March 2011
16 posts
“Maybe you just need to put on your special Tumblr underwear so you can write...”
– Merlin Mann on Back To Work
Matt Legend Gemmell on NSConference →
I quote:
It was the f****ng developer version of Live Aid.
He liked it.
Unpredictable, Unforeseable Change →
Horace Dediu on the significance of WWDC 2011 selling out in twelve hours:
The Post-PC era is evident in all kinds of data. This set (developer attendance to mobile development) is particularly stark. It’s a proxy for investment and IT interest. There is a non-linear nature to this growth and history shows that non-linearity leads to unpredictable or unforeseeable change.
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Things Cloud Sync Beta →
Open invite for Mac-to-Mac beta testing of OTA syncing for Things. Thought I’d never see the day. Also see here for details and a timeline.
Margarit Gur-Arie plays devil's advocate for EHRs
Interesting take on the reasons why EHRs have such poor UX/UI:
The business of medicine (a.k.a. billing) dictated most of the box-clicking nature of older EMRs and the new population health, cost cutting and research focus emanating from the Federal government will just increase the demand for structured data elements and the accompanying clicking on boxes. EHR vendors will build whatever...
So sexy: Withings blood pressure cuff for iPhone,...
CPOE software design in 2006 just as crappy as in...
Mr. HIStalk writing in 2006 about the perils of CPOE, still as valid a list of complaints today as it was then:
As a customer, the only place that I see a lot of computers in use is in retail establishments, where the user is the lowest level of employee. Those folks aren’t rocket scientists. They didn’t have to go away for a week of training, nor do they have to tape reminders to their smocks...
T-Shirt Idea: Merlin Mann
PodCamp Nashville 2011
This year marks my first time attending PodCamp Nashville, a local tech conference that meets yearly in downtown Nashville. It’s informal, it’s free, and staffed by volunteers. Presenters are picked by lottery, and it’s easy to meet new people in a non-pretentious atmosphere.
My friends Joel Widmer and Justin Davis hosted an impromptu session where they shared advice on how to...
What happens to doctors who think outside the box?
Jay Parkinson, MD on his innovative return to making housecalls:
I was finishing my second residency at Hopkins in Baltimore in September of 2007, I moved back to Williamsburg to start a new kind of practice:
Patients would visit my website
See my Google calendar
Choose a time and input their symptoms
My iphone would alert me
I would make a house call
They’d pay me via paypal
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Keeping up with the trends: formula for a great...
Does Cultured Code Still Deserve Their Accolades...
It’s getting harder all the time to keep waiting on Cultured Code to finally release over-the-air syncing for Things, their award-winning task management app. Their company “Arrivals” board webpage has listed this feature as “full speed” for at least the last year and a half, if not longer. That is an aeon in the mobile app market.
While their loyal customers—like...
Why You'll Be Happier Building Your Business the... →
Daniel Jalkut on why building a small business the old-fashioned way is more satisfying and more reasonable than trying to change the world with a venture-capital-funded Twitter wannabe:
Ambition to influence or change the world is, on its own, relatively useless. Pursuit of truth and understanding, on your own terms, is the noblest of endeavors. If you’ve got something, anything, that you can...
Will Android Beat iPad in the Hospital? Of Course... →
Felasfa Wodajo, MD has written a profoundly misinformed post for iMedicalApps on the iPad’s future role in healthcare institutions. The title says it all:
Why Locked Android Tablets Will Beat the iPad for Hospital Use
The gist of his argument is that Android’s “openness” and hardware-agnosticism will make it more ubiiquitous in the market in general, and a more...