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Data IS the Medicine: How an Information System Is Helping Eradicate Guinea Worm Disease
Guinea worm disease is on the verge of eradication — not because of a vaccine or drug, but because of an information system. A look at how data collection and surveillance became the medicine itself.
Read more →They Used This 1970s Reactor Grid to Investigate Syphilis. We Built an Algorithm to Replace It.
A look at how a decades-old epidemiological tool for syphilis contact tracing compares to a modern algorithmic approach — and what the gap reveals about how health systems adopt new methods.
Read more →On Being Inducted as a Fellow of AMIA — and What It Represents
Fewer than 700 people worldwide hold the designation of Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. On what the recognition means — not as a personal milestone, but as a statement about the work.
Read more →Student Projects May Be the Harbinger of AI Adoption in Public Health
Closing out UC Berkeley's Emerging Technologies for Public Health course left me with one clear thought: the students already get it, and there is a seismic shift towards citizen science.
Read more →Technology Access and Whole-Person Care: Speaking at HIMSS Northern California
At the HIMSS NorCal Public Health Informatics Symposium, I argued that Health Information Exchanges should be treated as public utilities — and that seeing patients whole requires more than a medical record.
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