Helping Physicians Can Get It Right The First Time

Bridges, 80, becomes 1st Doctorate of Health Informatics graduate at UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics

Article Referred By Brent Evans – Sundown, Texas

West Texans are fiercely independent. There’s nothing a West Texan can’t figure out. When something breaks they don’t call for help, they fix it themselves. If they don’t know how, they figure it out. This fellow is no exception.

For more than a decade, Joe Bridges, DHI, witnessed his sister Jan struggle to figure out what was causing bouts of severe swelling; and then he decided to do something about it.

Beginning at age 77, Bridges dedicated three years to researching and implementing a solution that can help physicians consider a wider array of possible diagnoses to get it right the first time to help prevent patients, like his sister, from suffering unnecessarily.

SOURCE: Bridges, 80, becomes 1st Doctorate of Health Informatics graduate at UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics – UTHealth