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."

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

20 ways Surgeons should use Evernote

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

What e-Patients do

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

Innovation: Go to hospital to see computing's future - tech - 31 August 2009 - New Scientist

Innovation: Go to hospital to see computing's future - tech - 31 August 2009 - New Scientist

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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.

The Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 1

The Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 1

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When we adapt do we spread & implement effectively?

When we adapt do we spread & implement effectively?

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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

Monday, August 31, 2009

Analysis of YouTube Comments in ePatient Videos

View more documents from Luis Fernandez Luque.

Nurses: Your Online Social Networking Do’s and Don’ts

from nursetogether

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Social Technographic Profiles by Age, Sex and Country

According to Forrester Research (Groundswell) 2009 report. Explanation of terms (levels on ladder) is given in the following presentation:

Social Technographics Explained

View more presentations from jbernoff.

Health 2.0

Paris conference April 6-7 2010
Wiki

Multitasking may be harmful

Drop that BlackBerry! Multitasking may be harmful

original article:
Cognitive control in media multitaskers

Health and the Mobile Phone

Am J Prev Med. 2008 August; 35(2): 177–181

This paper provides an overview of the implications of this trend for the delivery of healthcare services. In addition to addressing how mobile phones are changing the way health professionals communicate with their patients, a summary is provided of current and projected technologic capabilities of mobile phones that have the potential to render them an increasingly indispensable personal health device. Finally, the health risks of mobile phone use are addressed, as are several unresolved technical and policy-related issues unique to mobile phones. Because these issues may influence how well and how quickly mobile phones are integrated into health care, and how well they serve the needs of the entire population, they deserve the attention of both the healthcare and public health community.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The SMUG Social Media Pyramid

The SMUG Social Media Pyramid

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Your Doctor

Your Doctor’s Office or the Internet? Two Paths to Personal Health Records

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Research Trove: Patients’ Online Data

NYTimes piece
"After Amy Farber learned she had the rare and fatal disease called LAM in 2005, she became determined to increase and speed up research into her illness with the hope of finding a cure in her lifetime.
Dr. Farber, now 39, was a law student with a doctorate in anthropology who was about to start a family. She quit law school and founded the LAM Treatment Alliance to raise money and connect a network of scientists around the world to research this mysterious disease, which destroys young women’s lungs.
To her dismay, she says, she encountered a cumbersome research system fraught with obstacles to collaboration and progress — one that failed to focus on patient needs... That led her to Frank Moss, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, and a new collaboration between her group and the Media Lab: LAMsight, a Web site that allows patients to report information about their health, then turns those reports into databases that can be mined for observations about the disease.."

Augmented Reality: 5 Barriers to a Web That's Everywhere

Augmented Reality: 5 Barriers to a Web That's Everywhere

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Junior physician's use of Web 2.0 for information seeking and medical education: A qualitative study

Junior physician's use of Web 2.0 for information seeking and medical education: A qualitative study: "Abstract: Background: Web 2.0 internet tools and methods have attracted considerable attention as a means to improve health care delivery. Despite evidence demonstrating their use by medical professionals, there is no detailed research describing how Web 2.0 influences physicians’ daily clinical practice. Hence this study examines Web 2.0 use by 35 junior physicians in clinical settings to further understand their impact on medical practice.Method: Diaries and interviews encompassing 177 days of internet use or 444 search incidents, analyzed via thematic analysis.Results: Results indicate that 53% of internet visits employed user-generated or Web 2.0 content, with Google and Wikipedia used by 80% and 70% of physicians, respectively. Despite awareness of information credibility risks with Web 2.0 content, it has a role in information seeking for both clinical decisions and medical education. This is enabled by the ability to cross check information and the diverse needs for background and non-verified information.Conclusion: Web 2.0 use represents a profound departure from previous learning and decision processes which were normally controlled by senior medical staff or medical schools. There is widespread concern with the risk of poor quality information with Web 2.0 use, and the manner in which physicians are using it suggest effective use derives from the mitigating actions by the individual physician. Three alternative policy options are identified to manage this risk and improve efficiency in Web 2.0's use."