Dirk Stanley, MD MPH

The Offerings of Clinical #Informatics : dirkmd.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-of… #CMIO #CNIO #HealthIT #whyinformatics #hcldr

The Planet’s Warning Signs Are Flashing Red nytimes.com/2026/03/19/cli… via @NYTimes

Senator Sanders : Why we need a moratorium on #AI data centers : youtu.be/qu2m7ePTsqY

A tall R wave in V1 is seen on ECG. Based on the 3D lead orientation, which condition is most consistent with this finding? A. Left ventricular hypertrophy B. Right ventricular hypertrophy C. Inferior wall MI D. Pericarditis

DirkMD - #CMIO Perspective: Year-end Wrap : What Clinical #Informatics taught me in 2025... dirkstanley.com/2025/12/year-e… #CNIO #HealthIT #workflow #design #ptsafety #BlueprintsBeforeBuild #hcldr

DirkMD - #CMIO Perspective: Year-end Wrap : What Clinical Informatics taught me in 2025... dirkstanley.com/2025/12/year-e…

DirkMD - #CMIO Perspective: The Well-Tempered #HealthIT Department Index dirkstanley.com/2025/12/the-we… #BlueprintsBeforeBuild #CMIO #CNIO #hcldr

At the New England @HIMSS conference on #AI - Great presentations and panel discussion on innovation, implementation, and the roles and responsibilities of #Informatics in the evaluation and deployment of AI. Great leaders sharing great insights!

@MatthewBowdish Thank you @MatthewBowdish - It’s somehow reassuring to know that we are quietly surrounded by random heroes walking all around us, every day, who are only a moment away from connecting, overcoming differences, and working together to help many people. Helps feed my optimism. 😀❤️

On the morning of Sept 11, 2001, I was a 3rd year medical student in my internal medicine rotation at a community hospital in Northeast Ohio. I remember walking into a patient's room with my team and seeing him fixated on the TV. As we greeted him he shouted, "A small plane, a Cessna or something, crashed into a building in New York City." Our team was watching the smoke billowing from the WTC's North Tower for a couple of minutes just as the second plane hit the South Tower. My knees buckled and I felt nauseous. With the South Tower being hit, everyone realized that this was not an accident. Gone was our naivety about the world we lived in. Author Martin Amis wrote that September 11, 2001 "will perhaps never be wholly assimilable." To this day just over two decades later, I am still trying to figure it out. That night I received a voice message from a medical school friend who walked from a hospital in Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan in order to help. I could tell by @dirkstanley 's voice that mixed with his palpable exhaustion was a sense of triumphalism. Many in NYC like Dirk had seen evil, met it, and made a small but significant contributions to help fellow Americans. It was a demonstration to the world of the resilience of our nation’s greatest city. Dirk helped set up a triage station near Ground Zero. As people evacuated the City, my friend and many others, from police officers to fire fighters, Mayor Giuliani, EMTs, and medical personnel all rushed in. It was both terrible & magnificent. Like most Americans who lived outside of NY or DC, I felt that I needed to do something, anything!, to feel like I was making a contribution. The next weekend I was in New York City for the first time in my life, hoping to help in the rescue/recovery efforts. But, other than a lucky few who were pulled from the wreckage in the days just after the attacks, there would be no survivors to rescue; only body fragments to recover. Dirk, another med student friend Dave and I instead ended up touring a very solemn city. I was struck by three experiences. The first were the posters of the missing, which were by then memorials to the lost. They were everywhere. At Grand Central Station, the oppressive heat was only broken by the slightly eerie sounds of a Mennonite Choir singing hymns to the dead. As the choir sang, hundreds of photos of the dead, most with smiles on their faces during happy times, were looking back at we the living. But they were not missing. We knew exactly where they were. Second, I remember eating in Little Italy one night with the glow of the lights at Ground Zero producing a man-made dusk through the buildings many blocks away. A far off sound seemed to intensify as it moved closer to us coming up the street. Not until it peaked almost next to us did I realize that FDNY engines heading to the site were being loudly applauded and cheered, and restaurateurs were slowing the progress of the trucks by bringing out food to the men & women who would soon be sifting through the ruble, looking for colleagues and finding only memories...a badge...a shoe…a helmet...a piece of bone. Men and women with bags of food were hugging and kissing the firefighters like fathers & mothers at train stations did sending their kids off the war in previous generations. And the third thing I remember was being on the train heading to my friends' apartment in Brooklyn, and looking back at Lower Manhattan with plumes of smoke rising over where the World Trade Center once stood. That area of Lower Manhattan kept smoldering for several weeks. I still feel like I can smell that acrid smoke from Ground Zero. My thoughts of New York City now are now mixed, as the memories of that first visit continue to intermingle with much happier ones made during subsequent trips, such as my wedding proposal to my now wife on Valentine’s Day 2009. Two years ago my oldest daughter took an interest in 9/11 and we watched the Netflix documentary about the attacks. For the first time, she started to understand why daddy cries when he talks about those days. I've tried to tell the story honestly, but it is harder as time passes, especially as my own memories become influenced by the nostalgia and media depictions of that time. However, I hope my daughters take away the lesson that however small we are, we can still make a difference. When tragedy does occur, and it will, reply with stoicism & determination. If possible, be the help. Be like my friend Dirk & walk into the city. #911 #flectinonfrangi

Will the C.D.C. Survive? nytimes.com/2025/08/29/hea… via @NYTimes

DirkMD - #CMIO Perspective: Tips and Tricks for Clinical #Workflow Redesign dirkstanley.com/2025/06/tips-a…

I’ll have to dust off my dancing shoes…

@MelHarris56 It seems like this should be a no-brainer easy decision to stream for any advertisers seeking a 50-something & 60-something audience w/ disposable income and nostalgia. Why can they redevelop everything else, but not #ThirtySomething? Or do we need to make a broadway musical?😀

Same! (it would be called thirtysomethingelse)

@rgergelymd Congratulations!! 😀👍💪 I will need to read up on it! Thanks for sharing!

@dirkstanley I am excited to announce that my patent has been granted for "Universally Accessible Personal Records," primarily focused on medical records. This patent outlines a decentralized medical records system that utilizes blockchain technology. With this system, every citizen will have ownership, control, and secure storage of their medical records. You can view the full published patent here:patents.justia.com/patent/12266430

Fact-Checking Medical Claims on the Internet with Dr. Noc youtu.be/Mo3A4MgFDuE

This is a brilliant, succinct summary of the history and state of Health IT and should be mandatory listening! Even as someone who lives in this space it was a fascinating listen. (Kudos to Dr Veena Lingam for the find!) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acq…

You’re the Inspiration – Leonid & Friends (Chicago cover) youtu.be/HQdoD0R9d1w?si… via @YouTube

Voters flood town halls with fears of Social Security cuts, putting heat on GOP over Musk and DOGE apnews.com/article/musk-t…

Very sad to hear that UMass is rescinding all PhD admissions for Fall 2025. This means there will be no new PhD cohort, and UMass will not have a graduating class that year. This is just unprecedented and I am so very sorry for all the affected students.

DOGE Is The Real Fraud ft. Liz Dye youtu.be/71hKowGIpHM