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The Rise of DIY Healthcare

William Attardi on October 10, 2025

Healthcare is fast becoming a do-it-yourself project for patients. The trend comes amid a shortage of doctors, long wait times for appointments and an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases earlier in adulthood. In today’s fast-evolving healthcare landscape, AI and other new technologies and services are emerging to help patients find and act on medical information. “The evidence shows that the more a patient gets involved in their own care, the better the outcomes. In the future, primary-care doctors could act more as expert consultants rather than paternalistic bosses to patients.” —  Tom Delbanco The Rise of DIY Healthcare – WSJ

GE HealthCare Advances Its Cloud Strategy by Unveiling the Genesis Portfolio to Improve Speed of Digital Innovation Adoption

William Attardi on March 8, 2025

GE HealthCare today announced its new Genesis solutions, a portfolio of cloud enterprise imaging software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. Four features will be offered when commercially released – edge, storage, vendor neutral archive and data migration. These cloud solutions, are designed to help enhance healthcare organizations’ efficiency and precision, streamline workflows, and optimize the use of capital and IT resources.  The growing volume and complexity of patient cases are putting increasing pressure on hospitals’ IT systems, driving the need for healthcare organizations to accelerate their digital transformation efforts through rapidly evolving technologies and operational infrastructure.  However, budget constraints and staffing shortages make managing this quickly growing body of data challenging.  The Genesis portfolio will help hospitals and health systems streamline workflows, and support radiologists and caregivers in delivering precise and timely patient care. GE HealthCare Advances Its Cloud Strategy by Unveiling the Genesis Portfolio to Improve Speed of Digital Innovation Adoption | GE HealthCare

Telling Time – 12-hour time is a very ancient system that traces back to the Mesopotamian empires. They had a cultural fixation with the number 12, used a base-12 numerical system, and divided up most things into 12ths whenever possible – including day and night. The 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night system spread throughout Europe and the Middle East and has defied multiple attempts to change it over the centuries. Also, for anyone curious as to why there was such a love of the number 12, it was because that was how they counted on their hand. Look at your hand. Notice how each of your fingers minus your thumb has three easily identifiable parts to it. They used to count by using their thumb to count each part of the finger, much in the same way we count to 10 using our fingers today. So, 12 was the max you could count on one hand.