Author: Dorian Gittleman

Spend a couple months working in healthcare and you’ll start to hate HIPAA, patient privacy, consent forms, you name it. You’ll start hoping for universal fingerprint or retinal scanners and very strongly consider assigning doctors at birth and for life. People like me, who work in nebulous “Quality” departments, want to track you, the patient, as closely as we possibly can. We have only the best intentions. We want to make sure you got your flu shot and had your … Continue reading “The tip of the healthcare iceberg”

The Agile Methodology is not inherently evil. For those of you who’ve been under a rock for the past 10+ years, or lucky enough to sit very high in the ivory tower indeed, Agile is a system for the project management of software development. Or at least, that’s how it started. Agile is focused around a lot of really great ideas such as: Be flexible and open to change and improvement Be collaborative Regularly push out product so that stakeholders … Continue reading “Agile is not for Healthcare”

A note from Dorian Gittleman, founder: Welcome to the GETLab, my labor of love. I suppose these days it should be called my “side hustle” but I certainly did not form it for profit. When I went back to school in 2008, I planned to study psychology, and that’s what my bachelors is in. In undergrad, as would be expected, my interests were across the board, but I took an especial interest in research-practice gaps and community-based research. I went … Continue reading “Creating the GET”