04.15.12 @ 10:45♥3
The Personal Touch on Informative Graphics (via visualnews.com)
Health I.T.- Advancing Care, Empowering Patients (via Discovery CME)
Discovery Channel presents an all-new patient education documentary to examine how information technology is transforming patient care. The program features leading health information technology experts and highlights how innovation is empowering patients and physicians across a wide spectrum of health programs and services. Health information technology such as telemedicine, home care monitoring, and electronic health records are creating paths for doctors to have more efficient tools to manage patient care. These systems are resulting in an improved quality of life for many patients.
04.06.12 @ 16:23♥1
Behind the Scenes of the World’s First Live-Tweeted Open-Heart Surgery (via Mashable)
Doctors at Houston’s Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital made medical and social media history last month by live-tweeting an open heart surgery for the first time ever.
04.06.12 @ 14:30♥1581
Four food groups of a recently turned 26 year old: Grubhub, eating out, pasta, alcohol.
Name: DailyFeats
Big Idea: DailyFeats offers a way for people to get motivated to achieve their personal goals.
Why It’s Working: By incorporating a positive rewards system and tailored programs that help people take small steps toward success, DailyFeats boosts confidence for users and motivates them to achieve their dreams. Users can either cash in their points for swag or donate to the non-profit of their choice.
via Mashable
04.05.12 @ 20:08
The New York Times confirms that gender pricing holds true for health insurance. They report that women pay more than men across states and across plans.
via Bust Magazine
HealthRally, a new San Francisco startup, allows you to reach personal wellness goals by getting friends and family to pledge cash to support you.
via Gigaom
03.22.12 @ 14:30♥3
(via Watchie Universal Person Locator)
Watchie is a GPS-based device developed in part by Swiss company u-blox aimed at helping families care for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients in a humane, empowering way.
02.25.12 @ 16:27♥523
Creative America Disability Association Advertisement: For some It’s Mt everest Help build more handicap facilities - Yaratıcı Amerika Engelliler Derneği Reklamı: Bazıları için bu Everest Dağıdır. Daha fazla engelli olanakları oluşturmamıza yardımcı olun.
Art Swanson and Scott Lind. 2011. Usability testing EHRs: examples from the front lines. interactions 18, 6 (November 2011), 54-58. DOI=10.1145/2029976.2029991 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2029976.2029991
- Challenge 1: Tests Must Be Clinically Realistic and Relevant
- Challenge 2: Significant Variation in Configuration of EHR Systems
- Challenge 3: Tasks Must Consider External Factors
- Challenge 4: Diverse Sets of Users and Environments Must Be Represented
- Challenge 5: A Consistent Training Baseline Must Be Established
- Challenge 6: A Representative Pool of Testers Must Be Recruited
- Challenge 7: The Complexity of Technical System Setup Must Be Addressed
- Challenge 8: Second- and Third-Order Effects Must Be Considered
Establish high-level design guidelines. Collaboratively establish basic design guidelines with a focus on reducing the chance for user error. For example, provide general guidance and conventions for the display of patient context, advance directive instructions, and lethal-dose indications, as well as standards for terminology and data. These guidelines must be flexible enough to allow for innovation as we rapidly move to new platforms and interaction models, such as tablets and touch-based UIs. A similar undertaking by Microsoft with the National Health Service in the UK yielded the MS Common User Interface (www.mscui.net). We would expect that we could use this as a model for collaboration and standards.
Instrumentation of applications. By capturing and reviewing real-world data, we could better analyze usage patterns and look for opportunities to improve usability and safety. This could provide valuable insight into preventing selection of the wrong patient, wrong treatment action, wrong medication, delay in care, and unintended care “never events” as outlined by Emily Patterson at the recent NIST Usability Workshop in June 2011 [3]. Some combination of data capture and user reports (similar to the FAA Aviation Safety Reporting System) would likely yield optimization and error information to improve EHR systems.
Support education of EHR users. Help provider organizations to become more informed customers when making EHR purchasing decisions. Offer guidance on evaluating EHR usability specifically for their workflows and users, such as the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) guide to usability in EHR vendor selection [4]. Consumer-level awareness will foster competition and help the market to value user experience, including usability, more highly.
