Adam Smith needs revision. “The best result will come from everybody in the group doing what’s best for himself, and the group.”
This is Game Theory - John Nash.
Archive for June, 2007
The Wall Street Journal: MIT Scientists Pave the Way For Wireless Battery Charging (Friday, June 8, 2007)
A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported in the online publication of the journal Science, that they had demonstrated wireless transmission of electric power by magnetically coupled resonators. They dubbed their technology “WiTricity” for wireless electricity.
Resonator is an electrical circuit that combines capacitance and inductance in such a way that a periodic electric oscillation will reach maximum amplitude.
Consider the magnitude at which the WiTricity would affect the normal day to day life:
* Normal Person: Wireless Cell Phone / Laptop Battery Charging
* Doctors: Availability of devices which would not need an adaptor to charge but just the WiTricity Technology. Thus making the Doctors more portable.
* Patients: Heart Devices, Blood Pressure Monitoring Devices etc. will not need to be Charged on a constant basis using an adaptor.
This is progress. This is realization of patient safety. This is Technology for the next generation.
Every year 98,000 patients die due to preventable medical errors in the business process of care. That’s equivalent to a 747 crashing every day, killing all aboard. If hospitals were airlines, would you fly? (2007)
Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries - but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
I believe in explaining to the fullest as to the details of my Work Profile.
There have been quite a few instances when the other person tries to derive, what I do before I start explaining them just because they heard me talk a few items on “HIPAA”, “Privacy” and “Compliance”.
I guess it is the “Human Nature” to:
* Constantly prove that “To Err.. is Human” and;
* Draw conclusions from a few “Jargons” one hears
Most of the times by nature of my work, the people with whom I interact are proficient in their work domain. However when it comes to explaining them “Interoperability” and “Standardization” in respect to “HIPAA” or other such “Health Care” related arenas they pretend to know everything about it.
Realistically, how many of you actually understand “HIPAA”? How many of you actually understand everything that lies behind being completely interoperable? How many of you understand the importance of “Patient Data Consent”?
Once I start explaining them the real meaning of these terms, they then look at you in astonishment. Thus, making you realize that what one understands in “General Terms” on any topic, is not quite as likely to be the real meaning. There is a deep underlying meaning for almost everything that goes on in any particular aspect of life and to understand it completely, one needs to be ready to listen, comprehend and learn from his surroundings.
One needs to throw a deeper insight on the terms which on the first look quite “Generic”.
Nainil Chheda,MS is the Knowledge Research Specialist at eClinicalWorks LLC, Member of ASTM, AMIA, AIIM, PDF/H, EHRVA, HITSP, AIS and ACM, and a practicing researcher on Healthcare Informatics.
