We used to do a “Christmas in July” day for our niece and nephew. Well, it looks like Christmas came in May to TFHHC… The Parallax microMedic contest kit has arrived. Among the most interesting components are: Universal Remote Control4-Directional…
Can Hospital Chains Improve the Medical Industry? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
I’ve spent the last four days on a trip to Vancouver B.C. for a meeting of our fledging research network. Several colleagues from the U.S. independently mentioned how well things worked in Canada, how multicultural the society is, and how…
In the “you’ve got to be kidding”… bin this morning, from Federal Telemedicine News: Ford, Microsoft Corp, and Healthrageous announced at the Digital Health Summit, that they plan to work together to develop connected devices to help people monitor and…
It is early days, however, Central Vermont Community Land Trust, has put together a chair Tai Chi/ Yoga program which they are delivering via Skype multipoint video. They held their first three-way video program with six participants at one senior housing…
We had a candid conversation with an IT person who supports telemedicine applications at a major research university. I thought it might be useful to post a de-identified version of the discussion, as it brought out a number of points,…
I found a terrific book Alone and Invisible No More by Allan Teer, M.D. about what he calls the Maine Approach. He has developed a methodology for support for aging at home that works several steps removed from a medical…
From the Disease Management Care Blog… Which reminds the DMCB of a parallel borg called the electronic health record (EHR). A eerily similar bipartisan government-industry ideology has somehow decreed that EHRs will increase clinical quality, enhance efficiency, promote safety and reduce costs. While the downsides…
According to an article in the New York Times, Google will discontinue Google Health, the personal health record portal that they began in 2008. Quoting from the blog post … Now, with a few years of experience, we’ve observed that…
Paul Krugman’s column in the New York Times this morning argues that having more people enrolled in Medicare will save money. And that, horrors, all the ideas being floated to “save Medicare”, are misplaced, indeed the ideas should be to…
