How can you make games that create and improve affordable health care? That is the key question for the conference Games Health Europe on 24 and 25 October 2011 for the first time in Amsterdam is organized. Healthcare professionals and game developers are invited to step up with their great ideas for game applications for health(care). The best idea is granted with a budget sponsored by CZ health insurance up to € 200.000 productions costs available for the game to actually be produced. Games for Health is official partner of TEDxMaastricht 2012.
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it's certain that doctors' livelihoods will be affected by these new machines. As computers get better, we'll need fewer humans across a range of specialties. Look at mammography: One of the main ways radiologists can improve their breast diagnoses is by "double reading." When two radiologists independently examine a collection of mammograms, the number of cancers detected increases substantially. A study published in 2008, however, found that a radiologist who uses ImageChecker can skip the second reading: A computer and a human are just as good as two humans.
THE CHALLENGE Create a game-changing way for patients to better manage their cardiovascular health.
Develop an interactive solution that enables patients to better manage their cardiovascular health through a customizable, user-friendly interface. The solution should be holistic and help organize and provide easy access to personalized health information, relevant public data, and aggregated content (i.e., education, treatment, diet, exercise, and social networks). The goal is to empower patients to easily and effectively manage their cardiovascular health. Areas for Consideration: Health support systems (community/family engagement) Making health education engaging to encourage learning Incorporating risk profiling tools to promote positive behavior/lifestyle changes Sharing information with appropriate health care stakeholders Leverage existing publically available data sources (i.e., Healthdata.gov, etc.)
As medical apps become increasingly sophisticated, their impact on clinical decisions and outcomes is growing as well. For this reason, the attention of the FDA has turned to the subset of medical apps that fall into a category of clinical decision support (CDS) – apps that take patient-specific information, process it, and output an analysis that
Some of the most popular pieces published in The Lancet in the past year have involved social networking and health. Correspondents have described how online social networks have helped coordinate disaster relief efforts, and improve emergency-room care; a World Report has addressed the thorny issue of a Facebook friend request from a patient. This month I'm looking at online social networking from a professional perspective: how should doctors engage with it—if at all? Two doctors with an interest in social networking give different perspectives.
Smartphone apps are increasing in popularity and are being widely used in healthcare as health apps. An online survey was conducted by Consumer Health Information Corporation (CHIC) to gauge consumer interest in health apps and evaluate the likelihood of patient adherence to them. The survery was distributed to smartphone consumers at affiliated universities, businesses, and posted on Facebook in April 2011. Survey results were collected from 395 respondants..
The Wall Street Journal reports that fantasy baseball managers have more data to evaluate than patients and referring doctors. Eighty-eight percent of doctors would like to see their patients track their vital health data at home. Now imagine a set of tools designed to help people control and access their health information better than ever before according to AT&T’s CTO John Donovan who announced the development of the “The mHealth Platform” by the AT&T Foundry..
Social Media in Pharma Social media is such an integral part of our everyday lives. It allows us to exchange ideas and opinions and build communities across the globe. Within healthcare, opportunities to engage communities are only rising, and yet it is still not widely used in the pharma communications industry. There is confusion about when and how best to use it - this can be attributed to the restrictions of adhering to compliance codes and the risk of reputational damage.
Red Sky Vision in association with the HCA and PharmaPhorum has produced a film about social media in pharma. The film features key players in healthcare and healthcare communication who provide unique insights, discuss challenges and offer solutions to the industry as a whole.
Exclusive - Social Q&A site Sharecare.com, created by WebMD founder Jeff Arnold and TV's Dr. Mehmet Oz, is partnering with Healthline Networks, a provider of intelligent health information services.
Much is known medically about TYSABRI from manufacturer clinical trials and registration studies, but comparatively little is known about the utility and value of TYSABRI in the post-marketing real world. The risk of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is perhaps TYSABRI’s most widely known and least understood real-world attribute given the rare but potentially catastrophic consequences of PML. Much can be learned from the growing body of real-world treatment experiences from patients who believe the product’s benefits outweigh its risks.
This time on “pharma social faces” pharmaphorum speaks to Andrew Widger, from Pfizer’s EMEA communications team about his experience with the social web and how the nature of pharma communications has changed. Andrew has certainly been one of the more visible big pharma employees on Twitter and is an active participant in social media channels both personally and professionally. During our discussion we explore how the social nature of the internet today is changing the very fabric of corporate communications, even within highly regulated industries such as pharma. However, in a frank and open discussion, we also touch on some of the challenges and lessons learned from trying to humanise pharma engagement with healthcare stakeholders and patients, plus how Pfizer reacted to the recent attack on its Facebook page.
Double the number of MDs used Google 87 for professional research online as the next mostused search options WebMD and PubMed, each at 43, data from a recent survey show.
They wouldn’t win any awards for their bedside manner. But the online banter between a group of doctors has provided a revealing glimpse of the secret terms they use to refer to patients and colleagues.
In case you haven't noticed, here at Health Care Communication News we love lists, and when people go to the trouble to pull them together we wish we could reach through the computer with a high-five.
So, thanks, Blogging E-Nursing. High-five! We think nurses are going to love your list of "Top 25 social sites for nurses." We do.
Nurses, here are just a few of the sites you'll find on the Top 25 lists. You'll want to see the complete list for the rest. We thought these were interesting. Some are directed at specific nursing populations
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