Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Health can learn from Education

Learning in Hand by Tony Vincent is stuffed with useful resources and links relating to use of iPod Touch/iPhone Apps in education, many of which have clear applications in and relevance to health care

Monday, August 17, 2009

eHealth Engagement Scale

View more presentations from craig lefebvre.

Take Two Aspirin And Tweet Me In The Morning:

Take Two Aspirin And Tweet Me In The Morning:How Twitter, Facebook, And Other Social Media Are Reshaping Health Care
Carleen Hawn [Health Affairs 28, no. 2 (2009): 361–368; 10.1377/hlthaff.28.2.361]

Social Media Revolution bigger than you think

from Socialnomics via Ted Eytan

Improving Patient Medication Adherence

Thinking Outside the Pillbox: A System-wide Approach to Improving Patient Medication Adherence for Chronic Disease
In its new research brief, "Thinking Outside the Pillbox," NEHI addresses the root causes of poor patient medication adherence - a significant contributor to overall health care waste - and offers promising solutions to improve adherence, particularly among chronic disease patients

A HIT LIST for the HIT Generation: Meaningful Use for Patients

A HIT LIST for the HIT Generation: Meaningful Use for Patients

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Developing a Social Media Strategy

Developing a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps

View more presentations from Jason Baer.

PEPID resources on iPhone et al

Comprehensive if fairly expensive... downloadable tutorials give good insights into coverage and functions. For example:
Clinical Nursing Suite
Primary Care Physician plus ambulatory and Hospital Suite

Sunday, August 16, 2009

eTELEMED 2010, The Second International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine

February 10-15, 2010 – St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/eTELEMED10.html

HIMSS Clinical Decision Support Wiki now open

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society CDS Task Force helps guide and execute HIMSS efforts to ensure that CDS delivers on its promise to improve care delivery and outcomes

Document "Opportunities for CDS Guide to help implementers meet Meaningful Use criteria" located in section 2 ('early version of this mapping') has particularly useful tables.

How to Behave: New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans

How to Behave: New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans

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Healthy Dialog Videos

Healthy Dialog is the for-profit partner of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.
Three of their videos are available online.
Is a PSA test right for you?
Colon Cancer Screening: Deciding what's right for you
Early Stage Breast Cancer: Choosing your surgery

Weighty Choices, in Patients’ Hands

Excellent piece on the Informed Patient in Wall St Journal, including links

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.

Privacy 2.0?

Solove's pluralistic taxonomy tackles simplistic approaches to privacy.
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."