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 Sinai Hospital, including those storing clinical data, reference materials, and patient information.

“We now have access to exactly what we have in our computers here in the …

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“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 week, I watched a TED talk by Bill Davenhall (below) that claimed “geography is destiny”.
This idea is not so exaggerated. Just watch it (9 min.):

What it says: …

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