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Goal Displacement: The Cobra Effect

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April 23, 2026

Data-Only Delusion, Series 1: Psychology of Informatics

What happens when a metric becomes a target? It stops being a metric and starts being a threat. The Cobra Effect is alive in your EHR. Read more

Dr. William Toth, MD, MS · Data-Only Delusion: Informatics as a Behavioral Science

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