Health professionals -including medical students- are always in search for the latest technological advancement available to make their job easier. In this article, we will provide you the most recommended apps for your smartphone and tablet that will make your medical work easier.
INTERVIEW: Tim Ringrose of Doctors.net.uk
Dr. Tim Ringrose is the CEO of Doctors.net.uk the leading independent network of medical professionals in Europe. MedCrunch met up with Dr. Ringrose at the Health 2.0 Conference in Berlin. MedCrunch: Dr. Ringrose could you please explain to our readers what Doctors.net.uk is. Tim Ringrose: Doctors.net.uk is an online professional network, free for doctors to...
The Svelte Physician – How Podio Can Boost Collaboration And Declutter Your Workday
I was recently talking to a friend, a young GP, who had just spent two hours on the phone figuring out how to help a patient with unusual symptoms. He told me he had been going through his address book of colleagues and physicians in different fields who could help with this particularly difficult referral....
Why Medical Students Should All Have iPads – Part 2
It has been a while since I last posted about “why should all med students have iPads,” it is about time to add some other facts to that. Now that you have decided to invest in an iPad (or any other kind of tablet for that matter), what can you do with it? For starters,...
Why Medical Students Should All Have iPads
Calling all Med Schools: the iPad is here, have you noticed? Or do you live under a rock? It’s been just a week since Apple announced the release of the new iPad and we have all witnessed the hype going on. Some new features, better processor and screen… and the long and endless lines outside...
Smartphone, MD – A Doctor At the Tip Of Your Fingers
This ist part I in a series of posts about how technology interacts with the modern patient and physician. I have always considered myself as a technology junkie and I thank my father for that. He always had the newest, fastest and amazing computer (back in the day it was a Gateway 486 – moo!)....
Improve Outcomes and Engage Patients in Their Own Health with Social Media Improve Outcomes and Engage Patients in Their Own Health with Social Media
This is a guest post by Katie Matlack, a Medical Analyst for Software Company “Software Advice“. By now plenty of bloggers have discussed the September study that found that well over half of doctors use social media in their practice of medicine. It came as no surprise that most docs who participated in the study...
From Expert To Patient – Why Medical Knowledge Is Siloed
In this post, we will share with you how medical knowledge is generated and distributed and why this has to change.
A Small Step For you, A Giant Leap For Healthcare: HealthTap
We've previously written about Healthysparx, an alleged Quora for health. But today we have to re-consider the arguments we've made in that post and take the ambitious goals and intuitive user interfaceof such a service into account when looking at Heatlthtap, which had launched only recently in public beta.
Reverse Mentoring
There’s a story of Barry Diller, the famed Chairman of IAC, an internet behemoth with lots of succesful web properties in its very broad porftfolio of technology investments. Diller, now 69, was said to excessively, make use of a concept known as “reverse mentoring”. As the title suggests, the idea is that the typically younger,...
How To Collaborate in Hospitals – A Use Case for Yammer
Hospitals are like big corporations. We’ve written about this already in other posts and it’s more true than ever these days. Hospitals exhibit all the elements of the modern corporation (actually there is a neat writeup about how the corporation has evolved): intransparent, hierarchical, heavy. Now, in contrast to hospitals, corporations know that collaborational tools...
Signal vs. Noise in Patient Care: Why Facebook & Co Won’t Replace Your Clinical Skills
There are two types of things that surround the doctor-patient encounter: there is signal and there is noise. By “signal” we refer to things like rapport, relationship, trust, communication, empathy and so forth. By “noise” we mean nuisances like: appointment scheduling, payment, insurance forms, telephone calls, prescriptions, referrals etc. During the signal part, the actual...
