Monthly Introduction to Tech Medicine
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASN
My goal in Tech Medicine will be to explore the intersection of medicine, new technologies, and the Internet. This is a purposefully broad topic. Several times weekly I will post focused reviews of issues interesting to health professionals and nonprofessionals alike. Posts may include examinations of medical devices, pharmaceuticals, scientific advances, internet services, and other technologies involving health care and the practice of medicine. Mirroring as it does the nature of the Internet and the sometimes surprising nature of new technologies, the content may also include topics that are wonderful, unusual, hilarious, or strange.
What are some recent posts on Tech Medicine?
Recent posts have included discussions on medical uses of the iPhone (part 1, part 2, and part 3) and thoughts on patient-physician email (part 1 and part 2).
Who are you?
I'm trained as a nephrologist (a kidney and blood pressure specialist). For the last two years I've written Kidney Notes, a blog designed to filter and process medical news. Most recently, Kidney Notes has become a collection of links, commentary, and scraps of information -- a reference database of interesting things with the help of a popular social bookmarking service called del.icio.us. While I will continue posting to Kidney Notes, several friends have asked me to write longer posts of original content -- and this is what I will be writing on Tech Medicine. (Recently, I have also written a blog on personal productivity called The Efficient MD.)
There are many topics I plan to cover, but I'm also open to suggestions and tips. Please email them to techmedicine@gmail.com.
1 Comments:
At Wed Aug 01, 05:45:00 AM 2007,
Huck said…
What are your thoughts on who should manage areas where there is overlap.
While bread and butter hypertension should be the domain of all internists, sometimes things get more complicated.
At many institutions such as UPenn, hypertension is rolled into nephrology. At Vanderbilt, Clin Pharm has a few hypertension specialists and was historicaly the hypertension division, but now nephrology shares that role. At UConn, Clin Pharm is a division of the department of cardiology and hosts their hypertension specialists.
Indeed, I get referals for HTN management.
What are your thoughts?
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