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Gregory Reed Travis

How the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangers

Children 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, 2021

How the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangers

Oct 8, 2021

Gregory Reed Travis

1. 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, 2021

May 1, 2021

Gregory Reed Travis

Open Letter to healthcare facility owners, administrators and managers

Open letter to every administrator and every manager at every healthcare provider locally, statewide and nationally. Open letter to every…

Apr 1, 2020

Open Letter to healthcare facility owners, administrators and managers

Apr 1, 2020

Gregory Reed Travis

Why 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, 2019

Why an MCAS failure does not present as “runaway trim”

Sep 19, 2019

Gregory Reed Travis

How 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, 2019

How self-regulation fails. The Boeing Case.

May 28, 2019

Gregory Reed Travis

A320 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, 2019

A320 locks up controls on incorrect pilot input

Apr 22, 2019

Gregory Reed Travis

My Hijack

In 1991 I was hijacked in my plane, at gunpoint. The experience taught me a lot about how people, particularly pilots, react under…

Apr 7, 2019

My Hijack

Apr 7, 2019

Gregory Reed Travis

A drag on our entrepreneurial wing

The health care industry has never seen information technology (IT) as a way to improve patient outcomes. Instead, IT in healthcare has…

Apr 7, 2019

Apr 7, 2019

Gregory Reed Travis

Let’s shift the focus from fear of today to the future of tomorrow

Providers are obsessed with the issue of protected health information (PHI) and this obsession comes at a very direct cost in terms of…

Apr 7, 2019

Apr 7, 2019

Gregory Reed Travis

Medical Record Portability is a Moral Issue, not a Technical Issue

On 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, 2019

Apr 7, 2019

Gregory Reed Travis

Gregory Reed Travis

I’m a software developer, pilot, and single father. Intensely interested in the history of technology and science and the socioeconomic arragements that accrue.

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