Ozzie Paez
Analysis and the Bias of Proximity
We are most affected by people, events, and other aspects of our world that are closest to us. It’s an important consideration when...
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"The most dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers will naturally make better, more objective decisions. Making consistently timely, effective, informed decisions takes hard work. Trust me – it’s worth it. Effective decision-making is the essential common ingredient behind every successful step, initiative, and strategy that people, organizations, and national governments undertake."
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Ozzie Paez
Jan 26, 20232 min read
ChatGPT and the battle over ethics
The current arguments over ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) hark back to those of two AI luminaries, MIT’s Joseph...
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Ozzie Paez
Dec 29, 20222 min read
The informed decision-maker fallacy
A common and dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers predictably make better, more objective decisions. It’s...
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Ozzie Paez
Oct 12, 20223 min read
Who decides? GPS, smart tech, and risky decision-making
Johnathan Turley’s post on the tragic death of a young father and husband[1] highlights the differences between technologies that help us...
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Ozzie Paez
Aug 2, 20222 min read
Hypertension & patient noncompliance
My previous posts on hypertension and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurements (ABPM) and profiling focused on the technical capabilities...
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Ozzie Paez
Jul 26, 20222 min read
Continuous in-hospital patient monitoring
A colleague approached me in late 2019 with a request to evaluate Biobeat’s medical technologies and remote patient monitoring solutions....
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Ozzie Paez
Jul 19, 20222 min read
Patient non-compliance in hypertension
Frederick Mahomed is credited with discovering hypertension around 1870 while serving his medical residency at London’s Guy’s Hospital....
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Ozzie Paez
Jul 5, 20222 min read
Remote patient monitoring in war zones
Wars create demands that peacetime systems often struggle to meet. Civilian casualties, damaged infrastructure, and unplanned migrations...
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Ozzie Paez
Jun 28, 20222 min read
Biobeat RPM and ABPM evaluations
Our evaluation of Biobeat’s ABPM technologies involves two tracks: clinical and decision-making. The first focuses on diagnosis,...
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Ozzie Paez
Jun 21, 20222 min read
Biobeat ABPM clinical profiling kit
We are occasionally approached by organizations to evaluate new innovative products and technologies. Some prove interesting, a few are...
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Ozzie Paez
Jun 16, 20222 min read
Improving patient engagement with Biobeat's 24BP
This week I will discuss how the Covid pandemic and innovative new technologies are affecting hypertension control programs and patient...
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Ozzie Paez
Jun 8, 20222 min read
Communication and patient compliance
Numerous studies have identified poor communication between doctors and patients as a key contributor to low patient compliance with...
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Ozzie Paez
May 24, 20222 min read
Biobeat's BP24 blood pressure profiling
I discussed in previous posts the impacts of hypertension and the challenges doctors and patients face in overcoming this silent killer....
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 22, 20222 min read
The dangers of nuclear bluffing
The last time the world faced a dangerous nuclear crisis like the war in Ukraine was during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. There had been...
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 18, 20222 min read
Doctors, engineers, and medicine
There is much that doctors and engineers can teach each other. I gained this insight after two years of exercising and talking with a...
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 16, 20222 min read
Putin & the Laws of Human Stupidity
Analysts prefer objective measures to subjective qualitative factors. Numbers simplify analysis and allow the application of quantifiable...
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 8, 20222 min read
Proliferation & Putin's Ukraine crisis
Threatening crises promote tunnel visions as those affected focus on their immediate effects. It’s only later, after normalcy returns,...
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Ozzie Paez
Feb 28, 20222 min read
Putin's nuclear bluffs
Mr. Putin is playing the nuclear card. It’s a reflection of Russia’s economic limitations and its history. In this context, hindsight...
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Ozzie Paez
Jan 29, 20222 min read
Quantifying health and healthcare
The heart of digital transformation is quantification or more specifically the capacity to continuously measure (sample) processes,...
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Ozzie Paez
Jan 18, 20222 min read
Patients and innovators in healthcare
My last post demonstrated through an actual case how wearable health monitors and continuous patient monitoring are empowering patients...
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