Fighting the Fear of Social Media
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
The Internet as an adjunct for pediatric primary care.
- Curr Opin Pediatr. 2009 Sep 1. [Epub ahead of print]
The Internet as an adjunct for pediatric primary care.
Kind T.
Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Children's National Medical Center, The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review highlights recent publications on the use of the Internet as it relates to pediatric primary care, including its application to the pediatrician, teen, pediatric patient, and patients' parents. A brief overview of early work is introduced. RECENT FINDINGS: The Internet has become a tool to expand the reach of preventive interventions, including school-based online pediatric health education. Although research continues to describe barriers to the adoption of online resources, recent reports highlight newer applications, including user-generated content (i.e. social networking sites), and the impact on teens and their health. There are concerns and benefits of Web 2.0 and the teen population, with adolescents at risk online yet also learning about their health online. Internet referrals, prescriptions for information, and online assessment methods have had varied success to date. There have been some studies of e-learning and online continuing medical education having an impact on clinical decision making, but there is a need for more research on the electronic medical record as it relates to the practicing pediatrician and the Internet at the point of care. SUMMARY: The Internet is more than an information repository and continues to affect the lives and health of the pediatric population, parents, and providers. The growth of and changes to the Internet over time bring online innovations that have yet to be studied.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Medicine 2.0® conference goes global
Announcement
The Medicine 2.0® conference – organized in 2008 and 2009 in Toronto – will go on a world-tour and goes global and viral.
N.B One condition of Agreement by a future Franchisee is "Audio/Video files of all Medicine 2.0® presentations will be made available on iTunes."
The Medicine 2.0® conference – organized in 2008 and 2009 in Toronto – will go on a world-tour and goes global and viral.
N.B One condition of Agreement by a future Franchisee is "Audio/Video files of all Medicine 2.0® presentations will be made available on iTunes."
Medical home model increases quality of care, reduces cost
from HealthCare Finance News
"The study results show that a patient-centered medical home benefits both patients and medical staff. According to the Seattle, Wash.-based, consumer-governed, non-profit health system, it gives patients more one-on-one time with a physician, improves caregiver cooperation and provides more preventative care."
Pdf of report here
"The study results show that a patient-centered medical home benefits both patients and medical staff. According to the Seattle, Wash.-based, consumer-governed, non-profit health system, it gives patients more one-on-one time with a physician, improves caregiver cooperation and provides more preventative care."
Pdf of report here
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Facebook Exodus
from NY Times
"Julie Klam, a writer and prolific and eloquent Facebook updater, said in her own e-mail message, “I have noticed the exodus, and I kind of feel like it’s kids getting tired of a new toy.” Klam, who still posts updates to Facebook but now prefers Twitter for professional networking, added, “Facebook is good for finding people, but by now the novelty of that has worn off, and everyone’s been found.” As of a few months ago, she told me, Facebook “felt dead.”
Is Facebook doomed to someday become an online ghost town, run by zombie users who never update their pages and packs of marketers picking at the corpses of social circles they once hoped to exploit? Sad, if so. Though maybe fated, like the demise of a college clique."
If you aim to be a lapsed social networker, wikiHow, the collaborative how-to guide, provides a useful step-by-step way to disengage, emotionally and practically: http://www.wikihow.com/Quit-Facebook
"Julie Klam, a writer and prolific and eloquent Facebook updater, said in her own e-mail message, “I have noticed the exodus, and I kind of feel like it’s kids getting tired of a new toy.” Klam, who still posts updates to Facebook but now prefers Twitter for professional networking, added, “Facebook is good for finding people, but by now the novelty of that has worn off, and everyone’s been found.” As of a few months ago, she told me, Facebook “felt dead.”
Is Facebook doomed to someday become an online ghost town, run by zombie users who never update their pages and packs of marketers picking at the corpses of social circles they once hoped to exploit? Sad, if so. Though maybe fated, like the demise of a college clique."
If you aim to be a lapsed social networker, wikiHow, the collaborative how-to guide, provides a useful step-by-step way to disengage, emotionally and practically: http://www.wikihow.com/Quit-Facebook
Towards pervasive computing in health care – A literature review
Carsten Orwat, Andreas Graefe and Timm Faulwasser
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008, 8:26
Literature surveyed 2002-6 Received 5/11/07 Accepted 19/6/08!
"Pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, and ambient intelligence are concepts evolving in a plethora of applications in health care. In the literature, pervasive computing is loosely associated with the further spreading of miniaturized mobile or embedded information and communication technologies (ICT) with some degree of 'intelligence', network connectivity and advanced user interfaces . Because of its ubiquitous and unobtrusive analytical, diagnostic, supportive, information and documentary functions, pervasive computing is predicted to improve traditional health care . Some of its capabilities, such as remote, automated patient monitoring and diagnosis, may make pervasive computing a tool advancing the shift towards home care, and may enhance patient self-care and independent living. Automatic documentation of activities, process control or the right information in specific work situations as supplied by pervasive computing are expected to increase the effectiveness as well as efficiency of health care providers. For example, in hospitals pervasive computing has the potential to support the working conditions of hospital personnel, e.g., highly mobile and cooperative work, use of heterogeneous devices, or frequent alternation between concurrent activities . 'Anywhere and anytime' are becoming keywords – a development often associated with 'pervasive healthcare' . On the other hand, the social, economic and ethical concerns regarding the use of pervasive computing may detract from its acceptance and societal desirability, which is equally relevant to health care"
Breakdown of systems included by numerous categories and cross-categories: health care setting, users type, improvement aim, body subsystem, system function/s.
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008, 8:26
Literature surveyed 2002-6 Received 5/11/07 Accepted 19/6/08!
"Pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, and ambient intelligence are concepts evolving in a plethora of applications in health care. In the literature, pervasive computing is loosely associated with the further spreading of miniaturized mobile or embedded information and communication technologies (ICT) with some degree of 'intelligence', network connectivity and advanced user interfaces . Because of its ubiquitous and unobtrusive analytical, diagnostic, supportive, information and documentary functions, pervasive computing is predicted to improve traditional health care . Some of its capabilities, such as remote, automated patient monitoring and diagnosis, may make pervasive computing a tool advancing the shift towards home care, and may enhance patient self-care and independent living. Automatic documentation of activities, process control or the right information in specific work situations as supplied by pervasive computing are expected to increase the effectiveness as well as efficiency of health care providers. For example, in hospitals pervasive computing has the potential to support the working conditions of hospital personnel, e.g., highly mobile and cooperative work, use of heterogeneous devices, or frequent alternation between concurrent activities . 'Anywhere and anytime' are becoming keywords – a development often associated with 'pervasive healthcare' . On the other hand, the social, economic and ethical concerns regarding the use of pervasive computing may detract from its acceptance and societal desirability, which is equally relevant to health care"
Breakdown of systems included by numerous categories and cross-categories: health care setting, users type, improvement aim, body subsystem, system function/s.
Wireless remote monitoring devices
The integration of interoperable, Bluetooth® wireless technology in health monitoring devices will allow patients, along with their clinicians, to monitor vital signs as they go about their daily lives... Breakthrough devices such as the Onyx II, Model 9560 Pulse Oximeter will enable clinicians to remotely monitor patients with chronic diseases such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) or Asthma. Wireless oximetry gives patients a new level of freedom and control.
HealthPAL and via the Medical Quack
Bluetooth stethoscope
Smart Inhaler
Bluetooth Fingertip Pulse Oximeter
HealthPAL and via the Medical Quack
Bluetooth stethoscope
Smart Inhaler
Bluetooth Fingertip Pulse Oximeter
Monday, August 31, 2009
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