By 2040, healthcare systems will either become governed learning architectures, or they will gradually lose financial stability, clinical relevance, and workforce cohesion to those that do. That is not a dramatic forecast. It is not…
Imagine a doctor scrolling through a patient’s vital signs or lab results, dismissing tiny fluctuations as “just noise.” What if those subtle blips and random-seeming variations actually hold clues to the patient’s future health? In…
When it comes to AI, you can ask all the right questions, hire all the right data scientists, train all the right machine-learning models, and still end up with challenges. No matter what you do,…
We’re living in a world where today’s science fiction will be tomorrow’s science fact. But moving forward, we need to think of AI as “augmented intelligence.” In fact, we should probably get rid of the…
One of the main issues with artificial intelligence (AI) is that it requires a lot of data. And that requires data scientists who know how to work with all of that data. The problem is…
I don’t know if you have ever used the Philips head screwdriver on your Swiss Army Knife, but if you have you know that it is only with muscle, time, dexterity and bruised knuckles that it…
In Part I of this post, I made the bold statement that the VistA Modernization Report is the single smartest document that I have seen to date about healthcare reform – I even compared it to a blueprint for…
You may have missed it, but on May 4th (ed. note that’s May 4th 2010), a working group of 42 industry luminaries released the VistA Modernization Report. This report, chartered by the Industry Advisory Council (IAC)…
A Snapshot of Today and a Glimpse of Tomorrow So, here we are in 2010 (if you want to know where we’ve been since 1965, take a look at my last blog post). Between the Open…
A History of Yesterday For at least the last 25 years or so, certainly ever since researchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy coined the term “business data warehouse”, various vendors and technologies have been carving…