Hospitalist Potpourri
I’m just back from the annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine and, as usual, I was blown away. I’ve not seen a medical society meeting that is remotely like it. As Win Whitcomb, who...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing My New Book on How Computerization is Changing the Practice of...
I have been in blog-silence mode of late, for which I am sorry. Rumors that I’ve taken my Elton John act on the road are, I’m pleased to assure you, incorrect. 7 yr old’s depiction of MD visit (Toll,...
View ArticleMeaningful Use. Born, 2009, Died, 2014?
The policy known as Meaningful Use was designed to ensure that clinicians and hospitals actually used the computers they bought with the help of government subsidies. In the last few months, though,...
View Article“Being Mortal”: Atul Gawande’s Most Ambitious – and Important – Book
“I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them.” So begins Being Mortal, Atul Gawande’s fourth and most ambitious book. All of Gawande’s prior books –...
View ArticleMy Interview with Health IT Leader John Halamka
Of the nearly 100 people I interviewed for my upcoming book, John Halmaka was one of the most fascinating. Halamka is CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a national leader in health IT...
View ArticleMy Interview with Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande is the preeminent physician-writer of this generation. His new book, Being Mortal, is a runaway bestseller, as have been his three prior books, Complications, Better, and The Checklist...
View ArticleMy Interview with “Technology Optimist” and 2nd Machine Age Coauthor Andy McAfee
Andy McAfee is the associate director of the Center for Digital Business at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is also coauthor (with his MIT colleague Erik Brynjolfsson) of the 2014 book, The...
View ArticleMy Interview With Health Policy Expert Mark Smith
Mark Smith, MD, MBA, was the founding CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation; he served in that role for 17 years before stepping down last year. I’ve known Mark since we were residents together...
View ArticleIs NLP-Enabled Data Mining the Digital Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting For?
Natural language processing might seem a bit arcane and technical – the type of thing that software engineers talk about deep into the night, but of limited usefulness for practicing docs and their...
View ArticleThe ABIM Controversy: Where the Critics are Right, Where They’re Wrong, and...
“What’s up with the ABIM?” “I just got a note about an alternative board. Should I join it?” “Aren’t you glad to be off the Board?” These days, I get these questions from friends and colleagues...
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