I’m frequently approached by medical students, residents, and fellows interested in careers in informatics and digital health. I love these conversations. It is so fun and rewarding to be part of someone’s journey to discovering their career passion. During my most recent conversation, I decided...
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 that I have started showing it off to people at any opportunity. It is incredibly simple to use (from...
Our UCSF Clinical Informatics group met a few months ago with several representatives from a major Health IT vendor. The vendor, we’ll call them RxLabs, is a provider of pharmaceutical related knowledge in many domains, including decision support tools for the EHR....
I recently had the fortunate opportunity to be part of the inaugural UCSF Lean Launchpad course, formed by Erik Lium and Stephanie Marrus at UCSF, founded by Steve Blank, and taught by Steve and our digital health cohort instructor, Abhas Gupta. This was a very...
I went in to the dermatologist last week for an annual skin check and, instead of a humiliating, cold, and uncomfortable paper gown, this cotton spa robe was instead waiting for me to change into. My experience of whether I was working with an empathetic...
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 spectrum of occupational backgrounds, countries, skills, and areas of interest within healthcare. This made for an unending cascade of "unexpected...
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 Scholarship program. The speaker line-up looks to be full of interesting talks on secondary uses of health data,...
I gave a talk yesterday to a great crowd at the annual UCSF CME conference, Diabetes Update. The slides from my presentation, "The Future of Diabetes Management: Social Networking and New Technologies," can be viewed on Slideshare....
Weitzman et al just published a very interesting article in JAMA Internal Medicine called "Participatory Surveillance of Hypoglycemia and Harms in an Online Social Network." They looked at using the online social network, TuDiabetes, as a method for surveillance for hypoglycemia. You can read their...
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 tools in my day-to-day life. Friends, family, and colleagues know this, and often ask me what I use and...
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 Francisco. Jenise Wong and I joined the panel to talk about our plans to help revolutionize the way diabetes...
As excited as I am, and many people are, about making major strides in improving the capabilities of diabetes technology, we have to keep in mind the limitations of technology. There is often a time and a place where innovations can improve the daily life...
On Wednesday, I was in New York along with other members of GreenDot to make our presentation to the judges and audience as semi-finalists in the Sanofi Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge. Our mission at GreenDot is to collect diabetes related data from all sources into...
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 mission to develop a better sense of empathy and understanding for what it is like to have to...
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 MedCityNews by Stephanie Baum: ...