Tim Berezny (Health)

Discussing the business of healthcare, with a focus on home & community care, quality and technology. CTO and co-founder with @caredove

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"Virtual Visits" aren't words normal people use, we should just call online health appointments "Video Calls". Language is UX.

[Tim Berezny (Health) @TimOnHealth]

Tim's 1st law of screen-sharing: When typing while everybody is watching, every 11th letter will be a typo.

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"Fly-in" is the only PowerPoint animation you ever need.

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What's next for #FHIR? Find out at #FHIRNorth, where I'll be presenting on "How to build a FHIR iGuide that gets adopted". Join me: https://t.co/g7lit0iKld

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@hidrees Yes, we published the Canadian FHIR eReferral spec. Though … it may have been more of a workgroup than a “table”: https://t.co/6biht4Ymu9

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@hidrees It’s a bit more complicated than in US because you can all a snap election any time, so terms vary in length. A certain natural ennui among the electorate seems to seep in after 7-8 years anyway. Only the early years prime ministers went past 10 years.

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New Canadian eReferral guide is out! It has a greatly improved narrative, and a few technical changes.

https://t.co/6biht4Ymu9

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@psych_k8 I favourite part is the bot’s passive aggressive “as I mentioned in my previous email”…

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@chrissyfarr We do genetic screens for hearing problems in newborns universally in Ontario. Consent is required to inspect the result - which is quite a difficult process to collect and track.

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eConsult is a subset of eReferral. Applications and interoperability specifications should be designed as such.

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@supermarioelia @fauldscat I find the @TorontoStar dashboard is pretty good now. They revise it pretty regularly, I’m sure in a few days they’ll bring back the “% of adults” metric for us to check compulsively.

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It's good to step away from a UI design for a week to get some distance from my own brain. When I come back it's easier to see it with user eyes - and figure out if I really love it or hate it. I had a "love it" feeling this morning on some recent work.

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Looking for a DevOps engineer who would likes helping people in healthcare. Message me if interested.

[Tim Berezny (Health) @TimOnHealth]

@IlanShahin @GrayMoonen @UofTFamilyMed @FamPhysCan @OntarioCollege “We eat externalities all day” ... sounds like a brewing blog post title ;)

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I find that committee-style meetings contribute a lot more to "Zoom fatigue" than highly focused problem-solving meetings - which energize me. Probably not just a Zoom thing, just a thing thing.

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@IlanShahin Creating a shared wait list with an API that could integrate to booking systems could have been money we’ll spent.

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How many thousands of people are currently in this vaccine booking death loop at the @ShopprsDrugMart website?:

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@waynemsamuels @SandyTecimer @IlanShahin Yes exactly right, but to provide good value that team needs streams of care rather than one big funnel of work. A large care team could have a Maple-style stream for basic care while maintaining continuity. Prescription #7 is jumping at me right now. https://t.co/LGKyFdpasZ

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@SandyTecimer @waynemsamuels @IlanShahin Would your opinion change if you were funded for the hard stuff?

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@waynemsamuels @IlanShahin Imagine a collaborative care team - each of whom have access to my health record - with a Maple-like process. Then work backwards from there to figure out how to make it work. Seems entirely do-able to me with the right leadership and levers.