There are tons of iPhone applications popping up all over the web and Healthcare is receiving more than it’s fair share of developer attention which is fantastic! Here’s three company’s whose i offerings are really worth having a look at: Modality With the tag line “Clinical knowledge in your pocket: the titles you trust on [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Medicine 2.0 Conference: Presenters, Abstracts, and Papers posted
An impressive list of presentations has been released and posted on the Medicine 2.0 Conference site for the September 4-5 Toronto event. Early bird registration expires June 30th, so if you are interested in attending best to save the $100 and ensure you get a ticket!
The argument for evidenced based Healthcare Technology
There are many philosophical, cultural and even language barriers that exist between the medical and information technology worlds and bridging this gap with the ultimate aim of improving healthcare is one of the primary challenges faced by both camps. Case in point, the term “bleeding edge” doubtless means something drastically different to a Chief Information [...]
Unbound Medicine pursues mobile medical applications market leadership with iPhone portfolio
Unbound Medicine is looking to become a leader in the mobile medical application market by releasing tools and applications specifically designed for the iPhone. Unbound MEDLINE one of their offerings tracks medical journals and searches across 17 million journal citations while adaptations of current book titles such as Harrison’s Manual of Medicine and Pocket Guide [...]
Illness in the Age of ‘e’ : How Connected Technology Changes the Patient Experience
WIHIR Smarter Health Seminar Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Title: “Illness in the Age of ‘e’ : How Connected Technology Changes the Patient Experience” Speaker: Daniel Z. Sands, Senior Medical Informatics Director, Cisco Systems & Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Location: Davis Centre, Room 1302, University of [...]
Health Map Mashup tracks global infectious diseases
There is oodles of innovative and highly creative work taking place worldwide in the form of Mashups, however this concept is only slowly making it’s way into the Healthcare Industry. The idea of a Web 2.0 Mashup is that as more and more primary data sources are made available to the masses, free exchange of [...]
Open Source Healthcare is just getting started!
Open Source in any an all forms for Healthcare is fast becoming a hot topic and organizations and tools are beginning to pop up all over the web. I’ve seen a broad range of sites and mentions recently including: Strategic Industry level standards based organizations such as the Open eHealth Foundation which was founded at [...]
