At some point in the painting process, the painting takes over and exerts its own energy. It has become something in and of itself. Is this painting alive, a person? What might that mean? Paintings might be ‘alive’ — alive in a sense that they project themselves as a reality…

The challenge we face with the tsunami of artificial intelligence is to stay focused on the real-world problems and challenges and not get distracted by the problems caused by AI itself. Many of the Big Tech companies have presumably large numbers of people focused on the tech, but the many…

The intersection between the flow of money in health care and the benefits to patients, clinicians and quality of care “The institution of PPS was an effort to bend the curve of rising costs by realigning economic incentives for care professionals toward greater efficiency with the result being reduced costs…

To some extent Academic Health Science Centres [AHSCs] are caught between the research push and market pull. If they prioritise technology transfer, they opt for a research push approach that emphasises the availability of technologies or innovations for market-based actors based on potential commercial application. …

Kodak has ended the production of Kodachrome film. Those who still use film will know Kodachrome film for the quality of the colour and indeed I suspect many of us used Kodachrome as our reference film for documenting the world around us. Film tracked the industrial revolution, documenting virtually all…

We all make decisions and we make them all the time; being human is about choice making and is at the core of philosophising on human nature. Some decisions are more important and have a wider impact than others. How are we to decide about deciding? For many of you…

This second article on choice architecture introduces the various psychological aspects of how payers make decisions about new medicines. Article 1 on choice architecture introduced the model I use of a gated decision process (it is binary, one-way process that leads either to acceptance or gate-based rejection of a medicine). …

The AI agenda is for me all about augmenting human reasoning; what I call cognology (cognitive focus) to distinguish from technology (physical focus). This is the core challenge to work flow and adoption. Here are some thoughts on the application of John Boyd’s OODA decision making from military decision making…

Pain is, well, a pain. It is the one thing we all have direct experience of, and can communicate to others, but which defies direct clinical measurement. We are left with subjective measures of pain, such as the ‘oucher’ scale or similar. While it is frustrating not to have a…