January 2012
1 post
December 2011
10 posts
Cutting the Middle Class in Two →
Chris Espinoza on the 99 Percent:
Those who argue that a flat tax is a fair tax miss this mathematical fact. A flat tax accelerates the fall into poverty of the lower middle class by increasing fixed expenses so that a surplus is impossible, and it falls into the noise of the fixed expenses of the wealthy and simply shifts the floor, but not the steepness, of the logarithmic wealth curve. It...
View From Nowhere →
Jay Rosen:
In pro journalism, American style, the View from Nowhere is a bid for trust that advertises the viewlessness of the news producer. Frequently it places the journalist between polarized extremes, and calls that neither-nor position “impartial.” Second, it’s a means of defense against a style of criticism that is fully anticipated: charges of bias originating in partisan politics and...
Chillmark on mHealth 2011 →
But what these start-ups really need is to simply focus on addressing the age old question: ‘What’s in it for me?’ These companies need to stop the whining and do their homework defining the value proposition for not just the consumer, or just the doctor, but think more broadly of the impact their solution may have on the delivery of care, and how each stakeholder may benefit. Unfortunately, as...
November 2011
15 posts
The Contents of Kris Donegan's Road Bag
krisdonegan:
I’m the guy that carries a flashlight. And a Leatherman. And a lot of other stuff.
The more I travel, the more I value preparedness. I spend half of my year away from my home, working or on the road, so I decided to take what I think I might need with me. I guess you could call it a possibles bag, but I don’t have survival stuff in it, and it isn’t designed to get me...
Valletta Ventures: The price of a messy codebase:... →
sneakattackphilosophy:
vallettaventures:
Any LaTeX user with an iPad has had the same thought: I want to use my favourite document creation system on my favourite device. Despite everything I am about to say about the LaTeX codebase, there is nothing like it for composing beautiful documents, and the iPad is the most beautiful platform…
Sad Bernard.
EU Officials Conclude Water Might Not Prevent... →
Another WNA find: a three-year investigation by a group of 21 scientists concludes that there’s not enough evidence to prove that drinking water prevents dehydration, so bottled water companies will be prohibited by law from claiming otherwise. Said a Member of European Parliament, “This is stupidity writ large. The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart, and yet here they are: highly-paid,...
“So, our serious Republican [Romney] is committed on ideological grounds to...”
– Krugman, at his best.
“Nurse practitioners are not physician extenders. We are highly skilled and...”
– Karen Roush, for AJN
“Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful,...”
– Former Apple CEO John Sculley On The Future Of Medical Technology And Health Care’s Killer App (via wnstn)
Steven Frank's dream notes app? →
stevenf:
Here’s a rough spec of what I think would comprise my ultimate note keeping environment. I’m writing this down in the hopes that someone will implement it, as I don’t have sufficient spare time. “Have you tried…?” Yes, I’ve tried that app. It didn’t do at least one of the following things. …
Open Letter to The New Yorker's iPad App...
The iPad app for the New Yorker could be great, but as it is now, it isn’t.
First, the Newsstand version of the app has been very disappointing. The app is not downloading new content automatically. I’ve updated my iPad to a fresh copy of iOS 5. I’ve downloaded and redownloaded the New Yorker app several times. I’ve ensured that “download content...
October 2011
3 posts
How to Merge MobileMe Data with an Apple ID and...
Note: It’s a damn shame that I even have to post this. MobileMe customers pay $99 bucks a year or more because they value having their data sync across all their devices, and yet they’re the ones who will experience the most headache when trying to upgrade to iCloud! C’mon, Apple, get real!
If you’re like me, you have stored all of your contacts, calendars, and bookmarks...
September 2011
34 posts
Kotsko on Attacking Hypocrisy →
Hence liberals instinctively gravitate toward accusations of hypocrisy. “They say they care about the deficit, yet they passed unfunded tax cuts.” “They say they want to reduce the number of abortions, but they oppose birth control.” “They say they’re pro-life, yet they embrace the death penalty.” “They say they want the government off people’s back, until it’s a matter of regulating sexual...
What I want in a Note-Taking App
Syncing options: Bonjour, Dropbox, iCloud.
Native iOS, native Mac OS, and web versions.
All versions have the full feature set.
Real-time Markdown preview.
Customizable font, color, margins, and line-height.
Preferences from #5 sync across platforms.
On the Mac version, a quick-entry mode triggered by a global hot key.
No “distraction free” mode, because that’s stupid.
...
Frédéric Filioux: Consumer Data Analytics May Lead... →
Excessive tracking will inevitably backfire. Internet-boosted profiling will directly impact users’ daily lives in a broad way. Take insurance or banking. Zillions trackers have determined with a great deal of accuracy that Mr. Smith, living in Kalamazoo, Michigan is: (a) slightly overweight; he tried numerous diets and pills, bought home training equipment, and visits weight-loss forums —...
Compassion is Out of Fashion →
Paul Krugman for the NYTimes:
Now, however, compassion is out of fashion — indeed, lack of compassion has become a matter of principle, at least among the G.O.P.’s base.
And what this means is that modern conservatism is actually a deeply radical movement, one that is hostile to the kind of society we’ve had for the past three generations — that is, a society that, acting through the...
Actual Diagnostic Codes from the Recently-Updated... →
They thought of everything:
Bitten by turtle, initial encounter
Bitten by turtle, subsequent encounter
Bitten by turtle, sequela
Struck by turtle, initial encounter
Struck by turtle, subsequent encounter
Struck by turtle, sequela,
Other contact with turtle, initial encounter
Other contact with turtle, subsequent encounter
Other contact with turtle, sequela
No, really. Everything:
...
“Now, over the course of my Dwimmermount campaign, the players have occasionally...”
– From “Skills I Can Live With,” by James Maliszewski, from the website Grognardia: Musings and Memories From a Lifetime of Roleplaying.
How EMRs are Failing Nurses
I posted this last November, but it’s still just as relevant today as it was last year.
Among the litany of complaints about the (un)usability of EMRs, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture. More than the poor design choices and overall ugliness of existing software, by far the single biggest failure of HIT companies is that none of them has yet to produce an EMR that nurses actually...
