Lucien Engelen: Crowdsource your health February 18, 2012
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A TEDx talk from my friend, Lucien Engelen, who described an amazing area, crowdsourcing in medicine through social media.
The E-Patient becomes a patient February 13, 2012
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E-patient Dave deBronkart has been the most important and amazing voice of the e-patient movement for years now after surviving a kidney cancer years ago. When I asked him to comment on how medical students should become doctors who are aware of the e-patient movement, he sent me and my students this message.
He announced a few days ago that he has skin cancer again.
An odd consequence of speaking at medical conferences is that sometimes my face is displayed, real big, on monitors at the front of a room. That happened in November at the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) annual meeting in Washington.
At the end, Lisa Letourneau MD, MPH of Maine Quality Countsraced up, pointed to my jaw, and said “You should have that checked. I think it’s a basal cell.” (That’s the least serious type of skin cancer – see Wikipedia: “Basal-cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common type of skin cancer. It rarely metastasizes or kills.”) A few days later I took the picture at left, and started watching.
And now here is the newest piece of the story, Dave approaches the issue from a different angle:
I’ve decided to explore my options by doing what companies do when they’re shopping for a solution: they write a Request for Proposals, and let vendors reply. But in this case what I published isn’t cast in stone – I invite discussion and suggestions. And, significantly, I start with the context: partnership; participatory medicine -
I cannot wait to see how the industry and the healthcare system respond to such innovative approach.
2062 – People Using Social Media Look Back: Funny Video February 10, 2012
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(Hat tip: Canadian EMR)
A Day Made of Glass in the Future February 8, 2012
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Here is a new video showing the futuristic and innovative glass technologies. Can you imagine how it could be used in hospitals and in the healthcare system?
Reinventing Physicians: TED Talk February 5, 2012
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Dr. Jeff Benabio about reinventing physicians in the 21st century.
For over five years, Dr. Jeff Benabio has been using social media channels to help patients learn about skin health and disease and to help doctors learn about engaging patients more effectively. In his practice Dr. Benabio uses disruptive tools such as telemedicine and mobile devices to improve patient access and reduce medical costs. In his talk he’ll show us how we’re re-inventing medicine with Twitter and Facebook, and why it’s the best thing to happen to medicine since vaccines.
What happens to your online life when you die? February 4, 2012
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I have plenty of social media accounts with many contacts and friends. I have data stored in the cloud and have a lot of passwords and files online. Have you ever wondered what happens to your online life when you die?
Well, they say over 1.7 million Facebook users died in 2011. An Australian website collected all the information you need to know from digital preservation to digital waste you would leave behind.
Hans Rosling Brings Humor to Global Health Statistics February 4, 2012
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Hans Rosling public health guru and data enthusiast shines again:
The Robot Report from CES 2012: Medical Implications January 28, 2012
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I got access to the Robot Report written by Frank Tobe from the recent Consumer Electronics Show 2012. He featured many innovative and futuristic consumer robots out of which a few, I think, had real medical or health-related implications. You can download the document here. An excerpt:
Consumer robotics represented a very small part of CES but had the same combination of glitz, glamour, marvelous stuff, misrepresentation, uninspiring products and hidden gems, just like the rest of CES. Robotics Trends hosted a Robotics Tech Zone but the action was well beyond their purview because many of the companies wanted to emphasize their consumer orientation instead of highlighting the robotic.
Some examples:
- PerMMA, a personal mobility and manipulation appliance for power wheelchair users.
- Myomo, rehabilitation robotics and interactive gaming systems for stroke victim rehab.
- Mantaro telepresence robot, a mobile Skype platform using your own iPhone or iPad.
- Paro, the therapeutic furry seal-like bot for hospitals and eldercare.
Nature documentary discovers pharma reps in the wild: Funniest video January 21, 2012
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One of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen. A “nature documentary” about how pharma reps attack their prey, the doctor…
