health informatics

Great Presentation: Practicing Medicine in the Web 2.0 Era by Bertalan Meskó

Bertalan Meskó  shared a great  presentation highlighting how web 2.0 will change and has already started to reshape the way health care services operate. Two questions arose when I viewed his presentation (the answer has probably been given in his presentation):

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How Google Health and HealthVault Apps Integrate with other Systems

Both Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault offer an API  to integrate other systems, eg. systems of health care providers. This is necessary for Google and Microsoft  to provide personal computerized health records (PCHR) with added value services.

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Die Gesundheitskarte - Lassen sich amerikanische Erkenntnisse übertragen?

Zwei Artikel in der März-Ausgabe des New England Journal of Medicine sind unter Umständen auch für deutsche Fragestellungen wie die Gesundheitskarte von Interesse.

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Ubiquitous health care services: Microsoft's vision

Thanks to @virtuate for bringing this YouTube video to my attention. It is part of a presentation dcaron about Healthcare 2.0. It is an interesting vision that lines up very well with Microsoft's Health Vault Project of a web-based health record.

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Personal Health Records and Second Life

In his twit Peter Murray asked about ideas connecting Personal Health Records (PHR) and Second Life. One idea that came to my mind is to offer a service that helps someone to understand and to find out more about the subjects concerning their personal health issues.

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Umfrage: Auswirkung der Informationstechnologie auf die Pflege

Foto: Defekter Computerby_DON_Fulano
In den letzten Jahren wurde in Krankenhäusern viel Geld und Zeit in EDV investiert. Daher ist es wichtig zu wissen, inwieweit dieses Auswirkungen auf Ihre Arbeit hat. Diese Umfrage richtet sich deswegen an Pflegekräfte, die Kontakt zu Patienten im Krankenhaus haben. Ihre Meinung zählt! Keiner kann besser die Auswirkungen der Informationstechnik auf die Pflege beurteilen als Sie!

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Gesundheitswesen

Seien Sie vorsichtig mit Gesundheitsbüchern - Sie könnten an einem Druckfehler sterben.

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Nursing Informatics Resources

Here is a collection of resources about nursing informatics. Please feel free to comment if you miss a particular resource. Thank you.

Literature about nursing informatics. Please feel free to comment if you miss a particular resource. Thank you.

Does Medical Education need a Nintendo Wii!?

The entertainment industry discovered medical case based simulations. Quoting Eliot Masie from his newletter:

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News Story: Major incidents hit NHS national systems

In his Informaticopia-Blog Rod Ward brought this article to my attention. It details the quite a large number of incidents effecting the NHS IT-systems installed in hospitals. A frightening large number of patients were put at risk.

Read the news story: Major incidents hit NHS national systems

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