northern_lights

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by northern_lights 9y ago
it's worth noting for others that this was almost certainly a hospital policy violation, not a hipaa violation. There's nothing in hipaa that prevents a person from accessing their own record (though I have heard hospital adminis
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by northern_lights 9y ago
any MCU can "jam" a GPS receiver if the board is laid out improperly or without enough shielding
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by northern_lights 10y ago
I think he likely meant "I don't think we will ever see HL7 messages exchanged between organizations [routinely and with little effort]." "some configuration work is usually needed on each interface" is the key phra
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by northern_lights 10y ago
I find Epic to be more horrifying than Meditech, because Epic has somehow managed to convince many healthcare workers that it is a "modern" product worthy of praise, despite all evidence to the contrary. People talk about SmartPh
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by northern_lights 10y ago
I previously used meditech on a daily basis, and good grief is it horrible. I've seen intelligent people spend 45 minutes just trying to figure out how to write a simple progress note before giving up and writing it by hand. What&#x27
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by northern_lights 10y ago
1.) It's a very time-consuming and hands-on process to train a surgeon. There aren't many other fields that I'm aware of with the same level of intense apprenticeship as surgery (and medicine in general). My first thought a
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by northern_lights 10y ago
>If we get a cold and need time off we need to visit a GP, this is rent seeking that could easily be handled by a non doctor for half the price. I'm not sure where you work, but I have never needed a doctor's note to get off wo
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by northern_lights 10y ago
I am nearing the end of medical school now, and I can assure you there are many surgeons who consistently work 80-90 hours/wk. I see it most often in surgeons who have subspecialized and do extremely technical work. Family, social,
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by northern_lights 10y ago
"Most things are simple, and it doesn't require years of school to set a bone or put in some stitches, or even diagnose the flu or pneumonia." The thing is...when that fracture extends into the joint capsule, or is in multipl
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by northern_lights 10y ago
To address your example directly - we already have holter monitors that would show a case of atrial fibrillation quite easily. They aren't terribly expensive, at least for something that has to have FDA approval, and they are frequent
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by northern_lights 10y ago
One of the challenges of medicine is that the information is gathered from so many sources and is so "fuzzy" in quality. Building a "database" of information from which to make a diagnosis is unlikely to be easily automa
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by northern_lights 10y ago
Many people might not understand just how busy physicians are, and how difficult it can be to integrate a new product into the clinical workflow. The most pressing thing to understand is that clinicians spend the VAST majority of their ti
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by northern_lights 10y ago
I honestly cannot understand why anyone would call Altium an "overpriced piece of technical debt." It's an extremely powerful piece of software, and fantastically easy to use (especially compared to some of the crap out ther
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by northern_lights 10y ago
The regulations only look like they're in favor of the doctors to those completely unfamiliar with the field. But who keeps the money from that $8000/night hospital stay? It certainly isn't the internal medicine doc making
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by northern_lights 11y ago
Obviously. This one doctor erring on the conservative side and not immediately taking a sharp instrument to your friend's eyelid proves that all doctors are corrupt and/or stupid, and the whole system is a scam. Or maybe doctor
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by northern_lights 11y ago
You can argue all you want about whether it's a good metric for surgery quality or not, but if you're being discharged soon after surgery, the idea is that your surgery went well enough that you don't need to be around $50mil
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by northern_lights 12y ago
What's this? A medical device company that publishes prices and actually tries to make low-cost, high-value products?? I will be watching this very closely! I am in medical school now, but I used to be an EE in the medical device spa