January 2009

Guest Article: Google Health and HealthVault App Integration from the trenches

I liked what the folks are doing at TrialX, especially their integration with HealthVault and Google Health so I invited them to write share with us what they’ve learned. Chintan Patel is a co-founder and the CTO of TrialX, a startup that is developing social and semantic technologies to enable patients find matching clinical trials [...]

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Free and Open Source Healthcare IT unconference in Houston this summer

Fred Trotter, one of the most influential and outspoken voices for free and open source solutions/software (FOSS) in healthcare, just announced that he’s helping put together the FOSS in healthcare unconference. An “unconference” (in case you’re not familiar) is a meetup or gathering of people in which the participants themselves (not the conference organizers) run [...]

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Zotero can help with medical research and daily healthcare Information Management work

Most of us in the healthcare industry are constantly doing research of one kind or another (doctors have to keep up with new procedures and the latest research, nurses have to keep up with latest techniques, etc). Most of us just end up using simple but inefficient tools like files on our desktop, folders on [...]

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Astronauts have checklists, why not surgeons?

The debate around checklists for physicians in general and surgeons specifically has raged for decades. When a task becomes sufficiently complex (like astronauts controlling spacecraft or pilots flying aircraft) it has been shown that simple multi-step checklists, that professionals are required to document completion of, can significantly reduce risky procedures and work. Astronauts are pretty [...]

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Nice new web-based physician Marketing and Social Networking site

The folks at Phyzoom have recently released a social networking site for physicians that adds a nice twist – it’s helpful for marketing services between physicians and other parts of their healthcare ecosystem (insurance, hospitals, etc). I’ve seen and reviewed a number of physician-oriented social networking sites (like Sermo and Ozmosis) but Phyzoom seems to [...]

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