For the better part of a decade, “healthcare interoperability” has been treated as the finish line. FHIR APIs, HL7 v2 feeds, CommonWell, Carequality – an enormous amount of engineering effort has gone into making sure that clinical data can move between systems. And it’s worked. A referral can carry structured patient data. A payer can … [Read more…]
I’ve tried plenty of note-taking apps, but for one reason or another, I keep coming back to Google Keep. Between ideas, tasks, things I need to purchase, and article angles, Google Keep has become my singular catch-all destination. The reason for that is simple. Unlike other productivity apps that drown you in options for categorization, … [Read more…]
Most discussions of “AI in healthcare” stay abstract – bigger context windows, better diagnostic accuracy, multimodal clinical reasoning. Useful research, but disconnected from what actually eats a care coordinator’s or physician’s day: referrals that sit in a queue, prior authorizations that require assembling documentation from three different places, encounter notes that need turning into a … [Read more…]
OnePlus leaving the US market has left a big hole in the Android space. The company that pushed other Android manufacturers to up their game with faster charging, bigger batteries, top-tier performance, and, most importantly, good value for money no longer sells its phones in most global markets. With OnePlus now gone, there’s less competition … [Read more…]
I. The Number That Should Be Getting More Attention A. What the Data Actually Says There’s a statistic from NVIDIA’s 2026 State of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences report that deserves more scrutiny than it’s getting: roughly 69% of healthcare organizations report using generative AI, while only about 22% report using AI agents. That’s … [Read more…]
I was starting to think my old phone had reached the point where replacing it made more sense than keeping it around. The battery didn’t last nearly as long, and I was charging it more often to get through the day. The screen was in good condition, performance was satisfactory, and I didn’t see any … [Read more…]
World Patient Safety Day 2026: Why Fragmented Care and AI Could Put Chronic Patients at Risk People living with diabetes, heart disease, cancer and other long-term illnesses face risks that extend beyond their medical conditions. Repeated hospital visits, multiple medicines and consultations with different specialists can create gaps in care, allowing preventable mistakes to accumulate … [Read more…]
For most of us, Android’s built-in Chrome browser is the default. That makes sense. It comes built in, does a reasonably good job rendering even complex websites, and has the features you’d need. When I need something else like extensions, I turn to Firefox. On my iPhone, well, Safari remains my go-to for its clean … [Read more…]
Custom Optometry EHR: Timeline, Cost & Architecture A custom optometry EHR typically takes 4, 8 months to build. For a single-location practice, cost runs $150, 300K. For multi-location networks (20+ offices), add $200, 400K on top of that, plus $30, 50K/year in maintenance. Here’s where the money actually goes: Cost Breakdown Discovery & Workflow Mapping … [Read more…]
Google provides a free VPN built into newer Google Pixel devices. When I tried Google’s VPN after my Google Pixel 8 arrived, I came away feeling underwhelmed. A trusted VPN service often requires a subscription. Great VPNs like Surfshark, NordVPN, and ExpressVPN all have premium plans. Free VPNs, if trusted, often lack many core features. … [Read more…]