Health 2.0 Opening Video-2007

Health 2.0 Opening Video - 2007 from Health 2.0 on Vimeo.

Obama Addressing AMA

Medical Vocabulary

Hilarious…Best read today

 

http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/06/02/joel-diamond-6209/

Bellagio eHealth Call to Action

Interesting material -

http://www.ehealth-connection.org/speeches-video

Windows Live Writer -

Trying this out. The interface is simple and easy to use, maybe will revive my writing on these pages…not much done for the past two years

Multitouch Surfaces

Microsoft Multi touch computing

Himss is in the air...The first and biggest conference in the region. Will this answer the many woes of healthcare in the region or is it just a showcase of how the players practice their games before heading off to the levelling field

Cambridge, UK -- If healthcare providers are to cope with the data received from the increasing number of wireless diagnostic and monitoring devices, more intelligence must be added to the core of their IT systems. That is the one of the conclusions of a report recently published by Cambridge UK based analysts Wireless Healthcare.

The report sees manufacturers continuing to push wireless medical devices into the consumer electronics market. Wireless Healthcare acknowledges that this will help move care to the edge of the healthcare network, yielding cost savings and delivering se rvices to patients currently overlooked by incumbent providers. However, it also warns that without intelligent software applications to handle data collected from wireless monitoring devices, clinicians will become overloaded and patients’ expect ations of the system will not be met.

As Peter Kruger, Senior Analyst with Wireless Healthcare points out. “This is rather like an online banking service without software to analyse a customer’s loan application. It is not difficult to imagine what would happen if every time an online customer put in a request for a loan it had to be read and approved by a manager.”

The report identifies a number of key intelligent software components that are currently under development, but casts doubt on whether these will fit with the IT infrastructure being installed by major healthcare providers such as the UK’s NHS.

The three components are:

Analytical engines.
Diagnostic tools.
Disease monitoring software.

Duplicate Drug Alert

Is duplicate drug alert, a help or a menace?

Considering the stake holders involved. there are two ways of looking at this.

- This IS A help to the clinician, during order entry, if it is a passive alert.It can be made intrusive depending on the practice policy.
- From the pahrmacist point of view, duplicate drug orders cause duplicate entries and difficult management of the prescription.