Jonathan Marcus
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- 4/22/2022
The 10 commandments of walk-in clinics
If we're not careful, walk-in clinics become de facto family practices. What do de facto family practice patients want? They want it all— screening, work up for multiple chronic problems, referrals— the whole shebang. And they often want it all at once. - 9/15/2020
Axe the silos and the fax will axe itself
The Telus fax fail should be a wake up call to all EMR users - 8/10/2020
COVID tracking needs a better digital health system
Canada’s new COVID-19 alert app debuted in Ontario last week. But getting a critical mass of users to sign up will require a sustained marketing effort. This will be more challenging when factoring in those who will likely never sign up—pandemic-deniers, technophobes, privacy-obsessives, and the I-don’t-cares. - 7/29/2020
The iPhone figured it out, why can’t my EMR?
A conversation about digital healthcare infrastructure with Dr. Ilan Shahin - 6/5/2020
What can a pizza company teach us about prescription management during COVID-19?
There should be no need to issue a blanket directive to limit drug dispensing—not even during a pandemic - 4/29/2020
Ontario's COVID-19 virtual care experiment isn't working
A different system would have avoided similar pitfalls - 4/2/2020
A new digital health system to battle a pandemic
The Omniverse could provide powerful communication tools to help us work together while safely distanced - 1/15/2020
Let’s stop playing broken-telephone referral games
Lessons from the Omniverse on redoing our outdated referral systems - 11/12/2019
Is no news really good news?
The test results management process is in desperate need of a redo. Here is what a modern system could look like
