An article on physicians using iPhones and iPads during daily clinical work appeared today in Crain’s New York, written by Judy Messina. I am mentioned in the middle part. At the end is a quick quote on the long-running move to use cell phones as the primary mode of physician communication instead of one-way pagers. [...]
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iPad physicians in Crain’s New York
January 22nd, 2012 No Comments
Tags: ipad · iPhone · medical school · New York · news
Clinical iPad App Recommendations
January 16th, 2012 1 Comment
My use of the iPad in day-to-day clinical anesthesiology activities is limited. Cases are sufficiently busy that there isn’t a huge amount of extra time. The most frequent use is to check on my hospital email. Here are the applications I use most after email: GoodReader — ($5) I switched from iAnnotate recently because GoodReader [...]
Tags: anesthesia · app · flipboard · ipad
Brief Cloud Computing Lessons Roundup
May 24th, 2011 No Comments
The recent Amazon outage has produced a few notable blog posts on the lessons learned in transitioning from a data center model to a pure cloud system. I recommend reading: Amazon Web Services official blog report of the outage Netflix Lessons Learned – notable for how they were not affected significantly Adrian Cockroft (now with [...]
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FDA Regulating “Medical Device Data Systems”
May 23rd, 2011 No Comments
Saw this at @jhalamka. In February, the FDA released a rule regulating “Medical Device Data Systems”. Dr. Halamka offers a useful primer on the MDDS concept. He quotes a vendor stating that they are preparing to register their intraoperation interfaces (e.g. RIS/EDR, LIS/EDR.) It sounds to me that any sort of portable devices for displaying [...]
Intraoperative Decision Support at STA 2011
January 15th, 2011 No Comments
This is an abstract I presented with Matthew Levin at the Society for Technology in Anesthesia 2011 conference in Las Vegas. Decision Support Systems (DSS) model data and provide advice to assist experts in deciding if and how to react to patterns in the data. In anesthesia, DSS have been applied in the intraoperative and [...]
Tags: aims · decision support · linux · mysql
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Wolfram|Alpha For Medicine
May 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Wolfram|Alpha is a “computational knowledge engine” which is supposed to make a large variety of databases available through simple text query. The idea is that instead of digging through many databases, have one big database that can combine disparate results. As with anything so ambitious, WA has collected plenty of criticism, especially because of the [...]
Tags: framingham · heart · mayo · wolframalpha
Cancelled Kindle subscription to NEJM
May 22nd, 2009 2 Comments
I cancelled my Kindle subscription to the New England Journal today. I am still considering an online subscription. What really annoyed me this week was realizing that the Kindle doesn’t get Early Release articles until they show up in the print magazine. As soon as this content is on the website, it should be available [...]
Reading the New England Journal on Kindle 2
May 10th, 2009 No Comments
Recently I received a Kindle 2 (not the same thing as a Kindle DX.) The E-Ink display is really cool. The screen looks great when read in bright light. It doesn’t need any current to maintain the screen image (like an Etch-A-Sketch) so battery life is very long. Kindle runs the Linux operating system with [...]
Minor New York State License Search Update
December 16th, 2008 No Comments
I added the ability to search for a physician’s NPI. Enjoy.
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