Masks, do they protect me directly if I wear? Why should I wear them if it protects others and not me? Here I present a line of reasoning for masks being protective to the person who wears it and relate it to a rapid acting equivalent of vehicle seat belts.I hope the message in this blog aids change in mindset and practice, and together with other developments in place now help us create ‘The Moment’ to hold current state of the COVID-19 pandemic as its worst and help move to build a better future faster.
Yes, you guessed it right.. we are talking about the Andy Grove who left an indelible legacy through his role at the Intel corporation (together with the other two founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore) including as CEO for a decade, fueling the growth of Silicon Valley and the world at large. Now we got that cleared, we need to introduce some background on what is called the ‘Andy Grove Fallacy’ in a commentary in 2007.
In exciting news this week Waymo™ the driverless car arm of Alphabet™ (the parent company of Google) launched its fully self-driving taxi service ‘Waymo One’in Phoenix, Arizona. There is one catch though; the self-driving taxis each have a driver in them. What can we infer from this artificial intelligence (AI) enabled initiative and other offerings from the Alphabet conglomerate? Continue reading How does AI, Waymo self-driving taxi launch and Google indicate room for another search engine?→
I read this excellent post The Irrational Rationing of Health Care on LinkedIn by David Katz, that documents a case of denial of a treatment option to a patient because the payer considers that ‘not established as standard therapy for that cancer’ – as documented in their business criteria. As you would have guessed that the treatment option is a reasonably expensive one. This is an excellent article and an exemplary case for what I elaborate in previous blogs http://bit.ly/ACOSteadyState and http://bit.ly/sustainablehealthcare .
The above title can be re-framed as: How to always be working on the hottest themes throughout your life?
Warning:this is an exercise in trying to convey a seemingly abstract concept in completely abstract terms.
I happened to be in a meeting recently where panelists with a variety of backgrounds were discussing a red hot emerging theme – across the spectrum: from research until creating markets that don’t currently exist. Continue reading Adaptive social fitness – in all its abstractness →
In the recent nine months we have been reading about the impact of sequestration on various aspects of life – from defense spending to basic biomedical research. Some articles highlight dramatic consequences. I write this from the region of the USA (Boston/Cambridge area) that attracts the most amount of research funding from governmental sources per capita.
Healthcare is undergoing a major overhaul. The costs are ballooning and we are resorting to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), remote monitoring and care, quantified-self enabled by smartphones, wearable devices, etc. to gain better understanding of cost control and sources of wasted resources. This post refers specifically to changes happening in the USA.
