Top Five Takeaways and Themes From ADA2020 80th Scientific Sessions… Virtually
ADA’s 80th Scientific Session wrapped up today, and there was a lot of ground covered, despite the fact that we all watched from our...
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Dec 22, 2017
Health systems cannot rely on individuals to be our HIE
John Halamka’s blog had a guest blogger, Amy Stiner, who related her story of a tortuous, difficult, painful path of getting her son’s...
Nov 12, 2014
A Lesson In Clinical Decision Support: We Cannot Defeat Human Nature
Our UCSF Clinical Informatics group met a few months ago with several representatives from a major Health IT vendor. The vendor, we’ll...
Nov 5, 2014
“But who is going to pay for it?!” — New Medicare Billing Codes for 2015 Include R
“But who is going to pay for it?!” This has been the common refrain for years. The world of diabetes care experienced this dilemma...
Sep 19, 2014
What I Learned At Epic UGM… And Other Random Thoughts
Epic’s User Group Meeting (UGM) is a Healthcare Conference The Epic EHR is so ingrained in healthcare now that the UGM conference is...
Dec 15, 2013
Feedback Loops and Teachable Moments: The Future Diabetes Care Paradigm
The current paradigm of office visits every three months for PWDs (people with diabetes) is not the right model (nor is it for other...
Dec 11, 2013
UCSF Lean Launchpad: The right way to redesign healthcare
I recently had the fortunate opportunity to be part of the inaugural UCSF Lean Launchpad course, formed by Erik Lium and Stephanie Marrus...
Mar 15, 2013
The Future of Diabetes Management: Social Networking and New Technologies
I gave a talk yesterday to a great crowd at the annual UCSF CME conference, Diabetes Update. The slides from my presentation, “The...
Sep 28, 2012
MedX 2012 Conference at Stanford
I spent a few hours this morning watching the livestream of the MedX conference at Stanford organized by Dr. Larry Chu. From the...
Sep 21, 2012
Dreamforce 2012
It was a true honor and a pleasure to be invited to be part of the UCSF Unusual Thinkers panel at Dreamforce 2012 yesterday in San...
Jul 21, 2012
Seven tips to prevent medical technology from ruining the doctor-patient relationship
Does this sound like something that has happened to you? You are driving, you stop at a red light, and all of a sudden you find that...
May 23, 2012
Telemonitoring intervention for diabetes has durable effect: Extension of DiaTel study
Published in an Online First this week by JAMIA was the extension of the original DiaTel study published in Diabetes Care in 2010. The...
May 20, 2012
Data Design Diabetes Demo Day (whew!)
On Wednesday, I was in New York along with other members of GreenDot to make our presentation to the judges and audience as...
May 1, 2012
DiabetesMine Patient Voices contest
DiabetesMine is sponsoring a contest asking for people with diabetes to tell everyone about their biggest needs in a 2-3 minute video....
Apr 16, 2012
Technology Innovation Challenges… More than the $$$
In this interview, Wil Yu, the special assistant of innovations and research and director of ONC’s SHARP (Strategic Health IT Advanced...
Mar 13, 2012
Sanofi 2012 Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge
The deadline for submissions to the 2012 Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge is March 23rd. This is an opportunity for innovative...
Mar 8, 2012
Qualcomm Life and 2net Platform
When mentioning the West Wireless Health Institute, I also should have mentioned Qualcomm Life, their 2net wireless platform, and the...
Mar 8, 2012
West Wireless Health Institute
I recently learned about the West Wireless Health Institute in San Diego, founded by philanthropists Gary and Mary West, and with...
Mar 8, 2012
Major Health IT Themes for 2012, belatedly
This is a good two months overdue, but still worth putting out there. This article from iHealthBeat asked 9 health IT experts about the...
Feb 29, 2012
Texts to diabetic patients between clinic visits suggestive of benefits to care
New study published by Harry Fischer and colleagues in Denver shows increased participation in care by diabetes patients who received...
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