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Some Suggestions for the DOJ

Having pretty much wrapped up their investigations into ICD malfeasance amongst implanters (OMG, this ICD was implanted only 89 days following a stent!!), the Department of Justice (DOJ) is probably casting around to find the next bushel of low-lying fruit. Here are some suggestions for future investigations. (Disclaimer: my lawyers advise me to state emphatically… Continue reading Some Suggestions for the DOJ

Summer Fall Winter Reading

In the unlikely event anyone is interesting in what I have been reading lately, here goes. I promise no significant spoilers. My summer reading list has taken me 3 seasons to complete, but this is par for the course. Reading is pleasurable but time-consuming. I do most of my reading while on vacation. Clearly I… Continue reading ~~Summer~~ ~~Fall~~ Winter Reading

EPIC Bullying

I got word through my medical director at work today that the hospital administrators had been contacted by the EPIC electronic health record software company about this post, and demanded that the screenshots of the EPIC user interface be taken down. Offsetting my pride that someone had actually noticed and read my blog was the… Continue reading EPIC Bullying

Cruising, 2013-Style

Due to the extremely pricey and slow WiFi (a particularly bad combination) available on board, this post is being written in mid-ocean, but will be posted after I am back on dry land (but see update at end of the post). My wife and I are on the Royal Caribbean ship Explorer of the Seas. … Continue reading Cruising, 2013-Style

Attacked!

Saturday morning I was in the ideal programming groove. I got up early, grabbed a coffee from Panera’s, and faced the screen of my main computer, SuperSluggo, with its Ubuntu desktop and a nice wallpaper showing a snowy scene. I had cleaned the condo (oops, I mean EP Studios Eastern HQ) a few days before. … Continue reading Attacked!

Amendments Don’t Kill People…

It’s a good of example of the problems that unclear writing can cause. Can we blame the deaths of kindergarten kids on poor sentence structure? This short bit of 18th century English prose, the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, at least has the virtue of terseness if not clarity: A well regulated Militia,… Continue reading Amendments Don’t Kill People…

From Android to iOS: Coding

EP Mobile is now on iTunes, putting an end to the arduous process of porting the program from the Android to Apple environment. The version on the App Store is feature by feature equivalent to the Google play version. As addressed in my post on porting the user interface, the look and feel of iOS… Continue reading From Android to iOS: Coding

Game Review: EPIC EHR

UPDATE (2/20/13): EPIC has banned my use of the screenshots. The original post follows, considerably damaged by the lack of screenshots. Thanks a lot, EPIC! Here at EP Studios we don’t often venture into the entertainment realm of computing, but alas here we’ll make an exception, given the medical subject of this game. EPIC EHR… Continue reading Game Review: EPIC EHR

From Android to iOS: User Interface Issues

As my project to migrate EP Mobile from Android to iOS progresses, there might be some of you who are interested in some of the obstacles that I have had to deal with. These obstacles are numerous and non-trivial. The programming languages (Java vs Objective-C) are completely different. The programming IDEs (Eclipse vs Xcode) are… Continue reading From Android to iOS: User Interface Issues

Medical Guidelines and the Evils of Algorithmic Medicine

A succinct and humorous definition of time was written by the otherwise forgotten pulp SF writer Ray Cummings in his 1922 story The Girl in the Golden Atom — “Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.” For a busy EP doctor though, time isn’t doing a very good job of preventing everything from happening… Continue reading Medical Guidelines and the Evils of Algorithmic Medicine