Electronic Medical Records by the Numbers September 20, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Infographics, Video.add a comment
If we take a look at the biggest medical technology blogs right now, we will find dozens of articles and entries focusing on the issues related to electronic medical records. While the video below is actually an advertisement, it still can summarize the main problems around EMRs properly.
The Next 10 Years in Medicine: Forbes September 18, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in List, Medicine.add a comment
Forbes magazine came up with a few lists describing what will happen in the next 10 years in different areas. Medicine is one of these:
We asked our staff and contributors to forecast some of the noteworthy events of the next 10 years, a vision of the coming decade sketched from real data, projections and facts whenever possible–though we’ve injected a dose of rigorous science fiction to fill the gaps.
- 2012: Super-Tuberculosis
- 2013: DNA Sequencing Pays
- 2014: Big Pharma Implodes
- 2015: first autism drug
- 2016: first fatherless child using synthetic sperm
- 2017: U.S. life expectancy declines for first time in a century. Doctors blame 55% obesity rate.
- 2020: FDA approves autonomous robot surgery to remove tumors.
TeleBoss September 17, 2010
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My PhD supervisor is now spending 10 months at a US research center and it means we have to work remotely and also organize meetings via Skype and other communication channels. Well, regarding clinics, it might work. The prototype was created and designed by RoboDynamics.
Our robot TiLR is world’s first commercial Telepresence Robot which radically change the way people can work remotely by increasing throughput while simultaneously decreasing costs.
A remote worker would uses the robot as her physical avatar in the remote location. The net effect is that the remote worker performs exactly as she is there in person – which makes robotic telepresence unlike any other collaboration solution in existence today.
How social networks predict epidemics: TED September 16, 2010
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Nicholas Christakis talks about How social networks predict epidemics in a TED presentation.
After mapping humans’ intricate social networks, Nicholas Christakis and colleague James Fowler began investigating how this information could better our lives. Now, he reveals his hot-off-the-press findings: These networks can be used to detect epidemics earlier than ever, from the spread of innovative ideas to risky behaviors to viruses (like H1N1).
Personal Genomics in the News September 16, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Genetic testing, Genome, Personalized medicine, Video.add a comment
There are 4 articles focusing on personalized medicine I would like to share with you today.
Personal Genotyping Course Progress Report
At the Stanford School of Medicine’s Scope blog, Lia Steakley recounts student participation in the school’s summer elective course that offered the physicians-in-training the option to study their own genotype data. “Overall, 33 students in the class of 60 … opted for personal genotyping. Ten others analyzed their genetic background using commercial services before the class,” Steakley reports, adding that a Stanford task force will deliberate to determine whether to offer the course again. Our sister publication Genome Technology spoke with Stuart Kim, one of the course organizers, and professors at other medical schools who’ve incorporated genotyping components into classes they offer for its September issue.
Despite continued doubts about the clinical utility of direct-to-consumer genetic tests, tens of thousands of people have sent away tubes full of their saliva to learn more about their genetic profiles. Armed with such DNA data, a number of early adopters are showing how empowering—and beneficial to science—personal genetic information can be. Elie Dolgin reports on one company’s plans to make medical genetics more participatory.
Next Generation Sequencing viewers reviewed
I gathered up some of the recent free next generation sequence viewers that were capabale of viewing BAM files – and put each through the motions with a few BAM files and reference sequences of various sizes. While there are some great ideas and several choices to be found along the feature spectrum, I think we are still in the dark ages with this stuff. No viewer has really been able to entirely combine usability with performance and analysis capabilities, let alone extensibility and web connectivity.
Remote Surgery Predicted by Arthur C Clarke in 1964 September 15, 2010
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Arthur C Clarke, a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, talked about the future in a 1964 BBC Horizon programme and actually he predicted remote surgery (at 2:40).He also predicted the internet, but that’s not the point here…
One day we may have brain surgeons in Edinburgh operating on patients in New Zealand.
And let’s see what has happened:
iPad in Medicine Confirmed by Apple? September 15, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile.1 comment so far
I’ve been writing about whether iPad could be used in medicine and healthcare for some time (pros and cons, real examples and infographics) and now it seems Apple just confirmed its aim to use it actively in healthcare in a recent commercial.
Planning a visit to a patient September 14, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Hospital, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.add a comment
I remember when Maarten told us how he used Google Docs to let his friends organize a visit to him in the hospital during his chemotherapy. Now Lucien Engelen described a new system that lets friends and family members schedule visits online.
In cooperation with “bezoekhetziekenhuis.nl” we launched -as first hospital in the Netherlands (may be even European ?) a hospital-wide system for visitors to plan and schedule their visit to patients at our facilities. Otfen many visitors come together at the bedside of the patient, and the next day there isn’t anybody visiting. Also somtimes there will be day’s the patient can’t receive any visitors due to treatment, diagnostics or the are not in the mood. All of this can be handles in this system where one of the familymembers take the lead to invite their family and relations to the system. Whenever somebody wants to visit he will enter this in the system. Visible is how many people are already coming. Of something happens, like transfer to another ward, this can be entered in the system also, invoking a mail to the community of the patient. So the family is in charge of maintaining this system, but it is a lot easier then all the phone calls and organizing-fuzz normally.
Transplantation and Web 2.0 September 14, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.1 comment so far
Do you know the Half The Men organ donation resource, the American Society of Transplantation podcast, the Donate Life America community, Mark’s Kidney Transplant Blog or the American Transplant Foundation Twitter account?
Webicina’s new Transplantation and Web 2.0 collection features even more social media resources focusing on transplantation.
If you also want to follow easily these selected resources in a personalized way, here is PeRSSonalized Transplantation, the simplest, free, customizable medical information aggregator.
Here is table of contents:
- News and Information on Transplantation
- Transplantation in the Blogosphere
- Transplantation Podcasts and Interviews
- Transplantation Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums
- Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed
- Transplantation Wikis
- Transplantation videos, animations and videocasts
- Mobile Applications
- Social Bookmarking
- Medical Search Engines
- Slideshows about Transplantation
Feel free to share any of these resources and let us know if you think others should be added.
My New Favourite Blog: pwned experiments September 14, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Fun, science, Web 2.0.3 comments
My collegue, Peter Brazda, at in and around the lab found a very interesting blog, pwned experiments, that features “owned, pwned, and failed science”.
One of the recent examples, We didn’t start the fire! Oh wait…we did.
Help them and send your pwned experiments at pwnedexperiments@gmail.com
