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Walter De Brouwer. Why Doctors Need to Embrace Their Digital Future Now | Magazine. TEDxBrussels - Peter Hinssen - The TIGER & the ROCK. Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science. Anthony Atala on growing organs. Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp | Video on TE. Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives. The ethics of brain boosting. The idea of a simple, cheap and widely available device that could boost brain function sounds too good to be true. Yet promising results in the lab with emerging ‘brain stimulation’ techniques, though still very preliminary, have prompted Oxford neuroscientists to team up with leading ethicists at the University to consider the issues the new technology could raise.

They spoke to Radio 4's Today programme this morning. Recent research in Oxford and elsewhere has shown that one type of brain stimulation in particular, called transcranial direct current stimulation or TDCS, can be used to improve language and maths abilities, memory, problem solving, attention, even movement. Critically, this is not just helping to restore function in those with impaired abilities. TDCS can be used to enhance healthy people’s mental capacities. Indeed, most of the research so far has been carried out in healthy adults. ‘We ask: should we use brain stimulation to enhance cognition, and what are the risks?’ The Five Biggest Ideas On The Future Of Health Care Design | Co.Design. Every year, the biggest ideas in health care are presented at the Mayo Clinic’s Transform conference in Rochester, Minnesota. I was there this year to present a pre-conference workshop with a Continuum colleague on everyday creativity, and another pair of Continuum designers gave a main-stage talk entitled, “Patient Centricity: A design identity crisis.”

Also on the lineup were John Hockenberry and Roger Martin, bigwigs from J+J and GE Healthcare, and practitioners from the top-tier design and innovation firms. Many cutting-edge ideas were presented, along with some spirited debate on the hot topics of delivering care and the role of technology. Here are my top five conference takeaways on the future design of health care. First off, I keep running into the fact that… 1. It’s often said that humans can’t keep up with technology. In some cases, it can take almost a year for an IT provider to update a system in response to an advance in medicine. Which is by way of saying that… 2. 3. 4. 5. Clinic Center for Innovation: The Center for Innovation. The center's research and development origins trace back almost a decade — to Mayo's early SPARC Innovation Program (See-Plan-Act-Refine-Communicate).

Created in June 2008, the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation has become a bridge between the medical practice and human-centered design thinking. This problem-solving approach is used to improve consumer health care experiences and delivery. The CFI team uses research methods such hypothesis-based framing, observing patients and interviewing families, along with traditional consumer research including visualization, modeling and rapid prototyping. Design thinking matches people's needs with what is technologically feasible and considers how a viable business strategy converts into consumer value. The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation is the largest in both square footage and staff and is the first to be integrated into a world-class medical practice setting.

Human-Centered Design Design Research Capabilities and Services Outpatient Lab. Snøhetta To Build A Cutting-Edge Cancer Clinic, For Healing With Humanity. Over the last 15 years, nine Maggie’s Centres have sprung up around the U.K. to support people affected by cancer. Rather than administering medical treatment, these facilities provide comforting environments for those coping emotionally and psychologically with the disease, and their unique approach is matched by their commitment to innovative architecture.

The newest center on the roster is a flying-saucer-like pavilion proposed by Snøhetta that, funding withstanding, is expected to set down in Aberdeen, Scotland. Snøhetta follows a string of starchitects who have designed Maggie’s branches, including Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, and Rem Koolhaas. This particular center would sit on the grassy southern edge of the Forester Hill Hospital, oriented to receive both southern and western light. But it isn’t a done deal yet. Regen van klachten over ziekenhuizen. Het aantal klachten van patiënten bij de ombudsdiensten van algemene ziekenhuizen is de voorbije vijf jaar bijna verdubbeld. Van onze redacteur 'Een van de klachtendossiers die ik onlangs moest afhandelen ging over een patiënt die een chemokuur moest krijgen in het dagziekenhuis', zegt Luc Van Bauwel, ombudspersoon in de GZA-ziekenhuizen in Antwerpen en voormalig voorzitter van de Vlaamse Vereniging Ombudsfunctie van Alle Zorgvoorzieningen (VVOVAZ). 'In plaats van de chemo intraveneus, in de arm, toegediend te krijgen, gebeurde dat in de hals.

Bij deze punctie werd de patiënt in de long geraakt en kreeg hij een klaplong, waardoor hij langer in het ziekenhuis moest blijven dan voorzien. De patiënt wilde eerst een schadevergoeding omdat er volgens hem een “fout' was gebeurd. Na een gesprek bleek dat hij vooral misnoegd was omdat de arts hem niet goed had geïnformeerd en opgevangen, niet zozeer over de fout zelf.' The Human Anatomy, Animated With 3-D Technology. The answer is yes at the New York University School of Medicine, which is using 3-D technology to update a rite of passage for would-be doctors: anatomy class.

In a basement lab at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan last month, students in scrubs and surgical gloves hovered over cadavers on gurneys, preparing, as would-be doctors have for centuries, to separate rib cages and examine organs. But the dead are imperfect stand-ins for the living. Death — and embalming fluid — take a toll. So, in an adjacent classroom, a group of students wearing 3-D glasses made by Nvidia, a graphics processing firm, dissected a virtual cadaver projected on a screen. Compared with the real cadavers in the lab next door, the virtual one seemed as dynamic as Imax.

“It’s like a living digital textbook,” said John J. The virtual human body is the creation of BioDigital Systems, a medical visualization firm in Manhattan that Mr. “We want to become a scalable model,” Mr. Mr. “She’s skinny and female,” Ms.