There’s a concept in manufacturing called tolerance. It’s the error allowed as part of the process of making stuff. Engineering tolerance is the permissible limit or limits of variation in: a physical dimension; a measured value or physical property of a material, manufactured object, system, or service ... — Wikipedia In medicine patient care is increasingly ... Continue Reading about Physician Tolerance and the Six Sigma Clinic
Health MedTech SXSW 2019 | The 33 Charts Super Guide
Headed to SXSW 2019 and you're there for health? Great. Health Medtech SXSW 2019 is the perfect place for the discussion about health care. To get you started, here's the 33 charts Super Guide to the best health medtech sxsw 2019 programming. What to do before Health MedTech SXSW 2019 Grab your social profile. The first thing you want to do is create your ... Continue Reading about Health MedTech SXSW 2019 | The 33 Charts Super Guide
The Topol Review – Unprecedented Vision of Medicine’s Future
If you have a dog in the digital health fight or you spend any time thinking about the future of health care, drop what you’re doing and read The Topol Review - Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future. Over the past year a cross-disciplinary team of experts in and outside of the NHS convened to review the current state of medicine and ... Continue Reading about The Topol Review – Unprecedented Vision of Medicine’s Future
Afib and Apple Watch – The Physician’s Emerging Role
Consumer-directed health technology is allowing people to be more involved their own health care. This week Apple turned on the ECG app on Apple Watch Series 4. So many who have never seen a rhythm strip now can generate one on their wrist. Apple watch can help identify afib,the most common form of irregular heart rhythm. As one of the first diseases screened with a ... Continue Reading about Afib and Apple Watch – The Physician’s Emerging Role
Medicine’s Endless Newbies
Medical life in the future will be a series of real-time upgrades. We will all be endless newbies. That bears repeating. All of us—every one of us—will be endless newbies in the future simply trying to keep up. Here’s why: First, most of the important technologies that will dominate life 30 years from now have not yet been invented, so naturally you’ll be a newbie to ... Continue Reading about Medicine’s Endless Newbies
Stay in Your Lane – What the NRA Doesn’t Know About Doctors
This week when doctors weighed in on the escalating gun crisis the NRA suggested, 'stay in your lane.’ So then there were petitions, #thisisOURlane and images of blood-soaked trauma room floors. What the NRA doesn’t realize is that doctors increasingly don’t have a lane. Once restricted under the fluorescent glare of small exam rooms, physicians now are part of a ... Continue Reading about Stay in Your Lane – What the NRA Doesn’t Know About Doctors