Smartphones and the future of wireless medicine
KevinMD.com
“Eric Topol discusses the future of smartphones in health care and wireless medicine in this TEDMED 2009 lecture.”
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How Computers are Ruining the Doctor’s Office and Harming Doctor-Patient Relations – Rick Payne
jpantuso, Ignite
“As a cancer patient for the past three years, Rick watched several doctor’s offices try to incorporate technology into their offices. As a software engineer on haitus, he is embarrassed to share the same title as the people building these horrible systems. In this presentation, he presents evidence that computers and poorly written medical software negatively impact patient care and shows how the current approach is wrong and not meeting the expectations of doctors and patients.”
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Open Source and EHR Certification | a Perficient Interview with Brian Ahier
Liza Sisler, Perficient
“Liza Sisler of Perficient’s Healthcare IT practice interviews Brian Ahier, Health IT Evangelist at Mid Columbia Medical Center. Brian gives his thoughts while attending HIMSS 2010 regarding the effects of open source language in EHR certification. Brian tweets at @ahier and blogs at ahier.blogspot.com.”
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Mayo Clinic Releases Mobile Apps
Lee Aase, Mayo Clinic
“Mayo Clinic is launching two mobile applications during the first quarter of 2010, the second of which became available in the iTunes store today.
Symptom Checker
Scott Eising, director of Advance Market/Product Development at Mayo Clinic, describes Mayo Clinic Symptom Checker, Mayo Clinic’s first free application for iPhone and iPod Touch, which was released today.”
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mHealth: aprendizajes para nuevos proyectos
Camilo, Medicina Código Abierto
“Iba a escribir un post sobre varios usos posibles de mHealth, o salud móvil, en Chile, con distintos casos, pero este proyecto se merece un post él solito. En países en desarrollo lo que “la lleva” son los teléfonos móviles, o celulares, mientras el acceso a Internet mediante PC o laptop es minoritario. El proyecto Masiluleke es probablemente el esfuerzo de mayor impacto en el mundo, en término de población cubierta, de prevención secundaria con tecnologías móviles.”
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Vena-enabled Inhaler – Cambridge Consultants
VenaPatient
“Cool medical technology demo, where the bluetooth-based Vena platform seemlessly connects an asthma inhaler to web-based applications. This will make the connected patient a reality!”
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Living Profiles: Transmedia Personal Health Record Systems for Young Adults
ProjectHealthDesign
“Visual story from the Project healthdesign grantee team from Stanford University who worked with the Art Center College of Design to help adolescents with chronic illnesses assume greater responsibility for their health by exploring a personal health application that fits within teenagers lives.”
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Data-Driven, Patient-Centered Health Care: A #WhyPM Video
Gilles Frydman, e-patients.net
“In a world with abundant, actionable health data – both from electronic medical records and our everyday observations – we will be empowered to make better decisions and our relationships with doctors may significantly change.”
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Apple Hand-held Technology Strengthens Care
BlueApoc, HealthTechnica
“Justin Harper looked at his Apple iPod touch and saw a world of possibility. This third-year OSU medical student helped launch a program that now benefits all medical students at The College of Medicine, the only college currently giving the iPod touch to all its students for educational purposes.
Now, medical students can carry the equivalent of heavy textbooks and medical references in their lab coat pockets. The iPod touch has the potential to positively impact both medical education and the care provided to patients at the bedside, says Catherine Lucey, MD, vice dean for education.”
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Physician Uses Cell Phones for Health Care of Poor
HealthTechnicaAuthor, HealthTechnica
“Epidemiologist Joel Selanikio has used the explosion in mobile phone technology and the World Wide Web to deliver more effective public health services throughout the developing world. Dr. Selanikio and his organization DataDyne.org are making a difference by improving the medical information available to public health programs in under-served areas of the world. VOA’s Francis Alanzo has a profile for this week’s “Making a Difference” series.”
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Cisco’s vision of the future
CNNMoney
“An Internet-based virtual assistant and a tabletop touch screen are two projects the tech giant is working on.”
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CollaboRhythm
John Moore, New Media Medicine
“The doctor-patient relationship is deteriorating. And today’s information technology solutions are exacerbating the problem. They perpetuate paternalistic decision-making and episodic care, and they fail to assist doctors in making persuasive arguments to their patients.”
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Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
TED
“At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.”
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Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong describes a mHealth Future to CNBC
3G Doctor Blog
“Click the image to watch a great video interview by CNBC’s Jane Wells with “Billionaire Doctor” Patrick Soon-Shiong, Executive Director of the UCLA Wireless Health Institute, in which he describes the fundamental importance of the Mobile Phone in the future delivery of Health:”
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Medical Devices, Making A Difference In People’s Lives
BlueApoc, HealthTechnica
“Medical Devices make a big difference in everyone’s life. Saving lives. Improving care. Helping people recover and get back on their feet. This video explores some ways medical devices are making a difference and how people are designing and building them in the Pacific Northwest. Pursuing a career in this growing industry can make a big difference in their lives, too. Watch this program to learn how.”
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Swedish Medical Center Integrates ECM Solution with EPIC EMR
Fred Pennic, Healthcare IT Consultant Blog
“ImageSource implements content managements solution, providing Swedish employees with access to critical patient information that has been injected into their electronic medical records system. Solution reduces capture and image display process from 17 down to 3 easy steps, improving patient care.”
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New technology at Prince of Wales Private Hospital in Australia
HealthTechnica
“While interesting, talking about new medical technology can be detailed, technical and heavy going. So how do you make the latest in 3D imaging catchy and easy to understand for media and their audience? The trick is to personalise it and let those that benefit from the technology first hand (eg, surgeons and patients) explain it in their own words as this interview with a pioneering surgeon on Sky News demonstrates.”
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Implantable Glucose Sensor Could Spell Relief for Millions of People with Diabetes
Brian Ahier, Health IT & Healthcare Reform
“A team of researchers in chemistry, pharmaceutics, and engineering is developing a long term implantable biosensor that could dramatically change the way of life for millions of people diagnosed with diabetes.
Inside the laboratories of Board of Trustees distinguished professor of pharmaceutics Diane Burgess, chemistry professor Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, and engineering professor Faquir Jain, teams of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are helping develop a miniaturized wireless device that will monitor blood glucose levels for three months or more after being inserted under a patient’s skin.”
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e-Health — National health records stored in central database
Video on Australian EHR.
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