**UPDATE: The good folks at SxSW have extended the voting until Sunday. Put this on your to do list for the weekend. Today is the last day to support your favorite innovative thinkers in health by helping them get on the agenda at SxSW Interactive in Austin in the spring. There are in the running […]
If I didn’t know several people who fit this trend, I wouldn’t believe that many millennials are completely uninterested in driver’s licenses and owning a car. I listened to an interview this morning about how car makers are trying to change this attitude. Noah Nelson of Turnstyle News and NPR’s Sonari Glinton talked with technologists […]
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
Some smart data crunching has led to the creation of a new calculator that surgeons and patients can use to assess a patient’s risk for surgery complications like an infection or heart failure. As part of its National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, the American College of Surgeons has developed a surgical risk calculator it says […]
Set your status. Check in with your symptoms. Share photos. Tag parts of the body. Hashtag to join conversations. Personiform‘s Project Medyear combines Twitter and Google Plus with a political campaign-style health record-sharing patient movement. It aspires to be NoMoreClipboard on a Friday night — less official, more social. And Personiform’s kicked off a campaign […]
If you don’t follow Hugo Campos (@HugoOC) on Twitter, you probably should. He’s changing the way at least one of the big medical device companies–Medtronic (MDT)–thinks about sharing data with patients. He’s also posting interesting stuff on patient empowerment, privacy and data democritization. Campos posts regularly, too. He seems to really curate his feed. Here are […]
Dr. Ted Eytan and Stephanie Nguyen of Silica Labs created this prototype for a doctor-patient interaction using Google Glass. The software could offer a doctor a quick scan of a patient’s basic information when she enters the exam room. This could include everything from a map of where the person lives to what she prefers […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Jess Jacobs and Donna Cryer are experts on the healthcare system — professionally and personally. Jacobs has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and describes it best in her own words: I have an idiopathic condition. It lies somewhere between the heart, autonomic nervous system, and mind. It’s a veritable no-mans land of drugs and specialists where […]
Qpid.me has turned one of the healthcare industry’s liabilities — communicating by fax — into a strength for patients. Founder Ramin Bastani has figured out how to use this creaky technology to make it easier for patients to get their medical records and to share the information with potential partners at the same time. Qpid.me […]
It’s hard to get past the crazy of the Rap Genius team, probably because it’s such a comprehensive crazy. Recreational use of prescription meds, cultural appropriation, comments that are a mix of hippie and rapper, “If you wanna ball major, you’ve gotta drink the f-ckin kool-aid.” I don’t know if the three Yale alumi are […]
Health care today is fragmented, reactionary, inconvenient, disempowering and difficult to navigate. It is too expensive, outcomes are lagging and the value proposition to customers is lacking. Current concepts of the patient experience are too narrow. Much of today’s experience delivery is based on the traditional health care model of sick care: paternalistic, controlling and […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The annual hospital rankings dished out by U.S. News and World Report may not be pulling the same weight they once did, as criticism over the last few years of the rankings have said they put too much weight on reputation and not enough weight on objective measures of quality. Health IT firm Axial Exchange […]
With less than a month to go until the annual rendezvous of creativity, medicine and technology that is TEDMED, the event’s organizers have revealed the final list of presenters, and it’s loaded with familiar faces. In its third year under Priceline.com founder Jay Walker, TEDMED is shaping up this year much like in years past […]
First, this is very, very important work. Second, I have recommended these lists to my parents and my friends for help in making treatment decisions. Third, this information should start showing up on Facebook and blogs and search results, but it never will at this rate. Choosing Wisely just added more topics to its lists […]
It was the year of the fitness gadget at the Consumer Electronics Show, and there were plenty to choose from. I met several smart entrepreneurs and corporate folks advancing the cause of health innovation on all fronts. I didn’t meet anyone famous during a “conference transition time” — in line at Starbucks, sharing a table […]
This week's New England Journal of Medicine contains a perspective piece by Emily Oshima Lee, M.A., and Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. entitled "Shared Decision Making to Improve Care and Reduce Costs." The original paragraph of the piece sets the to...