MedGadget
“Noted journalist and author David Ewing Duncan kicked off the Wednesday session of FutureMed by discussing personalized medicine and his work on the Experimental Man Project.
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Don Rosenthal, Thitse
“There are currently over 500,000 apps for the iPhone. Apple has written only a handful of those. How many would there be if Apple had to write a custom interface for every developer who wrote an app?
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Elizabeth Weingarten, Slate
“Eric Topol wants to digitize you. No, he doesn’t want to transform your body into a pixelated hologram or morph your visage into a virtual avatar.
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David Lee Scher, KevinMD
“The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009.
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David Lee Scher, The Digital Health Corner
“There is a groundswell of discussion concerning patients demanding to have direct access to data derived from their implantable defibrillators and pacemakers. I have discussed in other articles why patients deserve their data and the benefits derived thereof.
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Ericka Chickowski, Dark Reading
“Just like “the cloud” of 2009 and 2010, this year’s red-hot buzz term bandied about by executives who may or may not have clue what it means is ‘big data.’ But just as 2011 saw the world wrap its head around the cloud, the time is coming when technology around big data will gain traction, understanding and deployments.
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Lisa M. Krieger, Mercury News
“Hugo Campos has a small computer buried in his chest to help keep him alive. But he has no idea what it says about his faulty heart.
All the raw data it collects, especially any erratic rhythms it controls with shocks, goes directly to the manufacturer. And some of it later gets sent to his doctor.
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Alexandra Albin, e-patients.net
“A conversation on the SPM listserve was started by Joleen Chambers, @JjrkCh, a patient advocate for patients with failed medical devices. Here’s her Failed Implant Device Blog.
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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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Ben Rooney, Wall Street Journal
“Big Data — the ability to collect, process and interpret massive amounts of information — is one of today’s most important technological drivers. While companies see it as a way of detecting weak market signals, one of the biggest potential areas of application for society is health care.
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Kate McDonald, Pulse+IT
“NSW Health has launched a new website allowing easy access to population health data for the state.
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Michelle McNickle, Healthcare IT News
“IT experts argue daily that more simple interfaces and paper-like workflows are the keys to the success of EHRs. And although that may be true, Shahid Shah, software analyst and author of the blog The Healthcare IT Guy, believes medical device data not only fills the void often found in these systems, but can also ensure their adoption in the months and years to come.
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Health & Wellbeing
“Tonic Health believe that switching from clipboards and paper forms to an interactive, game-like iPad interface is more enjoyable for patients, which therefore enables doctors to obtain higher response rates to surveys, better patient screening, and more accurate data, both cheaply and quickly.
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Brian Evans, Healthcare Info Security
“Every piece of data is not created equal, and demands for data protection and storage capacity have been increasing exponentially. Many healthcare organizations, however, are not reacting fast enough to meet these demands.
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Rick Kam, Government Health IT
“Forget the hospital dramas on TV. Our top 10 list of this year’s trends in healthcare privacy and security has excitement to rival any show.
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Ken Spriggs, e-patients.net
“Dave deBronkart’s TED talk inspired me. I went on a “damn data” collection mission by ordering data from all the places where my Crohn’s disease had caught up to me. I ordered medical records, medical bills, insurance information, and pharmacy data.
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Emily Singer, Technology Review
“Hugo Campos is a man on a mission. He wants access to the data being collected inside his body by an implanted cardiac defibrillator. He believes that having this information could help him take control of his health—for example, by helping him figure out what triggers his frequent attacks of abnormal heart rhythms.
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Gillian Hayes, Project HealthDesign
“Anyone doing research about records of any kind knows the challenges of handling missing data. We often hear about epidemiologists who struggle to find patterns in incomplete data sets, clinicians who carefully interview patients and family members to fill in the gaps in a medical record, and so on. This problem becomes particularly acute, however, when you are monitoring the data in real time.
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David Perera, FierceGovernmentIT
“If medical practices are to take advantage of widespread electronic health records to create a “learning health system” in which patient data is aggregated and analyzed in order to provide better individual and population health care, regulations regarding which data constitute research and which constitute operations will need clarification, says the federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee.
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Jay Hill, Community Blog
“Below is a list of the top five things that your executive team needs to know and do to avoid becoming a poster child for the health care data breach flyer.”
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