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Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future?

October 1, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Regenerative Economy

Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future?
BY ANITA HAMILTON, fastcoexist.com

As technology allows patients to pool their knowledge, can the collective experience of the sick create better care?

There’s something seriously wrong with a health care system that makes patients wait a month or more just to get a doctor’s…

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Three Surgeons of Los Angeles Colon and Rectal Surgical Associates Have Received the Prestigious 2013 Los Angeles SuperDoctors Award for the Second Year in a Row (prweb.com)
The MedZilla.com Employment Report for February, 2013: Health Care Sector Stimulates Job Growth Throughout the Recession (prweb.com)
WCRI Releases National Medical Cost Containment Strategy Guide (prweb.com)
Healthcare tort reform proposal aims to benefit patients, but many lawyers, doctors oppose (jacksonville.com)
What are Accountable Care Organizations- the Short Version (mvlnc.wordpress.com)
Patients are health care workers, too. (durgastoolbox.com)
Patient care suffering under NHS cuts, think-tank says (thetimes.co.uk)
FutureMed 2013 lucien engelen (slideshare.net)
How Doctors Use Social Media (medmeme.com)

The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

September 16, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives [Hardcover]
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, amazon.com

Harvard professor and health care policy specialist Christakis (Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care) became interested in social connectivity when observing that the mortality rate of spouses spike after …

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Gastrophysics: Some said ‘more’, others said ‘meh’ (newscientist.com)
Patients are health care workers, too. (durgastoolbox.com)
Pew’s fact tank studies American social networking (phys.org)
USA Returns to Social TV with Psych’s S#cial Sector (wired.com)

Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic

September 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

English: Total U.S. healthcare spending. 1960 ... — English: Total U.S. healthcare spending. 1960 to 2007. Percent of GDP (gross domestic product). Data is from OECD Health Data 2009 – Frequently Requested Data. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic

There are 6 types of healthcare consumers; Which ones would you like to target? (medcitynews.com)
When Allergies Attack – Asthma & Allergies in America [INFOGRAPHIC] (epicahealth.com)
Do You Have 20/20 Vision or Is It Time For A Visit To An Optometrist? [INFOGRAPHIC] (1010optics.net)
How Content Is Consumed in a Multi-Screen Culture [INFOGRAPHIC] (contently.com)
New Infographic Maps the Rise of Chronic Disease Healthcare Costs and the Future of Mobile Technology (sys-con.com)
An #Infographic for Porsche 911 Lovers (mediacaffeine.com)
Infographic: America’s PhDs On Food Stamps (ecominoes.com)
Big data for dummies: Where it comes from, where it goes & why it matters (infographic) (medcitynews.com)

How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually

September 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

How the U.S. Health-Care System Wastes $750 Billion Annually

Brian Fung, theatlantic.com

As we approach health-care system reform, a breakdown of our biggest losses

Every year, the United States spends eight times as much money on unnecessary health-care costs as the Pentagon spent for each year of its operations in Iraq.

T…

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Opening Up Big Data is the Big Solution to Curing Health Care Ills, according to Kauffman Report (kauffman.org)
U.S. recovers $4.2 billion from healthcare fraud probes: report (news.yahoo.com)
Editorial: Reduce health costs by avoiding unhelpful tests (newsday.com)
The Justice Department Gets Back $8 For Every Dollar It Spends On Health Care Fraud Investigations (thinkprogress.org)
Health insurance: US paying more for less (vitals.nbcnews.com)
The MedZilla.com Employment Report for February, 2013: Health Care Sector Stimulates Job Growth Throughout the Recession (virtual-strategy.com)
The MedZilla.com Employment Report for February, 2013: Health Care Sector Stimulates Job Growth Throughout the Recession (prweb.com)

A Look at Social Media in Health Care Two Years Later

January 24, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

A Look at Social Media in Health Care — Two Years Later – Perspectives – iHealthBeat.

This article looks at growth in the type company we’ve been waiting for. an online community where patients can discuss and track medical conditions, progress, stories of what did and did not work for them.

HealthCare Social Media Review #11 (thehealthcaremarketer.wordpress.com)
Strategic Application of Social Media in Health Care (social-media-university-global.org)
Social Media and Health Care (barbsdailydose.typepad.com)
Breaking News on the Social Media Frontier (healthtrain.blogspot.com)
Social Media as a Health Resource (medmeme.com)
Doctors Love Social Media – But They Don’t Use It?! (medmeme.com)
Social Media: Síntesis y Estudios de Caso en Salud (esaludsocialmedia.com)
Call for Submissions: HCSM Review #11, August 22nd Edition (thehealthcaremarketer.wordpress.com)
Family Medicine Should Be a Prominent Voice in Social Media (stfm.org)
How To Get Started In Social Media (socialmediadudes.com)

Health 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Life Sciences Maxiom Group Blog

August 23, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Please read my latest blog post Health 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Life Sciences on the Maxiom Group blog.

NYC plays matchmaker to hook up healthcare groups with startups to commercialize tech tools (medcitynews.com)
Speed dating for startups: NYC and Health 2.0 pair health organizations with entrepreneurs [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Crowd Sourcing: The Time Has Come (pharmexec.com)
How To Crowd Source Your Dream Cycle Tour (essentialtravel.co.uk)
Encyclopedias are Dead | No More Single Viewpoints | Domo | Blog (domo.com)
Health 2.0: Bridging the Senior Gap (medmeme.com)
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Announces $50,000 Innovation Challenge (sys-con.com)
Doctors 2.0 & You Supports Patient Travel To Paris And Invites Its Network To Participate, 6-7 June 2013, Paris (medicalnewstoday.com)
Health 2.0 is Launching Health:Refactored: The First Ever Code-focused Conference for Health (virtual-strategy.com)

Dan Roam: Explaining Healthcare Reform on a napkin

May 22, 2010April 19, 2025 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Health Informatics, Network Science

Due to the incredible complexity of our current healthcare reform and the challenges of explaining the need to reform it, Dan Roam has visualized it using a series of napkins…

Clive Thompson on the Power of Visual Thinking | Wired Magazine | Wired.com.