Salud y Social Media

A half million Cleveland Clinic  patients gained access to more of their healthcare information Thursday – and by the end of the year – they will see all that is in their electronic medical record, including physician notes, via MyChart, the secure online portal.

I’ve recounted the story behind this headline before (here) but there's a longer, more detailed version – and lesson. I attended a healthcare event last year that needs to remain nameless. It wasn’t a big event.

The electronic Mobile Open-source Comprehensive Health Application (eMOCHA®) is a free open-source application, developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. eMOCHA® is a secure, highly flexible and adaptable, open-source mHealth application developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. eMOCHA® is designed to leverage mobile phones to assist health programs, researchers, providers, and patients improve communication, education, patient care, and data collection. eMOCHA® synergizes the power of mobile technology, Android-supported devices, video and audio files, and a server-based application to analyze and GPS-map large amounts of data, implement interactive multimedia training, and streamline data collection and analyses.

Every now and then for the past several years, that thought has crossed my mind. Without context, it may seem like a strange conclusion to make about any government agency. For anyone who was there in DC on November 12, 2009 when the FDA held their first publichearing on social media marketing  - this conclusion would seem even stranger.

Healthcare organizations are rapidly trying to reinvent themselves in light of the new rules of the game. One could argue it officially started October 1, 2012 with Medicare's readmission penalties.

HealthCarePoint (HCP), a Texas-based healthcare and clinical research networking technology corporation, today formally announced that it is pledging more than $10 million in technologies and infrastructure services to ACRES, the Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety, a Cambridge-based non-profit organization established to develop a global system for improving quality, safety, ethics and operational effectiveness in drug development and health research

"Aunque revisit tiene algunas limitaciones respecto a otras aplicaciones para realizar visualizaciones similares (por ejemplo cierta debilidad a la hora de poder configurar las visualizaciones),  visualmente aporta una buena información en el peso de mensajes en una secuencia temporal y en la conexión entre mensajes, respuestas y retuits, facilitando una buena visión de aquellos usuarios más influyentes. Y sobre todo un cuidado diseño de Moritz demostrando que realmente es, como se define un “truth and beauty operator”

Las Condes es el primer hospital de la región que consigue la certificación que otorga HIMSS, y alcanza un alto nivel de implantación en e-salud, por su desarrollo en tecnología de información en beneficio directo de la seguridad del paciente.

Acens Cloudstage abordó en su decimotercera edición el asunto “Cloud y eHealth”.

One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago.

With the help of personal data trackers, people are measuring just about everything you can think of, Quantified Self founders Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf said at the inaugural Wired Health Conference in New York.

People seem to be most excited about what Glass will mean for education, medicine, communicating, gaming and getting around. Here are ten legitimate, non-creepy ideas from the #ifihadglass campaign.

Instituciones como el MIT están promoviendo el desarrollo de tecnologías móviles para facilitar el acceso a servicios de salud en zonas con escasos recursos.