The following is an interview with Uwe Diegel, Beate Bartes and Homero Rivas who will be present at the 2014 Doctors 2.0 & You Conference. Conference founder, Denise Silber told Medcrunch that she was very excited that we would blog about connected health which for her “pulls together social media and community, apps and gamification...
In hospitals and clinics, language barriers often play a role in limiting the delivery of timely and accurate care. Patients may use limited english to communicate and be unable to tell a provider when they don’t understand. It makes for frustrating social interactions and ultimately unsafe medical decisions Last month, Canopy Apps launched a Canopy...
Put together by Best Made Company comes probably the best designed First Aid Kit out there. It’s available in small and large. Well, medicine apparently does not have to be ugly.
Thankfully, some established, large companies out there understand the value of startups and how valuable the combination of a prospering, young startup and a strong player in the market can be. One of them is Sennheiser. The other one is Tinnitracks, whereas the former is the big player and the latter is the startup –...
I recently commented on a friend’s very interesting photo. It showed a group of doctors around a patient’s bed all holding iPad Mini’s while they digitally document their decisions. The photo caption mentioned how truly amazing this whole experience was for her. My friend is an Intern doctor at one of the most well...
“Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy.” – Louis CK We speak so often about all the things that need to be “disrupted” in the healthcare system in order for it to work more efficiently. It’s true, there are vast and critical areas that need improvement. EMRs, insurance, billing, communication, design, transparency, research methodologies, patient-clinician collaboration, pharmaceuticals,...
Design in Medicine is apparently something the Twitterati (Thanks IDEO, Thanks Dr. V) are interested in. We took a look at a variety of objects in medicine and healthcare and when looking at them it is clearer than ever that medicine lacks design. Here we go:
In California, it’s a tale almost worthy of Hollywood.In 2008, Alex Briscoe, the Director of Alameda County’s Health Care Services Agency, stood watching a demonstration against the police after the shooting of a young black man, Oscar Grant III, by a white police officer. He was there with the Medical Director of the Emergency Medical...
We all know how routine the life of a physician can get, between catching up on paperwork, cramming in daily work outs and seeing patients, it’s important to keep sight of ways to stay not just on top of, but also ahead of the game. Medicine, not unlike any other career, falls privy to lapses...
If you have read the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson then you might remember one scene he describes vividly. Jobs, on his deathbed, breathing heavily and sedated, noticed the bad design surrounding him in the hospital environment. Jobs ripped it off [the oxygen mask] and mumbled that he hated the design and refused...
When booking an appointment for a health professional, there are different ways to go about it. The obvious, old fashioned way is to pick up the phone and call a healthcare practice to discuss with a receptionist possible appointment options. Everyone understands the inefficiencies of doing it this way. Not getting the appointment you want...
The management of a relatively straightforward disease like hypertension requires multiple parties to work together to achieve a common goal of reducing a patient’s cardiovascular risk. The physician requires the necessary medical acumen to accurately diagnose hypertension and any underlying causes. But most importantly, it requires significant understanding and effort on the side of the...
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