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it's worth noting for others that this was almost certainly a hospital policy violation, not a hipaa violation. There's nothing in hipaa that prevents a person from accessing their…

any MCU can "jam" a GPS receiver if the board is laid out improperly or without enough shielding

I think he likely meant "I don't think we will ever see HL7 messages exchanged between organizations [routinely and with little effort]." "some configuration work is usually needed…

I find Epic to be more horrifying than Meditech, because Epic has somehow managed to convince many healthcare workers that it is a "modern" product worthy of praise, despite all ev…

I previously used meditech on a daily basis, and good grief is it horrible. I've seen intelligent people spend 45 minutes just trying to figure out how to write a simple progress n…

1.) It's a very time-consuming and hands-on process to train a surgeon. There aren't many other fields that I'm aware of with the same level of intense apprenticeship as surgery (a…

>If we get a cold and need time off we need to visit a GP, this is rent seeking that could easily be handled by a non doctor for half the price. I'm not sure where you work, but I …

I am nearing the end of medical school now, and I can assure you there are many surgeons who consistently work 80-90 hours/wk. I see it most often in surgeons who have subspecializ…

"Most things are simple, and it doesn't require years of school to set a bone or put in some stitches, or even diagnose the flu or pneumonia." The thing is...when that fracture ext…

To address your example directly - we already have holter monitors that would show a case of atrial fibrillation quite easily. They aren't terribly expensive, at least for somethin…

One of the challenges of medicine is that the information is gathered from so many sources and is so "fuzzy" in quality. Building a "database" of information from which to make a d…

Many people might not understand just how busy physicians are, and how difficult it can be to integrate a new product into the clinical workflow. The most pressing thing to underst…

I honestly cannot understand why anyone would call Altium an "overpriced piece of technical debt." It's an extremely powerful piece of software, and fantastically easy to use (espe…

The regulations only look like they're in favor of the doctors to those completely unfamiliar with the field. But who keeps the money from that $8000/night hospital stay? It certai…

Obviously. This one doctor erring on the conservative side and not immediately taking a sharp instrument to your friend's eyelid proves that all doctors are corrupt and/or stupid, …

You can argue all you want about whether it's a good metric for surgery quality or not, but if you're being discharged soon after surgery, the idea is that your surgery went well e…

What's this? A medical device company that publishes prices and actually tries to make low-cost, high-value products?? I will be watching this very closely! I am in medical school …