Light based chips use photons instead of electrons to transmit zero's and one's. This is faster and uses much less power. However, our tools for switching and processing are decades more advanced when based on electrons. Do photons have a chance?
Category: Innovation
Go Slow to Go Fast, or Human Autonomy vs Bot Autonomy
University of Colorado’s General Internal Medicine leaders have decided to block one appointment per half day clinic for all physicians and APP’s. Find out what happened!
Most Wired Level 10: Thought Leader Round Table at CHIME Fall Forum
A Thought Leader Round Table at CHIME by Most Wired Level 10 leaders, on AI and many other topics in informatics and healthcare IT.
The Genius Behind @OKWildlifeDept’s Most Viral Tweets Is Signing Off (wired.com)
There are ways of making science and government cool. "Southerland announced that she’d made her final post. It was about not feeding doughnuts to wildlife. 'For the past four years, it’s been my job—nay, my PLEASURE—to be the tweeter behind the @OKWildlifeDept account,' she wrote. 'It’s been my absolute honor to roast and ratio some of you into the ground in the name of science.'" I had to look up "ratio" on urbandictionary. 🙁
Predicting Sepsis and Virtual Health Center at UCHealth: News. Colorado Sun
Saving lives at UCHealth: a combination of predictive analytics (AI) and a dedicated team: the Virtual Health Center nurses. Come see how the sausage is made (kinda cool)
TikTok Education Strikes Again: Be a Haiku Hero!
I have always wanted to wear a cowboy hat, pink with flashing lights. And now, my dream has come true. Here is our latest 60-second education video on how to configure your Epic Haiku iPhone secure chat settings for success.
Will Your Next Doctor Be … A Bot? (SunFest) with bonus uke song
What happens when you put a news reporter, and AI researcher, a Bioethicist and a CMIO together to discuss AI, Chatbots, Bias and emerging trends? You get this highly interactive and entertaining panel. And maybe a song.
Advances in PGx (Pharmacogenomic or Drug-gene interaction) at UCHealth (guest bloggers Dr. Christina Aquilante and Dr. David Kao)
Pharmacogenomics is advancing quickly: we can warn prescribers in the EHR when patients have genomic variants that reduce medication effectiveness. We are going from screening populations (18,000 so far), to anticipatory screening for high risk patients (cancer center patients about to choose a chemotherapy). Cool.
Podcast: Designing for Health: Do patients want to see their test results immediately? (hint: 96% say yes)
Come join us! Dr. Bryan Steiz, first author, Liz Salmi, Chief Patient Informaticist, and I discuss our recent publication on the subject of patients accessing their test results online BEFORE their doctor can inform them. This poses a host of gnarly questions that had no data, no answers ... UNTIL NOW.
AI and reinventing learning in health systems (Beckers podcast, with ME!)
Where Bobby Zarr and I discuss the future of learning in health systems, with AI embedded in tools like the ones in our Learning Assistant, what we internally brand our education from uPerform.