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...
Help! – The iPod of Remedies
We are big fans of aesthetics and beautiful design. By that, we do not only mean better packaging but great design goes way beyond. It's supposed to be intuitive, straight-forward clear and resamble the actual product or service.
Smoking Just Got Beautiful…and Harmless
It’s one of those evenings where you surf the internet, where you click through from site to site, from discovery to discovery with seemingly endless websites out there and then you stop in awe, because you are just happy to see people doing great things around the world. Smoking has lots of negative connotations. Apart...
Creativity: A Prescription for Doctors
If you asked most people if they value “creativity” in their doctor or surgeon, I’m guessing most people would say “NO.” (Tell me where I’m wrong.) I used to think that there were certain professions – like medicine – where creativity is actually not a valuable attribute. I’m beginning to wonder if that’s really true....
Can’t we make hospitals more beautiful?
With the recent announcement that Apple Inc. and a collection of the worlds leading tech companies such as HP and Oracle are building a hospital worth $2 billion at the Stanford campus (NB: The prestigious Medicine 2.0 congress takes place there) I am thrilled to put our thoughts into these words. From the first day I...
The car as a clinic
For adults it is unusual not to drive a car. There are already more than 800 million four-wheeled vehicles on the roads and the number is likely to double by 2050. In the US the average daily drive time is 24 minutes and over the course of a year commuting to work eats up more...
The Doctors Desk
We recently wrote about a pair of headphones, which we argue are the ultimate physician headphones. Mimicing a stethoscope and available in iPod-esque color sets it would truly be great a lifestyle addition for any doc or wanna be doc. Now (actually already quite some time ago) the Danish design studio “Søren Rose Studio” has...
