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The Siri application in the latest Apple Advert showing off the power of your voice Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 31 October 2009, The Guardian. Every now and then it’s fun to dip into the world of politics and find out what our lords and masters are saying about science. First we find Brooks Newmark, Conservative MP for Braintree, introducing a bill to reduce the age for cervical cancer screening to 20. […]
My news reader(Netnewswire) reports 27,773 unread feeds… Yikes Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
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via ama-assn.org Minimal progress in what is a challenging problem for healthcare facilities in preventing readmission of patients. Surgical patients fared the best with a 12.7% readmission rate which was unchanged but in the top 3 killer category Congestive Heart Failure remained a recalcitrant problem with 1 in 5 patients returning to hospital – up […]
Patient advocacy groups are protesting the government’s shutdown of public access to data on malpractice and disciplinary actions involving thousands of doctors nationwide. The National Practitioner Data Bank maintains confidential records that state medical boards, hospitals and insurance plans use in granting licenses or staff privileges to doctors. Although records naming physicians aren’t available to […]
via guardian.co.uk If you grew up in England and were technically inclined you will remember “Tomorrow’s World” – it played live right before “Top of the Pops” As the Guardian Article points out there was often mention of computers powered by voice…now with Apple’s Siri that distant future looks closer than ever. In fact the […]
via thisislocallondon.co.uk NHS hospital asking employees to work for free in “extraordinary measures” This seems wrong on so many levels and will undoubtedly affect some more than others. Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
via cultofmac.com Awesome review of Steve Jobs with history and the his pathway through life. Interesting to note that he asked for some spare parts for a school project from William Hewlett (of HP fame) and received the parts and a summer job. Imagine how motivating that was. We need more of that today. Posted […]
Nice piece on FastCompany Former Apple CEO John Sculley On The Future Of Medical Technology And Health Care’s Killer App As a trail blazer for original tablets in the 80’s it must be gratifying to see the uptake of the iPad and it’s competitors. In his mind not going to start with a single “killer app” […]
This piece of news is mind blowing – CERN scientists identified sub atomic particles traveling at a speed greater than the speed of light…….. I need to repeat that: CERN scientists identified sub atomic particles traveling at a speed greater than the speed of light. Here’s the paper and live conference today Friday Sep 23 at 16:00 Zurich […]
In a nice expose on the need for speech recognition on mobile devices: Accurate speech recognition: mHealth’s Holy Grail for docs on Fierce Mobile Health covers off the need for the inclusion of speech in the mHealth future. As they discovered Doctors constantly tell me how much they love their iPhones and Android tablets, but they […]
Congratulations! You’ve committed to an EMR, which is an accomplishment in itself. But the hardest part is still to come: getting it to work. From failing to plan to skipping out on training, many mistakes can be made during the implementation process. And although they may not be as juicy as wrath, envy or lust, […]
Once exposed to the realities of practical and sustainable healthcare delivery physicians are quick to regret not learning more about the business side of medicine at medical school. In a posting on Kevin.MD “How can doctors understand the business side of medicine?” Michelle Mudge-Riley echos a frequent sentiment amongst her colleagues One thing I regret is not […]
August 15, 2011 MotoGoo, Motoogle, or Googola — a big deal any way you slice it Google just bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Cringe isn’t sure the Googlers will know what to do with it By Robert X. Cringely | InfoWorld Follow @ifw_cringely Print | 1 Comment And I thought August was going to […]
Health care providers over the years have raised a number of objections to electronic health records — they cost too much, disrupt practices already pressed for time and fail to mesh with the way medical offices work. Learn more about using speech recognition technology How to purchase, implement a medical speech recognition system Meditab, speech […]
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), Helicobacter Pylori are just a couple of the well known instances where apparent intransigence of the medical community prevented advancement in medical treatments. Turns out we get things wrong on both sides of the coin. Ben Goldacre highlighted some research in the New England Journal of Medicine in his piece Studies of studies […]
Study from Kaiser in the US showed an increase in asthma in children with mothers exposed on one occasion to an increased magnetic field Critics Slam Asthma Risk, Magnetic Fields Link UK group debunks the study with lack of controls and accounting for other well known factors. Let’s hoe the media picks up on this […]
via radiologytoday.net Dr Watson coming to Healthcare hoping to help bring the latest information to the medical decision making of the clinician Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
In a great review by Mark Hagland: “CMIOs at the Hot Center: Planets Seen Aligning at AMDIS” he highlights the he annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium, held in Ojai (Pronounced oh high) Valley Inn and Spa in Ojai, Calif. that I also had the pleasure of attending. A busy 2 1/2 days of learning, meeting, talking, eating and […]
In a report from the National Journal: Report: 5 Percent of People Account for Half of U.S. Health Care Spending a small minority of patients generate 50% of the costs of care in the US: ~50% of the U.S. population accounted for only 3.1 percent of all expenditures 10 percent of the population hogged 63.6 percent of all health […]
Troubling developments when the medical profession starts offering untested therapies Doctors offer unapproved stem cell therapies http://usat.ly/kCyYJC Is this r rally the way forward in medicine? Posted via email from drnic’s posterous
80% of the planet have a cell phone – the latest challenge creating an artificial intelligence that can diagnose patients better than board certified doctors Burt Rutan (chief of Scaled Composites) astronaut Brian Binnie managed to show the world that space travel was possible in October 2004 with SpaceShipOne’s second flight into suborbital space within five days […]
Intuit is well known in finance and the commercial world and an interesting article by Austin Merritt on Software Advice “Intuit Health: A Sleeping Giant with Big Potential” highlights the potential this company has in the healthcare space applying the principles so successfully used in their industry leading personal finance solutions (Quicken, Quickbooks, TurboTax etc). […]
and improve the quality of healthcare!HealthImaging featured a report Medical errors cost U.S. $17 billion in 2008 which estimated that This figure amounted to 0.72 percent of the $2.39 trillion spent on healthcare that year in the U.S. The study identified the sources based on medical claims estimating: 564,000 inpatient injuries (1.5 percent of all […]
