March 2008
31 posts
A video tour of the Myca platform. →
Here is a guided tour of the interface we developed at Myca to explore our patients’ medical information and how we document our interactions. It’s unlike anything else you’ve seen — especially in healthcare. All those other EMRs you see out there…they look and function like they were designed by freshman engineers on Windows 98. So here is the future people....
AP: Doctors Wary After Cholesterol Drug Flop →
We live in an outlandish world. The majority of the pharmaceutical industry is so pathetic (along with the FDA), the powers that be will approve a drug based on “it’s better than placebo” and allow billions of dollars to exchange hands only to realize that its the equivalent of a sugar pill. It’s time to realize we are in a new era of medicine. We have the old tried and...
“Happy doctors have happy patients.”
– Jordan Shlain
My solution to the beginning of changing...
For god’s sake…DISBAND THE RUC. NOW. Healthcare will not change unless current national reimbursement policies are not changed, but destroyed. From it’s ashes, create a new RUC composed of another 29 physicians. Those 29 physicians will be mainly composed of primary care doctors with specialists in the minority according to actual healthcare usage in the United States. If the...
The three generations of doctors...
“Jay…you are of the generation of doctors I call “tech unconscious.” — Jeff Goldsmith, former board member of Cerner Yes…that’s true Jeff. I grew up with computers. My first computer was a Commodore 64. I went to Washington University for undergrad which was one of the main first hubs of the internet. Computers, the internet…they’re wired...
Hillary. More regulation. Ugh. →
“I’m reluctant to pump more money into a broken system.” So Hillary, what do you think mandatory insurance for everyone does? So mandating that I throw my money at one of the most inefficient, stupidly run systems that is a model of inefficiency and corruption…that’s a good idea?
AppleInsider | Apple developing full-fledged... →
So cool…I was thinking while watching the Apple event where they unveiled the iPhone SDK, that the multi-dimensional accelerometer could be used to track activity. Good stuff. From one of the forum comments about this story: “please take my money. i would love this”
Colbert: First Vid of Dean Kamen's Miracle Water... →
I hope this solves one of the worst public health problems in the world. I was talking with Nat this morning and he said he heard Bill Gates say at one time, “I’m not scared of anybody except some guy in his garage inventing something that will kick my [Microsoft’s] ass.” That was paraphrased in case any of you were wondering.
SemanticHacker →
My Starbucks Idea →
Interesting use of crowdsourcing. The consumer will be central in developing and perfecting the hellohealth platform.
The I L O Institute and Sanjay.
I just had about an hour conversation with Judy Boros from the I L O Institute about the future of healthcare. Such a difficult question to answer — What is the future of healthcare? What will healthcare look like in 5 to 10 years? Well, it’ll look much the same. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. Of course, the rich I’m speaking of are the specialists....
coming soon: healthetica
healthetica: design/health Send all your graphic design friends the link. We’re going to add a bit of flair to healthcare.
Changing behavior.
Yesterday, my next door neighbor poked his head into the door from the gigantic back yard we share (just one stop out of Manhattan!) and asked if I wanted to share a cup of coffee. He’s very into sustainability and making conscious behavioral changes toward reducing waste in our environment. His lifestyle is quite admirable and impressive how he can be surrounded by the waste of NYC and...
This scares me. (kottke.org) →
We, as a nation, may elect our first black president and heros of black culture are not even paying attention. Sometimes this is how I feel about technophobic doctors. I had lunch with Jason Kottke a few weeks ago. He’s a lovely guy. Interestingly, I officially launched my practice on September 24, 2007. But by September 21st, three out of the top ten most influential blogs had...
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Kevin Kelly -- Better Than Free →
“Why would we ever pay for anything that we could get for free? When anyone buys a version of something they could get for free, what are they purchasing?” “In a real sense, these are eight things that are better than free. Eight uncopyable values. I call them “generatives.” A generative value is a quality or attribute that must be generated, grown, cultivated,...
Why McCain has the best health-care plan - Fortune... →
I’ve always been a democrat — all my life. After working at the Maryland State Department of Health, I had very obvious proof that the government is the last entity I want running anything. It is antithetical to what makes our country great and the quest for profits that makes humans work their ass off to do their best. The Obama and Hillary plans are a hand-out to the industry that...
16% of the US economy runs on scrawly, handwritten... →
Ha…one of the best descriptions of the problem I’ve read.
WatchInstead of the traditional SOAP note, specialty practices can send paper copies of their notes in the order of Assessment, Plan, Subjective and then Objective. This allows them to communicate the most important aspect of their visit – the patient’s diagnosis and how it will be treated. They also have printed progress notes. These are all the new features of version 8.0 of eClinicalWorks. If...
Thoroughness. →
Alternative Medicine = Paid
If a medical doctor labels him/herself as an “alternative” physician who practices more than just Western medicine (possibly a holistic, functional, or integrative medicine) because Western medicine ain’t the magic potion cure-all, it seems to me that patients are much more willing to pay out of pocket for such services. You can even drop insurance all together and strictly take...
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A video of me just prior to the presentation at...
Here is the link…this is what started it all.
Say hello to hello health launching August 11th
Yesterday, we at Myca, announced Hello Health at the Health 2.0 conference in San Diego. Hello Health is a consumer brand of neighborhood doctors who use 21st Century technology to communicate and practice medicine. As a member of Hello Health, you log in, tell us what’s wrong in your own words, then schedule an appointment just as easily as making an appointment at the Apple Genius Bar...
“We do no market research. We don’t hire consultants. The only consultants...”
– Steve Jobs speaks out - On choosing strategy (3) - FORTUNE
“If I’d have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me...”
– Henry Ford
MarketIntellNow®: Interview with the first... →
I think the insurance industry has successfully defeated primary care physicians and destroyed their soul…when you get questions like “Do you think you can charge for your services? Unless some angel investor wants to invest in my nearly $300K for medical school debt and pay for my high-falootin’ lifestyle (including the food for my dog), you’d bet your ass I’ll...