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Interview with the Dr. Pieter Kubben, the Digital Neurosurgeon and iPhone Medical App Developer – From checklists to the future of EMR
It is a great pleasure to present this interview with Pieter Kubben, a Dutch neurosurgeon who is an impressive amalgam of clinician, researcher, and software engineer. He is currently in a neurosurgical residency while completing a PhD in intraoperative MRI-guided surgery for brain gliomas. As if this is not enough, as a “hobby” (his term), he also writes software, with a particular interest in computerized decision-support systems.
He has three iPhone applications currently in the App Store, including his newest one implementing the WHO surgical checklist(iTunes link). His other apps, Neuromind and SLIC, have been downloaded 8,000 times. Importantly, he is not just writing the software, but is also publishing his ideas in medical journals to spur changes in the way clinical decisions are made in the future. We encourage you to follow his blog at http://digitalneurosurgeon.com or on Twitter @DigNeurosurgeon. It is exciting to see a one individual with so many talents and to think about the great ideas yet to come from someone with such broad perspectives – we delve into some of those ideas in this interview.
