Ozzie Paez
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...
"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
- Aug 2
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 18
- 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
- Feb 8
- 2 min
Hospitals struggling with COVID spikes
The daily drumroll of hospitals, health systems, cities, and states struggling to cope with COVID spikes continues. We don’t yet know how...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jan 29
- 2 min
Quantifying health and healthcare
The heart of digital transformation is quantification or more specifically the capacity to continuously measure (sample) processes,...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jan 18
- 2 min
Patients and innovators in healthcare
My last post demonstrated through an actual case how wearable health monitors and continuous patient monitoring are empowering patients...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jan 6
- 2 min
The patient's side of health monitoring
This post is the second in a series. It describes a health event experienced by an OPR researcher. He was using two wearable monitoring...
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Ozzie Paez
- Jan 6
- 2 min
Patients driving healthcare innovation
Discussions of innovative medical technologies such as BioBeat’s remote patient monitoring system are usually framed from the...
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Ozzie Paez
- Dec 29, 2021
- 3 min
Covid's staggering indirect human costs
It will take years for epidemiologists and medical researchers to tallie the human costs of the Covid pandemic. The easiest will be the...
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Ozzie Paez
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
The risks of dying after leaving hospital
Reducing the risks of patients unexpectedly deteriorating and dying after being released from hospital is a growing concern. Thankfully,...
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Ozzie Paez
- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Barriers to healthcare innovation
Replacing legacy medical equipment with innovative new technologies is challenging because in healthcare there is little room for error....
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