January 2008
28 posts
The Story of Stuff →
MYPOCKET: Transaction Graph →
I wonder how the healthcare pocket looks like with this app.
NON Linear Thinking →
“A thought process that offers simple solutions within complexity reducing the dependence on experts, consultants and external resources.”
Superhuman vision →
Visual complexity →
… to make things a little less complex.
Singularity →
Visible Body →
PC compatible only tool with exceptional anatomy and physiology graphics. This is a great resource for those studing medicine and other health sciences (including patients). I can only dream about the future where other fields such as hystology, pathology, etc can be all integrated and simulated. Just fascinating.
Watchmedical animation - markmazaitis.com on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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Information visualization, for the rest of us →
I am not a statistician and really admire my colleagues who embark in these fields. However, one of the difficulties I always had was to stare at tables, at numbers, waiting for answers to jump at my questions. Though I don’t consider myself impaired for math or stats, there is a better way, at least for me, to ‘see’ the stories behind the numbers, the stories behind tables, the...
Pangea Day →
Share your story with the world, in video. Make a better world through filming.
List of medical wikis →
An overwhelming list indeed. And this is just the begining. My question is: How are we supposed to navigate through all these resources? Perhaps knowledge-brokers, information specialists, foreign trained doctors unable to practice medicine, coaches, content distillers may help? Still, too much information for patients and regular people to handle.
Wrong Diagnosis →
Quite the opposite.
Time to just 'be' →
The Slow movement is a cultural shift toward slowing down life’s pace.
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Constant change
“Voltaire said that “doctors pour drugs of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less into human beings of whom they know nothing.” Times have changed. Physicians now know a great deal about the drugs they use today, about the people whom they are treating, and about the diseases that they and their patients face.”...
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Aldalusia (Spain) is leading the way to patient... →
“A patient-centred philosophy begins with patients having ownership of their health records.” — Denis Protti
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Raising prices enhances wine sales. →
“We are trying to understand how the brain encodes experiences and what variables can manipulate this,” he said. “It helps us understand what it means to be human.” My question: is higher priced medicine better perceived than lower priced medicine?
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“And today’s body of medical knowledge is too vast for any one doctor to...”
– Health 2.0 | Economist.com
A 1999 vision of Health Care and Informatics for... →
Not quite there yet.
5 things an MD cannot stand about going to the... →
“It is a total mixed message. And the biggest mixed message is having...”
– Health experts call for ban on hospital junk food | Herald Sun
QR-Code, an alternative to RFID
QR-Code Generator
The semmelweis reflex still with us?
“The Semmelweis Reflex is the dismissing or rejecting out of hand any information, automatically, without thought, inspection, or experiment.” The ‘reflex’ though not part of his legacy, honours Dr. Semmelweis, an astute Austrian-Hungarian physician called the “savior of mothers”. Semmelweis discovered in 1847 that the number of new cases (incidence) of...
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iPhone goes EMR for patients. NOT
This is a short YouTube video that demonstrates how “Life Record Electronic Medical Record (EMR)” works on Apple’s iPhone. The possibilities seem endless for physicians, but how about patients? Are these applications being developed with physicians in mind or do they target the general population as well? At a price of 10.000 per license, the answer is rather obvious. The migration of some...
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The 'curse of knowledge'
“Once you know something, it’s difficult to imagine what it is like to not know it.” Source + link: www.businesspundit.com
The end of the information age
“We are approachng a point in time known as ‘Singularity.’ There are many definitions and angles for this term, but simply put, it represents a major paradigm shift. This shift will be the end of the information age and the beginning of a new age that has not yet been defined. The information age was simply about cataloging knowledge in paper and electronically. With Web 2.0 and...
“As more customers demand a holistic approach to feeling well, firms that have...”
– http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8492618
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Mobile phones for health-care: Yes but not yet
“It’s still wishful thinking to believe that cellphones will cut down on doctor visits any time soon. Michael Gartenberg, a director at Jupiter Research, says there are a lot of issues to iron out in this area, including privacy concerns and figuring out where to send and store the information. “Probably it’s something that’s going to be a little bit further out …” he said.” Source: Globe and...