‘Dilbert’ takes on wireless health
Perhaps I’m getting loopy, or just distracted, but I’ve been reading the funnies again. (Hey, we all need a laugh from time to time, right?) But here goes my second consecutive post involving a comic strip, this time a certain one called “Dilbert.” Today, Scott Adams, who spoke at HIMSS in 2005, addresses digital health, specifically wearable sensors and how unscrupulous employers like Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss might exploit all the new health data being generated.
Dilbert, ©2013 Scott Adams
All of our bosses can’t be so intrusive, can they?
It’s scary when our employers do it, but what if our doctors are the ones who are intrusive? The problem is when we can measure everything numerically we assume good quality healthcare is all about tweaking the numbers. Algorithms are good at doing that, so Vinod Khosla’s view of better healthcare by algorithm may seem to be successful. However as judged by our patients we may not be deemed as being successful at all.
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