Ozzie Paez
Analysis and the Bias of Proximity
We are most affected by people, events, and other aspects of our world that are closest to us. It’s an important consideration when...
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"The most dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers will naturally make better, more objective decisions. Making consistently timely, effective, informed decisions takes hard work. Trust me – it’s worth it. Effective decision-making is the essential common ingredient behind every successful step, initiative, and strategy that people, organizations, and national governments undertake."
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Ozzie Paez
- Jan 26, 2023
- 2 min
ChatGPT and the battle over ethics
The current arguments over ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) hark back to those of two AI luminaries, MIT’s Joseph...
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Ozzie Paez
- Dec 29, 2022
- 2 min
The informed decision-maker fallacy
A common and dangerous decision-making fallacy is that informed decision-makers predictably make better, more objective decisions. It’s...
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Ozzie Paez
- Dec 8, 2022
- 2 min
Exceptional Transformation
Coping with disruptive technological innovations is a daunting challenge for established businesses and institutions. Disruptions...
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Ozzie Paez
- Oct 12, 2022
- 3 min
Who decides? GPS, smart tech, and risky decision-making
Johnathan Turley’s post on the tragic death of a young father and husband[1] highlights the differences between technologies that help us...
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Ozzie Paez
- Aug 9, 2022
- 2 min
Validating AI in medicine - Biobeat
Biobeat’s announcement that its cuffless blood pressure measuring devices proved accurate across sex, BMI, and skin colors is a...
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Ozzie Paez
- Aug 2, 2022
- 2 min
Hypertension & patient noncompliance
My previous posts on hypertension and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurements (ABPM) and profiling focused on the technical capabilities...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jul 26, 2022
- 2 min
Continuous in-hospital patient monitoring
A colleague approached me in late 2019 with a request to evaluate Biobeat’s medical technologies and remote patient monitoring solutions....
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Ozzie Paez
- Jul 19, 2022
- 2 min
Patient non-compliance in hypertension
Frederick Mahomed is credited with discovering hypertension around 1870 while serving his medical residency at London’s Guy’s Hospital....
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Ozzie Paez
- Jul 5, 2022
- 2 min
Remote patient monitoring in war zones
Wars create demands that peacetime systems often struggle to meet. Civilian casualties, damaged infrastructure, and unplanned migrations...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jun 28, 2022
- 2 min
Biobeat RPM and ABPM evaluations
Our evaluation of Biobeat’s ABPM technologies involves two tracks: clinical and decision-making. The first focuses on diagnosis,...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jun 21, 2022
- 2 min
Biobeat ABPM clinical profiling kit
We are occasionally approached by organizations to evaluate new innovative products and technologies. Some prove interesting, a few are...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jun 16, 2022
- 2 min
Improving patient engagement with Biobeat's 24BP
This week I will discuss how the Covid pandemic and innovative new technologies are affecting hypertension control programs and patient...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
Communication and patient compliance
Numerous studies have identified poor communication between doctors and patients as a key contributor to low patient compliance with...
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Ozzie Paez
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
Biobeat's BP24 blood pressure profiling
I discussed in previous posts the impacts of hypertension and the challenges doctors and patients face in overcoming this silent killer....
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Ozzie Paez
- May 17, 2022
- 2 min
Using Use-cases to innovate
I mentioned use-cases in a recent post on technology and innovations in medicine. It’s an important topic because use-cases are the most...
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 22, 2022
- 2 min
The dangers of nuclear bluffing
The last time the world faced a dangerous nuclear crisis like the war in Ukraine was during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. There had been...
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 18, 2022
- 2 min
Doctors, engineers, and medicine
There is much that doctors and engineers can teach each other. I gained this insight after two years of exercising and talking with a...
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 16, 2022
- 2 min
Putin & the Laws of Human Stupidity
Analysts prefer objective measures to subjective qualitative factors. Numbers simplify analysis and allow the application of quantifiable...
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Ozzie Paez
- Mar 8, 2022
- 2 min
Proliferation & Putin's Ukraine crisis
Threatening crises promote tunnel visions as those affected focus on their immediate effects. It’s only later, after normalcy returns,...
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