Insights from the Armstrong Institute
By Dr. Albert Wu. “The best course of action for your symptoms is benign neglect” advised the emergency room doctor. Susan Sheridan had developed sudden… Read More »AI on AI: Chatter That Matters: Using Chatbots to Improve Patient-Provider Communication
By Dr. David PW Rastall. Every year, millions of patients suffer from misdiagnosis, making it one of the most persistent and underappreciated risks in modern… Read More »AI on AI: Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges
By Dr. Lamia Alam with Dr. Shannon Cole. Imagine a scenario where an artificially intelligent (AI) diagnostic system can not only deliver complex diagnoses but… Read More »AI on AI: Explainable Artificial Intelligence…What Makes You Say That?
By Richard Day. The loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and seven astronauts in February 2003 is a tragedy that provides essential learning for organizations… Read More »AI on AI: Lessons from Rocket Science to Inform Healthcare Artificial Intelligence
Lessons from a lifetime thinker and doer At just 7 years old, Story Musgrave faced a crisis that tested his critical thinking. While pretending to… Read More »Mission Critical
Recently, patient safety collaborators from across the globe traveled to The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to take part in the inaugural Armstrong Institute for… Read More »Armstrong Institute Hosts Inaugural Observership Program
Imagine this. You are locked in Turner Concourse for 36 hours with relative strangers, tasked with creating a project that will revolutionize health care. Now… Read More »36 hours. Unlimited possibilities to transform health care.
"That’s how it’s always been done" is a phrase you will not hear uttered in the Department of Radiology and Radiological Science at The Johns… Read More »Radiology’s Quality Improvement Committee: A Formula for Success
Trine Engebretsen was clinging to life. It was the early 1980s, and the girl had a genetic liver disorder that would kill her if she… Read More »It’s Not All About the Checklist: The Power of Believing and Belonging
Talking to health care professionals about the importance of loving your patients and colleagues — as I often do — might raise eyebrows. How can we be… Read More »Patient Care: What’s Love Got to Do with It?