Healthcare's low Digitization Index

Healthcare remains one of the least digitized sectors of the economy. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/healthcare-digitization-index

Between 1990 and 2007 healthcare was the second worst sector of the USA economy in productivity improvement. In fact it had become less productive with time.   Article: https:/www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/healthcare-productivity-2014

Countries spend more on healthcare each year than their economy grows. Can this continue forever? Article: www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/growth-healthcare-vs-gdp #HealthEcon

CBC News published an article on Nursing Day that provoked public outcry. It turns out that the details of the original article were incorrect. CBC proceeded to rewrite the article (a new headline, byline, and content) but the new article was published overtop of their existing article. 

The addition of single-sentence summaries can dramatically improve the information communicated when generating summaries of patient data. This example focuses on trying to display that two consultations occurred in the same day.   Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/single-sentence-summaries

When we fit the patient's narrative into a typical medical story arc, we risk making diagnostic errors. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/risks-of-using-medical-story-arcs

Sometimes it is not clear which side of the box should be opened. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/le-creusets-box

Do we even need letters in the code? Are number only codes preferred? Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/two-factor-design

Summarizing the patient's narrative into a medical note introduces error into the earliest steps of the diagnostic and record-keeping process. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/the-patients-narrative-is-never-written-down

The original first-person patient narrative forms the foundation of clinical medicine, yet its original form rapidly becomes contaminated and evolve once the patient enters the medical system. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/patient-first-person-narrative