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Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI

Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI

Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely

Confounding Factors and the Dashboard That Lied Politely

VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight

VistA, MUMPS, and the Warehouse After Midnight

FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard

FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard

The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue

The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue

The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare

The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare

Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis

Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis

Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal

Trying to Write About Healthcare IT While the Ceiling Paint Falls Into the Dal

Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1

Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1

Science Is Not a Solitary Organ

Science Is Not a Solitary Organ

Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI

Self-Gaslit Minds in the Age of AI

The Genie Is Out of the Bottle

The Genie Is Out of the Bottle

Artificial Intelligence

Failing Well Without Looking Successful

Failing Well Without Looking Successful

Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar

Calcutta’s Sugar Problem Is Not Only Sugar

Health & Society

When the Office Learns to Beg

When the Office Learns to Beg

The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars

The Country That Built Rockets but Still Consults the Stars

India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan

India’s Semiconductor Problem Is Not a Missing Slogan

Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market

Kenneth Arrow, Medical Uncertainty, and the False Dream of Healthcare as a Normal Market

First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality

First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality

Useful Mental Models

Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective

Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective

The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems

The Shadow Architecture: Lessons from a Decade Bootstrapping Healthcare Data Systems

HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply

HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply

How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL

How VA Healthcare Data Systems Work: From MUMPS to SQL

Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data

Latent Space and the Hidden Map of Healthcare Data

Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning

Latent Space in Healthcare Data, From the Beginning

The Returnee Who No Longer Fits

The Returnee Who No Longer Fits

work, migration, India

AI and Denial

Artificial Intelligence

Databases and Data Warehouses

Databases and Data Warehouses

FHIR

India’s AI Moat

India’s AI Moat

Building VA Data Warehouses

Building VA Data Warehouses

Vector Databases

Vector Databases

What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology

What the Ukraine and Iran Wars May Leave Behind in Civilian Technology

Confounding Factors

Confounding Factors

India’s White-Collar Issue

India’s White-Collar Issue

Intro

The Missing Scientists

The Missing Scientists

Propofol, Nightmares

Propofol, Nightmares

HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room

HIE From First Principles, With The Patient Still In The Room

Costume Ambition

Costume Ambition

The Questions You Ask

The Questions You Ask