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The Problem with Predicting Physician Supply and Demand

July 6, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 5 minutes

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has released a report, The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections from 2018 to 2033, predicting a substantial future shortfall of physicians. The AAMC represents medical schools and teaching hospitals and offers services to its member institutions including medical education data. Trying to ... Continue Reading about The Problem with Predicting Physician Supply and Demand

Tagged With: Future, MD Future, Medical education

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Technology is Useless Until Fueled by Human Ideas

January 15, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

This quote from Jeff Howe and Joi Ito in Whiplash is worth a look. It references the birth of film as a technology and reminds us that technology is useless until fueled by human ideas: Ponder this for a moment. It took eight years, hundreds of filmmakers, and thousands of films before someone conceived of the new technology as anything other than a play in ... Continue Reading about Technology is Useless Until Fueled by Human Ideas

Tagged With: Future, Human, Innovation, Technology

Future Medicine, Technology

Omega Speedmaster and the Human Experience

July 18, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

This is a pull quote from an Atlantic article discussing Buzz Aldrin’s Omega Speedmaster watch that he wore on the moon. This very watch worn by Aldrin is available today in its original form. This quote stuck with me. ... In other words, the Speedmaster and watches like it provide a sense of permanence in an age with little of it. The Speedmaster available ... Continue Reading about Omega Speedmaster and the Human Experience

Tagged With: Future, Human

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The Health Technology Outcomes Gap

August 6, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

This analysis in Health Affairs shows that EHR adoption initially results in higher patient mortality but in the long run lowers mortality. Having gone through the transition from paper to digital, it’s easy to imagine. Initially you think, ‘how do I do this?’ Then you say, ‘how did we do it with paper?’ There’s a period of adaptation that happens with new ... Continue Reading about The Health Technology Outcomes Gap

Tagged With: Big Thinking, Digital health, Digital literacy, Future, Innovation, Technology

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To Be a Machine – Transhumanism as a Lens on the Modern Condition

June 29, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Spend enough time in the tech infosphere and you’ll find that there’s no shortage of confidence in the ability of technology to make us better as humans. In fact, technology advances coupled with this confidence has spawned the transhumanism movement. This is... ...a movement predicated on the conviction that we can and should use technology to control the future ... Continue Reading about To Be a Machine – Transhumanism as a Lens on the Modern Condition

Tagged With: Book reviews, Future

Future Medicine, Physicians

Medicine’s Exponential Future and Past

April 20, 2017 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Within a week two tweets showed how doctors see medicine: one predicted that doctors would soon be obsolete and the other linked to a study reporting the ‘resurrection of physical exam.’ If you listen to doctors and their conversations you’ll find two polarizing views reflected in these tweets. There are those who see a brilliant future with technology and others ... Continue Reading about Medicine’s Exponential Future and Past

Tagged With: Future, Physicians

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