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1.5 years of OpenClinTech
As 2024 comes to a close, I'm reflecting on the progress I've made in launching OpenClinTech back in July 2023. It was my personal initiative to create…
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Biomedical informatics
22 posts filed under biomedical informatics.
2024(4)
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Using FHIR to Optimize Clinical Artificial Intelligence
In this article, I want to explore a few thoughts I have about training, evaluating, and deploying clinical AI, with a focus on clinical reasoning, into…
biomedical informatics · public policy · data science · artificial intelligence
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My Experience Cracking the HL7 FHIR Certifications (R4 & Foundation)
Gaining proficiency in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources has been high on my list of professional goals ever since I joined Verily in April 2022. As…
biomedical informatics · clinical informatics
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Path of The Clinician Engineer
I've spent the vast majority of my career training to become a pharmacist, and subsequently, an informaticist. However, in the last 6 years - especially the…
biomedical informatics
2023(5)
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Health Tech: The Grass Isn't Always Greener on the Other Side
Ever since I made the transition myself from the healthcare industry into tech (healthcare focused), 1.5 years ago, I've been fairly positive about my…
biomedical informatics · clinical informatics
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Empowering Clinicians with Technology to Solve Healthcare Problems
Less than 2 weeks ago, on June 14, 2023, I graduated from the Stanford University School of Medicine's Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program on and also…
biomedical informatics
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6 Weeks Until I Graduate Stanford's Biomedical Informatics Graduate Certificate
It feels like forever since I started my first class, BIOMEDIN260 - Data Science for Medicine, less than a year ago in September 2022. They say time flies when…
biomedical informatics · computer science
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DIGITAL DISRUPTION IN HEALTHCARE: INSIGHTS FROM A CLINICIAN IN A TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
An insightful article in NEJM Catalyst was published on March 1, 2023, by Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer at Google, and Michael Howell, Chief Clinical…
biomedical informatics · computer science
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WHAT I WANT TO BE WHEN I GROW UP…STILL
I spent the last 2 months engaged in conversation with an assortment of individuals about what I want to be when I grow up. Yes, I'm still trying to figure…
biomedical informatics · professional development · data science · computer science
2022(5)
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Data Science: to Pursue or not Pursue | My Experience taking Stanford's Data for Medicine Class
Every now and then, something happens in life that dramatically alters your trajectory on where you want to go. My experience taking Stanford University School…
biomedical informatics
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No Silver Bullet in Healthcare
On November 17, 2022, Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr., a pioneer in the computer science world and 1999 recipient of the A.M. Turing Award, passed away. I…
biomedical informatics · computer science
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The Explosion of Mental Health Startups in 2021: Will it Continue?
LinkedIn just released their annual Top 50 startup companies to follow on September 28, 2022. As I perused through the list, I couldn’t help but notice the…
biomedical informatics
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Academic Success breeds Mediocrity
As I was reading “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel this morning, I was abruptly and uncomfortably caught by one particular sentence: “All Rhodes Scholars had a…
biomedical informatics
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What Does a Post-Roe Era mean for Health Informatics and Patient Privacy Laws?
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and transferred the power to each individual state to determine their own abortion laws. However…
biomedical informatics
2021(7)
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Metrics for assessing physician activity using electronic health record log data | Literature Review
1. Article Title of article: Metrics for assessing physician activity using electronic health record log data Authors (full name): Sinsky, Christine A; Rule…
biomedical informatics
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Building Informatics Competencies: A Missed Opportunity
Clinician burnout has been one of the most widely discussed public health issues ever since the enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and…
biomedical informatics
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Hopeful, but still skeptical about AI
On July 23, 2021, a request for information (RFI) was published by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF)…
biomedical informatics
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A CASE FOR INCENTIVIZING HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS TRAINING
Issue In the last decade, physician burnout has quickly escalated into a major public health crisis. Burnout can be defined as a chronically distressed state…
biomedical informatics
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Informatics Training: Why Do We Keep Missing This?
On March 9, 2020, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) finalized a historic rule that fulfilled many of the…
biomedical informatics
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Defining the Problem: Clinician Burnout
Physician burnout is a major public health crisis (Jha et al., 2018). It is estimated that 300 – 400 physicians commit suicide every year (Center et al…
biomedical informatics
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Virally Training the Next Generation of Informaticians
The adoption of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in 2009 and specifically the inclusion of the Health Information Technology for Economic and…
biomedical informatics
2020(1)
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Analysis of the 21st Century Cures Act on Reducing Clinician Burden Attributable to Health Information Technology & Electronic Health Records
I. Executive summary The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act invested over $37 billion of incentives to hospitals and…
biomedical informatics · public policy