Pubblicazioni e riviste - La sicurezza in ospedale. FindZebra - The search engine for difficult medical cases. From Japan, ‘breathing’ toy lulls kids to sleep. Gain instant and exclusive access to over 5,000 of the most creative ideas, innovations and startups on our database and use our smart filters to take you direct to those that are most relevant to your industry and your needs. Not interested? You can still browse articles published in the last 30 days from our homepage and receive your daily and weekly fix of entrepreneurial ideas through our free newsletters. Orologio assistivo ADAMO - Fondazione Torino Wireless-Il distretto tecnologico piemontese dell'ICT – Information and Communication Technology.
Progetto di ricerca applicata in area eHealth Teleassistenza e telemonitoraggio per l'autonomia al domicilio. Un progetto realizzato con il supporto dell'Assessorato all'Industria della Regione Piemonte nell'ambito della Misura 3.4 DOCUP 2000-2006, frutto della ricerca ISMB e Politecnico e di Torino, della capacità imprenditoriale di Consoft Sistemi, PRIMA ELECTRONICS ed Etica, e dell'azione facilitatrice della Fondazione Torino Wireless.
Il progetto Un innovativo sistema di telemonitoraggio/teleassistenza per anziani e disabili pensato per assicurare un intervento rapido ed efficace in situazioni di emergenza e migliorare la sicurezza reale e percepita. Adamo è il risultato della ricerca piemontese grazie al lavoro di un team multidisciplinare, formato da ingegneri, informatici, ergonomi, medici e biologi. ADAMO Il sistema si basa su un terminale wireless integrato in un orologio, studiato e sviluppato secondo criteri di alta fruibilità, e si rivolge a persone anziane o disabili. Notiziario Luglio 2010 N°7. Caro Collega, un insieme di condizioni morbose, tra le quali dominano per frequenza l'ipertensione arteriosa, l'eccesso ponderale, l'iperglicemia e la displidemia, costituiscono, come modernamente viene definita, la "Sindrome Metabolica", che è oggi presente in circa un terzo della popolazione adulta del mondo occidentale.
In Italia, come altrove, queste condizioni sono al primo posto tra le cause di mortalità, morbilità ed invalidità cerebro - cardio - vascolare, configurando così una vera e propria pandemia. Si tratta di condizioni nei cui confronti la correzione delle abitudini di vita non è meno importante del trattamento farmacologico. Tale è la ragione che rende necessario affiancare l’educazione dei cittadini ad un rigoroso ed articolato intervento terapeutico destinato a continuare per tutta la vita.
L'AMEC, oltre ai congressi nazionali annuali, promuove e patrocina diversi convegni locali e regionali ed attiva riunioni di educazione sanitaria con la popolazione. Researcher speaking at Harvard’s Medicine 2.0 conference. Experientia researcher Anna Wojnarowska spoke this Sunday at the Medicine 2.0 conference in Boston on her research on the influence of the hospital environment, communication devices – laptops, mobile phones – and the technologies involved in the curing process such as drips and cardiac devices – on patients’ experiences of hospitalization.
The yearly conference, which had over 500 attendees, focuses on social media, mobile apps, and internet/web 2.0 in health, medicine and biomedical research. Anna’s talk, entitled Body Wholeness and Technological Struggles: How Patients and Staff Cope with the Reality of the Hospital, presented an ethnographic study of a cardiology institute in Warsaw with a focus on the way the digital technologies influence the dynamics between the doctors and patients In the next post, Anna writes about her experience of the conference.
A report on the Medicine 2.0 conference in Boston. Report by Experientia researcher Anna Wojnarowska Harvard Medical School hosted this weekend the Medicine 2.0 conference in Boston. The fifth edition of the event invited academics, practitioners and clinicians for two days of lectures, discussions and presentations, analyzing the changes taking place in the healthcare sector around the world. A major topic recurring throughout the presentations was how decision makers can respond and finally fulfill patients’ needs to engage more consciously in their treatment, personal data management and the diagnosis process, areas that had been hidden from them beforehand.
Dave Debronkart, the closing speaker of the conference highlighted how the dynamics between the medical institutions and their patients reshape in the Web 2.0 reality and how they will further develop. The area of user experience research in healthcare seems to be still only developing, but with visible progress. Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community - The Cochrane Library - Gillespie.
Coming Next - Doctors Prescribing Apps to Patients. PRM, Pharma & Disruptions in Healthcare by Dave Chase on Prezi. The Consumerization of Healthcare | Publicis Healthware International. Tutto quello che c'è da sapere sulla nuova rivoluzione degli ePatient. Non c’è mai stato un momento nel nostro passato in cui l’umanità stesse meglio di adesso. Sì, lo so, è difficile essere cosciente di quante cose vadano dannatamente male e – al contempo – fare una affermazione simile. Ad ispirarmi questo ottimismo sistemico è stato, tempo fa, questo video: ”The Joy of Stats. 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes” di Hans Rosling (BBC Four). Nel video si vede come, negli ultimi due secoli, l’aspettativa di vita e la ricchezza pro-capite sia estremamente migliorata per molte nazioni.
Certo, non per tutte, e neppure è detto che non esistano altre potenziali minacce per la vita sul pianeta. Ma, se si guarda alla nostra salute, non possiamo non renderci conto di un fatto ben preciso: stiamo bene e non siamo mai stati meglio. Il fatto di stare bene dipende da mille fattori: ricchezza personale ed alimentazione prima di ogni cosa e, ovviamente, anche quanto oggi conosciamo della nostra salute e delle patologie che la colpiscono. The wonderful possibilities of m-health #infographic - enterprising business blog. Mobile health is taking off but what’s still in its way?
First, the good news: a growing class of mobile health apps are helping people do everything from lose weight to manage diabetes to chat and talk with doctors in real time. Investment in the sector is expected to increase by 25 percent for the next five years and, according to Chilmark Research, it could exceed $1.1 billion by 2017. But healthcare innovation experts say the vast majority of mobile apps fail to engage consumers and the category as a whole has yet to win over doctors. “Most of these apps are actually awful. There may be 12,000 apps out there but they’re not 12,000 good apps,” Chris Wasden, Global Healthcare Innovation Leader for PwC, said at the MedCity Converge health tech conference Tuesday. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Center, only ten percent of adult cell phone users in the U.S. have downloaded a health app, with some never using it or only using it once. “Consumers are demanding it,” he said. “It’s a real weakness of most apps,” he said.
Do You Have a Prescription For That Mobile Health App? Free tools you can use to study healthcare customers online. It is safe to say that pharmaceutical and healthcare organisations can no longer afford to ignore the fact that the engagement landscape has changed forever. A brief bench test study of online behaviour in any therapy area is not complex, and need not be an expensive exercise.
The following is a simple analysis of a particular therapy area (using various gastrointestinal conditions as examples), using free online tools that can be used to gain a general idea of what the online healthcare landscape looks like before embarking on a long-term digital campaign planning journey. A Brief How-To Guide: Things you can try for yourself Figure 1: Search volume for 'pancreatitis' in the UK (2004-2011) Google Trends also shows the most relevant news stories that come up when searching for the term.
Figure 2: Prominent news stories on pancreatitis over the years Figure 3: The number of search queries for 'pancreatitis' in Spanish is greater than that of searches carried out in English (UK) G.E.-Microsoft Venture to Create 'Windows' for Health Care. Peter Wynn Thompson for The New York Times Any discussion of the challenge of trying to improve health care and curb costs with computer technology quickly turns to “silos.” Not the kind that store corn in Midwestern farms, obviously. Information technology in health care is as fragmented and balkanized as the health care system itself.
The technology silos in health care lead to two afflictions — captive patient and medical information, and the inefficiency of having to tailor code and programs for a bunch of proprietary software systems. General Electric and Microsoft are announcing a joint venture on Thursday intended to attack the silos. His comment is corporately self-referential, to be sure. That, in turn, can spur innovation and an ecosystem of developers and companies who build on top of the platform. The G.E. The new company is not yet named, but its headquarters will be near the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash.
Maurizio Cassi: Free tools you can use to... Uno studio sulla compilazione delle form | Sketchin Journal. L’idea di sperimentare e proporre agli utenti nuove tipologie di form è nata da alcune riflessioni interne al team. Abbiamo deciso di scoprire qual’è il modo più efficiente ed efficace per permettere agli utenti di compilare un formulario perchè, anche esaminando i vari pattern già conosciuti e i vari studi di eye-tracking, a nostro parere non erano state esplorate tutte le possibili alternative. Abbiamo quindi affidato a Riccardo Ghignoni e Chiara Tranquillini la sperimentazione. Le rilevazioni sono state condotte secondo il protocollo standard di usabilità e quindi si è deciso di considerare la velocità di registrazione come un indicatore di efficienza, mentre il numero di errori commessi nella compilazione dei campi come un indicatore di efficacia.
Abbiamo deciso di comparare i pattern di compilazione maggiormente diffusi con alcune soluzioni sperimentali, in seguito abbiamo monitorato i due parametri per stabilire quale fosse la soluzione migliore. Le form, tipologie impiegate Metodo. Physicians aren't taking mobile health seriously. Jennifer Shine Dyer, MD, MPH | Tech | December 17, 2011 I just returned home from mHealth Summit Meeting in DC which, in my opinion, is still one of the biggest and best mobile health conferences of the year. On the first day of the conference, I discussed the EndoGoddess App as a use case example of mobile health from the practicioner point of view. Sadly, the numbers of physicians in the mobile health entrepreneural space at mHealth Summit were still few and essentially unchanged from last year by my counts.
Although I realize that many actively practicing physicians cannot attend all technology meetings, I would consider mHealth Summit to be that one meeting a year that an ambitious physician mobile health entrepreneur would take the time to attend. Therefore, I am assuming that this correlates with a low number of physician entrepreneurs in the marketplace. Submit a guest post and be heard on social media’s leading physician voice. Tagged as: Diabetes, Health IT. Google Health Creator Raises $6.5 Million for Healthy Lifestyle Game, Keas. Techcrunch recently did an interview with Adam Bosworth who is likely best known as one of the creators of Google Health (yes, Google Health is gone now). The video interview has some interesting tidbits about Google Health and why Adam Bosworth thinks it failed. I think it’s interesting to see what else is happening in the health IT investment market.
Adam Bosworth makes some interesting points about ways to add gaming to healthcare. In this case, Keas, a Healthy Lifestyle Game company has raised another $6.5 million from Atlas Venture and Ignition Partners bringing the total investment to $16.5 million. That’s a HUGE bet on healthcare IT. Although, I guess you could classify this as a gaming investment as opposed to a mobile health investment. The interesting thing is that the Techcrunch article highlights the corporate use case for this type of mobile platform. Who Owns The Data Collected About You From Devices Inside Your Body? People have started to wake up to the fact that companies like Google and Facebook hold huge quantities of data about their users. That raises questions about who owns what there, and to what extent users should be allowed access. Now Hugo Campos is asking the same question about a different kind of personal data – that being collected by a cardiac defibrillator implanted in his chest: "I have this complex little computer implanted in my body, but I have no access to it," says Campos.
"The best that patients can do is get a printout of the report given to the doctor, and that's designed for doctors, not patients. Patients are left in the dark. " As the open data movement has shown, the great thing about releasing raw datasets is that it enables people to come up with new and unexpected uses for them. As Campos asks: "Who owns the data collected in my body? " Maurizio Cassi: Who Owns The Data Collecte... 5% of Americans Made Up 50% of U.S. Health Care Spending - Jordan Weissmann - Business. And the top 1%? They made up one fifth of medical expenditures. Shutterstock / Scott Hales When it comes to America's spiraling health care costs, the country's problems begin with the 5%. In 2008 and 2009, 5% of Americans were responsible for nearly half of the country's medical spending. Of course, health care has its own 1% crisis.
The figures are from a new study by the Department of Health and Human Services, which examined how different U.S. demographics contributed to medical costs. The top 5% of spenders paid an annual average of $35,829 in doctors' bills. Aside from the fact that such a tiny fraction of the country was responsible for so much of our expenses, it also found that high spenders often repeated from year to year. The graph below looks at how many people remained in each tranche of health care spending in both 2008 and 2009. According to this follow-up chart, elderly patients, aged 65 or older, made up 13.2% of the population in 2009. The Future of Personalized Medicine. Take a moment to imagine what it would be like to live robustly to the ripe old age of 100 or more. You wouldn't die of any particular illness, and you wouldn't gradually waste away under the spell of some awful, enfeebling disease that began years or decades earlier.
It may sound far-fetched, but it is possible to live a long, disease-free life. Most of the conditions that kill us, including cancer and heart disease, could be prevented or delayed by a new way of looking at and treating health. The end of illness is near. Today, we mostly wait for the body to break before we treat it. I see them being able to monitor and adjust their health in real time with the help of smartphones, wearable gadgets—perhaps like small, invisible stickers—to track the inner workings of their cells, and virtual replicas of their bodies that they will play much like videogames, allowing them to know exactly what they can do to optimize every aspect of their health.
We can do better. —Dr. The Trouble with Treating Patients as Consumers - Augusta Meill and Gianna Ericson. MIT Media Lab’s Health & Wellness 2012: ten day innovation fest, six us-centered projects. mHealth: Meaningful Use and the Pursuit of App-iness. I AM A RESPONSIBLE PATIENT. Should Physicians Pay Patients for Waiting? | Pamela Wible MD. Pillboxie for iPhone reminds you to pop your pills…in style! - Apps.
Ageing | Aging. Will Mommy Tummy 8.0 simulator help guys get it? | Health Tech. Patient behavior tracking startup Ginger.io nabs $1.7 million. IHE. Wearable Technologies | eHealth. PlateMate: Crowdsourcing Nutrition Analysis from Food Photographs. Ospedali «a misura d’uomo», cinque azioni concrete. Healthcare IT Takes on The C Word. Modified iPhone Can Detect Blood Disorders. Therapy via Internet yields good results. Is telehealth a market or a feature? Intel-GE Care Innovations - Home. Technologies for Healthier Living.