Computer-Assisted Update of a Consumer Health Vocabulary Through Mining of Social Network Data | Doing-Harris. This paper is in the following e-collection/theme issue: Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine Advertisement: Preregister now for the Medicine 2.0 Congress Original Paper Computer-Assisted Update of a Consumer Health Vocabulary Through Mining of Social Network Data Kristina M Doing-Harris*, BCompSci MA MS PhD; Qing Zeng-Treitler*, PhD University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States*all authors contributed equally Corresponding Author: Kristina M Doing-Harris, BCompSci MA MS PhD University of UtahDepartment of Biomedical InformaticsRoom 5775 HSEB26 S 2000 ESalt Lake City, UT, 84112United StatesPhone: 1 801 518 8636Fax: 1 801 581 4297Email: kristina.doing-harris [at] utah.edu Background: Consumer health vocabularies (CHVs) have been developed to aid consumer health informatics applications.
(J Med Internet Res 2011;13(2):e37)doi:10.2196/jmir.1636 Background Updating Controlled Health Vocabularies Consumer Health Vocabulary. “The Future of Platforms in Healthcare” — PowerPoint from eCollaboration Forum at HIMSS12. My colleague Shahid Shah and I are glad to make available to you a copy of the slides from our upcoming presentation “The Future of Platforms in Healthcare.” This presentation takes place at the eCollaboration Forum as part of HIMSS12 on Thursday, February 23. You can access the slides here. While the eCollaboration Forum in Las Vegas is sold out, you can still sign up for the live webinar all day Thursday, February 23: Here’s a brief summary of our presentation “The Future of Platforms in Healthcare”.
I. NECESSARY: Platforms are a “Must Have”, Not Just A “Nice to Have” Today’s EMR (electronic medical record) products cannot enable accountable care. That one company can develop all needed functionality, andThat health IT will become a winner-take-all market (either through single-payer or all care providers in a market voluntarily choosing to buy the identical “product”), orThat optimal collaboration across products can be achieved by phone, paper, fax II. HIMSS%20eCollaboration%20Forum%20Closing%20Session%20(Kuraitis,%20Shah) Happtique to create a certification program for mobile healthcare apps. By: Michelle Kraft Happtique, an online mobile health application marketplace, has announced it will develop a certification program to vet mobile applications for doctors, nurses and patients. The organization created the program based on feedback from providers and hospitals, Corey Ackerman, president of Happtique, told eWEEK.
Happtique will evaluate which applications are appropriate for clinical use and those that are outdated or poorly built. According to Happtique representatives evaluation criteria will include functionality, usability and security. If an application fails, they can reapply, but their failure may or may not be made public based on the panel’s decision. As previously mentioned by the iMedicalApps team, Happtique created a custom catalog of mobile health apps directed towards physicians and patients. Cory Ackerman, Happtique President, said,
The New Way Doctors Learn. Turning a medical student into a doctor takes a whole lot of knowledge. B. Price Kerfoot, an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, was frustrated at how much knowledge his students seemed to forget over the course of their education. He suspected this was because they engaged in what he calls “binge and purge” learning: They stuffed themselves full of facts and then spewed them out at test time. Research in cognitive science shows that this is a very poor way to retain information, as Kerfoot discovered when he went looking in the academic literature for answers. But he also stumbled upon a method that really is effective, called spaced repetition. (MORE: Couch Potatoes Rejoice! The theory behind spaced repetition is simple: when we first learn a fact, our memory of it is volatile, subject to change or disappear. (MORE: The American Hopsital: The Most Dangerous Place?)
How can you learn like one of Kerfoot’s Harvard Medical School residents? By 2017: 170M wearable wireless health and fitness devices. In five years the number of wearable wireless health and fitness devices will hit 169.5 million, according to a report from ABI Research. That’s up from almost 21 million such devices last year. By 2017 the number of sports and fitness focused wearable wireless devices will still outnumber more health-focused ones, but not by much. ABI expects about 90 million wearable fitness devices to be in the market five years from now, which leaves about 80 million health-focused ones.
The research firm partially attributes the predicted rise in the number of wearable fitness devices to the increasing number of mobile handset vendors, consumer electronics companies, and online service providers who have joined the market in recent months. ABI points to Nike, Adidas, and Motorola as some of the more high-profile examples. For many years the market has been dominated by “specialist, high-end vendors” like Polar and Garmin. For more details, read the press release below: