“In this edition (click link for video) of House Calls for Healthcare Professionals, Dr. Bill Crounse and his guests discuss this collaborative initiative between the NHS, Microsoft, and the developer community to improve patient safety and end-user satisfaction with a more intuitive, standardized, and universal user interface to clinical applications.”
Other health-related news:
Though of course now its part of NICE it should be easier to provide objective measures of success, as Wanless talks about in his report.
Guess my dry sense of humour just couldn’t resist this medicare skit – “its easy, its simple, and its the right thing to do”.
Is the pharma-freeze on new and social media thawing? It’s an interesting question, thanks to ‘eye on fda’.
Curbside MD is a really good way of checking what’s happening in terms of clinical research into tinnitus (and other conditions of course):
Interesting blog post on Jack Mason’s HealthNex on the quality of the US healthcare system:
“One of the problems with our healthcare quandary is that some folks feel that these sorts of reports or data aren’t empirical, objective realities, but some kind of subtle attack or denigration of America. To suggest that America is wanting on a front as important as healthcare may seem to some like an almost unpatriotic act, rather than just the cold hard facts.”
It occurs to me that a Digg/Stumbleupon for radiologists could work in the near future, allowing professionals to bookmark and share their favourite stories, images etc. Watch this space.
Thanks to the Kaiser Network, the podcast (3.2MB) from the ABC News debate.
As a former public health professional it’s interesting/amusing how candidates in respect of healthcare are plugging the tried and tested ‘prevention is better than treatment’ line to deal with the crisis in the US healthcare system.
Sad news just received on Dr. Gottfried Mayer, editor of the Complexity Digest. On a positive note therefore Medicexchange’s editorial on progress on colon cancer research in 2007 (written by Dr. Beth G. McFarland, from the Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Chesterfield, MO) focuses on the development of CAD – something Medicsight is working on right now with its ColonCAD product, which is currently awaiting FDA approval.
“Dr. Gottfried Mayer is at this very moment battling sudden detection of colon cancer. He is in Germany for multiple operations and is unlikely to be able to assemble weekly editions of ComDig for several weeks (his forecast) or longer (mine).
“For eight years, he has guided this publication with the principle that complexity science knowledge could be promoted by nurturing the network … by exchanging text and video information on items related to our interests, especially those with a practical application. Weekly readership of well over 10,000 attests to his proposition.
“To honor Gottfried while he is convalescing, we have compiled Annual Editions of all the articles published every year, beginning with our beta test issues in 1999 and through the present. The Annual Editions may be downloaded from www.comdig.com. We know you will not read each one, but they will be in searchable Acrobat format. This week’s Complexity Digest presents the Annual Editions for the years 1999 and 2000.
“A review of the range of interests and application of complexity attest to the contribution Gottfried has made to the field.
“We expect him to resume his role shortly, and I know you join me in wishing him a fast and complete recovery.”
In case you’d hadn’t heard Google’s official blog carried an announcement a few days ago New advisory group on health. “It is unclear exactly what the role of this group will be, although there is speculation they will be developing an application for patients to store their medical information online. However the mission of the ‘Google Health Advisory Council’ is stated to be “to help us better understand the problems consumers and providers face every day and offer feedback on product ideas and development”.” [Thanks to Rod Ward @ Informaticopia]
There are some names there I recognise, like Kaisers which bode well in terms of sources professionals trust. Anyhow it’s good we’ve also covered the story on Medicexchange: Have medical imaging professionals missed the boat with the formation of Google’s new advisory group on health?