It occurred to me over the past week that if you were to get inside my Evernote, you would instantly learn so much about me. In some ways, the structures of our individual “clouds” say a lot more about us than any diary could. E.g., “this is how I curate”, “this is what matters [...]

  Just wanted to post about VitalHub, the latest in iPhone + EMR — being developed and implemented in-house at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto! Watch the beautiful video of it in action, courtesy of the Apple website. The essentials: VitalHub allows health care professionals to access records from 66 applications being used at Mount [...]

  I thought it was about time to write a post about the woes of doctor-patient email. Last week, a friend was having some issues with his phone, so his family doctor’s office couldn’t get in touch to inform him of the date of his specialist’s appointment. He didn’t know about the trouble until he [...]

  “Geography is destiny in medicine.” –Jack Lord, MD In my undergrad English lit courses, I heard a lot about “character is destiny”. Which is a fancy way of blowing things out of proportion – e.g., Romeo and Juliet didn’t die via the quality of being “star-crossed”, but because they were super emo. Well, this [...]

  The same CBC article (on Canadian doctors’ love-hate relationship with EMRs) that featured Dr. Greiver’s EMR also published this comment that didn’t sit very well with me: "Let’s be honest," says researcher Dave Ludwick. "Doctors have gone to school to become doctors, to understand how the body works and remedy that body’s failings, not [...]