Bringing the knowledge of best practices to the doctor’s point of care
Impatience is said to be the stance of modern technology users, but a doctor sitting with a patient has good reason to be impatient. The afflicted person may be suffering from a condition where lost...
View ArticleAndroid offers a standard platform for health care apps
Video systems can streamline hospital care in all sorts of ways from displaying messages (“Quiet time is 1 to 2 PM today”) to taking patient surveys, showing patients their X-Rays, and helping patients...
View ArticleHarvard Medical School derives richer health research through patient app
In a mobile, texting, socially engaged society, one would expect medical researchers to move beyond clipboards and phone surveys to make the most of technology. Harvard Medical School and Boston...
View ArticleSingin’ the Blues: visions deferred at HIMSS health IT conference
HIMSS, the leading health IT conference in the US, drew over 32,000 people to New Orleans this year (with another thousand or two expected to register by the end of the conference). High as this...
View ArticleSlow & Steady: looking toward a better health IT future at HIMSS
After my funereal disparagement yesterday of the opening of the HIMSS health care conference in New Orleans, I decided to pick up the beat today and talk about some of the people and ideas I...
View ArticleSaint James Infirmary: checking the pulse of health IT at HIMSS
I spent most of the past week on my annual assessment of the progress that the field of health information technology is making toward culling the benefits offered by computers and Internet...
View ArticleBroadening consults and narrowing queries: HealthTap’s social network
Noting the power of social media in situations ranging from the marketing of sneakers to the overthrow of autocratic regimes, many health care thinkers have suggested a greater use of social media by...
View ArticleData sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 1)
The glowing reports we read of biotech advances almost cause one’s brain to ache. They leave us thinking that medical researchers must command the latest in all technological tools. But the engines of...
View ArticleData sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 2)
Editor’s note: Earlier this week, Part 1 of this article described Sage Bionetworks, a recent Congress they held, and their way of promoting data sharing through a challenge. Data sharing is not an...
View ArticleA very serious game that can cure the orphan diseases
In the inspiring tradition of Foldit, the game for determining protein shapes, Fit2Cure crowdsources the problem of finding drugs that can cure the many under-researched diseases of developing...
View ArticleThe elusive quest to transform healthcare through patient empowerment
Would you take a morning off from work to discuss health care costs and consumer empowerment in health care? Over a hundred people in the Boston area did so on Monday, May 6, for the conference...
View ArticlePatients matter most, but technology matters a lot
Computing practices that used to be religated to experimental outposts are now taking up residence at the center of the health care field. From natural language processing to machine learning to...
View ArticleWays to put the patient first when collecting health data
The timing was superb for last week’s Health Privacy Summit, held on June 5 and 6 in Washington, DC. First, it immediately followed the 2000-strong Health Data Forum (Health Datapalooza), where concern...
View ArticleOpen source software creeps in to health care through clinical research
Although open source has not conquered the lucrative market for electronic health records (EHRs) used by hospital systems and increasingly by doctors, it is making strides in many other important areas...
View ArticleDonald Berwick discusses health care improvement: goals, exemplary...
Last week, a wide-ranging interview on data in health care took place between Dr. Donald Berwick and Colin Hill of GNS Healthcare. Dr. Berwick and Hill got together in the Cambridge, Mass. office of...
View ArticleOne-click analysis: Detecting and visualizing insights automatically
The importance of visualizing data is universally recognized. But, usually the data is passive input to some visualization tool and the users have to specify the precise graph they want to visualize....
View ArticleThe Next “Top 5%”: Identifying patients for additional care through...
This article was written with Arijit Sengupta, CEO of BeyondCore. Tim and Arijit will speak at Strata Rx 2013 on the topic of this post. Current healthcare cost prevention efforts focus on the top 1%...
View ArticleGenomics and the Role of Big Data in Personalizing the Healthcare Experience
This article was written with Ellen M. Martin and Tobi Skotnes. Dr. Feldman will deliver a webinar on this topic on September 18 and will speak at the Strata Rx conference. Genomics is making headlines...
View ArticleClinical discovery in the age of “Big Data”
This guest posting was written by Yadid Ayzenberg (@YadidAyzenberg on Twitter). Yadid is a PhD student in the Affective Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab. He has designed and implemented cloud...
View ArticleCancer and Clinical Trials: The Role of Big Data In Personalizing the Health...
This article was written with Ellen M. Martin and Tobi Skotnes. Dr. Feldman will deliver a webinar on this topic on September 18 and will speak about it at the Strata Rx conference. Despite...
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