Sizing Up the iPad for Healthcare

Heres an infographic from mobihealthnews charting the interest and opportunity for the iPad in healthcare.

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98 % Medical Students Believe in Video Game Technology in Education

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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) — The vast majority of medical school students believe that technology in the form of virtual reality exercises could help them to develop the skills they will need as future doctors, a new survey reveals.

The survey of 200 medical students from the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison found nearly all (98 percent) believing the technology to be a definite aid to higher learning.

“Due in large part to their high degree of technological literacy, today’s medical students are a radically different audience than the students of 15 to 20 years ago,” study co-author Dr. Frederick W. Kron, a former assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin and current president of Medical Cyberworlds, Inc., said in a University of Michigan news release.

via businessweek.com

 

Social Networking> Games > Emails are top activities of American Onliners

Forty percent of US online time is spent on just three activities, social networking, playing games and emailing, according to new data from The Nielsen Company.

• Social networks accounted for 22.7% of US internet time, or 906 million
  hours, in June 2010, a significant 43% increase from the 15.8% share of
  time they commanded in June 2009.
• Online games came in a distant second with a 10.2% share of internet time in June 2010, or 407 million hours, a 10% year-over-year increase from 9.3%
• While email represented the third-largest use of internet time in June
  2010 (8.3%, or 329 million hours), this marked a 28% decline from June
  2009, when email accounted for 11.5% of internet time and was the  second-largest usage component.

(Source :
http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/social-media-games-email-dominate-web-time-13738/
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Also see- Top 10 Social Networking sites 2010.- Led by Facebook and MySpace

Also see-

UK Social Networking More than Doubles

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Social Media Gets Specialized – The Physician Niche

Physicians are increasingly collaborating online thanks to the unstoppable boom of online communities. With more MDs discussing clinical and non-clinical topics online, specialized sites have emerged in the past two years for cardiologists, gastroenterologists, ophthalmologists, pediatricians and surgeons. Companies like Abbott, AstraZeneca and Sanofi-Aventis are already diverting their marketing budgets to reach their customers through these niche online social networks.

Physician-only communities have generated much attention as doctors demand private environments to exchange information without patients looking over their shoulders. Manhattan Research reported that 60% of US physicians are either actively using social media networks or are interested in doing so, and more than half of doctors say they are influenced by user-generated content they consider reputable.

via mmm-online.com

 

 

Scientific blogging as a model for professional networking online

via ctt-journal.com

Scientific blogging is a relatively new kind of activity that scientists and people related to science do online. In this essay I’m sharing my own experience about how scientific blogging could be used to establish and advance your professional networking online. The model I use proposes blogging analytical content in a precise scientific niche and sharing discussion and expert opinions through web tools. I use a blog as a central hub for analysis of information flowing from my personal filters and for setting up collaborative filters online, based on professional trusted content. Overall, I think a blog could be one of the best web tools for scientists to build a professional network online.

- By Alexey Bersenev, MD, PhD in


http://www.ctt-journal.com/

 

Designing Healthy Communities

How do we address public health epidemics like obesity, heart disease, depression, and diabetes? The answer may lie in the environments we inhabit. In Designing Healthy Communities, community leaders and citizens alike construct roads, parks, schools, and offices to transform our lives. (via http://www.mediapolicycenter.org)

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Designing Healthy Communities from MPC on Vimeo.

Listen to a multitude of people responsible for designing infrastructure and awareness programs to make our lives healthier.

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NHS Inform- Personalized Health Information Site for Decision Makers

The NHS Information Center is England’s central, authoritative source of health and social care information for front line decision makers.
Our aim is to revolutionize the use of information to improve decision making, deliver better care and realize  increased productivity.
Find out more about us, our work and our objectives.

Check it out for all sorts of data and information, like:

• Ambulances – How many ambulances in any particular district…
• Cancer Screening – Prevalence rates..
• Immunization – Statistics and more..
• Health care workforce – How many are there?
• Contraception, and lots more…

 

ICT Enabled Hospital of the Year – India Nominations

Total votes for this category – 1521

S. No.	Projects	Implementer	State, Country
1	Apollo eHIS (Med Mantra) – Development & DeploymentApollo Hospitals and Tata Consultancy Services joined hands to create a next generation Hospital Information System (HIS) called the Med Mantra. The joint association came into being after a marathon search of Apollo for a HIS product that could meet the needs of a network of hospitals that want to be truly paperless and be able to embrace innovative technologies like RFID etc.	Apollo Hospitals	Andhra Pradesh- India
2	Automation of Zayed Specialized HospitalThe project is automating the work flow of the different departments in Zayed Specialized hospital using a fully integrated Hospital Management Information System (HMIS), the hospital includes 260 Beds And 7 Operations Room, Emergency unit working 24/7 with all specializations, a critical care unit, an intensive care unit, a renal dialysis unit, a pediatrics unit for The Newborns equipped by incubators And Outpatient clinics of all specializations.	Zayed Specialized Hospital	Cairo- Egypt
3	BackBone HISKMCH launched a full scale project of introducing a comprehensive HIS roll-out that covered all of its operations. In addition, it decided early on that every one of its centers will be automated with a robust HIS. With this objective and target in mind, KMCH sought a system that would meet each and every one of its needs.	Kovai Medical Center and Hospital	Tamil Nadu- India
4	Building Entire IT Infrastructure on Red Hat Based Open Source SystemsLifeSpring chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and a number of Red Hat certified enterprise-class open source software solutions such as Zimbra mailing solution, Open Source Trouble Ticketing System (OTRS), Asterisk-based PBX, Alfresco enterprise content management solution, Moodle based learning management system and Zabbix, an open source network monitoring system. Red Hat, along with enterprise-class open source solutions from its certified ISV partners, helped the or	LifeSpring Hospitals Private Limited	Maharashtra- India
5	Computerization of Wellness Centres and offices under central government health schemeManual operations at all CGHS Dispensaries were computerized through a web based software and are connected to a central server located at NIC Head quarters.	Central GovernemtnHealth Scheme, Min of Health and Family Welfare	Delhi- India
6	Cost-effective ICT-enablement of JPNATC, AIIMS, New DelhiComputerization of a major hospital (JPNATC, AIIMS) was attempted using open source software and indigenized solutions with the goal of making the overall project an enterprise level, feature rich, and cost-effective solution to ICT enablement of hospitals in countries like India.	JPN Apex Trauma Centre AIIMS	Delhi- India
7	E-Hospitale-Hospital is state of art information and communication technology based solution to manage the ever expanding volume of health information, and for harnessing the latest in information technology for the benefit of patients, doctors, nurses, paramedical personnel and other professionals, administrators, health care providers.	Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical & Communicable Diseases, Fever Hospital	Andhra Pradesh- India
8	e-Hospital@NIC, Hospital Management Systeme-Hospital@NIC , a Hospital Management System is a workflow based ICT solution for Hospitals specifically meant for the hospitals in Government Sector. This is a generic software which covers major functional areas like patient care, laboratory services, work flow based document/information exchange, human resource and medical records management of a Hospital.	Agartala Government Medical College & G.B.P Hospital	Tripura- India
9	e-Hospital@NIC, A Hospital Management SystemDr. RML Hospital, New Delhi decided to automate hospital wide patient care activities i.e, complete treatment cycle of OPD and IP patient care.	Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital	Delhi- India
10	EPRMS (Electronic Patient Recording and Management System)Introduction of EPRMS inducted at the premises of MGMH Petlaburj.	Modern Government Maternity Hospital	Andhra Pradesh- India
11	Health Management Information SystemIGMC Shimla is the only referral hospital and medical institution in Himachal Pradesh. HMIS was therefore implemented in IGMC to not only provide better services to the patients across the state but to improve the administrative processes too.	Department of Information Technology	Himachal Pradesh- India
12	HIS implemention of Ministry of Health Hospitals of MalaysiaMalaysia’s Health Vision 2020 is to deliver affordable healthcare services to all its citizens through the use of modern, IT enabled, state of the art healthcare facilities created across the nation. In line with this Vision, Malaysia have constructed a number of healthcare facilities across the nation that will be IT enabled and will contain modern, state of the art healthcare equipments and modalities.	Information Technology Department of the Ministry of Health Malaysia BTMK	Putrajaya- Malaysia
13	HMIS Project, Medical Education and Drugs Department (MEDD), Govt of MaharashtraThe Government of Maharashtra (GoM) realized the challenges of dealing with providing healthcare services to a huge population and decided to use ICT as a tool to enhance their ability to deal with this complex delivery model.	Govt of Maharashtra – Medical Education and Drugs Department	Maharashtra- India
14	Hospital pharmacy management systemComputerised the dispensing activity of outpatient pharmacy. The project is implemented fully to reduce the overall expentiture of drugs suppied to patients .	Southern Railways head quarters hospital	Tamailnadu- India
15	ICT Enabled project on “Electronic Medical Records (EMR)Implementation of ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS (EMR) System to provide the Quality Ophthalmic services to patients fully supported by the latest Information and Communication technology (ICT) components.	Sankara Nethralaya	Tamailnadu- India
16	Nanavati Hospital E-initativeDr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital has started project on Telemedicine with objective of providing specialist services to rural India. Telemedicine Master Centre is an e-initiative by Nanavati Hospital, Mumbai to provide quality care to unreachable.	Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital	Maharashtra- India
17	Ruby Hall Clinic, Grant Medical FoundationThe following functions of the Hospital have been automated: 1)Admissions / Registration / ADT 2)Back Office 3)Billing 4)Financial Management 5)Pharmacy Management 6)Laboratory Information System 7)General Stores 8)Radiology Information System 9)Personnel / Human Resources 10)Payroll 11)Management Information System (MIS) 12)Operation Theater Management 13)Electronic Medical Records 14)Laundry 15)Equipment & General Maintenance 16)Blood Bank 17)Digital Medical Imaging 18)Nursing Station	Ruby Hall Clinic, Grant Medical Foundation	Maharashtra- India

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Fantastic Demonstration of iPad uses

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