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- Atul Gawande On The Colbert Report
Atul Gawande discusses his New Yorker article, "Slow Ideas: Some ideas spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don't?" Link .................... Related previous post: Atul Gawande: How Do Good Ideas Spread? ...
- Bill Gates: Can A Simple, Safe Childbirth Checklist Save Lives In Developing Countries?
I had the privilege recently of meeting Atul Gawande, a brilliant physician who’s using an amazingly simple concept—checklists for medical practitioners—to save lives and reduce health care costs. With support from our foundation, Gawande is investigating...
- Malcolm Gladwell Reviews Atul Gawande's Latest Book: The Checklist Manifesto
I can't wait to read this book! As Charlie Munger says: "Checklist routines avoid a lot of errors. You should have all this elementary [worldly] wisdom and then you should go through a mental checklist in order to use it. There is no other procedure...
- Testing, Testing - By Atul Gawande
Thanks to Farnam Street for passing Dr. Gawande’s latest piece along. There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first...
- Dr. Atul Gawande - 2009 Commencement Speeches
Dr. Atul Gawande gave two commencement speeches in June. The first I found via the Farnam Street blog. (Below are some of excerpts. Click on the paragraphs for the entire speeches.) June 4, 2009 Speech at the HSPH Commencement 2009 We have arrived, I...
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Interview with Atul Gawande - by Alex Howard
Found via Simoleon Sense.
Dr. Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) has been a bard in the health care world, straddling medicine, academia and the humanities as a practicing surgeon, medical school professor, best-selling author and staff writer at the New Yorker magazine. His long-form narratives and books have helped illuminate complex systems and wicked problems to a broad audience.
One recent feature that continues to resonate for those who wish to apply data to the public good is Gawande’s New Yorker piece “The Hot Spotters,” where Gawande considered whether health data could help lower medical costs by giving the neediest patients better care. That story brings home the challenges of providing health care in a city, from cultural change to gathering data to applying it.
This summer, after meeting Gawande at the 2012 Health DataPalooza, I interviewed him about hot spotting, predictive analytics, networked transparency, health data, feedback loops and the problems that technology won’t solve. Our interview, lightly edited for content and clarity, follows.
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Related article: “The Hot Spotters”
- Atul Gawande On The Colbert Report
Atul Gawande discusses his New Yorker article, "Slow Ideas: Some ideas spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don't?" Link .................... Related previous post: Atul Gawande: How Do Good Ideas Spread? ...
- Bill Gates: Can A Simple, Safe Childbirth Checklist Save Lives In Developing Countries?
I had the privilege recently of meeting Atul Gawande, a brilliant physician who’s using an amazingly simple concept—checklists for medical practitioners—to save lives and reduce health care costs. With support from our foundation, Gawande is investigating...
- Malcolm Gladwell Reviews Atul Gawande's Latest Book: The Checklist Manifesto
I can't wait to read this book! As Charlie Munger says: "Checklist routines avoid a lot of errors. You should have all this elementary [worldly] wisdom and then you should go through a mental checklist in order to use it. There is no other procedure...
- Testing, Testing - By Atul Gawande
Thanks to Farnam Street for passing Dr. Gawande’s latest piece along. There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first...
- Dr. Atul Gawande - 2009 Commencement Speeches
Dr. Atul Gawande gave two commencement speeches in June. The first I found via the Farnam Street blog. (Below are some of excerpts. Click on the paragraphs for the entire speeches.) June 4, 2009 Speech at the HSPH Commencement 2009 We have arrived, I...