Digital health care is about using technology to shift, massage, lubricate and tweak the rusty ol’ health care system. As the world populations grow older, worry and anxiety over how to support aging has turned to innovation and action; technology is quickly becoming the answer to outpatient care, to invaluable insights into healthier living, prevention,...
I’m writing this post on the plane back from the US; Dulles to Heathrow, my mind overflowing with the thoughts of the many I have met in the past three weeks. I thought I’d jot down my strongest memories, as much a challenge to myself as possible food for our thoughts.Perhaps my favourite sound bite...
One day in the fall of 1906, the British scientist Francis Galton, a pioneer in eugenics and statistics, left his home in the town of Plymouth and headed for a country fair. On that particular day, it is said that Galton came across a weight-judging competition at the fair. A fat ox had been selected...
With all the negative coverage surrounding text messaging, it looks like they might be useful after all. Here are three innovative ways text messaging can be used to improve medical care. SMSLifesaver In the case of a cardiopulmonary emergency, time is life. Each minute that passes in a cardiac arrest patient decreases their chance of...
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Wellthcare “Give me an example.” This is the most common request we get at Wellthcare, the most recent being over lunch in Manhattan. I was dining with Scott Liebman, one of the Wellthcare Explorers, and his friend wanted a concrete example. I replied with my...
One of the opportunities presented by healthtech is the chance to significantly change the relationship between the patient and their care ecosystem. We say ecosystem because patients have very different relationships with each care provider (carer, general practitioner, consultant etc.), and those providers also have different motivations and pressures. The result of applying tech will...
“Social media is power to connect and be heard.” – Dr. Kevin Pho Social media is something we all love to hate. It’s annoyingly addictive and a time drain. We put content into the ether, we check over and over again on the performance of that said content, and we become giggly when that image,...
This entry is part 9 of 10 in the series Wellthcare I’m writing this Log post from Las Vegas, USA, where I have come to experience the Downtown Project, an attempt to transform the downtown area into the most community-focused large city in the world. I think it’ll take me a few days to digest what...
EHI Live is UK’s national event for healthcare technology, in particular the infrastructure and hospital technologies. On Tuesday, November 5th, we went along to scout out the action. Thanks to what is occasionally a parochial environment in the UK -along with the sudden influx of developers in the apps-and-solutions segment of the market- EHI Live...
MedCrunch: Please describe Starling for MedCrunch’s readers Brian Yarnell: Starling is a platform that helps patients communicate their needs to care providers in inpatient settings, like hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. Starling has tools for both patients and providers to streamline the entire process of resolving those needs. A touchscreen tablet is mounted at each...
In 2 weeks’ time, at Health 2.0 Europe, I am moderating a pre-conference workshop, ‘Health 2.0 Tools for the Elderly’. Dr Leslie Kernisan wrote a blog post after attending the recent Health 2.0 Silicon Valley conference, observing that most Health 2.0 solutions are not designed with the elderly in mind. That’s why I was very...
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” -Dale Carnegie The Theory of Fun is an organization devoted to social experiments in fun. In one experiment, they turned a staircase next to an escalator into a piano to see whether people would still opt for the less physically challenging escalator. Not...
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