Tag: technology
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(Mis)Treating Medically by Pithiness
by Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA My last blog post was “(Mis)Leading by Pithiness: Three Laws of Aphorisms,” and I think the concepts there apply also to medicine. The stakes seem even higher in medical care, so if leading by aphorism can be fraught, making medical decisions by aphorism seems potentially even moreso. If you…
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“Resonance Sensitivity”: The Rare and Differentiating Skillset That Makes Design a Deep Competitive Moat
by Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA Design Can Be a Deep Competitive Moat People often claim physical design and user experience (together, for short, “design”) are easily copied by big companies and therefore not a competitive moat. Yet, that rarely seems to happen. Most products seem pretty “meh”. If great design is easily copied,…
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Some of My Healthcare AI Thoughts as of 5/2026
by Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA Here are some summaries of my thoughts on various topics related to healthcare AI as of 5/2026, mostly from a talk I recently gave at the Illinois Society of Health and Risk Management. These may include a mix of my opinions and facts. My thoughts and this content…
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AI to Help Assess Clinical Quality: Example (potential) Darth Vecdor Use Case + Configs
Darth Vecdor is open-source, freely-available software to create knowledge bases using LLMs (like ChatGPT). With some trepidation, I share a set of example Darth Vedor configurations that may facilitate clinical quality measurment and improvement in healthcare.
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Darth Vecdor Update: Toward a Shareable Knowledge Base Library
by Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA Recently, I announced the free, open-source, public availability of Darth Vecdor (DV), a tool I wrote for creating graph databases (“knowledge bases” or “knowledge graphs“) using LLMs. For more info about DV, see either or both of: Or… visit the GitHub site to see more information and download…
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Introducing Darth Vecdor: A Free, Open-Source Platform to Create Knowledge Graphs Using LLMs (such as ChatGPT)
by Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA I Wanted a Comprehensive Medical Knowledge Graph For decades, I have hypothesized that a comprehensive medical knowledge database (aka, “knowledge base” or “knowledge graph”) would enable radical positive transformation in healthcare. I wanted a database containing relationships between concepts, like: With such a database, I imagined we could…
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The Apple M5 Vision Pro: My New Productivity Tool (and more)
Note: I get no financial incentives (ad revenue, payment, referral bonuses, discounts, etc.) from these posts. I had purchased an Apple Vision Pro almost 2 years ago, but then returned it. I bought it again recently, and now I love it. This blog post describes the journey and why I really like the new Vision…
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Explicit and Implicit Work Estimate Padding: The Hidden Saboteur of Scrum
by Jonathan A. Handler, MD, FACEP, FAMIA I have some opinions about time estimates when doing agile software development using the Scrum methodology. I share them here in case helpful, even though I suspect many will disagree. Explicit But Hidden Padding Over the years, I have in the past heard, read of, and seen that…
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