“Noisy” healthcare decisions

Pedro Rey

Daniel Kahneman

A few months ago, Paco Miralles published in this blog "In medicine, there is too much noise", where he reviewed the latest book by psychologist and Nobel Prize winner in Economics Daniel Kahneman (together with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein) Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. Since Paco himself suggested that the issue of noise in decision-making "could provide for several posts", I decided to make a slightly more extensive critique of what the reader will find in the book.

Is it possible to humanize health organizations?

Jordi Varela
Editor

Today, more than ever, the human part of the contact between patients and clinicians is taking centre stage, from health centres to critical care units and, therefore, the former must strive to be more accessible, while the latter has to demonstrate that the services they go beyond sophisticated clinical practice. Right now, we are at a point where the technical preparation and dedication of clinical professionals cause admiration, but it must be recognized that, with few exceptions, the warmth in human treatment has a lot of room for improvement.

Digital twins in the health sector: objects, people and systems

Tino Martí

A digital twin is the virtual representation of a physical entity that feeds on data captured by sensors. This information offers the status of the equipment in real-time and facilitates the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to identify potential problems, allowing their resolution in advance.

10 proposals to transform our hospitals

Nacho Vallejo
 

The history of the NASA pirate group

In the 1980s, the space agency NASA began work on the development of space shuttles. Responsible for landing man on the Moon, it zealously maintained the use of the Apollo-era operating system. At that time, a group of young engineers who had recently joined the agency questioned whether the system was going to be able to respond to the challenges posed. Calling themselves "the Nasa pirates", they proposed an alternative mission control. The agency's mantra "we've always done it this way, so it must be the best" didn't stop these rebels from writing their own "manifesto" challenging the status quo.