Lukas Zinnagl, KevinMD
“Professor Gunter Dueck, is a calm and eloquent german mathematician who’s also the CTO of IBM Germany. He studied mathematics and philosophy and eventually turned out to be a great writer and speaker. Unfortunately he only does so in German, which is why it doesn’t make much sense to post a video of him here.
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John Glaser, H&HN Daily
“Over the last 50 years, information technology has been revolutionizing the world. The impacts of IT are diverse and numerous; IT has spurred global finance, transportation, smart buildings and virtual communities—even public protests against oppressive regimes.
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Mark E. Frisse, Xerox
“The Health Information Exchange, (HIE) at HIMSS11 appears noticeably different than the HIE of HIMSS past. HIE will be ubiquitous. It is not just a topic for a Sunday session any more. Of the 26 sessions that listed HIE as a topic, only eight were specific to the topic. The dedicated Sunday session seemed informative but predictable. Speakers provided perspectives from the federal government, states, and stakeholders. The session also included a Town Hall Meeting, a treatment of consumer engagement, and – my favorite topic – financial sustainability.
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Kim W et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 34(6)
HL7 (Health Level 7) is a standard developed for exchanging incompatible healthcare information generated from programs or devices among heterogenous medical information systems. At present, HL7 is growing as a global standard. However, the HL7 standard does not support effective methods for treating data from various medical sensors, especially from mobile sensors. As ubiquitous systems are growing, HL7 must communicate with various medical transducers.
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“With voice exposed as a decaying business model, telecommunications companies are scrambling to secure profits beyond their traditional boundaries.
It remains to be seen whether medical services can prove to be the new gold trail they are desperately seeking.
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Dr. Keerthi, Through the Looking Glass....
“A few days back, we all heard the news of a surgeon using I-pad during a surgery (here’s the link http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/tech/Surgeons_Use_iPad_in_Surgery_All__National_.html) – while this news must have made waves wide across, this wasn’t the least bit surprising for me. Simply because, to me, this was a trend long overdue.
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Wickboldt A, and Piramuthu S, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
As RFID-tagged systems become ubiquitous, acceptance of this technology by the general public necessitates addressing related security/privacy issues. The past eight years have seen an increasing number of publications in this direction, specifically using cryptographic approaches.
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Blobel, Bernd, Methods of Information in Medicine, 49(2)
Objectives:
For improving safety and quality of care as well as efficiency of health delivery under the well-known burdens, health services become specialized, distributed, and therefore collaborative, thereby changing the health service paradigm from organization-centered over process-controlled to personal health (pHealth).
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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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ScienceDaily
“A ubiquitous health monitoring system that automatically alerted the patient’s family or physician to problematic changes in the person’s vital signs could cut hospital visits and save lives, according to Japanese researchers writing in the International Journal of Web and Grid Services.
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Kim Yang-sig, Korea IT Times
“The world is becoming more and more health-conscious. Society, health policy and patient needs are all changing dramatically. The challenges society is currently facing are related to the increase in the aging population, changes in lifestyle, the need for healthcare cost containment and the need for improvement and monitoring of healthcare quality.
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European Research Headlines
“New and innovative developments bolster the well-being of people. Now a team of EU-funded researchers has succeeded in embedding sensing devices directly into textiles to create garments that are not only comfortable and practical to wear, but also smart. The devices will help physicians keep an eye on their patients.
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“Ubiquitous Healthcare shows its potential by facilitating the exchange of information between clinicians or between institutions, reducing costs, extending the scope and reach of medical facilities, enhancing the quality of services offered on-site, and providing for new means of medical supervision and preemptive medicine.
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