July 2008
30 posts
Relation Browser →
I can’t stress how awesome Moritz Stefaner is. One of the field’s shining stars.
WatchChronotopic Anamorphosis
June 2008
53 posts
Noah Kalina and Seed Magazine - Shoot The Blog →
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Noah is one of my best friends. You should see his photo series he did for Seed Magazine of research labs at night. The cover photo is absolutely amazing…
Noah is this and this guy.
We’re in the process of creating the advertising for Hello Health. He’s going to be shooting Sean and myself and six of my patients tomorrow night for hellohealth.com and the...
Zappos hires robots to take over inventory floor →
I’m a huge fan of Zappos.
I still have no idea why this sort of thing has not been implemented in the online pharmacy era with pre-packaged medications. Unfortunately, laws exist prohibiting this sort of activity with the assumption that this technology isn’t an alternative to real human pharmacists. I’m sure the error rate of Amazon and Zappos fulfillment is much, much less...
Good Experience: Richard Serra and experience... →
Serra describes in the interview how he reverses the traditional subject-object relationship in art. Here’s the old way: a painting hangs on a gallery wall, and we, the subject, are invited to look at it, the object. We’re here, and it’s there. In contrast, Serra’s work makes us the object. As you walk through the mazelike structure of “Sequence,” for example,...
posterous - The place to post everything. Just... →
Wow…even easier than tumblr. Tumblr was (and is) a revolution in terms of blogging. However, someone looked at tumblr and said “Why all the steps? Everyone already emails everything. Let’s make it that simple.”
Good stuff.
Leica Pixel Dog →
data-driven parenting →
Now this is the kind of stuff we need for managing our patients. A portal into their biodata that helps us easily visualize exactly what’s going on…
But first, let’s get more than 9% of small group practices off the paper and onto computers.
See Conference →
Awesome…
The main thesis of Frank van Ham was that information visualization is recently undergoing a change away from explorative tasks for the scientific research community towards communication and collaboration for anyone. He stated four requirements for new information visualizations:
they should be massively collaborative (basically the internet as the platform)
not focus on...
Serena Williams's Professional Career →
Think of this graph in terms of looking at someone’s labs. As you roll over, you are shown the actual number, but also the context around that number.
The current way to look at medical data is in disconnected silos. It’s unfortunate.
However, this is just one of the solutions we’re building into the Myca Platform. Good times…
Can we speak of Vis 2.0? →
As you can probably guess, I’m a huge fan of web-enabled data visualization. It’s fascinating because so much of these visualizations are springing up in parallel with new technologies like Adobe Flex and Processing. There is so much potential to really transform medical data by looking at connections and clusters that couldn’t have been seen with graphs and Excel...
Why Less Is More And How To Unlock the Web →
My Innovation Integration Timeline
juliaallison:
The history of great innovations is always the same:
they are invented they are adopted by a few they are ridiculed they are adopted by a few more they are feared they are adopted by a few more they are discussed they are adopted by many they are praised they are absorbed into everyday life they are seen as so obvious it’s hard to imagine the world any other way they are written...
Medical apps for the iPhone...
Does anyone know of any upcoming medical apps for the iPhone other than the ones that were shown at WWDC Keynote?
I would think that there are many being developed, but nobody wants to yet talk about them until the iPhone App Store launches.
The media has forgotten about our wars. →
Damn…no further description needed. Here’s the money quote:
“According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of...
WatchGeorge Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, opened one of the largest conferences I’ve been to with damn near every head of every company in healthcare in attendance and gave this talk. It’s been one of the most influential and reassuring manifestos I’ve heard in the past few years. Here are some highlights:
“Care delivery in the U.S. is uncoordinated, unfocused,...
How we read online. →
Excellent read. I’ve always been fascinated with how doctors think and what information we’re searching for when we look at information about a patient or our entire practice. The bottom line is — we’re scanners hunting for a singular piece of data to answer our singular question. This is only after we get a decent overview, a snapshot, of this person. All of this will be...
Why, when given anonymity, do people turn angry...
I wish I had the ability to write applications but I don’t. I’d love for someone to write an application that crawls blogs, extracts comments, puts the comments through a semantic text analyzer that can determine mood/tone, and then create a visualization that shows what are the most common moods and tones of blog comments.
Can someone do this?
The Internets: Mean Commenters Are Running... →
I’m not going anywhere, but this is what happens when people are allowed to be anonymous.
BBC - Is white working class Britain becoming... →
Launch the visualizer. Looks awesome.
Attention, California Health Dept.: My DNA Is My... →
It seems there are some California residents who aren’t happy about 23andme and Navigenics. They’ve gotten the California DOH to investigate claims of the tests being too expensive AND being done without a doctor’s order.
Ridiculous.
Wired’s deputy editor, Thomas Goetz, wrote a stern rebuttal to the California doofuses:
“This is my data, not a doctor’s. Please,...
US could face shortage of 44,000 primary care... →
This is what Hello Health solves. A new model for “reimbursement.” Patients pay a very small monthly subscription for an accessible doctor who has time for urgent and preventive care. Hopefully, we’ll give doctors a reason to enter primary care, backed by consumer demand for an accessible doctor.
Google Street View of the first Hello Health hub →
It’s a storefront that serves as a “What is Hello Health?” as well as a very lean doctor’s office. 650 square feet. Two and a half exam rooms. Lovely interior design. Two doctors. We make house calls and see you in our office. Sean Khozin and myself. Opening July 15th.
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outside.in - Radar →
Outside.in is probably one of the most relevant ideas to come to fruition on the internet in the recent past (well, at least until the iPhone 2.0 hits the markets on July 11 allowing us to have a full-fledged computer connected to the internet with full knowledge of where you are at any point).
Outside.in aggregates blog posts from your immediate neighborhood. It localizes blog posts allowing...
The customer is the insurance company...
Isn’t it sad that doctors have to devote all their energy to insurance company satisfaction scores (their reimbursement) rather than consumer satisfaction scores (their patients)?
Japan made obesity illegal.... →
Obesity is the biggest threat to our nation’s health and will contribute significantly to the skyrocketing healthcare costs in our country. Ultimately, an ever-increasing percentage of our GDP will harm our nation’s competitive advantage in the global economy. We as a nation are gluttons. And we’re eating ourselves to death.
Cigarette smoking was causing the same problem...
WatchHere is the presentation I gave at HIMSS on Monday. There’s something very important here that everyone should understand. The payors are in the way. They’re all guarding the golden goose who’s laying the golden eggs.
Moodstream™ for Getty Images done by the... →
For God’s sake…this is The Barbarian Group’s latest production. For those that don’t know, the Barbarian Group is the firm designing our website and advertising and marketing strategies for Hello Health.
“It’s gonna be awesome.”
Hello Health-Concierge Care for All →
Awesome. Jen McCabe Gorman twittered my talk at HIMSS in DC.
Agents of Change: U.S. Healthcare →
My next speaking engagement will be at the Agents of Change Conference organized by the ILO Institute for June 19 and 20 at Columbia University. I have five invitations to attend the conference. Please contact me if you’d like to attend. It should be very enlightening and having the opportunity to speak alongside Donna Shalala (former Secretary of Health and Human Services), John Doyle...
David Kibbe, senior advisor to the AAFP, joins...
We’re very excited to have David as a senior consultant to help build Hello Health and the Myca platform. He’s quite a legend in the industry and brings years and years of experience from working with the American Academy of Family Practice, Google, and the CCR standard.
We needed some “gray hair” in Hello Health — and there isn’t anyone better than David to...
I'm a polarizing figure.
Kevin, MD linked to the WSJ post today and said “An interview with Jay Parkinson is always polarizing.”
I find this fascinating. There are three typographic groups of commenters that always show up in every high profile post:
Curmudgeon doctors (The Boomers). They’ve lived through the glory days of fee-for-service medicine and enjoyed the $400,000 salaries they made...
Wall Street Journal: Technodoc Jay Parkinson Says... →
So many comments! So much entertainment!! Actually one of my favorite parts of being talked about on the internet is reading comments from all the anonymous blue-haired doctors (they’re all anonymous — they wouldn’t want their patients seeing them act like fools on the internet). Here’s my favorite from the WSJ post:
“This reminds me of all the dot com startups...
I'm talking at HIMSS today in DC
It should definitely be interesting. Here is the link to my slides if you’d like to read what I have to say.
Another reason why I went to medical school
My doorbell just rang. I wasn’t expecting anyone so I poked my head out the door and saw that it was my neighbor with her mom who was visiting from out of town — they accidentally locked themselves out. I’d never met her mom but my neighbor is a patient of mine (and so are my neighbors in the buildings on the left and right). I stepped out into the hallway and my dog, Buddy,...
How the Web Was Won -- Vanity Fair →
Super interesting article about the history of the internet. Money quote from Jeff Bezos:
“When we launched, we launched with over a million titles. There were countless snags. One of my friends figured out that you could order a negative quantity of books. And we would credit your credit card and then, I guess, wait for you to deliver the books to us. We fixed that one very...
David Kibbe visits Myca in Quebec.
I’m up in Quebec today for a company meeting to introduce David to Myca, give him an inside snapshot of our platform and an overview of where we’re going with Myca and Hello Health. We had an absolutely lovely day and came up with some excellent strategies to make Hello Health a significant player in this “new” space that mixes doctors, patients, and the internet....
The Customer is the Company -- Threadless →
For all you doctors out there reading, just wait until you see what we’ve got up our sleeve to organize all this dissatisfaction and create a very real outlet to give you back your dignity and freedom. Many of you are now living a life you never bought into on your first day of medical school. You’re not alone. Here’s just a little hint. It has a lot to do with Threadless....
How Different Groups Voted in the 2008 Democratic... →
Awesome infographic from the Times.
5 Reasons Visualization Is Not More Prevalent →
Reason #1: People Don’t Know What Data Visualization Is
Reason #2: Crappy Existing Visualizations have Polluted Perception
Reason #3: People are Unable to Mentally Separate the View from the Data
Reason #4: Visualization is Difficult to Create and Easy to Copy
Reason #5: People Won’t Pay for Visualization?
It’s tragic really. The internet enables completely new ways to visualize data...
Another Ben Fry piece of Art →
Processing is young, promising, and god-awful gorgeous.
Another processing example. →
Ben Fry is my hero.
Benjamin Atkinson: The Unarmed Prophet of...
As per Benjamin Atkinson, who graciously shared with me this piece he’d written a few weeks ago. It’s long, but stick with it. It’s time very well spent:
Epistemological Foundation for Healthcare ReformTo truly effect change in America’s healthcare system, stakeholders must address deeply-rooted beliefs and behaviors. Without change at this level, all manner of novel...
TERRIFYING 'STAT!' ER OVERSTUFFING IS FATAL →
Ah…the lovely New York Post — a paper I despise for it’s shoddy reporting. So take this with a grain of salt. They are likely off by a huge magnitude because the paper is full of lazy, irresponsible journalists. New York City ERs were on diversion a total of 5,600 hours - a 77 percent increase over the same period last year. Bodes well for Hello Health in NYC eh?
ABC News: Dr. Jay Parkinson, uninsured. →
Ben Dickinson, one of my patients and the renowned filmmaker and music video director (who also happens to do the Hello Health ads), graciously offered to appear alongside me.
TED Talks awesomely organized within a sphere →
Not very functional but some cool eye candy.