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Mashup Score: 13 Minutes to Financial Ruin - Dr Nick - 3 year(s) ago
3 Minutes to Financial Ruin This past week I found myself subject to a SIM Jacking attack. A reasonably sophisticated attempt to wrestle control of someone’s life, typically for money, although in some cases it can be for high-value digital assets (like a Twitter handle back in 2012). But even in those cases […]
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Mashup Score: 23 Minutes to Financial Ruin - Dr Nick - 3 year(s) ago
3 Minutes to Financial Ruin This past week I found myself subject to a SIM Jacking attack. A reasonably sophisticated attempt to wrestle control of someone’s life, typically for money, although in some cases it can be for high-value digital assets (like a Twitter handle back in 2012). But even in those cases […]
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Mashup Score: 1Personalized Medicine for Everyone - Dr Nick - 3 year(s) ago
This week I am talking to Geri Landman, MD, MPH a pediatric urgent care physician, and Zach Landman, MD, MPH Interventional Pain Medicine Fellow at Stanford University. Their daughter Lucy (@lucythepgap3goose) has a rare single-gene disorder – she has two bad copies of the PGAP3 gene, one of the many genes involved in cell communication. In […]
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Mashup Score: 1Doctors Die Differently - Dr Nick - 4 year(s) ago
It was this podcast, “The Bitter End” From the awesome radio show radiolab that covered a topic that people are often reluctant to discuss but is an important part of our reality…as they say there are few things in life but birth death (and taxes) are at the top of the list. The piece included […]
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Mashup Score: 1Snake Oil Infodemic - Dr Nick - 4 year(s) ago
The History The term “Snack Oil Salesman” has long been used and associated with seedy profiteers who sell fake wares to an unsuspecting public, and that is the way I use the term here (ironically the origins were at odds with this). But the term is relatively well understood as a metaphor for individuals who […]
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Mashup Score: 5Tolerance and Respect - 5 year(s) ago
There is so much more that we share than divides us
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Mashup Score: 0Getting to the Holy Grail of Medicine - Dr Nick - 5 year(s) ago
I really enjoyed catching up with Lisa Ernhardt from Abbott talking about Medical Device Innovation at CES (especially having just tested and blogged about their CGM) and discussing how we get to a “smart body”. We talk about how we put patient data at the center of managing health and the move to exception-based medicine …
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Mashup Score: 0Apologists are Happier - Dr Nick - 5 year(s) ago
Easing Frustration I get frustrated even though I try hard to not. Most of the day I amble along quietly absorbing the ups and downs, but that all comes to a screeching halt when I interact with some telephone systems and support. Not all are bad but some are so bad that by the time …
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Mashup Score: 1How Long will This Procedure Take? - Dr Nick - 5 year(s) ago
Operating Room Efficiency This week I am talking to Dr. Bala Nair, Ph.D. CTO and Co-Founder of Perimatics and an Associate Professor at the University of Washington along with Dr. Rajeev Saxena, MD, MBA Anesthesiology Resident at the University of Washington. They are authors on the paper: Improving Operating Room Efficiency: Machine Learning Approach to Predict Case-Time Duration that …
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Mashup Score: 0Detecting Opioid Diversion - Dr Nick - 5 year(s) ago
This week I am talking to Tom Knight, CEO & Founder of Invistics. The companies name derives from Inventory Visibility and Analytics where they started many years ago tracking inventory and providing better data to companies trying to manage production and their supply chain as the world moved to just in time manufacturing and shipping. …
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RT @drnic1: I think the #hcldr folks know I was SIMjacked - if not https://t.co/VQFSPGh71z I am interested in opinions, thoughts & any per…