The next step in telemedicine? Had an interesting discussion a while back with Dean Economou (of CSIRO) as to whether adding additional data will improve clinical outcome. The telemedicine evaluation I am involved in seems (though the data is not yet in) to provide an improvement in quality of care over a plain old telephone, so perhaps 3 D will also? [Via AMIA News Bytes]
8:57:25 PM    

"Keeping a diary of our own health will soon become a way of life, turning decades of secrecy between doctors and patients on its head." Hmm, article could do with a better intro paragraph. Intersting report on consumer informatics. [Via AMIA News Bytes]
8:52:16 PM    

I'm not usually jazzed by EHR projects but came across this via AMIA and was impressed by the patient centric view that will be available. [Via AMIA News Bytes]
8:42:04 PM    

"We are a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, computer scientists, information and media scientists, industrial designers, engineers, and ethnographers, all working towards inventing smart technology and new working environments that help in the treatment and care of patients."

Work being done by this group is one of the best examples I have seen of the use of quantitative and qualitative methods in healthcare research.
8:38:00 PM    

"It is only proper that such a manifesto begin with the story of Doug Engelbart. In the 1960s, Engelbart and his laboratory at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) invented the fundamental building blocks found in all of today's collaborative tools -- everything from the data structures (hypertext) and user interfaces (windowing systems), to applications (groupware) and physical interfaces (the mouse). Engelbart's work was driven by some deceptively simple observations, which he described in his 1962 paper, "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework." His thesis was this: Society's problems are scaling at unprecedented rates, so solutions need to scale also. Our very survival depends on our ability to work together more effectively, to get collectively smarter. Computers -- when used properly -- can help us do this." [Via Slashdot]
7:38:31 AM    

Most of us are using computers, but also PDAs and cell phones. And this trend is accelerating in our increasingly networked wireless world. We might use hundreds of computing devices by the end of this decade. Still, we are slaves to our machines. With every new device, we have to learn new commands, languages or interfaces. The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), a strategic alliance between the University of Cambridge in the UK and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S., has enough of it and wants to give back control to the users. So it launched its 'Pervasive Computing' initiative with the intention to tackle this challenge. In particular, the group wants to develop new technologies to make easier for us to interact with all these computers. [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends]
7:33:49 AM