Analytics to improve health care.

This is unfortunate:

I do use the iPad here and there, but it’s not readily part of the way I can manage the clinic. I would have to put in a lot of effort for me to make it actually useful in my clinic.

For example, I need to be able to switch between radiology scans and past records. I predominantly see cancer patients, so they’ll have 40 pages of records that I need to have in front of me, from scans to lab tests to previous notes by other folks.

I haven’t found a better way than paper, honestly. I can flip between screens on my iPad, but it’s too slow and distracting, and it doesn’t let me talk to the patient. It’s fun if I can pull up a screen image of this or that and show it to the patient, but it just isn’t that integrated into practice.

"That’s what’s been missing in health care. We have not married the people who have the data with people who feel responsible for achieving better results at lower costs. When you put those people together, they’re usually within a system, and within a system, there is no privacy barrier to being able to look and say, “Here’s what we can be doing in this health system,” because it’s often that particular."

Did you see this? http://pandawhale.com/post/28720/reach-into-our-bodies-grab-the-genotype-reach-into-the-medical-system-and-we-grab-our-records-and-we-use-it-to-build-something-together 

and this: http://pandawhale.com/post/28534/accountable-care-in-which-hospitals-will-be-paid-to-keep-people-healthy-key-to-this-is-data

I am hopeful...