Gregory Reed TravisHow the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangersChildren are at much lower risk of Covid-19 than adults. That means we don’t have to worry about them and can get back to pilates class…Oct 8, 2021Oct 8, 2021
Gregory Reed Travis1. NPIs are not limited to hand washing and wearing a mask.2. NPIs do not eliminate transmission, they modulate it down. Intrinsically less transmissible diseases, such as influenza, can expect to…May 1, 20211May 1, 20211
Gregory Reed TravisOpen Letter to healthcare facility owners, administrators and managersOpen letter to every administrator and every manager at every healthcare provider locally, statewide and nationally. Open letter to every…Apr 1, 2020Apr 1, 2020
Gregory Reed TravisWhy an MCAS failure does not present as “runaway trim”After the Lion Air crash, the FAA and Boeing believed (or so they said) that all that was needed was a) To make pilots aware of the…Sep 19, 2019Sep 19, 2019
Gregory Reed TravisHow self-regulation fails. The Boeing Case.Self-regulation, or “regulatory capture,” is the process whereby the government allows industry to self-certify. Self-certification may be…May 28, 20191May 28, 20191
Gregory Reed TravisA320 locks up controls on incorrect pilot input[I wrote this as a piece of humor in 1990. At the time, I was a member of something called RISKS, a group of technology professionals who…Apr 22, 2019Apr 22, 2019
Gregory Reed TravisMy HijackIn 1991 I was hijacked in my plane, at gunpoint. The experience taught me a lot about how people, particularly pilots, react under…Apr 7, 20191Apr 7, 20191
Gregory Reed TravisA drag on our entrepreneurial wingThe health care industry has never seen information technology (IT) as a way to improve patient outcomes. Instead, IT in healthcare has…Apr 7, 2019Apr 7, 2019
Gregory Reed TravisLet’s shift the focus from fear of today to the future of tomorrowProviders are obsessed with the issue of protected health information (PHI) and this obsession comes at a very direct cost in terms of…Apr 7, 2019Apr 7, 2019
Gregory Reed TravisMedical Record Portability is a Moral Issue, not a Technical IssueOn a bitter cold December day in 1982, I fired up my sedan and drove my 53-year-old father from his home in Bloomington, Indiana, to…Apr 7, 2019Apr 7, 2019