The double doors to the ambulance bay slide open, and one more patient on a gurney is hauled across the threshold of your Emergency Department. This one’s in diabetic shock. Stop the picture right there and ask yourself: Is this a medical success, because you can do...
The costs of healthcare turned a corner in 2009. You can see it on any graph of National Health Expenditures, whether by dollars or dollars per capita or percentage of the economy. There is a decided downward bend in the trend line between 2008 and 2009. The line then...
What it is: Pundits, start-ups, and marketing firms right now are throwing the term “Artificial Intelligence” like confetti on a parade. It’s the new “greenwashing.” What makes an AI system different from a really good program with massive computing power and a...
What it is: Alaska’s GOP-dominated legislature has passed and Sarah Palin endorsed Governor Bill Walker has signed a bill to bail out the state’s one remaining Obamacare insurer, using $55 million in tax money. Take a look:...
What it is: Keiichi Matsuda created a video to simulate an “augmented reality” or “hyper-reality” future, in which the real world around you is “augmented” with all kinds of information feeds. Take a look below, it’s a little over 6 minutes long and it is more than a...
