I am currently attending this course, for the purpose of achieving insight in ontological theories and methods. Lots of interesting people, theories and hypotheses.
May 23, 2006
April 20, 2006
The use of Google calendar for medical diaries
Lifehackercites a patient describing her use of Google calendar to manage her health. Google calendar has this nice sharing feature which could be used by patients to share their experiences with their doctor. I think this is another nice example on patient’s creative use of Web 2.0 technologies. This should have implications for those planning to develop personal health records.
April 17, 2006
Medicine and Internet
John Udell: “Medicine is, among other things, a kind of information monopoly“. Here we need to distinguish between monopolized access to medical knowledge and medical societies’ ownership of the methods used to generate medical knowledge. Patients have always been willing to share their experiences with, and to learn from other patients. A Personal medical record system with a mechanism that allow peers to share their experiences could become a killer application.
January 31, 2006
PubMed gets a makeover
From Bio-ITworld.com: The National library of medicine (NLM) has decided to create a new user interface to its search engine. Possibly inspired by Google and other search engines that has emerged the last decade, NLM will simplify access to sophisticated functionality that already has been developed but that users seldom use today.
October 11, 2005
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
today awarded three contracts totaling $17.5 million to public-private groups that will accelerate the adoption of health information technology (health IT) and the secure portability of health information across the US. Read more
October 1, 2005
NHS Faculty of health informatics
September 19, 2005
Report from the Reconfiguring healthcare workshop at ECSCW2005
We presented the COPIM project (COllaborative personal Information Management) at a workshop dedicated to CSCW in healthcare. Apart from Aksel, Terje and me, those who attended were Ellen Balka , Ina Wagner , Gianni Jacuzzi, Victoria Carlsson , Marike Hettinga , Finn Kensing , Nis Johanssen and Jos Aarts. We got to present our project and had a very good discussion.
ECSCW 2005
Title: ECSCW 2005
Abstract: I have arrived in Paris to attend the ECSCW conference. We are presenting a paper at a workshop tomorrow: “Reconfiguring healthcare:Issues in Computer Supporter Collaborative Work in Healthcare Environments “.
Body: More info will follow after the workshop.
September 2, 2005
Quality Aims for the 21st Century Health System
Rod points to a new report from the US National academy of sciences. Recommendation 5-1a. The federal government, in partnership with the private sector, universities, federal laboratories, and state governments, should establish multi-disciplinary centers at institutions of higher learning throughout the country capable of bringing together researchers, practitioners, educators and students from appropriate fields of engineering, health sciences, management, social and behavioral sciences to address the quality and productivity challenges facing the nation’s health care delivery system.
August 28, 2005
Privacy vs usability.
This publication (Pubmed) is based on analysis of interviews with patients using a web-based system for sending messages to their primary care physician. In Norway every patient has been assigned a primary care physician whose role is to provide primary care and to coordinate speciality care, physiotherapy etc.
