Hospital workers are caught up in the Pokemon Go craze and it's begun to raise concerns. Between rooming patients it seems there's just enough time to snag a Vaporeon. Some health care facilities have shut it down amidst concerns that selfies and snapshots risk the transmission of PHI. While Pokemon Go raises new challenges around privacy, the greater challenge ... Continue Reading about Pokemon Go and Medical Mindfulness
Impact Pediatric Health: A Game Changer for Kids
As someone who cares for chronically ill children and watches technology, I’m thrilled to be participating in and advising Impact Pediatric Health at SXSW this March. Check it out. Supported by some of the top-ranked children’s hospitals in the United States (my own Texas Children’s Hospital as a core catalyst of IPH), this one-of-a kind competition is a chance for ... Continue Reading about Impact Pediatric Health: A Game Changer for Kids
Transparency and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital
There's an arms race for transparency in health care. Check out the Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in Boston. They made news by rolling over to publicly reveal a delayed cancer diagnosis. Call-out culture meets medicine in a showy display of clinical vulnerability. If you listen carefully you hear them hyperventilating at Propublica. As The Brigham and Women's makes ... Continue Reading about Transparency and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The Clinical Trifecta – Productivity, Quality, Satisfaction
American physicians struggle with contrasting demands of performance. It's the clinical trifecta of 21st century clinical medicine. Providers are: Required to be productive. Expected to deliver care with a high level of satisfaction. Increasingly accountable to quality metrics. The problem is that productivity can be at odds with satisfaction. ... Continue Reading about The Clinical Trifecta – Productivity, Quality, Satisfaction
Periscope as a Medical Medium
Doctors are increasingly sharing procedures on Periscope. For the uninformed, Periscope is an in-line Twitter application that facilitates live, personal broadcasting. Most recently, an achilles tendon repair from Ohio State was ’scoped'. I thought it sounded pretty interesting, but I got there too late. The party was over and the video was gone. The use of ... Continue Reading about Periscope as a Medical Medium
Impact Pediatric Health | A Sign of Change
As someone who spends his time watching medicine’s collision with technology, it’s striking to see where children fit in. Or don’t fit in. Health technology favors big, nervous, healthy people with smartphones. But perhaps the winds are changing. Case in point: The Impact Pediatric Health pitch competition. This year’s SXSW Interactive festival brings together ... Continue Reading about Impact Pediatric Health | A Sign of Change