Carolyne Krupa, amednews
“Linking dermatologists to patients in remote areas through telemedicine gives patients more accurate diagnoses and better disease management than they would receive without access to a specialist, says a study in the January Archives of Dermatology.
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Dan Buckland, MedGadget
“A paper in the Christmas edition of the Danish Medical Journal attempts to ask whether we can trust our Facebook friends with providing a differential diagnosis. One of the authors, Dr. Peter Hallas, modestly asked that we take a look at his paper, so we jumped at the chance and think he should give himself and his co-authors a lot of credit for studying phenomena that are already occurring.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“GE Healthcare received Food and Drug Adminstration 510 clearance for a mobile app that lets radiologists use their smartphones and tablets to diagnose patients remotely.
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Davis Giardina T, Singh H. JAMA. 2011
In the outpatient setting, between 8% and 26% of abnormal test results, including those suspicious for malignancy, are not followed up in a timely manner. Despite the use of electronic health records (EHRs) to facilitate communication of test results, follow-up remains a significant safety challenge.
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M Neelam Kachhap, Express Healthcare
“Watson, the IBM supercomputer is believed to have revolutionised the healthcare industry with its analytical capabilities. Having won the USD one million “Jeopardy!” challenge and establishing its power, Watson is now moving towards challenges in healthcare.
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Bellina L, Missoni E. Health and Technology, 2011
As previously demonstrated, m-phones can be easily used, without any adapter, to photograph and send images from a microscope. The objective of the current study was to test the appropriateness and educational potential of this mobile diagnosis approach with health workers in limited-resource settings, such as health units in Uganda, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. A total of 61 lab technicians were trained in basic lab skills and in using the m-phone to capture microscopic images and send them to distant Reference Centers for a second opinion. Structured pre-test interviews were used to define parameters such as health workers’ sex and age, duty station, schooling, experience in the laboratory, access to internet and availability to and use of m-phones. Images from the microscope were also uploaded on the available computers and shared on the screen to facilitate group discussions and comparisons with reference images.
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Anne Eisenberg, The New York Times
“Even in the vast world of apps, Dr. Patrick J. Gagnon has one with an unusual distinction: it had to be cleared for use by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Daniel Kivatinos, Dr Chrono
“Did you know that IBM’s Watson Supercomputer is operating at the level of a second or third year medical student? Watson is.
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Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“Watson, IBM’s game-show-playing supercomputer, will soon be used to help physicians diagnose and treat cancer patients.
IBM announced earlier this year that healthcare would be the first commercial application for the computer, which defeated two human champions on the popular television game show Jeopardy! in February.
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AP, Fox News
“IBM’s supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world’s best “Jeopardy!” players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation’s largest health insurers to help diagnose medical problems and authorize treatments.
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Aimable Twahirwa and Naomi Antony, SciDev.Net
“An easy-to-use diagnostic chip could be a game changer in the field of cheap diagnostics for remote regions, claim the researchers who developed it.
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Martin Young, KevinMD
“Things have been a bit tough of late, the bad economy is starting to bite, and you’re feeling the pressure. To top it all, your body has been acting strangely in ways it never has before. Your muscles twitch in funny areas for hours at a time, you tire easily, and you have fleeting pins and needles in your limbs.
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Mark Heraghty, Virgin Media Business
“Speaking to a doctor via a webcam might sound like something out of The Jetsons, but it could be a reality sooner than you think. Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS, has called for doctors to offer remote consultations to patients via video link within the next year. But is this a service people want from their family doctor?
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David E Williams, HealthWorks Collective
“One could imagine applying regulations to a simple calculator app with an algorithm that gives an exact result, but it seems like the proposed regulation also would also apply to diagnostic software that deals with thousands of diseases.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Once upon a time, being diagnosed with the “C” word, cancer, was information that kept people quiet and within the family. Today, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and blogs have increasingly become routine settings for discussions regarding the most personal of concerns” — like health care, according to an analysis titled, Seeking Social Solace: How Patients Use Social Media to Disclose Medical Diagnoses Online from Russell Herder, a Minneapolis-based marketing & PR agency.
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“Neuroscientists say the brain is a pattern recognition machine, which no doubt explains why experienced diagnosticians can often spot a disease in a patient even before a complete lab workup is done.
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Bill Crounse, Healthblog
“This week on Microsoft Health Tech Today we report on some amazing work by graduate students at UC Davis. Wilson To and his colleagues have come up with a smartphone app that helps medical workers in the field diagnose malaria. And, this isn’t the first time on our show that we’ve profiled these brilliant young scientists and engineers.
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David Ellis, H&HN Daily
“IBM is very frank about the next step for Watson: It is to become a physician’s assistant, specifically for diagnosis. Considering that the Institute of Medicine and HealthGrades have reported between 400,000 and 1.2 million deaths from misdiagnosis and other human error from 1996 to 2006 in the United States, doctors (not to mention their patients) may need all the help they can get.
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Kester Freeman, Action For Better Healthcare
“Healthcare technology is changing faster than many people can keep up with and these changes are impacting how doctors diagnose patients. Imagine your doctor being able to access the latest research on your condition at the bedside. Technology is allowing some doctors to make an initial diagnosis without being at the hospital.
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Healthcare IT News
“Doctors can make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone application with the same accuracy as if they use a medical computer workstation, according to new research from the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine.
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