Bed capacity cannot be assessed base on occupancy levels. As occupancy levels (utilization) increases, the queue grows exponentially.
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Bed capacity cannot be assessed base on occupancy levels. As occupancy levels (utilization) increases, the queue grows exponentially.
I left out the math, makes this a very short chapter.
It drives me nuts when icons within an app are incongruent or don’t line up.
“I will not be part of this charade anymore” - Chamath Palihapitiya
Computer simulation in healthcare needs to combine model developers with subject matter experts for best results.
(Ch 5/5) Electronic Health Record design - detailed panel mockups and ways to standardize information
(Ch 4/5) A single Electronic Health Record user interface design to integrate more than six different ways to sort medical records
(Ch 3/5) Electronic Health Record multi-tasking and multi-screen interface derived from first principles
(Ch 2/5) Electronic Health Record general user requirements
(Ch 1/5) Electronic Health Record user interface design mockups. As of Oct 1 2018. Designed for phone, tablet, and desktop.
Some high level ideas how to spread evidence-based practices.
Failure Mode Effects Analysis helps proactively study possible sources of risk and ways to mitigate this.
In the proliferation of personal health data, all roads lead to dystopia. John Hancock will no longer sell traditional life insurance policies - but only ‘interactive’ ones that encourage sharing of activity data.
Lean is a popular tool to improve productivity and organization in Healthcare. And it works.
The size of a physician practice can have dramatic effects on the length of the patient cue.
Tracking healthcare performance is difficult.
Healthcare engineering can propose some concepts to help integrate healthcare service delivery.
Perhaps one of the worst Apple Keynotes in the last decade. Read more…
One of the most important iOS upgrades in years. A strong focus on privacy, security, augmented reality, and de-connecting from social/digital media and reconnecting with people
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup documents the rise and fall of Theranos. It is a stark reminder of gravity of doing a healthcare startup properly.