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Ed Harris posted
Obama Health Care Reform
For it? Against it?
Here are my thoughts:
As someone who has been in the health care profession for 29 years, I believe we need reform. Health insurers must not be able to deny coverage. But they also need everyone to be insured to be able to provide such coverage.
Increased utilization of HSAs makes much more sense than Obama trying to socialize medicine. But we'll see how this plays out.
Mon, Nov 9 at 2:09PM
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Michael Massagli posted
Job Openings at PatientsLikeMe
We currently have openings for the following positions:
Experienced Ruby on Rails Developer
Senior QA Engineer
please visit our 'careers' page at:
http://www.patientslikeme.com/about/c...
please share with extremely good candidates you know who may be looking.
thanks.
Wed, Oct 28 at 12:06PM
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Web2.0-based medical education and learningWeb Based Simulation Games with Multimedia E-learning EnvironmentJiri Kofranek, Charles University Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.Sept 18, 9:00AM - 10:30AM MaRS CR2 (Research) Jiri Kofranek, o...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Presenters: Joan H. Dzenowagis; Kevin A. Clauson and Francisco J. GrajalesFrancisco Grajales III, Joan Dzenowagis, and Kevin Clauson took an interactive approach in order to present their ideas about Ethical and legal issues in the realm of eHealth, by conducting a real-time survey, using an audience response system. The audience participated by responding to the survey questions anonymously. The objective of the survey was to elaborate on the...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Presentation Topic: Ethical & legal issues, confidentiality and privacy AbstractPanel Members:Joan H. Dzenowagis: World Health Organization, Geneva, SwitzerlandKevin A. Clauson: , Nova Southeastern University, College of Pharmacy, P...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Ethics 2.0: Implications for Connected Health (Panel with interactive audience response system)Joan H. Dzenowagis*, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Kevin A. Clauson*, Nova Southeastern University, College of Pharmacy, Palm Beach Gardens, United States Francisco J. Grajales Iii*, eHealth Strategy Office, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver, Canada.This session being a panel discussion was certainly not l...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Speaker Peter MurrayPeter Murray the Director of the Medical informatics Association did a brief talk about the International Medical Informatics Association.website: http://www.imia.org/the Association plays a major role in the application of information science and technology in the fields of he...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
E-patient Dave Debronkart, Society for Participatory Medicine, Nashua, NH, United StatesKeynote: "Gimme My Damn Data!" He covered real-world examples of how inability of patients has cause harm and how ability of patients educate themse...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Topic: Building virtual communities and social networking applications for health professionalsPresenters: Chris Paton*, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; Malcolm Pollock, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; Debra Warren, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand:Project: ahttp://www.healthknowledgebase....... [read more]
Mon, Sep 21 at 8:01PM
An increasing number of people use the Internet for health information. But how their online information seeking practices affect the ways they utilize health care? In Japan, cell phones are also widely used to access the Internet. But how Japanese people use cell phones for health information seeking practice on the Internet is unknown. This study examined how Japanese people use personal computers and cell phones to gain health-related infor...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
As part of the closing ceremonies of Medicine 2.0'09, the "IMIA Medicine 2.0 Award" for the best paper in the research track was presented. The US$ 500 award for the winner is given by IMIA (the International Medical Informatics Association - www.imia.org), a co-sponsor of the event, to be used to facilitate development of a paper to be submitted to a peer reviewed journal for publication.All eligible abstract...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Without a doubt Wikipedia is one of the most frequently viewed online resources by information seekers. It is quick, accessible, and relatively easy to understand. In fact, because of its popularity, Wiki article always appears as one of the top results of major search engines. But how about the medical information on Wikipedia? Is the information about common drug on Wikipedia consumer-friendly and easy to understand?To assess the readability...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Despite high prevalence rate of mental illness among young adult (1 of every 4 young adults will experience a mental disorder in any 12 month period.), early intervention is under-utilized, and unmet care needs exist among this particular population. Moreover, little research has been done with regard to the actual experience of young adults experiencing suffering from mental illnesses. Madalyn Marcus (York University, Toronto) employed a qual...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Julia V Bailey (University College London) sees huge potential for health promotion via computer-based technology for its advantages of convenience, interactivity, and multi-media features. She presented the results of a systematic review of interactive computer-based interventions for the promotion of sexual health. The examination of electronic databases, grey literature, trial registers, and reference lists of published studies yielded 11.0...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Presented By: Tara McCurdie Introduction of ICT in healthcare enables the availability of more and more communication technologies for use by healthcare professionals at the point of care. It is thus very important to choose the right device that will enable accessing this data in the most efficient and secure manner. Despite mobile phones ...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Jen McCabeJen McCabe presented ideas on NextHealth, her conceptual model of consumer-centric care. Jen is a very forward thinker. Her commitment to patient advocacy was very inspirational. Her model showed consumer centric care at the intersection of the (patient) versus (provider) axis and (mortar and brick) versus (virtual services)...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Patients Informing Practice: Post-marketing Drug Data in PatientsLikeMe, a Patient-Centred Online CommunitySpeaker: Jeana FrostJeana Frost, winner of the JMIR Medicine 2.0 award 2009, presented research data collected from PatientLikeMe website. Noting that drugs are often used off-label with limited clinical data, Jeana Frost presente...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Presented By: Emily SetoWith the rise in chronic diseases it is becoming much more difficult for patients to manage their own care. Heart failure is one of those areas where the patients generally have a tendency to poorly perform self-care. Some reasons for this would be the patient’s non adherence to perform certain self-care tasks suc...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
A Biomedical Knowledge Management Antenna SystemSeptember 18, 2009 (auditorium) 1:30 to 3:00Speakers:Laura Slamancalsalamanca@isciii.esLaura Slamanca provided a presentation today on Bikmas, a knowledge management antenna system used by her organization to share individual knowledge. Due to the need to organize research activity to sha...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Enabling Transdisciplinary Scientific Collaboration using Web 2.0Speaker Kei CheungKei Cheung presented today his pilot application called Orphadata.org. Orphan data is defined as data that is no longer connected to other data, delinquent data. While the data is no longer being used, it’s “information that just can not be deleted”. Some of the data may have been orphaned due to lack of funding or conflicting data. Kei provided examples of p...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Reaching Out to Researchers in the Health SciencesMaRS – Auditorium September 18, 2009 (1:30 to 3:00)Speakers: Hope LemanHope Leman’s presented today her web based tool called ScanGrants. ScanGrants provides users a listing of grant, scholarship and other funding types in the health sciences. While it was initially developed for her o...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
"Readability of the Top 50 Prescribed Drugs in Wikipedia" (View Abstract)The presenter was Devin Pelcher form Nova Southeastern University, Ormond Beach, United States. David's presentation was regarding a research project on Wikipedia health-related information.He pro...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
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Francisco J Grajales III posted
Second Med 2.0 (Unofficial) Dinner, September 18th at the CN Tower
Hello everyone,
Last year a few of us reconnected for a second Med 2.0 dinner at the CN Tower after the closing ceremony on friday evening.
A few of us (IMIA Web 2.0 taskforce and friends) would like to repeat this event and extend our invitation to all participants.
Please use this thread to sing up. I will make a reservation on Friday at noon and will post the details back on this page.
Gunther, it would be great if this year you...... [read more]
Francisco J Grajales III:
Hello everyone, I have 9 people here + Imma + Joan + Kevin + Matic + Me + Jen = 15
We will all meet at the bottom of the CN tower at 21:10
Reservation name: Med 2.0 Unofficial dinner
I know its late but it was the only time we could get a group that size to fit.
See you then, if you still want to sign up. please DM on twitter (@ciscogiii) or SMS me at +1.778.881.4061
I very much look forward to it.
Cisco
Francisco J Grajales III:
Add Chiah to it too :) =16
Larry Chu:
I think Cindy wants to come too, if it's not too late...
Fri, Sep 18 at 12:38PM
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Use of the Internet for Health-related Information in Japan: a Crosssectional Population-based Survey(Veiw Abstrac...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
AbstractSpeaker: Christophe LaurentThe team at Onze Lieve Vrouw Hospital in Belgium has made strides in improving the clinical flow and processes in their ER by incorporating the use of twitter as a novel channel. It was interesting to see that new social media technologies can be embraced seamlessly into critical system environments. They use twitter in t...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
"What Are Young Adults Saying About Mental Health? a Qualitative Analysis of Internet Blogs" ahttp://www....... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
“Computer based Interventions for Sexual Health: a Systematic Review”(view Abstract) The presenter was Julia V Bailey from University Colle...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
Speaker: Loredana CovoloAbstract hereBack in 2002, about 36% of a sample of 2500 considered using home genetic tests to find out about their genetic makeup. We can only assume that the number has grown since then, especially with the attention that companies like 23andme, founded by Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google...... [read more]
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:21AM
AbstractSpeaker Niraj MistryIt is evident that a lot of patients are using social media as tools to access health information. 60% of e-patients access social media related to health. However, only a small percentage of hospitals allow access and use of social media sites. Only 351 of 5708 US hospitals are currently engaged in social media despite a signif...... [read more]
Fri, Sep 18 at 7:57PM
"E-Patients and Chronic Illness:Commonalities and Differences among Breast Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis and Marfan Syndrome Health E-Community Members"(Veiw Abstract)Persenters of this session were Judith, E-patient and Adria Fede...... [read more]
Sun, Sep 27 at 8:00PM
