At one of Dr. Yellowlees’s Health Informatics seminars, Dr. Nesbitt led us on a tour of UC Davis Health System’s newest buildings, the Center for Health & Technology at UC Davis. This multi-story building includes some amazing new methods of improving education, including virtual endoscopy, mannequins that breathe, and even tele-medical...
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Last Wednesday, we hosted the Health 2.0 Sacramento’s inaugural kick-off to a crowd. I couldn’t believe the energy in the room. A few of my new friends in Sacramento and I put together a new group, Health 2.0 Sacramento, to bring together people interested in mobile devices, Internet technologies, and healthcare. With some generous financial support from...
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I’m proud to announce that a group of talented inviduals — plus myself — have started a new volunteer-run group in Sacramento for people who are interested in the intersection of healthcare plus Internet and mobile technology. Keisuke Nakagawa (a UC Davis medical student who founded his own DC-based nonprofit that uses interactive voice tech to advance...
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Ron Jimenez, MD, FAAP, one of Stanford Medicine’s medical informatics directors, brought together the concepts of usability, technology, and medicine at the monthly UC Davis Health Informatics Seminar. His goal: make Epic, one of the leading electronic medical record (EMR) system providers, usable for Stanford’s numerous clinics and hospitals. Why...
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I’m very happy with a personal goal I set out for myself this year: to lose weight, despite the crushing workload of med school! Although I definitely don’t have, like, big muscles, I’ve noticed I fit comfortably in medium-sized shirts. My clothes have gotten considerably baggier. I’m also surprised I’ve been able to commit at...
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