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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
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 9, 20222 min read
Validating AI in medicine - Biobeat
Biobeat’s announcement that its cuffless blood pressure measuring devices proved accurate across sex, BMI, and skin colors is a...
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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
Feb 8, 20222 min read
Hospitals struggling with COVID spikes
The daily drumroll of hospitals, health systems, cities, and states struggling to cope with COVID spikes continues. We don’t yet know how...
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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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Ozzie Paez
Jan 6, 20222 min read
Patients driving healthcare innovation
Discussions of innovative medical technologies such as BioBeat’s remote patient monitoring system are usually framed from the...
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Ozzie Paez
Dec 10, 20212 min read
Barriers to healthcare innovation
Replacing legacy medical equipment with innovative new technologies is challenging because in healthcare there is little room for error....
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Ozzie Paez
Jul 22, 20212 min read
Operational Elasticity
The COVID crisis tested healthcare’s robustness (the capacity to take a punch) and agility (the ability to adapt). Many hospitals...
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Ozzie Paez
May 21, 20211 min read
Preparedness and healthcare specs
I’ve spent much of my career helping clients define their needs, expectations, and #requirements in the face of continuous technological...
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Ozzie Paez
Apr 27, 20211 min read
COVID lessons learned: Part 2
My previous post discussed community feedback received after 9/11 on federal plans for improving preparedness. We learned from healthcare...
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Ozzie Paez
Apr 7, 20211 min read
Improving medical safety with tech
I spent the last month exploring lessons learned during the COVID pandemic. Many were not new. For example, staff safety and the limited...
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Ozzie Paez
Mar 18, 20211 min read
Sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT)
This post focuses on sensing technologies indispensable to many #AI applications in fields like agriculture, medicine, and #epidemiology....
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Ozzie Paez
Feb 9, 20211 min read
AI's indispensable enablers
Artificial intelligence is most effective when complemented with other technologies, particularly modeling and analytics. These are...
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Ozzie Paez
Jan 7, 20211 min read
Education redefined in the age of AI
Western education is built on a narrower-deeper paradigm. As students enter Bachelors, Masters, and PhD programs, of necessity, they...
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