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Patient Portal Improves Medication Adherence: Study – InformationWeek
Portal for medication adherence that seems to work
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iBGStar® | Diabetes management on-the-go
“The innovative iBGStar is the first available blood glucose meter that seamlessly connects to the iPhone and iPod touch allowing you to view and analyse accurate, reliable information in ‘real time’. Using the technology built into your iPhone or iPod touch, you can share this information with your healthcare professional while on-the-go, to help you make better-informed diabetes-related decisions together.”
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The next frontier, attaching health sensors directly into your smartphone
“A modular phone could, in essence, make it possible to completely remove those peripheral devices reliance on indirect connections and be directly incorporated into the phone itself. For example, I have created a mockup of a modular piece that could measure EKG’s. Taking, for example, the currently available product AliveCor, it could be transformed into a module that could directly connect to the phone, therefore bypassing the need of an external battery source and feeding data directly into the phone itself.”
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“The AliveCor System gives you the freedom to easily track your cardiac rhythms whenever you want and receive a detailed report at anytime. This enables you to engage with your doctor between appointments.
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Medication Adherence apps are all the Buzz, but are they worth it
A pharmacist’s view
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First, we need to prove that apps can actually modify patients’ adherence to apps through research and identify which patients will benefit the most.
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address privacy concerns about the tracking of patient information and ensure that there will be no negative repercussions for the reporting of non-adherence
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address issues outside of unintentional non-adherence
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Medication adherence: There’s an app for that
Nice list of apps
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Smartphone Medication Adherence Apps
No results to truly validate the effectiveness, but great potential for both pharmacists & pharma companies for top-line growth. Also, a way to capture prescription data. Chemist side kiosks to facilitate such a service might help uptake.
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HealthPrize rewards you for taking your medication
Interesting concept for gamifying the medication adherence
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Visual Wednesdays: America’s Other Drug Problem « Rock Health
Interesting stats
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Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE | Healthcare in the palm of your hand
A competition to follow
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With sensors, apps & data, my smartphone is (almost) my doctor — Tech News and Analysis
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Scanadu | Sending your Smart Phone to Med School
The Scout is here, and is going to be a very interesting self diagnosis tool.
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BlueStar, the First Prescription-Only App – IEEE Spectrum
“The app, called BlueStar, helps people with Type 2 diabetes (the most common kind) by suggesting, in real time, when to test their blood sugar and how to control it by varying medication, food, and exercise. That it requires a physician’s prescription is actually an advantage, because it means insurance companies will reimburse BlueStar’s fee.”
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We’d all be better off with our health records on Facebook – Quartz
An interesting way to think about the health cloud:
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Pharmaceutical Executive: The iPad’s Future in Pharma
There are actually 2 scenarios described here:
1. An interaction tool for the doctors & sales force, for which larger devices like the iPad are a good fit
2. A diagnostic tool that tracks the behaviour and symptoms of the patient and thus needs to be with the patient most of the time, and for this, smaller devices like smartphones with dedicated motion sensors\processors are the way to go-
But physicians don’t want pretty pictures; they want help — ways to improve how they practice medicine, the efficiency of how they treat patients, and how they can affect outcomes. And the iPad is not just a visual medium; it is an interactive medium — and interactive in more than just the ability to touch different arrows to see different pictures. The confluence of these two facts offers pharmaceutical marketers what may be their greatest opportunity of the digital age: the opportunity to offer tools that use the full capacity of the iPad to help physicians do their jobs, and help patients stay healthy.
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physicians could use the iPad’s motion sensitivity to test against a measurable range of scores; with sufficient participation over time, this approach could transform the way Parkinson’s, or other movement-disorder related diseases, is categorized within the medical community.
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Smaller devices like smartphones, particularly the iPhone 5S & Moto X with their dedicated motion processors might be a better fit for such use cases
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The iPad in the hands of a patient offers the capacity to quantify disease progression to a level of detail that even the most impressive device in any physician’s office cannot match, since it can be in the patient’s hand at any time.
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Again, a smartphone would be a better fit
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Quite a list of celebrities who overcame the disease
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• Saurav Ganguly – Former captain of Team India Cricket
• Ian Botham – Former captain of England Cricket Team
• Jackey Joyner Kersey – Athlete
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad – First President of India
• Indira Gandhi – Former Prime Minister of India
• John F Kennedy – Former President of America
• Amitav Bachhan – Actor
• Sharon stone – Actress
• Kenny G – Musician
• Charles Dickens – Novelist
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The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Madurai News : Of over 15 million asthma patients, 15 % are children
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Dr. Bose gave a list of prominent personalities who are “winners over asthma’ and that list includes names like Saurav Ganguly and Ian Botham (cricketers), Babu Rajendra Prasad (first President of the country), John F. Kennedy (former American President), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Elizabeth Taylor and Sharon Stone (actresses), Charles Dickens (author) and Indira Gandhi (former Prime Minister).
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Bookmyshow for doctors
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Private Cloud in Healthcare – Express Healthcare
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a majority of clouds are expected to crop as private entities and not as publically owned ones. Almost all mid sized hosiptals (31-100 beds) and large ones (101 and above beds) are expected to opt for private cloud and build and maintain it in-house.
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Pharma companies will have to interface with the hospital clouds eventually
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For even the mid-sized hospitals, IT often means standalone PCs that are used for maintaining inventory records, patient check in and bill clearance. The systems lack in intergration. Also, most of the hospitals in India lack the idea of business intelligence as of now, and business applications for hospitals, like a hosiptal information management system, are just beginning to gain ground.
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bets are high on the in-premise private clouds. That is where, healthcare as a vertical is deviating from the trend. While some verticals like manufacturing are comfortable with public clouds, others like BFSI are opting for private clouds in service provider’s data centers.
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Compliance is the other big factor that is fuelling demand for private cloud.
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One of the biggest in this is the privacy of patients and confidentiality of clinical investigations. These naturally prompt the healthcare sector to prefer the private clouds.
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However, over and above these issues lies the biggest reason for healthcare CIOs opting for a private cloud.- ‘Security’. Healthcare deals with very sensitive patient data, and data security is one of the paramount concerns of any healthcare service provider.
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A few mid-sized healthcare service providers are putting their non-critical applications like HR, workloads, emails and back-end office automation stuff onto the public cloud.
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What we could also see in the future is that a consortium of healthcare service providers like dentists, cardiologists etc who are often a very well-knit community joining hands to go on a private or public cloud.
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Wowed by Charminar – The Hindu
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The Asthalin pump with medication is always kept handy.
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Category: bookmarks
Bookmarks from delicious
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Healthcare links 01/14/2014
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World Population by Latitude, Longitude Visual
Based on census data from 2000, but the ratios should be similar even now.
Mapping the World’s Population by Latitude, Longitude | Design on GOOD.
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What’s worse than in-game ads?
Ads in school targeting children:
But at least adults have some defences. As the advertising executive Alex Bogusky points out, “children are not small grownups. Their brains are fundamentally different, the big difference being that right-hemisphere brain development doesn’t really kick in until the age of 12. This is important because without the right hemisphere involved, all decisions and concepts are very black and white. If you sit with a child and watch TV commercials, you will notice how vigorously effective the messages are. ‘I want that.’ ‘Can I have that?’ ‘I need that.’ These words come out of their mouths with seemingly every message, and they mean it and they believe it and they are defenceless against it.”
via Hey advertisers, leave our defenceless kids alone | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian.
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Why nuking cyclones is a bad idea
Simply put:
Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.
TCFAQ C5c Why don’t we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking.
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What if: Leap Seconds
The bit I found most interesting:
Half a billion years ago when the Earth was 4 billion years old, instead of 4.5, each day was 22 hours long instead of 24. The day has gotten longer because of tidal forces from the Moon.
via Leap Seconds.
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Apple Outsider » Home Turf
Yup, that’s pretty much it:
However, the Google – Facebook war is sure to be more vicious than the Google – Apple war because Google and Facebook have the same customers: advertisers. Users are their currency, and Facebook is about to rob the bank.
Of course, the icing on the cake will be if facebook forks Android and buys HTC eventually.
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Wikipedia France faces some tough issues
Not exactly the best way to be transparent:
Unhappy with the Foundation’s answer, the DCRI summoned a Wikipedia volunteer in their offices on April 4th. This volunteer, which was one of those having access to the tools that allow the deletion of pages, was forced to delete the article while in the DCRI offices, on the understanding that he would have been held in custody and prosecuted if he did not comply. Under pressure, he had no other choice than to delete the article, despite explaining to the DCRI this is not how Wikipedia works. He warned the other sysops that trying to undelete the article would engage their responsability before the law.
French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article
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Roger Ebert on death
A very beautiful piece from his memoir:
I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
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RMS on Novartis, IPR & India
That’s the way it is:
In the absence of free exploitation treaties such as the WTO, India would respond to the threat by making those drugs locally. Novartis’ death threats are mere bluster, unless the WTO gives them force; and that reveals the murderous nature of the WTO.
via 2013: January – April Political Notes – Richard Stallman.
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Google Play Movies finally in India
It launched last week in fact, but missed it somehow. Prices seem pretty competitive with the India iTunes store, though HD seems to be missing from many for now. Rental is also available for the latest movies including “The Hobbit”.
So, all we have to do now is wait for the Nexus 4 & Music on the Google front and iBooks from Apple.
