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Crowdsourcing 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,...
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Meaningful 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,...
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“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 –...
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My 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...
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My 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...
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My 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...
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My 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...
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Is 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...
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The 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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