Tag: technology
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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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