The Stanford IT doctor is in (this stuff could save your life)
Why do I praise Seagate? Because they pay me to have conversations with smart people in the technology business. I pinch myself every day.
Here’s one example: Christopher Longhurst. He’s a doctor at Stanford’s Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital. He also works in the IT department there. Since our son was born there three weeks ago, and we got a close up look at the computers and other devices strewn through the hospital (free wifi!) I wanted to get the behind-the-scenes look.
The most interesting thing? Is just how many mistakes get made in hospitals and how information technology is being used to keep those errors from happening.
This 47 minute conversation is very interesting. Why? Well, he’s working with Google on a personal healthcare site. We cover a LOT of ground about technology trends inside the medical industry.
Thanks to Bryan Zug for hooking us up! Bryan is a guy you should know too. He does the video behind the Seattle Ignite events (which are really awesome) and is a developer who works on a variety of projects including a contract job with the hospital.
UPDATE: we cover the various “personal healthcare services like Microsoft HealthVault” at about minute 41 and also cover some of the fears of giving services like these your health care data. Don’t miss that part of the interview, especially around minute 44 where he explains what these new health services could do for you.
UPDATE2: Rocky did a short, seven-minute version where he pulled out the highlights of this conversation so if you don’t have 47 minutes, this one is for you.
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October 8th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
This stuff looks great. Is there a dedicated RSS feed for these shows?
October 8th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Paul: yeah, over at http://www.scobleshow.com there’s RSS feeds for a variety of RSS aggregators.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Hi Robert. Here is an idea: do a 10-minute video on how Rocky takes a 45min video and edits it down to 6 minutes (including software and hardware tools he uses as well as top 10 best practices on how to create a compelling 5min video). Because of adoption of video, everyone is being forced to become an amateur video editor…it would be great to get an insight into how a pro works. Thanks. Edwin
October 9th, 2007 at 2:45 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 3:03 am
I’m wondering how near or far that’s from car mechanics
October 9th, 2007 at 7:32 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 10:12 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
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October 9th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
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October 9th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
The issues involved are significant. Our experience is that hospital EMR offers fantastic data retrieval, but data entry is cumbersome at best. Expanding to CPOE is difficult if efficiency and safety are impaired. Much more work needs to be done to improve the physician/computer interface in the workplace.
October 10th, 2007 at 7:49 am
Dr. Longhurst has some terrific feedback for those of us in the medical software development community. While my company primarily focuses on medical diagnostic software development, we do a great deal of work in patient and test management systems. CPOE, computerized physician order entry, is clearly becoming quickly adopted and data exchange between devices, diagnostic systems and hospital information systems is becoming a substantial part of what we do. I hope patient safety advocate groups such as the Leapfrog Group are successful in bringing greater standardization for data exchange in this market.
October 11th, 2007 at 9:06 am
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November 9th, 2007 at 12:15 am
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