Now more than ever, clinicians can access an incredible amount of data about their patients. Electronic health records (EHRs) offer a massive repository of information about each individual: notes of all kinds, laboratory results, imaging data,...
What the World of Health Data Has to Learn from a Turbulent Time in U.S. Financial History
In 1809, the Farmers Exchange Bank of Chepachet, Rhode Island found itself having issued $560,000 worth of bank notes with only $86....
Eric D. Perakslis, PhD
Imagine visiting the local pub and sitting next to a hobbit, recently arrived via wizard from Middle Earth, who has never seen an...
Nearly 2 years ago, I wrote an...
“When fixing an aircraft you don’t want to design in the next crash”
The morning of...
At this point, it’s clear that we’ll need a significant amount of positive energy to come out on top of 2020. Three quarters done, and the year feels like 24/7 media coverage of a reality show about speed-dating the Four Horsemen of the...
When I open my eyes in the morning, hours before my family wakes up, I need a few minutes to collect my bearings. The question...
By Eric Perakslis, PhD & Erich S. Huang, MD, PhD
As states try to reopen their economies against a background of surging COVID cases, we’ve been reminded why we are all taught as children not to run into a burning building,...
For years, I—like a great many other clinicians who care for patients with cancer— have wondered what it would take to change the way we deliver and pay for cancer care. While the medical science of oncology has evolved rapidly in recent years,...
“Are we there yet?”
A question both expected and dreaded by parents everywhere. Usually asked about 10 minutes into a long drive or flight, it not only reflects our children’...