Steinhaus says, in principle, the company is fine with giving patients their data directly. The problem is how to format it so it's useful to everyone. As is, the raw data is highly technical. Would patients understand it?

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The issues I find with certain apps, is that if they get too advanced (such as an x-ray), people might start avoiding the doctor because they diagnose themselves. Basically, I think that without regulation, certain apps may seem awesome, but in reality, they have fatal flaws that could be just that — fatal. There shouldn’t be a chance that bad apps could possibly act as an authoritative source.

Sara makes a great point that apps need to be developed in such a manner that they are encouraging rather than demoralizing. She references a paper by Margaret Morris that describes the need for smartphones to become a friend to the users. Rather than smartphones simply being a tool for reminders and nagging when you don’t meet your goals, they need to be the supportive friend that encourages you through your struggles.

That is where I started to think about the real value of mHealth.

Brief Intro to TPCK and SAMR (PDF) -- slides from a workshop framing technology in education. SAMR particularly good: technology first Substitutes, then Augments (substitutes and improves), then Modifies (changing the task), and then finally Redefines (makes entirely new tasks possible).

The July 1 launch of the national Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) is likely to be more fizz than fireworks, with only data from Medicare available to new registrants.

Some records systems automatically reject data that look untimely. Since the EMR is updated constantly, data from devices whose clocks are way off would simply never be recorded.

At one point, she was on 20 different medications

How can we meaningfully share information with patients and give them a resource so that they can then review that informmation

EventFlow is a powerful visualization tool for detecting and anlyzing patterns across a large number of temporal, event-based medical records. While the original implementation accounted for point-based events (ex. Heart Attack, Death), my work has been to extend the tool to include interval-based events (ex. Prescriptions, Hospital Stays). This has involved updates to the display and data structure, as well as continuous consultation with users (in this case, the pharmacovigilance unit with the Department of Defense) to determine an optimal set of data manipulation and querying controls. The project draws on work from both Information Visualization and Data Mining.
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The pitch is simple: Rather than try to book an appointment with your busy doctor by phone, do it online at ZocDoc. Patients seem to dig it; the site has more than 1 million users and $95 million in funding, and won't even be nationwide until 2013. (It's in 16 cities now.) But the sell to docs and investors wasn't easy.

"We need to get over this idea that games are just for fun. Games have so much potential to make us feel and think and let us explore humanity. Games are going to be the dominant artistic expressive medium for the next 100 years."

Take what everyone thinks and explore the opposite. Don’t disagree just to disagree. But explore. Turn the world upside down. Guess what? There are people living in China. Plenty of times you’ll find value where nobody else did.

Find your “customers.” Treat yourself like a one-man business. Make a list of customers (i.e. places or people you might want to work with) Then come up with a list of 10 ideas for each customer/place you might want to work. Ideas that can make them money. This way you keep your idea muscle intact. Don’t let your idea muscle atrophy! Pitch your ideas to that customer if you can. If you can’t , move onto the next customer.

Johannes Gutenberg was our first geek, the original technology entrepreneur, who had to grapple with all the challenges a Silicon Valley startup faces today. Jeff Jarvis tells Gutenberg's story from an entrepreneurial perspective, examining how he overcame technology hurdles, how he operated with the secrecy of a Steve Jobs but then shifted to openness, how he raised capital and mitigated risk, and how, in the end, his cash flow and equity structure did him in. This is also the inspiring story of a great disruptor. That is what makes Gutenberg the patron saint of entrepreneurs.

Since technically we all work in publishing, it makes sense to turn our collective attention to the technical and logistic challenges of ebooks. They are a new frontier, but it looks a lot like the old web frontier, with HTML, CSS, and XML underpinning the main ebook standard, ePub.

In summary, the evidence is far from conclusive that EHRs and CDSSs improve preventive care processes and outcomes in primary care settings. The small number of mostly nonrandomized studies makes it hard to determine whether changes in physicians’ behaviors were the result of implementing CDSSs, or if other factors were responsible. Also, the most promising studies to date were performed in large practices of employed physicians, rather than in small physician-owned practices. Finally, all but a few studies measured only guideline adherence, rather than patient-oriented health outcomes.

The needle and syringe are icons of modern medicine.

But a device developed at MIT to squirt medicines quickly and pretty much painlessly through the skin suggests that the future of medicine could be needle-free.

The idea is to shoot an extremely thin, extremely fast jet of medicine straight through skin and into muscle. "It's sort of like a laser beam," project leader and mechanical engineering professor Ian Hunter tells Shots.

Put simply, risk management is the combination of business processes, technologies, and skills that allow companies to balance short-term and long-term risk exposure, understand the organizational tolerance for failure, pinpoint areas of vulnerability, gauge the costs of precarious business decisions, and forecast the outcomes of these decisions in advance of making them. But all too often, those safeguards are ignored.

Social media is changing the nature and speed of health care interaction between consumers and health organizations. This in-depth HRI report dives into what some of the largest health care companies are doing in and with social media. The report's findings are based on a survey of more than 1,000 consumers and 124 health care executives. Click below to see a snapshot of social media activity on community sites and health company sites.

But that doesn't mean the companies are actually doing any innovating. Instead they are using the word to convey monumental change when the progress they're describing is quite ordinary.

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Medical Research Simplified - Medical research is complex, the search for it shouldn't have to be

According to Pew, about two-thirds of all consumer health queries start with a general search engine. But given that 80 percent of those searches are for specific conditions or symptoms, people are faced with flood of potentially irrelevant information. Meddik wants to give people an anonymous, easy way to find the most information most specific to them.

Obviously focused on software development, but easy to apply in other fields.

Martha Payne had some sad-ass lunches at her school in Scotland — unsatisfying food that sometimes had more hair than vegetables. So the 9-year-old decided to start a blog with photos and vital statistics about her meals. Almost immediately, the blog got international attention, including from prominent school lunch busybody Jamie Oliver. Result? Martha’s dad just met with the local council, and it announced that kids could have unlimited salad, fruit, and bread.

[Mark] too good to not send - “This is a program that intrudes on people’s lives, just like the Environmental Protection Agency or the bank regulators,” said Daniel Webster, a first-term Republican congressman from Florida who sponsored the relevant legislation. “We’re spending $70 per person to fill this out. That’s just not cost effective,” he continued, “especially since in the end this is not a scientific survey. It’s a random survey.”

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This morning a new nonprofit called the Health Care Cost Institute will roll out a database of 5 billion health insurance claims (all stripped of the individual health plan’s identity, to address privacy concerns).

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US only - but... 23,146,745 patients 1,145,283,482 posts 11,367 medications 13,418 conditions. ... This is where we come in. After 3 years of intense R&D efforts, we have launched treato -
a new source of medical information based solely on real life experiences of patients. We identify, analyze, and understand information from patient discussions, inviting anyone to search this data on treato.com and explore thousands of drugs and medical conditions.

UX personnel have worked in the world of healthcare at the level of the UI for years. Yet, many medical UIs haven’t benefited from the input of UX personnel and most of the thousands of healthcare apps available today have been designed for the wrong people, and it is not clear how many of them really work. Even if more apps were well designed and did work, would that fix what is broken with healthcare? [Mark] Some good links within.

“We can write and erase DNA in a living cell,” says Jerome Bonnet, a bioengineer at Stanford University. “Now we can bring logic and computation inside a cell itself.”

Dr. Audie Atienza focuses on the intersection of behavioral science, data and healthcare apps.