Healthcare Musings For 22 March 2019
22 March 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Musing With Friends About Healthcare This week’s letter lives up to the title of “Healthcare Musings.” The dictionary says that musings are periods of reflection or thought. I would add that when I am...
Healthcare Musings For 15 March 2019
15 March 2019 Dear Interested Readers, An Introduction To Deep Medicine Rapid advances in the information sciences, coupled with the political commitment to broad extensions of health care, promise to bring about basic changes in the structure of...
Atul Gawande Tells Us Why We Hate Our Computers
This week Atul Gawande has published “The Upgrade” in The New Yorker. It is the best article I have read on computers in practice. The title in the online edition is the more appropriate “Why Doctors Hate Their Computers. He uses stories that feel like...
A Request That Got Me Thinking About How We Practice
Recently my 97 year old father was readmitted to his local hospital in North Carolina with another episode of CHF and aspiration pneumonia. He was discharged to the rehab facility at his life care community on a Monday. My sister from Birmingham drove over and spent...
Leadership and Lean: Looking Forward
Twice a year I attend a small meeting of Simpler executives and other advisors to talk about what is happening in healthcare. As I have reported in previous notes, Simpler now functions with a great deal of continuing flexibility within Watson IBM Health, just as...Case Study – Elizabeth Mcarthy
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