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!)....
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...
The MedCrunch Top 10 Tech Services for Physicians
We've compiled a list of 10 services and tools that evey physician should know about and at least give a try!
Intelligent Plasters
When we think of medical innovation, we usually think high-tech, lots of money, biotech and brain-scans. But researchers at the Frauenhofer Research Institution for Modular Solid State Technologies EMFT (who knows how they came up that abbreviation) in Munich now has developed a kind of plaster that does something special. The idea is simple, it’s...
Withings & iHealth enable slick blood pressure monitoring with your iPhone
It was only a matter of time until the first (usable) hardware attachments for the iPhone and iPad pop up to breach the gap between consumer goods...
How to hack Radiology software with Microsoft Kinect
Radiology has transformed into a core subject of medicine, since imaging procedures are getting more and more crucial to clinical decisions...
The ultimate Physician’s headphones
Since the arrival of the iPhone and the iPod, lots of Physicians have jumped onto this device and are using it for both professional and personal use more and more. An Istanbul-based design consultancy firm called Antrepo has now designed and created a prototype for a new kind of headphone set that seems to...
Prescribe drugs via your iPhone
iApp Creative has released a new update to its iPrescribe app for iPhones and iPads. The tool makes it intuitive and quick to prescribe your favorite pills to your favorite patients. Features from the product page: Transmit and receive electronic prescriptions. iPrescribe is Surescripts™ certified for New Prescriptions and Refills. After writing a prescription you...
