allow anyone I know to be treated in a facility that bases its medical care on dangerous paper-based processes.
Continue readingPMC 2011 – Still On the Road
It’s been 27 years since cancer took my dad from me. He was such a brave man, always thinking positively and never complaining.
Continue readingWatson, Come Here I Need You
Watson’s success on Jeopardy! demonstrates the capabilities of computers to store and retrieve medical knowledge at the point of care, thereby freeing clinician minds from the unnecessary burden of recalling facts.
Continue readingSeeing Is Not Believing
As organizations work at deploying health information technology and deliver clinical transformation through redesigned workflows, they need to recognize the basis for many of the errors we, as human beings, make in our everyday lives.
Continue readingFailure is Not an Option
Effective use of information technology to reduce medical errors requires identifying the cause of the medical errors and the clinical transformation—the change in how we clinically do something—that reduces the probability of the error occurring.
Continue readingShow Me the Money
The most important lesson in medical care comes from a bank robber who stole more than $2 million and spent more than half his life in jail.
Continue readingA True Tipping Point?
From the signing of healthcare reform legislation to the release of final rules for “meaningful use,” events in 2010 are driving toward a true transformation in the delivery of healthcare in the United States.
Continue readingIs “Meaningful Use” Meaningful?
Transformation of healthcare requires a complete disruption of our current system of healthcare delivery.
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