August 2010 Blog Posts (26)

I enjoyed reading Sarah Willey’s most recent blog Apple Store Demonstrates iPhone EMR Apps to Docs. She introduced the workshop,…

Imagine walking into the Apple store, with its sleek design, and seeing a bunch of medical professionals standing around. It might seem out of place, right? Wrong! A blog on KevinMD.com today, highlights how Apple is really trying to get medical doctors to use their technology.

Here's a sample from the article:

When I recently walked into my local Apple store to buy an iPad accessory, I saw a group of about 20 people huddled around a large LCD screen while an…

The colonoscopy is often considered one of the most embarrassing and uncomfortable medical tests, yet it can save your life. Colon cancer is a highly treatable form of cancer if caught early, but people are still needlessly dying from the disease due to fear. Though colon cancer screening rates are on the rise, awareness is still important.…

Brian Stelter had a goal to lose 25 pounds in 25 week, in time for his 25^th birthday on September 3. He knew he needed a support group and decided to take advantage of Twitter. His motto was “eat, tweet; eat, tweet.” Ideally, he would share each morsel of food he consumed, but he found that he wasn’t always honest with his Twitter followers, or himself. As suspected, however, his…

Remember a few years ago, when hospitals were looking for physicians to support the implementation of EMRs (electronic medical records). Hospitals were having trouble convincing some doctors to get past the learning curve and the cost, stating that it would improve medical care for everyone. But in 2010, while hospitals rely on desktop technology, physicians rely on their smartphones. But is this a good thing?…

Everyone loves a smartphone, but now more than ever physicians are using smartphones and PDAs (and the accompanying applications), making the healthcare market an attractive one for smartphone sales.…

Picture this: a 3-year-old girl falls and cracks her skull. She is rushed to off to emergency care, but the local hospital may not have all the tools necessary to help the girl and traffic will prevent the child from receiving care from a better staffed hospital. A grim situation, sure, but this little girl was ultimately saved by both the local clinic and the far away hospital. How? Using web-cams and…

The Boston Globe's Elizabeth Cooney interviewed Dr. Tara Lagu, a health care researcher at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, who recently published a paper on using social networking as a vehical in patient care and quality improvement.

http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/08/09/social_media_meets_health_care/

Dr. Lagu believes that the next steps…

This week, the FDA seems to have drawn its first line in the social media sandbox with a warning letter to Novartis. Apparently, a Facebook Share widget on Novartis’ website for leukemia-drug Tasigna steps over the FDA boundaries for marketing materials. Specifically, clicking on the widget will deliver detailed information on the drug to a user’s Facebook page.

Specifically, the additional information over hypes the drug’s benefits and…

Dr. Foster Intelligence, one of the UK’s main providers of information within the healthcare sector has been put under review by the Department of Health (DoH) to review strategic options for Dr. Foster Intelligence. The

organisation, a joint venture between…