It’s infuriating that I have to defend this profoundly unjust yet unfairly maligned, rights-violating, prison gate-keeping, Hollerith-ass, bureaucratic government-enforced insult to human dignity in app form, but here we are. On Inauguration Day, January 20th, one of the first things Trump did was cancel the CBP One app— an app […]
Read MoreDeux ex Smartphone: Healthcare Access Isn’t Going to Democratize Itself
One of my first-year classes in college was History of Theater, in which I learned how the Greeks built amphitheaters into hillsides, carving out a semicircle of seating for the audience around the stage to maximize. The scenery for a play completes the circle, just as it does for any […]
Read MoreHealthcare tech’s turf war hurts patients- here’s how to protect yourself
Quick recap In my last post (Down the patient portal: the world of healthcare tech serving you data about you) I introduced the back end of patient engagement from the patient’s perspective. While you can’t choose the digital patient engagement tools your provider uses, you can often choose your provider— […]
Read MoreDown the patient portal: the world of healthcare tech serving you data about you
The subject of patient engagement tools, especially patient portals, took up permanent residence in my head last January when my mother, a few months away from achieving octogenarian status, experienced a health event that would change both of our lives. When she came home from the hospital, suddenly she was […]
Read MoreI (don’t) feel your pain: A dialog with ChatGPT about what “empathic AI” in healthcare really means
Quick TOC: First up, I’m letting you in on a somewhat rambling (but edited) conversation that I had with ChatGPT about its own limitations in healthcare, and the limitations of those designing and using it. Then I review the research on where things currently stand with empathy and AI, and […]
Read MoreCBP One™: The Border in Your Pocket
In August of 2018, in light of the growing number of apps under Customs and Border Protection, the agency’s Office of Field Operations (OFO) announced that it would develop the CBP One mobile application in collaboration with the Office of Information Technology (OIT). The app would prevent the confusion that […]
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Gizmodo takes ’em on: At CES last week, in addition to all the gear and gadgets, there was something else on display: women. As with many trade shows—especially ones aimed at a male audience—CES was rife with booth babes. Yet when the BBC ran a story on the practice of hiring scantily-clad models to stand […]
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Yes, I have been seduced. Feel free to add me if you have as well, and would like another person in whatever circle is deemed most appropriate.
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