This is the first post in Sarsa Insights, a small but ongoing collection of notes from the field. The plan is simple: to share short, useful thoughts on the work that sits at the intersection of clinical medicine, informatics, and digital health.
What you’ll find here
A few different kinds of writing, depending on what’s most useful at the moment:
- Field notes: shorter, observational pieces from inside the work. What is changing in clinical decision support. What is broken about how we evaluate digital health tools. What patterns I am noticing across health systems and global programs.
- Frameworks and methods: occasional deeper pieces on how to actually do the work. Designing an FHIR-based registry. Evaluating an AI-assisted clinical workflow. Building a surveillance system that public health workers will actually use.
- Video and audio: cross-posts from @data.tech.doc, where I publish quick takes, frameworks, and explainers in formats that work better as video.
What you won’t find here
This is not a blog about hot takes on the news cycle, nor a place where I will rehearse the same arguments you have already heard. The bar is: did I learn something useful in the last few weeks, and is it transferable to someone else doing this kind of work? If the answer is yes, it shows up here.
A note on cross-posting
Most pieces will be cross-posted to LinkedIn and, where it makes sense, to @data.tech.doc on Instagram and YouTube. If you’d rather follow along somewhere specific, both work. The full archive will live here.
Thank you for being one of the early readers. I’d love to hear what you find useful and what you don’t.