The challenge As I described in the first post in this series, some elementary students in Ontario were recently suspended for incomplete immunization records. I wrote this series of posts in an effort to come up with ideas using each of the 40 Principles. Principles 1-10, Part 1 Principles 11-20, Part 2 Principles 21-30, Part…
The problem As I described in an earlier post, some elementary students in Ontario were suspended for incomplete immunization records. This series of posts is an effort to come up with ideas using each of the 40 Principles. Remember the cardinal rule: there are no stupid ideas, only ideas that may serve to inspire the…
Patent application Apple has applied for a patent for a vital signs monitoring system that is likely to provide sensor data to the company’s HealthKit and ResearchKit products that reside on iPhones. Principle 23 – Feedback Whereas typical vital signs monitoring involves attaching sensors directly to a patient and only being able to monitor that…
The problem As I described in an earlier post, some elementary students in Ontario were suspended for incomplete immunization records. This series of posts is an effort to come up with ideas using each of the 40 Principles. Remember the cardinal rule: there are no stupid ideas, only ideas that may serve to inspire the…
The problem As I described in an earlier post, some elementary students in Ontario were suspended for incomplete immunization records. This series of posts is an effort to come up with ideas using each of the 40 Principles. Remember the cardinal rule: there are no stupid ideas, only ideas that may serve to inspire the…
The problem I live in the fashionable SoFo (south of Fortinos) neighborhood of Maple, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. Prominent in the local news is the Toronto School Board’s decision to suspend over 5,000 elementary students with incomplete immunization records. For as long as I have been a parent (13 years) the standard method for…
Don’t you give up on me now! I’m not a doctor. I get woozy when I hear the theme from Scrubs. But this was too good an innovation not to share. Gravity fed intravenous (IV) dip is an important method of administering medications and fluids to patients. IV infusions are one of the most common…
“Each year in the U.S. there are over 1,500 incidents of surgical sponges being left inside patients after surgery resulting in deterioration of the health of the patients or even their deaths.” Zinovy Royzen In his article “Solving a Hundred Year Old Problem“, Zinovy Royzen outlines efforts that have been made to ensure that surgical…