Saturday, January 31, 2015

UCSF just became host to world’s largest fleet of hospital #robots. And they have names....



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what a world RT @joshuaschwimmer “The best Gmail app for the iPhone is now made by...



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Thursday, January 29, 2015

"The best Gmail app for the iPhone is now made by Microsoft" http://t.co/U5WUIIhMWF— Joshua...



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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

'The goal here is to empower doctors with transparency' @doximity co-founder @ng in @theatlantic....



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Monday, January 26, 2015

In NYC for #blizzard2015 and this just flashed on my phone. City is largely shutting down except for...



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Friday, January 23, 2015

Add “angiomyolipoma” to the list of words I’m happily shocked that Siri...



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iPhone home screen, latest iteration. pic.twitter.com/I2C1EPaHMb— Joshua Schwimmer, MD...



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If more sleep were a pill, everyone would take it.— Joshua Schwimmer, MD (@joshuaschwimmer) January...



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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Why Transparency And Data Sharing In Clinical Trials Matters http://t.co/jWN7tJ3Mbl— Joshua...



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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Dr. Jay Parkinson argues against wearables. http://t.co/u8vbYjBZDW— Joshua Schwimmer, MD...



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Remember a time before iPhone medical apps? - Innovations for Health Care: The New 3G iPhone, the...



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Remember a time before iPhone medical apps?

Innovations for Health Care: The New 3G iPhone, the App Store, and Doctors (Posted June 23, 2008):

What follows is a brief list of potential applications on the iPhone for doctors. Some have already been announced for the iPhone, are available on other platforms, or are currently in development. Let’s see how many of these applications are eventually released and sold in the App store. My guess? All of them.

  • Drug database
  • Anatomical atlas
  • Medical calculator
  • Interface for electronic health record
  • Viewer of radiologic images
  • Interface for laboratory results
  • An expert system to help with differential diagnoses
  • Messaging system for laboratory alerts and hospital pages
  • Interface for medical devices (like ultrasounds and EKG machines)
  • Dictation recorder
  • Device for electronic prescribing
  • Device for directly receiving and reading medical journals and podcasts
  • Medical book reader
  • Reminder system for patient visits and meetings synced remotely with the office through Mobile Me
  • Display for patient education videos
  • Medical simulator (ACLS, for example)
  • Telemedicine device (pending the eventual release of iChat and a videoconferencing system)
  • Interface for medical literature searches (Pubmed, Google Scholar)
  • Word processing device for papers (I’m still waiting for a bluetooth keyboard)
  • Communication device for hospital teams (Using Twitter or another system)
  • Secure system for messaging/emailing patients
  • CME course viewer (with text and/or video)


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"Human cells dwell in salt water."

“Human cells dwell in salt water.”

- Disorders of Plasma Sodium — Causes, Consequences, and Correction

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Monday, January 12, 2015

"Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is a desperately sparse album: thin percussion and several..."

“Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is a desperately sparse album: thin percussion and several haunted-synth lines are the only components on most songs, and Richard D. James added only one vocal sample on the entire album (“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams”). Also, the sound quality is relatively poor; it was recorded direct to cassette tape and reportedly suffered a mangling job by a cat. All this belies the status of Selected Ambient Works 85-92 as a watershed of ambient music. It reveals no influences and sounds unlike anything that preceded it, due in large part to the effects James managed to wrangle from his supply of home-manufactured contraptions.”

- Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin

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Bookcision: Export/Download Your Kindle Highlights http://t.co/insd1I0AEJ— Joshua Schwimmer, MD...



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The Future of Medicine Is in Your Smartphone http://t.co/0IGOGm20wd— Joshua Schwimmer, MD...



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Feel happy that my former medical student is now the lead NEJM case discussant. Also: old....



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Patient-requested office music of the day. #beatsmusic http://t.co/H04qdeMtEf— Joshua Schwimmer, MD...



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The Johnson & Johnson Official 7 Minute Workout App (my favorite), now with 36 more exercises...



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"You want ten? Five bucks. You want twenty? Nine bucks. And check this out: you want thirty? EIGHT...



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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Journal Club: Landmark medical trials at your fingertips https://t.co/3F0OehYXWg...



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Thursday, January 8, 2015

"An entirely new genre of healthcare delivery: Always-on telehealth" http://t.co/MTtw2QBvb7— Joshua...



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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Backwoods Beard Balm by The Mod Cabin



Backwoods Beard Balm by The Mod Cabin



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World Health Organization says Ebola death toll rises to 8,235 out of 20,747 cases worldwide through...



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First patient of the day chooses an album from @BeatsMusic. Today it’s Beethoven played on...



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Currently Reading: The Patient Will See You Now by @EricTopol http://t.co/cjfGihYUmV— Joshua...



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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

"We are Apple’s best customers. By “we,” I don’t mean fanbloggers in particular, I mean power users..."

We are Apple’s best customers. By “we,” I don’t mean fanbloggers in particular, I mean power users in general. Those of us who learn the deep details of the software we use, or who write scripts and Automator actions to speed up our work. We’re not Apple’s best customers because we buy lots of Apple products (although some of us do). We’re its best customers because of our leverage.

I’ll bet you know several people who bought a Mac, an iPad, or an iPhone because they saw you using one and noticed how easily you did things that were difficult for them. They may have asked for a demonstration of Fantastical; they may have asked whether they could still do X, Y, or Z on a Mac; they may have asked for a recommendation on which iPad to buy; but however it happened, you were largely responsible for Apple sales beyond your own collection of devices. That’s leverage.



- Apple leverage - All this

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"The math of organ donation: kidneys are an NP-hard problem" http://t.co/PJs9CAaPBa— Joshua...



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Monday, January 5, 2015