e-Patient Dave, e-patients.net
“We often say here “Gimme my damn data,” referring to our sentiment that data about our health is our data, about us, created for our well-being. And as the saying goes, “Nothing about me without me.”
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Bill Crounse, Healthblog
“There was a time when telemedicine services could only be provided by very large clinics, academic medical centers or government health organizations. Telemedicine required big bulky equipment and expensive dedicated landlines or satellite connections that were capable of sending quality audio and video signals from one place to another.
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Lesley Stahl, CBS News
“Autistic people whose condition prevents them from speaking are making breakthroughs with the help of tablet computers and special applications that allow them to communicate, some for the first time. Lesley Stahl reports.”
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Shwen Gwee, Vimeo
“Fabio’s BRILLIANT pecha kucha presentation on Gamification of Healthcare at ePatient Connecitons 2011.”
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MaineHealthInfoNet's Channel
“Pediatrician Dr. John Vogt provides a brief walk through of HealthInfoNet’s health information exchange portal used by health care providers in Maine. HealthInfoNet uses Orion Health’s HIE portal.”
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unfoundation
“A 5-hour boat ride is just one of the obstacles that health workers must overcome to provide health care to Brazil’s indigenous communities in the remote Amazonas region. Find out how the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Brazilian Ministry of Health, UN Foundation, and Vodafone Foundation are exploring how mobile health programs can improve health outcomes for the country’s most vulnerable population.
Courtesy of PAHO.”
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Amir Hannan, GP Online
“Simply telling patients that they need to self care more is not enough: GPs need to provide them with appropriate tools. This why the practice team and I have spent the past five years developing our practice website, www.htmc.co.uk
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TEDxMaastricht
“Dave deBronkart, or better known as “e-Patient Dave” (@epatientdave) was diagnosed in January 2007 with kidney cancer at a very late stage. odds were stacked against him; with tumors in both lungs, several bones, and muscle tissue. He received great treatment and after removing the extensive mess, and by means of therapy was able to fight through and win the battle over his cancer. His last treatment was July 23, 2007, and by September it was clear he’d beaten the disease. Dave is now actively engaged in opening health care information directly to patients on an unprecedented level, thus creating a new dynamic in how information is delivered, accessed and used by the patient.”
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TEDxMaastricht
“There’s some amazing things coming down the healthcare pipeline and Daniel Kraft ( @daniel_kraft ) knows a “little” about all of them. We asked him to take us on a rollercoaster-journey through them.
Take for example regenerative medicine, which is starting to experience tremendous growth with the blossoming use of stem cells to help the body heal and replace damaged tissue. Or personalized medicine that allow for far more precise dosage and effectiveness for individuals, not masses. Kraft will touch upon some impressive developments that hint us to the future of medicine. Kraft teaches at Stanford University, is an expert on regenerative medicine, and a member of the faculty at Singularity University and is directing their upcoming FutureMed program.”
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TEDxMaastricht
“Frits van der Sman came to the stage of TEDxMaastricht through crowdsourcing. Sending a videopitch he became one of the more then 40 submittions for the ZIP-Talks. After two rounds the audience had chosen him to take the stage.
Frits talks bout his idea of making videos to explain (medical) procedures to patients.”
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TEDxMaastricht
“Ragna (@ragnaja) started her healthcare career nursing and then moved on to become a social worker. During her years working in mental healthcare, she was an avid champion for her clients, always putting their interest and perspective first. As an e-health early adopter, she started her own business as an online social worker. Then in the summer of 2010 she was struck by a subarachnoid hemorrhage. There are many hurdles on her way to recovery, which she tackles with a vengeance. As she struggles with sensory integration problems, she turned to Twitter as an alternative source of human contact. She started blogging about their condition and progress to recovery and in doing so, managed to start up a dialogue with her therapists, thus intensifying, changing and improving her treatment as well as strengthening her ideas about the future of healthcare.”
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IBM
“At the heart of healthcare transformation are electronic health records, the basic building blocks of healthcare efficiency. IBM has a long history of creating and connecting systems to share patient information. When standardized and shared, electronic health records provide a powerful means of increasing accuracy and speeding the delivery of patient information to the point of care. They enable better collaboration, more complete records, and better service.”
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“It sounds like Nurse Jackie’s worst nightmare: San Francisco’s UCSF Medical Centre patients have had one of the most significant risks to their well-being removed, now that a family of giant robots is dispensing their medication.
The robots, which tower over human beings, prepare oral and injectable medicines, including toxic chemotherapy drugs in a tightly secured, sterile environment. It’s also safer for pharmacy employees, and more productive: the automation frees UCSF pharmacists and nurses to focus more of their expertise on direct patient care.”
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Jallantan
“The provision of reliable, quality and affordable healthcare is a common theme across Asia. Technologies like cloud computing and progress towards the deployment of national health record systems in many countries will drive the adoption of IT further into the business of healthcare service delivery. Mayank Kapoor, Research Analyst for ICT at Frost & Sullivan, talks about the challenges and opportunities to hospitals, regulators and private healthcare practitioners in 2011.”
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Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“A ruggedly handsome doctor, his attractive and affectionate nurse, and a bemused patient are trapped by a monster spawned from the paperwork involved in the health care system. What to do!?”
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medGadget
“Google Translate on Android phones now offers a beta “conversation mode” which can act as an interpreter between speakers of different languages (think Universal Translator from Star Trek). Here’s Graham Walker demonstrating the potential of this new feature for use in a clinical setting:”
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TED
“Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what’s useful? At TEDxGöteborg, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools — like virtual autopsies — for analyzing this myriad data, and a glimpse at some sci-fi-sounding medical technologies in development. This talk contains some graphic medical imagery. (Recorded at TEDxGöteborg, November 2010, in Göteborg, Sweden. Duration: 16:37)”
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IICDORG
“Kibosho Hospital is remotely located in Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Region and no specialists are available. By using telemedicine, the hospital can now upload complex medical cases to the internet where specialists can provide advice. The telemedicine programme in Tanzania is supported by Dutch organisation IICD.”
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Denise Silber's Blog
“La courte vidéo dessous visualise CardioCam, une innovation de la célébre MIT Medialab. Cardiocam permet de détecter de façon précise la fréquence cardiaque, la pression artérielle et d’autres rythmes, grâce à un miroir technologique. Ce miroir fonctionne grâce à la détection de subtiles modifications de la couleur de la peau. Comment imaginer que cet outil ne soit pas adopté ? Et pourtant sa mise en oeuvre pourrait impliquer une nouvelle façon d’envisager la santé, où nous nous monitorons en permanence, jeunes et moins jeunes pour essayer d’optimiser nos paramètres…ce qui génère tout une série de questions scientifiques et éthiques.”
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Barbara Duck, The Medical Quack
“This is a great video and good for anyone to watch and see how having medical record information available can save time and lives. This is what is being done in imagethe state of Maine via HealthInfoNet and is a good snapshot of what we can hope for and expect from other states. Maine, not as heavily populated as other states was good place to begin. You can also read more at the HealthInfoNet website to see how this all comes together and the first role needed is electronic medical records at the hospital level to participate. You can listen to the doctors talk about the old way of sending faxes and receiving imagethem compared to immediate access and with general consumer literacy and PC use, there’s not a big learning curve at all.”
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