Fun Videos from PPLD
posted on 4 Jul 2009Jill Jarrell hipped me to the fun videos her library posts on Vimeo. Here’s one on workplace etiquette (Jill stars in the fridge, grazing, at about 3m:19s).
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World Congress of Gerontology & Geriatrics: Live Coverage
posted on 3 Jul 2009From this Sunday (4th of July), I will cover the World Congress of Gerontology & Geriatrics 2009 through my blog and Twitter account for 4 days. I will mostly focus on the genetics-related presentations.
Held every four years, the IAGG (International Association of Gerontology & Geriatrics) World Congress of Gerontology & Geriatrics is attended by teams of experts from around the world, who will discuss the latest findings in the fields of ageing. An attractive program was created by its International Scientific Committee and will feature four main investigation areas:
- Health and geriatric sciences
- Social gerontology
- Behavioural and psychological sciences
- Biology of ageing.
The new site (...read more)
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Impact of Social Media on Health Care: Slideshow
posted on 3 Jul 2009Bob Coffield shared a fantastic slideshow with us on his Healthcare Law Blog.
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The Joy of a Local Hardware Store
posted on 2 Jul 2009
Let me describe two experiences:I walk into a big box home improvement store and ask for advice about screens for storm windows that were popular in Wellesley, Massachusetts in the 1960's. No one has any idea what I'm talking about. Not just about (...read more)
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AI: Analytics Innovators Series Video
posted on 1 Jul 2009pThis web video series features examples of groundbreaking companies, services and products that epitmize the age of smarter analytics, pervasive computing and new intelligence that IBM#39;s new a href=http://www.ibm.com/gbs/analytics mce_href=http://www.ibm.com/gbs/analyticsBusiness Analytics amp; Optimization Services/a was created to advance./p pSee more BAO content and clips at the a href=http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/newintelligence/ mce_href=http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs (...read more)
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PeRSSonalized Medicine vs Clinical Reader
posted on 1 Jul 2009A few months ago, we created PeRSSonalized Medicine on Webicina.com, a free service, to help medical professionals keep up with the huge amount of new medical information. Without having a clue what RSS is, you can follow your favourite resources, medical news sites and Pubmed updates in one place with just one click. You can also personalize it according to your needs.
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The HIT Symposium at MIT
posted on 1 Jul 2009This morning I joined a panel discussion about Standards at the HIT Symposium at MIT.
We had a great panel discussion, moderated by Janet Marchibroda (Chief Healthcare Officer at IBM) that included Christine Bechtel (Vice President, National Partnership for Women and Families Patrick Gallagher (Deputy Director at NIST) and me.
Patrick provided an overview of NIST and the work the government is doing to ensure selected healthcare standards perform as advertised, are implementable, and usable.
Christine described the role of the HIT Policy Committee and its workgroups.
I described the current HITSP Tiger Team work, the standards committee/workgroups including their charge, purpose, milestones.
Here's my presentation (...read more)
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Nursing Informatics 2009: Slideshow
posted on 1 Jul 2009Today is the last day of the Nursing Informatics Congress taking place in Helsinki, Finland. You can check the Twitter updates of the congress. And here is the panel presentation of Scott Erdley and Peter Murray (...read more)
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What’s on the web? (30 June 2009)
posted on 30 Jun 2009An Open Letter To Patients Regarding Health Reform (Dr. Wes)
It has come to my attention that in order for you to enjoy success as patients in the new era of health care reform, you must start working now to prevent illnesses that might befall you. Do not, under any circumstances, eat or drink too much. Fast food might as well be considered illegal. Exercise three, four, five times a day, even if it means take time off from work. It goes without saying that you should not smoke. The government has data (...read more)
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Twitter News: Image from 1935 and how hospitals shouldn’t use Twitter
posted on 30 Jun 2009Medical Twitter (BMJ Careers) Twitter in 1935 (BoingBoing)
How Hospitals and Health Systems Should Not Use Twitter (A “HealthTweep” Pulse Check)
If you are a hospital, healthcare facility or parent system considering social media, please take the time to learn what is happening in the “Twittersphere”, and do pay attention to the evolving “agreements” of Twitter-etiquette.
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AllTwoPointZero.com: Science, Health and Culture 2.0
posted on 30 Jun 2009Pawel Szczesny had a great idea about visualizing Science 2.0, Health 2.0 and Culture 2.0:
Initially I had an idea to launch a huge portal around “2.0″ meme – essentially tracking changes in communication methods across various areas. I wanted to quit science and start a consulting career in helping people to communicate more efficiently (new channels and tools, efficient visual communication, etc.).
Later he created AllTwoPointZero.com (...read more)
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100 Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists
posted on 30 Jun 2009BestCollegesOnline published a list of the top 100 lectures from the world’s best scientists. I thought I should share my favourite ones:
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Standards Deployability
posted on 30 Jun 2009I've described the taxonomy that we're using in the HIT Standards Committee to characterize "deployability":
Category I- Known/Certain for 2011
Standards are well-accepted and generally seen as deployable
Category II- Known/Certain for 2013
Standards exist, are determined, but are not in the market yet
Category III- Work In Process for 2013 or 2015
Need to con (...read more)
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In Defense of Writers
posted on 29 Jun 2009In the New Yorker this week, there is a review of Chris Anderson’s new book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price”. Anderson who is known for saying "information wants to be free" continues that theme in seeing all content, music, writing, etc. will be driven by economic forces to be free. He is reinforcing the death of newspapers and their need to find a new business model (...read more)
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Implementing a Modern Hospital Website
posted on 29 Jun 2009Over the past two years, I've witnessed a transition in modern website design from plain text and static information to multimedia centric and interactive. I've written about the new BIDMC website we implemented to meet patient expectations for a modern website.
Many healthcare organizations I work with are considering content managed, new media, highly interactive web 2.0 sites. I thought it would be useful to describe how we approached the BIDMC website so you can leverage our experience.
Content Management - BIDMC has a great deal of .NET expertise, so we wanted a content management system that worked well in our .NET/SQL Server 2008 environment. SiteCore (...read more)
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How to use Second Life in Medicine: Free e-Guide
posted on 29 Jun 2009On Webicina.com, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service, I keep creating free e-guides for doctors in order to help them get closer to the web 2.0 world and make their online presence as efficient as possible. Now here is “Medicine in Second Life“, a free e-guide in which I provide step-by-step tutorials about how to enter the virtual world and organize medical meetings or case presentations.
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Science in Society: Slideshow
posted on 28 Jun 2009Cameron Neylon rocks again:
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NCBI ROFL
posted on 27 Jun 2009Martha Hardy (friend, medical librarian, incredibly cool person) hipped me to NCBI ROFL, a wonderful blog that highlights the best chuckles from PubMed citations.
Edit: D’oh! Nikki posted about this yesterday and Berci before that!
I have become a truly lame blogger.
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BusinessWeek: The Family Doctor: A Remedy for Health-Care Costs?
posted on 26 Jun 2009pstrongspan% of the U.S. gross domestic product. That burden is felt particularly by private industry, which covers 60% of the nation#39;s insured. Since most businesses try to ferret out waste and disorganization in their own operations, the medical home is a concept they can embrace in good conscience./pp$1.3 billion last year on health benefits for its U.S. employees and retirees, equal to one month of the company#39;s net income. Dr. Paul H. Grundy, 57, who holds the unusual title of directo (...read more)
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Cool Technology of the Week
posted on 26 Jun 2009
I work in the Longwood Medical Area - a former cowpath that is now the only access to the center of biomedical research, healthcare, and informatics. It's a very challenging place to commute, especially on Red Sox games days. I carry a red sox schedule in my wallet to h (...read more)
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The Future of Web 2.0
posted on 25 Jun 2009A post by Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle from the Web 2.0 Summit predicts extension of many of the existing tools to a more pervasive and organized internet and social media. "Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On" describes the future of:
search using speech recognition data subsystems making structured data out of unstructured dataSensor-based applications, such as, voice recognition on mobile devicesPhotosynth (...read more)
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The Future of Personal Genomics
posted on 25 Jun 2009I recently participated in an panel discussion at Bio-IT World on the future of personal genomics.
As one of the PGP-10, I'm a passionate supporter of full genome sequencing as a means to empower patients to work with their clinicians in formulating a plan for lifelong wellness.
You'll find my personal comments in this webcast (...read more)
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The Second Meeting of the HIT Standards Committee
posted on 24 Jun 2009Today, Jonathan Perlin and I ran the second meeting of the HIT Standards Committee.
Here's a report on presentations and the work ahead.
Jamie Ferguson presented the work of the Clinical Operations Working Group. There are three major threads of effort
- Clearly define the standards work to be completed by the Clinical Operations Workgroup and the Clinical Quality Workgroup, since quality measures depend upon clinical operations data
- Select the specific st (...read more)
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Copyleft, All Rights Reversed
posted on 23 Jun 2009I want my blog to be used for education, training, and research. I hope that its contents appear in derivative works such as other blogs, websites, and wikis. I'd prefer that these derivative works be openly shared.
I would also ask that any material that is repurposed has attribution to me as the author.
Content from my blog should not be sold. Charging for access to that which I make freely available seems wrong.
How do I express these preferences legally?
There are a variety of licensing approaches that enable the author to declare preferences beyond "(c) copyright all rights reserved". In my case, I want "some rights reserved".
I recently me with the CEO of Wikidoc (...read more)
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A New Approach to Certification
posted on 22 Jun 2009Last week I spoke with Mark Leavitt, the CEO of CCHIT, about his best thinking regarding certification in a post-ARRA world.
In the past there have been 3 groups who have requested improvements to existing certification criteria:
1. Self developers who achieve a high degree of functionality through continuous improvement of home built software
2. The Open Source community
3. The Health 2.0/iPhone as application platform/multiple thin web-application combined to provide EHR-Lite functionality community
CCHIT held 2 Town Halls, each with 500 people, to publicly discuss a new approach to certification.
Mark's slides are available online (...read more)
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Open Access journal JMIR rises to top of its discipline
posted on 20 Jun 2009I am still shaken and thrilled by yesterdays' big news: The Open Access publication Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), which I created 10 years ago, has now established itself as THE leading peer-reviewed journal in the field of ehealth, or as I prefer to put it, for "health and health care in the Internet age". Yesterday, on June 19th, 2009, the Impact Factor rankings for 2008 were published by Thomson Reuters (Impact Factors (...read more)
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Smarter Healthcare Channel via GBS Video Studio
posted on 19 Jun 2009pWith healthcare reform taking centerstage in Washington in the weeks and months ahead, we wanted to share this section of clips in the IBM a href=http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/newintelligenceGlobal Business Services Video Studio/a, which debuted with the launch of IBM#39;s new consulting organization, a href=http://www.ibm.com/gbs/analyticsBusiness Analytics amp; Optimization/a./pp/ppstronga href=http://greateribm.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834523cf669e2011571999d7b970b-pi (...read more)
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IBM Chief Health Officer Janet Marchibroda on Smarter Healthcare
posted on 19 Jun 2009pemJanet Marchibroda is the chief health care officer of span@ a href=http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/17/health-care-reform-leadership-governance-information.html mce_href=http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/17/health-care-reform-leadership-governance-information.htmlThere Can Be No Health Care Reform Without An Information Revolution - Forbes.com/a)/p (...read more)
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System S: Stream Computing for Healthcare
posted on 19 Jun 2009pa href=http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/press/us/en/pressrelease/27508.wssIBM System S/a, which was released in May, has been in the works for more than 20 years. The software uses a new streaming architecture and mathematical algorithms that can analyze thousand of simultaneous data streams in real-time. Officials say organizations, like those in the healthcare industry, will benefit from the technology’s ability to help them improve decision-making. Traditional computing models retrospectiv (...read more)
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Cool Technology of the Week
posted on 19 Jun 2009
Several very innovative healthcare applications were shown last week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2009.One was from a company called Air Touch that offers secure, patient data in real-time to smart phones. Their products were FDA approved in April 2009.
Here's the description from their website:
“The development of the AirStrip Technologies platform was driven by the desire to improve the speed and quality of communication in healthcare.
The AirStrip Technologies platform securely delivers critical patient information, including virtual real-time waveform data, directly from hospital monitoring systems to a doctor or nurse’s smart phone, laptop or desktop. The platform is completely reusable, scalable and data independent, and can be employed throughout the healthcare enterprise. The AirStrip service is provided to physicians by the hospital.
AirStrip Technologies offers mobile, medical software applications that deliver this vital data directly to mobile devices, including smart phones. The applications are powered over wired and wireless networks. Patient information is available anytime, anywhere, on virtually any carrier, with any device on any platform.”
Their iPhone offering includes
Critical Care (...read more)
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Join Dr. Alex Jadad to discuss his new book "Unlearning"
posted on 15 Jun 2009You are invited to participate in conversation and discussion
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Peter Neupert on Healthcare Reform
posted on 9 Jun 2009Peter Neupert of Microsoft writes an article for the the Washington Post titled "Diagnosing and Treating the Health Non-System. "
He discusses three "diseases":
-Access (too many uninsured people)
-Value (too much spending for the health results delivered)
-Ignorance (at every level - who really pays for health, misaligned
incentives, true costs, quality measures, transparency (...read more)
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CHLA-ABSC 2009
posted on 9 Jun 2009Thanks so much to Laurie Blanchard and everybody at CHLA for inviting me to speak! I enjoyed Winnipeg and it was a treat to finally meet people like Francesca Frati (...read more)
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Are medical costs the leading cause of U.S. bankruptcies?
posted on 8 Jun 2009pThe a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=are-medical-costs-the-leading-cause-2009-06-0560 Second Science Blog/a, from Scientific American, reports:/pdiv (...read more)
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Smarter Planet Widgets: Analytics, Healthcare, Cities & Energy
posted on 28 May 2009pspan (...read more)
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What is Web 3.0?
posted on 26 May 2009There has been alot of debate about what Web 3.0 is and when it will arrive. In a post on ReadWriteWeb titled, Web 3.0 or Not, There is Something Different About 2009, the debate continues. Also see the embedded slideshare. Some important trends in 2009 are:
Open data Structured data -> smarter Filtering content Real-time Personalization Mobile (location-based, so you could say that's smarter use of data too) Internet of Things (the Web in real-world objects).Linked data and Google snipets are noted as part of the trend. It sounds like mashups, web services and physical world integration are leading to a defacto Web 2.0 world. The implications for Health 2.0 will be the topic of a future post.
Technorati: Web 3.0 (...read more)
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Update on Physician Social Networking
posted on 21 May 2009Participated in the Within3.com advisory board this evening - a very dynamic meeting with lots of creating ideas from the board and the staff. Their business model is refreshing - no advertising, no annonymous identities, developing communities which enhance healthcare and the practice of medicine. They just launched the community for the alumni of Boston's Childrens Hospital. Within3.com is a Cleveland startup (yes, Cleveland does have startups including many biotech firms). This is a company to watch.
Also, videos from the Health 2.0 conference (...read more)
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"Swine Flu" vs "H1N1" terminology - tweets show that people do not adopt the new term
posted on 21 May 2009In a previous post I already gave an example of the kind of research we are doing using the Infovigil system - an infodemiology/infoveillance system, which we are developing in cooperation with public health agencies *.
As described in this article, one of the applications of infodemiology (aside from identifying emerging epidemics) is to measure and track knowledge translation and dissemination. When the WHO as well as public health officials around the world dropped the terminology "swine flu" (...read more)
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The Patient Centered Medical Home: Blogger Briefing (MP3 Audio)
posted on 20 May 2009pspan (...read more)
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Reports on Twitter Fueling H1N1/Swine Flu Fear and Misinformation Are Vastly Overstated
posted on 20 May 2009
Is Twitter fueling panic and misinformation? (Image Source: Posible caso de influenza (...read more)
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Patient-Centered Medical Home: Blogger Briefing
posted on 19 May 2009div– if appropriately conceived and properly implemented. But it can also suffer from unfettered expectations. This study makes the realistic case for why and how stakeholders can participate in PCMH initiatives, identifies critical issues and makes recommendations for best practices to increase the likelihood of initial success and sustainability./p (...read more)
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Linked Data in Health Care
posted on 15 May 2009In a recent TED video, Tim Berners Lee presented on linked data including in health care and social networks. Te WC3 document he authored on this is here. This is foward thinking and although he did not mention Web 3.0, the implication is that this is the next big thing. Other links about linked data:
How to Publish Linked Data on the Weblinkeddata.org/ (...read more)
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Patient empowerment and power distance, health care safety and plane crashes
posted on 7 May 2009
I just finished reading a fascinating book chapter "The ethnic theory of plane crashes" in Malcolm Gladwells book Outliers. Malcolms argument is that
The single most important variable in determining whether a plane crashes is not the plane, it's not the maintenance, it's not the weather, it's the culture the pilot comes from. Planes are flown safely when the pilot and co-pilot are in open and honest communication. And in cultures where it is difficult for a junior person to speak openly to a superior, you have lots of plane crashes.
(Source: CNN (...read more)
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☣Sneeze: Flash Flu Fun
posted on 7 May 2009
How timely that a friend sent me the link to this game just when I needed a fun break from Swine Flu panic.
In Sneeze, you are an influenza virus in one human and have the opportunity the spread yourself in various environments by having your human sneeze just once on each level.
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Q&A With Melissa Rethlefsen
posted on 7 May 2009
MIDLINE, the Newsletter of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association has a Q&A with my friend and kick-butt medical librarian Melissa Rethlefsen.
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Health 2.0 Updates
posted on 4 May 2009Two recent postings shining more light on Health 2.0. Specifically, a European post on Health 2.0 and Information Therapy, the joint topics for the Boston conference. He notes that both are an "enhance the patient care and the patient provider relationship." He wonders about the business case for using something like Mayo Clinc's Health Manager based on HealthVault. Currently, there is no indication that there are any such plans but some of the other examples, such as, LiveStrong and ChangeHealthcare, may have a business case for healthcare organizaitons.
Second is a video of Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody which I am currently reading. I also heard hims speak at HIMSS 2009. The video on Ask Manny Hernedez's blog (...read more)
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EBSCOhost and ScienceDirect Blocking RSS re-syndication?
posted on 28 Apr 2009A friend who is a medical librarian emailed me. She writes:
“I’ve been setting up local RSS pages with Feedburner [for email distribution] and Feed2JS [for dislaying the content of feeds on Web pages] for our most popular journals, to allow for TOCs.
…
It seems the publishers have gotten wise to this and are not allowing their feeds to be resyndicated. It started with EbscoHost — I noticed their feeds never seemed to refresh themselves (which t (...read more)
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The Digital Consumer: Roadmap to Web 2.0 in Healthcare Organizations
posted on 28 Apr 2009From a recent presentation in Baltimore.
The Digital Consumer: Web 2.0 Roadmap for Healthcare Organizations