Disruption for Doctors 1: What’s Disruption?

Tech disruption is already happening in healthcare, but most healthcare practitioners are unaware of this critical concept. Learn what disruption means, and how it’s changing healthcare.

blogJoel SelanikioAugust 9, 2022disruption, healthcare, Netflix, Tesla, Uber, iPhone

The AI That Disrupts Radiology Won’t Read X-Rays

Assuming that doctors will always be at the center of healthcare is like imagining in 1982 that the US Postal Service will be in charge of email in 2022.

blogJoel SelanikioJuly 20, 2022digital health, AI, radiology, Jetsons, healthcare

We Don't Need Testing To Re-Open America

We didn’t need widespread COVID-19 testing to realize that we needed a lockdown: we could see that based on our hospital system capacity. And we don’t need widespread testing to start relaxing that lockdown, because we can guide our first steps based on those same hospital measure.

Joel SelanikioApril 16, 2020coronavirus, COVID-19, testing, public health, epidemiology Comments

Race and Coronavirus in Washington DC

African-Americans get COVID-19 at twice the rate per population as whites and they die at five times the rate as whites.

And Asian-Americans who get COVID-19 in the District are five times more likely than whites to die.

Joel SelanikioApril 11, 2020coronavirus, COVID-19, Washington DC, DC, public health, epidemiologyComment

PPE: Land of A Thousand Anecdotes

Everyone recognizes that to fight the coronavirus outbreak we need data on cases and testing. Well, we’re going to need the same level of data on PPE, ventilators and other essential supplies, too — but right now we’ve just got anecdotes. Lots and lots of anecdotes.