Saturday, August 15, 2009
Med Apps on iPhone - comprehensive survey
Annotated survey on iPhone Medical apps by top eHealth Social Networker Brian Ahier
Addiction 2.0
Seeking
How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous.
Emily Yoffe asks some searching questions!
Amazing research possibilities in all fields!
Zoetrope: Interacting with the Ephemeral Web
Eytan Adar, Mira Dontcheva, James Fogarty, Daniel S. Weld
The Web is ephemeral. Pages change frequently, and it is nearly impossible to find data or follow a link after the underlying page evolves. We present Zoetrope, a system that enables interaction with the historical Web (pages, links, and embedded data) that would otherwise be lost to time. Using a number of novel interactions, the temporal Web can be manipulated, queried, and analyzed from the context of familar pages. Zoetrope is based on a set of operators for manipulating content streams. We describe these primitives and the associated indexing strategies for handling temporal Web data. They form the basis of Zoetrope and enable our construction of new temporal interactions and visualizations.
Watch the video! and read the paper.
Eytan Adar, Mira Dontcheva, James Fogarty, Daniel S. Weld
The Web is ephemeral. Pages change frequently, and it is nearly impossible to find data or follow a link after the underlying page evolves. We present Zoetrope, a system that enables interaction with the historical Web (pages, links, and embedded data) that would otherwise be lost to time. Using a number of novel interactions, the temporal Web can be manipulated, queried, and analyzed from the context of familar pages. Zoetrope is based on a set of operators for manipulating content streams. We describe these primitives and the associated indexing strategies for handling temporal Web data. They form the basis of Zoetrope and enable our construction of new temporal interactions and visualizations.
Watch the video! and read the paper.
Privacy 2.0?
Solove's pluralistic taxonomy tackles simplistic approaches to privacy.
Summary chapter downloadable.
Summary chapter downloadable.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Home-Centered Health Care
from Mike Magee extract:
"What is needed is a completely new paradigm of health, one that places a much stronger emphasis on prevention and wellness over intervention. We can refer to this new paradigm as "home-centered health care"—built on a system in which health management begins at home, connects to physicians and care teams, and circles back to home.
The good news is that many of the pieces we need to accomplish the social transformation to this new paradigm—from intervention to prevention and wellness—are already in place. A number of megatrends are developing to help the paradigm along, including health consumer empowerment, physician movement toward partnership and team approaches that include clinical care and educational support, expansion of the Internet and technology to the people and their caregivers, expanded understanding of the causes and treatments for the major chronic diseases, and a very public debate about the benefits and risks of the health choices we make."
Medical Uses of Wolfram Alpha
from Brian Ahier extract:
"They have published an overview and some examples of the types of searches both patients and clinicians will find useful on the Understanding Medical Tests at their blog.
WolframAlpha is a helpful reference for understanding what the tests measure and how to interpret the results. WolframAlpha allows you to query information on a specific medical test or a panel of tests, compare tests and results for patients with specific characteristics, compute your estimated risk for heart disease, and find the diagnosis corresponding to an ICD-9 code. WolframAlpha can take into account specific patient characteristics like gender, age, smoker, non-smoker, pregnant, diabetic, obese, and underweight. WolframAlpha can give you a snapshot of available data that might help you understand how your results compare to others'.WolframAlpha can provide a number of interesting medical statistics including body measurements, physical exercise, diseases, mortality, medical tests, and medical computations. You can see other examples of Health & Medicine uses here. For example to determine the benefits of running 20 minutes for a 28-year-old 5'11" 185lb male, then type: running 20min, 6min/mi, 28yo male, 5'11", 185lb into the search box."
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Blogpress App
Enables one to blog on the run, well trot, well walk, well standing still...
-- Post From My iPhone
-- Post From My iPhone
EBM presentations
McMaster course ones available. I particularly recommend Haynes on Sources (second one is ppt so retains animations) and Montori on Patient Disobedience (or rather on the need for Minimally Disruptive Medicine ) Both implicitly make good cases for Annalisa 2+ it seems to me : lack of top S in the 6S hierarchy is very evident.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Time to Move On?
Trying to Measure the Quality of Health Information
on the Internet: Is It Time to Move On?
"Groups, mainly led by patients, are now beginning to take matters into their own
hands to address problems that the health system has continued
to ignore. Instead of conforming to the traditional asymmetrical
offline patient-physician relationship, the public is embracing the tenets of Web 2.0,
opening new horizons for a level playing field and improved health services.
The time has likely come to end our Byzantine discussions
about whether and how to measure the quality of
online health information. The public has moved on. It is
time to join them in what promises to be an exciting voyage
of human fellowship, with new discoveries and exciting
ways to achieve optimal levels of health."
on the Internet: Is It Time to Move On?
"Groups, mainly led by patients, are now beginning to take matters into their own
hands to address problems that the health system has continued
to ignore. Instead of conforming to the traditional asymmetrical
offline patient-physician relationship, the public is embracing the tenets of Web 2.0,
opening new horizons for a level playing field and improved health services.
The time has likely come to end our Byzantine discussions
about whether and how to measure the quality of
online health information. The public has moved on. It is
time to join them in what promises to be an exciting voyage
of human fellowship, with new discoveries and exciting
ways to achieve optimal levels of health."
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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