(Reuters) — Apple‘s (NSDQ:AAPL) healthcare technology is spreading quickly among major U.S. hospitals, showing early promise as a way for doctors to monitor patients remotely and lower costs.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
The Athenahealth/BIDMC collaboration
Wikipedia and Facebook for clinical documentation
Over the past several years I’ve written about the inadequate state of clinical documentation, which is largely unchanged since the days ofOsler, (except for a bit more structure introduced by Larry Weed in the 1970s) and was created for billing/legal purposes not for care coordination.
The view from underneath the bus
EHR causes Ebola! EHRs hold data hostage in stovepiped legacy systems! There is no interoperability in America!
How many headlines have you seen over the past month that are either completely false or a vast oversimplification of complex issues.
As I tell my staff, there is no problem that cannot be morphed into an IT shortcoming.
Sunshine Act/Conflict of Interest
As with previous years, it’s time to openly publish my conflict of interests, board memberships, advisory board positions, and government activities so that anyone reading my opinions has full transparency.
The federal government has made financial disclosure very easy with the Sunshine Act.
Real time big data analytics for clinical care
Over the summer, I’ve given many lectures about SMAC – social media, mobile, analytics and cloud computing.
The most popular analytics topics are business intelligence, big data, and novel data visualizations.
Patient generated data goes mainstream
Since 1999, Patientsite, the BIDMC shared record between doctor and patient, has enabled patients to track blood pressure, glucometer readings, activities of daily living, mood, pain etc. but few patients have used those features.
Why? Because it requires time and energy to maintain that data.
What if data gathering was entirely passive?
Interoperability in real life
On Monday afternoon my wife was speaking with my 82 year old father-in-law, when he began speaking in word salad – not slurring his words, but clearly speaking words that made no sense. He had no numbness or weakness, no confusion, and no change in consciousness. After 5 minutes all symptoms resolved.
mHealth: Google Glass poses great potential for hospitals, docs say
Watch Google Glass in action in the ER
Check out this video from Wearable Intelligence about its Google Glass emergency room application, which Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center is using in a pilot program.
Wearable computing at BIDMC
Over the past few months, Beth Israel Deaconess has been exploring the use of wearable computing.
In the Emergency Department we’ve been evaluating an early unit of Google Glass, a high tech pair of glasses that includes a video camera, video screen, speaker, microphone, touch pad, and motion sensor.