Healthcare – Insight Sciences

FDA reigning in medical apps

October 3, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

FDA to start reining in the Wild West of medical apps
by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, cnet.com

The FDA says it is only regulating products that turn smartphones into medical devices it already oversees, such as apps that let your phone act as an electronic stethoscope or give feedback on CPR.

The Wild West of mobile medical apps is gett…

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The Time is Ripe for Physicians to Become Mobile Medical App Entrepreneurs (zenstorming.wordpress.com)
One way everyone can help with post-market surveillance of medical devices and drugs (medcitynews.com)
The FDA, Preemption, And Warnings About Risks Of Off-Label Use (druganddevicelaw.blogspot.com)
How to get FDA approval for mobile medical apps (solutionventing.wordpress.com)

BioAid app turns iPhone into hearing aid

April 29, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

BioAid app turns the iPhone into a hearing aid
Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com

It’s so obvious when you think about it. The iPhone has a microphone, a computer that can process audio, and earphones – why not use it as hearing aid? That’s just what a group of scientists from the University of Essex have done, with their BioAi…

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App turns iPhone into a hearing aid (springwise.com)
A Hearing Aid that Talks to the iPhone (livingwithbionicears.wordpress.com)
Advantages and Disadvantages of Hearing Aids (biotechuta.wordpress.com)
The bionic ear is closer than you think with new apps, implants, and biomimetic mics [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)

IT has disrupted finance so why is healthcare lagging behind?

April 29, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Information technology has revolutionalized financial services. So why is healthcare so far behind?
Phil Fasano, Guest Contributor, gigaom.com

The U.S. leads the world in healthcare expenditures – an astounding $2.7 trillion in 2012 and rising every year. Yet in one recent study of medical outcomes in the world’s most highly developed countries we ranked last. By any measure …

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Getting beyond the hype of disruption in healthcare and focusing on actionable innovation (healthcareguy.com)
Junior Healthcare Associate (NYC) (attorneyjobsinnyc.wordpress.com)
Entrepreneurship on the Rise at Wharton (mbastartupblog.com)
7 predictions for the future of health care technology (venturebeat.com)

Why health IT is the core of reform

December 13, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

Why IT is the core of the healthcare renaissance
kevinmd.com

Warning! I am a practicing doctor who sees real patients using an electronic medical record (EMR). My sole agenda is to provide the best patient care. I have no financial stake in information technology (IT). However, unlike the editorial board at…

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Practice Fusion EMR Launches Doctors Appointment And Reviews Site Patient Fusion With 27K Physicians (techcrunch.com)
Evaluation of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) at Large Urban Primary Care Sexual Health Centre (plosone.org)
Opportunity Cost of EMRs (medcitynews.com)
The Future of Health I.T (curemd.wordpress.com)
FindZebra – a physician’s search engine for rare diseases (reg4all.wordpress.com)
What I Didn’t See At HIMSS: Human-Centered Design (medcitynews.com)

Scanadu tricorder

November 29, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

Scanadu’s Medical Tricorder Will Measure Your Vital Signs In Seconds
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

No more searching the medicine cabinet for the thermometer or being worried that your blood pressure is too high. Just hold this device up to your temple for a moment and you can start to track your health.

It was less than a year ago that we fi…

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