Index

Projects

Medication cost transparency: does it make a difference? (4/15/2019)
Herald: Solving the Data Overload Problem for Doctors (5/19/2016)
Reach: Text-Message Appointment Reminder System (10/6/2015)
Squire: Handheld Hospital Assistant (2/3/2015)
Cardiovascular Risk Calculator (11/17/2013)
Symcat: Data-Driven Symptom Checker (2/4/2012)
How Motor Learning Generalizes (7/1/2011)
Stroke in AVS App (5/31/2011)
Understanding Tracheostomy as a Risk Factor for Sternal Wound Infections (2/26/2010)
Towards an Intelligent Stethoscope (3/15/2008)

Writing

Carbon Is Harder Than Silicon: Why the Future of AI Depends More on Human Systems Than Hardware (10/19/2025)
Switches, Boxes, and Steam — Three Questions for AI in Healthcare (9/13/2025)
A scientist, a magician, a poet, and an alien walk into a bar… (8/22/2025)
First! (in five years) (8/17/2025)
Digital Health: “What’s taking so long?” Part 2 of N (9/5/2018)
Looks like we have ourselves an old-fashioned Technological Revolution (in health care) (8/14/2017)
Forget Big Data. It’s Time to Talk About Small Data. (2/15/2017)
Problems and Promise of Medical Vocabularies (2/4/2017)
Why the stakes are so high in the open data debate (8/12/2016)
The Opinionated Electronic Medical Record (1/19/2016)
A good brainteaser is hard to find (10/21/2015)
Seeking a diagnosis on the Internet: survey results (7/29/2015)
On the Evaluation of symptom checkers for self diagnosis and triage: audit study (7/13/2015)
When is a Doctor Not a Physician? (7/12/2015)
The Non-Physician’s Guide to Hacking the Health Care System (7/30/2014)
Killer Features of the Next Generation EMR (6/29/2014)
Magic Numbers for Startups (4/13/2014)
Starting a Company as a Medical Student: Part 2 (1/9/2014)
Starting a Company as a Medical Student: Part 1 (1/1/2014)
The Myth of the “A-ha” Moment (5/29/2013)
The Death and Rebirth of Primary Care (4/23/2013)
What Does the Massive Health Acquisition Really Mean? (2/5/2013)
The Real Problem with Physician Decision Support (11/27/2012)
How the Big Data Trend will Support Medical Research (11/2/2012)
Blueprint Health Startup Accelerator: Was it Worth It? (9/27/2012)
Can Health Care Be Disrupted? (8/8/2012)
5 Steps to Making Your Medical App Idea a Reality (3/5/2012)
Doctors or Algorithms: Who Will Win? (1/25/2012)

Speaking

Operationalizing NLP to Support Value-based Care (2/6/2018)
Identification of High Risk Commercial Patients for Population Management (Epic XGM 2015) (3/24/2015)
Symcat Power Pitch (CNBC) (2/12/2013)
Symcat: A Consumer-side Expert System for Diagnosis (Johns Hopkins Informatics Grand Rounds) (10/5/2012)
Symcat: From Symptoms to Solutions (Health Data Initiative Forum III: The Health Datapalooza) (6/5/2012)

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