Snap's Spectacles

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Fidgeting May (or May Not) Be Good For You

I swore I wasn't going to write about fidget spinners.  Just a toy, just be the latest fad -- the Rubik's cube of this generation, or perhaps the Pokémon Go of this year -- with no broader implications, for health care or anything else.  Yet here I am, writing about them after all. If you know any children, you already know what a fidget spinner is.  You may even have one yourself.  They seem to be everywhere lately, even in the hands of President Trump's youngest son as he exited Marine One recently. What that says about us is not quite clear...

Living in a Retro Health Care System

EHRs are a perfect example of how we took something that should revolutionize health care, and turned it into something that not only no one is happy with but that many feel often impedes care, to the point some want to go back to paper records.  That's not retro, that's just stupid.  We didn't do the wrong thing with EHRs, we just are doing it wrong. As I've written before, we should be thinking big and bold about how we want our health care system to work in the 21st century.  We should be setting tough goals for how effectively it works for us -- and expecting to achieve them.  We should be looking forward, not backward...

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