Healthline Blogs
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Grand Rounds Volume 3 Number 5 is available
Bob Coffield hosts this week's Grand Rounds, the best posts of the health blogosphere from this past week, also known as the carnival of the caregivers.Thanks for Bob for posting from the hills of West Virginia, and for being the first lawyer to p...
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Futurology and Medicine
Image by -RobW- via FlickrFuturology is the art of postulating possible futures. Here's a tour of some possible futures of medical care.Medinnovationblog, written by Dr. Richard Reece, imagines a detailed vision of what medicine might be like in 2...
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Tech Medicine Links for 2.9.9
Bertalan Meskó from Scienceroll.com attended the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) 17 conference. He's posted some pictures here and here.The Seattle Times published an article titled, "With Smartphone, Doctors Reinvent House Calls."Google is ...
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Pediatric Flu Vaccine Supply Delayed, Not A Shortage
Sanofi pasteur, the manufacturer of FluZone states that there will be a delay in shipping their injectable flu vaccine, the only one FDA approved for children aged 6 months to 3 years old. The AAP (American Association of Pediatrics) advises pare...
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Monthly Introduction to Tech Medicine
Image from WikipediaWhat's this blog all about?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 is...
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RFID Chips Prevent Sponges From Being Left Behind During Surgery
Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) chips are not just in your Mach3 razor packages, they're showing promise in surgery as well. In the July Archives of Surgery, Stanford researchers found that they could detect sponges left behind with an RFID ...
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Someone Please Create Free, HIPAA-Compliant Patient-Physician Email
This is a rant. Or a plea. Or a pitch for a product idea that I wish someone would just run with. It would be invaluable to everyone involved.Free, encrypted, HIPAA-complaint patient-physician email. Simple. Easy-to-use. Ad-supported. Perhaps by G...
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Rate of the spread of flu Is linked to airline travel
The New York Times today reports on a PLoS Medicine study by Brownstein, Wolfe & Mandl showing that the rate of spread of influenza is related to the number of people flying in airplanes.They studied the spread of influenza timed to the amoun...
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Dinner with Sermo's CEO, Dr. Daniel Palestrant
Sermo's CEO, Dr. Daniel Palestrant, invited users in New York City out to dinner near Times Square last week. (Sermo is the largest online community for physicians, allowing doctors to ask each other questions, vote on answers, and post comments. ...
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Notes on the Technology Entertainment Design (TED) Conference
The Technology Entertainment Design Conference -- or TED -- is a 4 day meeting of 50 brilliant speakers from a wide range of fields. In the words of David Pogue, a technology columnist at the New York Times: They are the most compelling, passionat...
