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June 15, 2013 By Ileana 1 Comment

Newest speech video: SAS Institute health analytics – business / tech / data conference

SAS speech video page screen capture

My videos page has recordings of various speeches. Here’s the latest – and, some are saying, my best. It was a month ago in Cary, North Carolina, at a big event conducted by SAS called “Health Analytics: From Big Insights to Big Breakthroughs.” It’s 56 minutes long.

Here’s the direct link to the video. If you’re not already registered on that site, you may need to register here.

Not all the slides are shown in the video; here’s a copy of them on Slideshare. Slideshare’s display software is pretty weak compared to what I do with PowerPoint :-) so some of the layouts display wrong on their site, but you can get the idea.

Don’t miss Peter Diamandis’s talk that day

Near the beginning I mention it. Here’s the link.

Filed Under: Events, Health data, patient engagement, Patient-centered tech 1 Comment

June 7, 2013 By Stales 3 Comments

Make it EASY to manage my pillbox!

Blue Button logo

Vote us up! (Alicia Staley and me)
Click to visit our proposal on the site, register if you need to,
and use one of your votes for this awesome idea!

(Or all three of your votes. :-) It’s allowed.)

Have you ever seen the set of pills that have to be managed for a person with a slew of prescriptions?  It’s nuts. What’s even more nuts is that with all we pay for healthcare and computers in this world, there’s no software anywhere that makes it easy to do the right thing. Let’s change that!

(I’m not complex at the moment (at least my prescriptions aren’t), but when I was sick I sure was. Farther down is the true story that gave me this idea.)

This is my submission for the “Blue Button CoDesign Challenge” that was sprung on us last Monday by the good folks at Health & Human Services, who are doing this radically modern thing – unusual for government, eh?  They came up with a fascinating challenge and are opening it to the public, with prizes! For details you can check out the challenge site.

Here’s my proposal. Over the weekend I’ll flesh out this blog post with more details, but for starters Friday afternoon, here’s the big idea:

Build me a Blue Button enabled tool that….

… makes it easy to manage our frickin’ prescriptions and take the right pills at the right time!

My doctors’ computers know my prescriptions and when I’m supposed to take them, right? So do the pharmacies. And computers can mash up all kinds of information from different sources, and organize it, and display it clearly, right? So why do they make ME figure out when I should take what?

Let’s have an app that can read all my prescriptions, and organize them into times of day. Even better, it could print out my pillbox and add pictures of what goes in each square. Why not?? Isn’t that what computers do – make complex information easy??

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Filed Under: e-patient resources, Government, Health data, Patient-centered tech 3 Comments

March 19, 2013 By e-Patient Dave 1 Comment

Video: “Telemedicine: A No-Brainer”

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I’m speaking today at a meeting of the Northeast Regional Telehealth Resource Center (NRTRC). They’re 35 telemedicine providers Map of NRTRC's 7 stateswho cover a vast region – seven states including all of Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon, Nebraska and Utah – which includes all the U.S. territory that legally qualifies as “frontier” because there are <6 people per square mile. In the twenty years some of these folks have been doing telemedicine, a lot has changed – it used to be mainly letting the doc see something from afar (remote video), but now things are evolving.

Check out this delightful video, winner of last year’s American Telemedicine Association competition. Brilliant messaging.

Watch for this to come to your family – not just if you’re in the industry, even if you’re in downtown LA. Why? Because as the video shows, people are realizing it’s not just remote seeing – it makes the whole danged process more efficient.

Prediction: as medicine becomes more of a competitive marketplace, some clinics will offer more convenience features like this, and customers (patients) will develop strong preferences for the chance to get their problem solved quick ‘n’ easy.

Topol examining his own heart with VScan handheld ultrasound
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