Thoughts on a Career in Digital Health and Informatics… Would I Do It Again?
I’m frequently approached by medical students, residents, and fellows interested in careers in informatics and digital health. I love...
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Apr 15, 2017
Doximity Dialer
Sometimes simple is the best. I recently tried a new smartphone app – Doximity Dialer – that is just that. I have been so struck by it...
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...
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...
Apr 29, 2013
Redesigning HealthCare: More Thoughtful, More Caring
I went in to the dermatologist last week for an annual skin check and, instead of a humiliating, cold, and uncomfortable paper gown, this...
Apr 19, 2013
TEDMED 2013: Reactions and Themes
I am just finishing up a packed few days at TEDMED 2013 as a FrontLine Scholar. There were over 1,800 people there, from a broad...
Mar 21, 2013
TEDMED 2013 in Washington DC
I’m very excited to be attending TEDMED 2013 in Washington DC next month. I was fortunate to be chosen to go as part of the Front Line...
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...
Feb 21, 2013
From “Pull” to “Push”: A Transformation in Medicine
Weitzman et al just published a very interesting article in JAMA Internal Medicine called “Participatory Surveillance of Hypoglycemia and...
Feb 1, 2013
The Tools That I Use For Productivity, Creativity, and Research
As an early-adopter and a bit of a productivity nut (I am a big believer in David Allen’s Getting Things Done), I use a lot of different...
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...
Jun 20, 2012
A recent reminder of the limits of diabetes technology
As excited as I am, and many people are, about making major strides in improving the capabilities of diabetes technology, we have to keep...
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 15, 2012
FitBit activity monitor: I’m a believer
While eyeing things like the Jawbone Up and FitBit for the last year or so, I’ve stayed out of the fray until recently. As part of my...
May 12, 2012
GreenDot website now live…
As our team gears up for Demo Day on May 16, our GreenDot website is now live. There was also a very nice article written about us in...
Apr 19, 2012
Information about 2012 Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge Demo Day
Our team is continuing to gear up for May 16th Demo Day, hard at work refining our product. Here is some information below for anybody...
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 29, 2012
Exciting news: Semi-Finalist in Sanofi Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge
See the press release here from Fast Company and also announcement on Sanofi’s competition’s blog. Our team is comprised of Saleh Adi,...
Mar 15, 2012
Diabetes is hard: A humbling experience with “Er5”
I don’t have diabetes. But I do think about diabetes a lot, read about diabetes a lot, and certainly talk about diabetes a lot. So,...
Feb 25, 2012
Why diabetes? Why a blog? Why me?
Why diabetes? Because diabetes is not just about science and pathophysiology. Beyond the science, it is about culture, food, behavior...
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