At TEDMED 2013, UCSF Chancellor (@UCSFChancellor) Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD discussed the need for patient engagement in our healthcare system.
Jane McGonigal Talks Playful Recovery With SuperBetter
Games can make the world a better place, Jane McGonigal is convinced. At the Healthcare Experience Design conference in Boston last week she explained how she turned a painful recovery into a game.
HxD Coming Up: Don’t Miss Out!
Join MedCrunch and the most prominent international leaders in the industry at the HxD Conference on March 25th, 2013. You will get to meet the visionaries of health design and gain more insights into the perception of well-being in relation to health.
Health Design Archive: Revisiting Tufte’s Graphical Patient Status
1994 seems a long time ago. Prior to the new century we didn’t have tablets, our modern day smart phones or as readily available wireless access in homes and public places.
The Future Of Healthcare Design Is Already Here
Read how design can change healthcare for the better and that futuristic implementations are already here!
The Jenny McCarthy Body Count
Once in a while you discover small little gems on the web that are not existant only because of making money with them but with more sophisticated aims. One of them is called The Jenny McCarthy Body Count (by Derek Bartholomeus) and although some you might know this site already I didn’t. If you are...
Speak To Me: Speech recognition with Nuance Healthcare’s Nick van Terheyden, MD
With the introduction of Apple’s Siri in the last year, free-form speech recognition has exploded in the mainstream. The technology around Siri, however, has been used in the medical field for some time for documentation with programs like well-known Dragon Medical™ by Nuance Healthcare. Nuance’s CMIO, Nick van Terheyden, MD was willing to speak with...
MedCrunch Interview with Marc Triola and John Qualter at TEDMED 2012
During TEDMED we had the opportunity to meet, talk with and interview many interesting people and learn about what advances they are bringing to healthcare’s future. Among the most interesting ones was our interview with TEDMED speakers Marc Triola, M.D. and John Qualter creators of the Biodigital Human, a very detailed and web-based 3D model of the...
TEDMED 2012 Recap – Part 2
This is part 2 of our previous post. Take a look at part 1 here. Session 6: “You Get What You Select For” Frances Arnold a professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering and biochemistry at CalTech amazed us by explaining how she is evolving proteins by making them “have sex” (these TEDMED talks really spice things...
TEDMED 2012 Recap – Part 1
Like children who were suddenly forced to go home after spending three and a half days in Disney World, the delegates slowly made their ways towards the exit of the J.F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts as one of the greatest conferences for healthcare innovation concluded. Following the format of the original TED Talks,...
Live from TEDMED 2012
After two sessions of an incredibly large flow of new ideas, meeting people from around the world and from every corner of healthcare’s scope and finally taking a night tour of Washington’s most amazing monuments, I don’t think my mind and body can take it anymore… and there are 9 more sessions!!! Wow! TEDMED is...
Sabi – Solving Patient Adherence Through Design
We’ve just learned that patient’s adherence is one of the biggest problems today’s healthcare system is facing – and it is clearly a neglected one. Now there are several ways how one can improve aherence and compliance. One of them is through design. As you probably know, we are big fans of design here at MedCrunch...
