Beatriz Roselló, Diario Médico
“El médico de primaria se enfrenta con varias dificultades en la consulta, entre ellas, llegar a un diagnóstico en poco tiempo y no siempre con toda la información necesaria.
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Maggie Lange, GoLocalProv
“Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School has demonstrated a profound embrace of the latest technology in medicine: it has required its class of approximately 100 first year students to purchase iPad tablets to replace half their textbooks for the year.
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rteston, Buzz e-sante
“Ce portail propose dans un espace unique des informations provenant de grandes organisations européennes spécialisées dans le cancer. Il met à disposition un espace permettant aux patients, professionnels de santé, chercheurs et décideurs de se réunir pour interagir, discuter, débattre et renforcer les connaissances.
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Stewart Segal, KevinMD
“Privacy, is it important to you? Do you believe that your medical and personal information should be kept in strict privacy? Do you expect your doctor to keep your information private? What is the cost of privacy?
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Tom Lewis, iMedicalApps
“According to iTunes: “Award winning Pocket Body features a fully anatomically accurate human character with nine layers of musculoskeletal and neurovascular content…plus over 30,000 words of learning material.”
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Healthcare Technology Online
“Health Language, Inc. (HLI), the global leader in medical terminology management, is teaming with Dossia, a leading health management system provider whose founding members include many of the country’s major employers, to improve the user experience and utility of the Dossia Personal Health Record for employees, retirees, and their dependents.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Dossia is making it easier for patients to understand the information in their electronic health records.
The employer consortium has signed a deal to use terminology translation technology from Health Language Inc. in Dossia’s personal health records to help convert medical lingo into layman terms.
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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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Scot M Silverstein, Health Care Renewal
“Clinicians these days at computerized facilities are often drinking information from a firehose, and even worse.
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Phil Baumann, KevenMD
“What assets do physicians nurse practitioners have which they can share online? It’s knowledge.
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EMR Daily News
“IBM has announced that multiple hospitals throughout Russia have switched from paper-based medical systems to a new solution from IBM and Complex Medical Information Systems (C-MIS) to provide fast electronic medical record exchange and unified access to many types of healthcare data, allowing doctors and medical staff to share information and access tests and lab results instantly to improve decision making.
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American Medical Software
“A software application called “Med Records To Go”, that stores electronic medical records, can help reduce errors in emergency conditions, as well as in hospital or medical clinic admissions. *A new feature of this application includes placement of medical records on Android, iPhone, and Java-enabled cell phones.
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Gaynor M et al, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 3(3/4)
This paper discusses how to share medical information between heterogeneous applications via web services. Our design theory is based on a real-options framework, performance analysis and experience building iRevive, a working web-services-enabled pre-hospital documentation application.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“A new mobile iPhone application is available to help breast cancer patients learn about their diagnoses, understand medical jargon contained in lab reports, and track information about their disease.
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Deléger L et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(5)
Objective
While essential for patient care, information related to medication is often written as free text in clinical records and, therefore, difficult to use in computerized systems. This paper describes an approach to automatically extract medication information from clinical records, which was developed to participate in the i2b2 2009 challenge, as well as different strategies to improve the extraction.
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Dale Sanders, HealthSystemCIO
“Cerner and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) have teamed to provide evidence-based medicine (EBM) embedded in the electronic medical record in a manner that is as exciting and encouraging a development in healthcare IT as anything I’ve ever seen — I repeat, as exciting as anything I’ve ever seen.
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Ves Dimov, Casesblog
“The rapid expansion of the Internet has increased the ease with which the public can obtain medical information. Most research on the utility of the Internet for health purposes has evaluated the quality of the information or examined its impact on clinical populations.
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John Boudreau, Mercury News
“While medical reference information has long been available through the Internet on computers, physicians such as Corby say the ability to instantly access data in any situation and through one-touch technology is changing the way they practice medicine.
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Vickers AJ et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(1)
BACKGROUND:
We propose a novel framework for management of cancer survivorship: electronic patient Self-Assessment and Management (SAM). SAM is a framework for transfer of information to and from patients in such a way as to increase both the patient’s and the health care provider’s understanding of the patient’s progress, and to help ensure that patient care follows best practice.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“A report over at the Remington Report points to a survey conducted by SDI last fall called the Mobile & Social Media Study: Physicians’ Views of Emerging Technology, which we don’t recall seeing previously.
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