The title: "It's Not About the Tech: From Potholes to Piglets, Real Life Lessons in Health IT" It is a distillation of 30 years of lessons from working in informatics in leadership at a large academic and integrated health system.
Category: Books and Media I Recommend
Medicine: the last uncompressed profession? (Liminal MD)
Bryan Vartabedian calls out the idea of "compression" where standard process and measurement have transformed many professions. Yet, medical care at its root is a sick patient that may not fit easily into a measurable box. Healthcare as a profession cannot be compressed. A must read.
iPhone notes app is the purest reflection of our humanity (Wired.com) and a medical informatics observation
What’s on your notes app in your phone? WIRED argues that this simple, unfiltered blank page is the easiest place for us to store our unfiltered thoughts. How true. For me: fragments of blog post ideas, books I hear about, movies to watch, hilarious quote from family members, messy to-do lists. Hotel room numbers. Parking garage locations. Who knows? What’s on yours?
Do pictures change patient behaviors (James Stein substack)
I don't often cite other blogs, but this is a worthwhile quick read about changing patient behaviors. Wonderful story about a physicians failure with a patient and the lessons he draws from using a calcium score to try to get a patient to change. Did not go well. And I will change how I think about this as a result.
Upcoming UGM 2025 talk: Grow your own PIGlets – and a new ukulele song parody
Grow your own PIGlets! A book club and 1-year curriculum to train newbie informaticists. Come for talk, stay for the ukulele. We will also be polling the audience for their best recommended books, so come back for the crowd-sourced compilation!
The U.S. Surgeon General Has One Last Piece of Advice (Time.com)
What does the Surgeon General have to say for America? Listen up, y'all.
Q: Who can save us from Social Media? A: Just Us. (Harvard Gazette, Nicholas Carr)
Superbloom: Nicholas Carr's latest book, is sure to be another mind-blowing read. Sign me up.
Bookshop.org now sells e-books (Wired.com)
Support independent bookstores over the big tech amazon store! I can't wait to give them more business locally.
Bill Gates Traumatized his Parents (Wired.com)
Bill Gates, an autobiography. We have lived the last 50 years, from slightly different viewpoints. Are the lessons the same? Different?
Machiavelli, “The Spare” and Medical Informatics? A reflection
What does "The Prince", Prince Harry's new book, and Medical Informatics have in common?