Doctor as Designer
Joyce Lee, MD, MPH, Physician, Designer, Researcher. I create learning health systems; #design for #ai and the maker movement
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Nike's New Ad Is an Editing Marvel, and Maybe the Best Covid Spot Yet
Tim Nudd - Muse by Clio 11d 7 tweets
W+K's seamless ode to the unifying power of sport
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Doctor as Designer Nike's New Ad Is an Editing Marvel, and Maybe the Best Covid Spot Yet 10d
Virtual Primary Care—Is Its Expansion Due to COVID-19 All Upside?
Jamanetwork.com 11d 1 tweets
Virtual primary care has long been promoted as the future of health care in the US.1 Proposed benefits include improved access for rural populations, more convenient care, and reduced overhead expenses. Despite this promise, progress until recently...
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Doctor as Designer Does one really believe all the hype about Babylon health? isn't it like the #theranos of primary care? Virtual Primary Care—Is Its Expansion Due to COVID-19 All Upside? 11d
Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review
Preprints.org 29d 10 tweets
The science around the use of masks by the general public to impede COVID-19 transmission is advancing rapidly. Policymakers need guidance on how masks should be used by the general population to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. In this narrative...
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Pentagon issues de facto ban on Confederate flag at military bases
Phil Stewart - U.S. 24d 1 tweets
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has issued a policy ushering in a de facto ban on displaying the Confederate flag at U.S. military installations around the world by authorizing only certain flags that promote unity, according to a copy of his memo,...
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Doctor as Designer Pentagon issues de facto ban on Confederate flag at military bases 24d
Coronavirus Attacks the Lungs. A Federal Agency Just Halted Funding for New Lung Treatments.
Katie Thomas - Nytimes.com 52d 15 tweets
The shift, quietly disclosed on a government website, highlights how the Trump administration is favoring development of vaccines over treatments for the sickest patients.
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Doctor as Designer Coronavirus Attacks the Lungs. A Federal Agency Just Halted Funding for New Lung Treatments. 52d
The short game of telemedicine
Mailchi.mp 57d 1 tweets
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Doctor as Designer If you want to learn about how medicine is evolving, sign up for 's newsletter. You won't be sorry! 57d
How Data Became One of the Most Powerful Tools to Fight an Epidemic
Steven Johnson - Nytimes.com 61d 34 tweets
As public-health experts have known since the 19th century, information can be the best medicine. What new data streams could help quell future outbreaks?
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Doctor as Designer How Data Became One of the Most Powerful Tools to Fight an Epidemic 57d
Michael Seres, an influential patient who hacked together a 'smart' ostomy bag, dies at 51
Christina Farr - CNBC 69d 14 tweets
Michael Seres was one of the first patient inventors to get clearance for a medical device. He died from a sepsis infection after a lifelong battle with Crohn's Disease.
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Doctor as Designer we will miss you Michael “Seres was widely considered to be one of the first and most prominent “e-patients,” a term which has become popular to denote patients who are informed and engaged in their health, often sharing their experiences online.” 69d
Emotional Eating in Quarantined Kids
Nytimes.com 75d 1 tweets
Boredom and stress are two big contributors to emotional eating, and children have a lot of both right now.
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Doctor as Designer “With all the things that have been disrupted in a child’s life, give them their milk, their mac and cheese,” Dr. Lumeng said. “Maybe right now is not the time to get them to expand their dietary repertoire to eat brussels sprouts.” 75d
C.D.C. Test Counting Error Leaves Epidemiologists ‘Really Baffled’
Sheila Kaplan, Sheryl Gay Stolberg - Nytimes.com 80d 17 tweets
The Centers for Disease Control has been lumping together tests for active coronavirus with tests for recovered patients, boosting testing totals but muddying the pandemic’s course.
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Doctor as Designer “Stunned epidemiologists say data from antibody tests and active virus tests should never be mixed because diagnostic testing seeks to quantify the amount of active disease in the population." yet that's what CDC had been doing? 79d
How Does a Virus Spread in Cities? It’s a Problem of Scale
Wired 82d 9 tweets
Population density didn’t make Covid-19 worse in New York City. If you want to know what went wrong, you have to think a lot smaller.
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Doctor as Designer How Does a Virus Spread in Cities? It’s a Problem of Scale 82d
Stuck at Home, Men in Japan Learn to Help. Will It Last?
Motoko Rich - Nytimes.com 87d 11 tweets
The coronavirus pandemic is exposing like never before the severe disparities in how Japanese couples divide household work.
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Doctor as Designer When he uploaded his wife’s spreadsheet on Twitter — writing that they had been in danger of getting a “coronadivorce,” a term that has trended in Japan — the post was shared about 21,000 times 87d
‘I Wish I Could Do Something for You,’ My Doctor Said
Nytimes.com 88d 52 tweets
Young, healthy people like me are getting very, very sick from the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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Doctor as Designer Maybe you don’t live in a big city. Maybe you don’t know anybody who is sick. Maybe you think we are crazy for living in New York. That’s fine. You don’t have to live like us or vote like us. But please learn from us. Please take this virus seriously. 87d
Characteristics of Health Care Personnel with COVID-19 — United States
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 118d 22 tweets
Improving surveillance through routine reporting of occupation and industry not only benefits health care personnel, but all workers during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
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Doctor as Designer Characteristics of Health Care Personnel with COVID-19 — United States 118d
How sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
Nature.com 130d 27 tweets
Wastewater testing could also be used as an early-warning sign if the virus returns.
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Doctor as Designer How sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak 129d
The Role of Metaphor in Design
Doctor as Designer - Medium 186d 1 tweets
Impact on Health Outcomes
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Doctor as Designer Hello #foodallergy community; has anyone autoinjected themselves with an epipen because of its bad design ? If yes would you be willing to talk to a colleague about that experience? 186d
Epic's CEO is urging hospital customers to oppose rules that would make it easier to share medical info
Christina Farr - CNBC 201d 22 tweets
Epic CEO Judy Faulkner wrote an email to CEOs and presidents of hospital systems urging them to oppose rules the Department of Health and Human Services proposed in 2019. These rules aim to make it easy for patients to access their health...
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Doctor as Designer “ “It is unfortunate to see this much effort placed at stalling the important, bipartisan progress we have made to open up health information -- at a minimum to consumers and institutions they trust.”” 201d
Without a Vaccine, These Are Your Odds
Nytimes.com 214d 56 tweets
Comparing the dangerous effects of three diseases with the minimal side effects of their corresponding vaccines.
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Doctor as Designer Opinion | You Are Unvaccinated and Got Sick. These Are Your Odds. 214d
Science Conferences Are Stuck in the Dark Ages
Wired 220d 10 tweets
Exhausting, expensive, and exclusive, these conferences needs to be modernized. The future of science depends on it.
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Doctor as Designer Science Conferences Are Stuck in the Dark Ages 220d
NIH VideoCast - Machine Intelligence in Healthcare: Perspectives on Trustworthiness, Explainability, Usability and Transparency
Videocast.nih.gov 281d 1 tweets
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Doctor as Designer How to make the deep learning algorithm transparent to clinicians NIH VideoCast - Machine Intelligence in Healthcare: Perspectives on Trustworthiness, Explainability, Usability and Transparency 281d