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New podcasts and webinars, #2: Harry Glorikian’s “The Future You” (two parts)

I mentioned last week that there’s been an upsurge in people reaching out to carry forward the message we e-patients have been evangelizing for ages. Hallelujah!

That post was an interview for the HIMSS Learning Network. Today’s is really exciting: Harry Glorikian, author of MoneyBall Medicine, has a new book coming, The Future You, about the new world of data-empowered medicine, with a rebranded podcast to match, and he asked me to be his first guest! Ya think I was ready for that?? It went great – so great he made it his first two episodes!

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Terrific WSJ essay on the evolving patient-physician relationship: “Can patients decide their own care?”

In the twelve years I’ve been studying the evolution of medical science and the sociology of healthcare – the relationships – I’ve never read anything that stopped me in my tracks with how it summed it all up so quickly. This one, by Talya Miron-Shatz, did. Click through and give it a read – it’s not long.

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New podcasts & webinars #1: “Interoperability & Equity” for HIMSS

There’s been an interesting surge in evangelist activity recently: I’ve been involved in several podcasts and webinars, all giving new life to the “gimme my data” movement. Here’s one that went live today on the HIMSS Learning Network. (It’s free but you may need to register.)

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Ventilation for COVID-19 defense, part 2: CO₂ and new warnings

I’ve started compiling all my virus posts into a /covid19 page, which I hope to convert into a series of pages.

Four months ago in Winter’s coming. Time to talk about ventilation for coronavirus defense, I talked about ventilation (fresh air) and about HEPA filters for cleaning indoor air. Here’s an update, focusing particularly on the latest bee in my bonnet: CO₂ detectors.

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My new work – Toronto’s PocketHealth: Cloud delivery of radiology images

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Immediate, contactless delivery of your radiology images – no more CDs, no more need to wait around or pay Fedex or put on your mask to come in and pick up the disk. Imaging studies delivered in the cloud.

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Olivier Karasira wins People’s Choice award at FHIR DevDays Patient Track

After last week’s FHIR DevDays conference, I blogged on Wednesday that Morgan Gleason had won the judges’ award in the Patient Innovator Track. There was another winner – for the first time we did a People’s Choice award, and it was won by Olivier Karasira, a man in Rwanda working on a remarkable project: “Turning Paper into FHIR in Africa.”

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