Medicine – Science, Technology, Society

Spleen on a chip

Posted on May 18, 2013July 2, 2013 by timbatchelder

This Spleen-On-A-Chip Will Clean Your Blood Like A Machine
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

Using nanobeads that strip out anything bad in your blood, this machine could be a solution to deadly blood infections, especially in places far from a hospital. Which is why the military is very interested.

Sepsis is a whole-body inflammato…

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Building One Function of an Artificial Spleen (fightaging.org)
What is the Function of the Spleen (wanttoknowit.com)
The Future of Medicine: The Spleen-On-A-Chip (storiesbywilliams.com)
Artificial Spleen Offers Hope for Faster Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (technologyreview.com)

SV Angel says health informatics is a mega trend

Posted on April 30, 2013June 30, 2013 by timbatchelder

SV Angel Says Health Informatics Is One Of Its New “Megatrends”
Kim-Mai Cutler, techcrunch.com

SV Angel, one of the Valley’s best-known early-stage firms, says it’s starting to look heavily at health startups that take a “software-first approach” towards human biology, medical research and patient care.

The firm has always had a l…

RT @Techmeme: SV Angel Says Health Informatics Is One Of Its New “Megatrends” (@kimmaicutler / TechCrunch) http://flip.it/dD8o9 http://flip.it/vdsjn http://flip.it/n8Vu3

COACH Report on State of Health Informatics Education in Canada (imianews.wordpress.com)
Will Silicon Valley’s Confident Technologist Investors Save Healthcare? (forbes.com)
Context Sensitive Health Informatics: a pre-Medinfo 2013 conference (imianews.wordpress.com)

IT has disrupted finance so why is healthcare lagging behind?

Posted on April 29, 2013June 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

Information technology has revolutionalized financial services. So why is healthcare so far behind?
Phil Fasano, Guest Contributor, gigaom.com

The U.S. leads the world in healthcare expenditures – an astounding $2.7 trillion in 2012 and rising every year. Yet in one recent study of medical outcomes in the world’s most highly developed countries we ranked last. By any measure …

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Getting beyond the hype of disruption in healthcare and focusing on actionable innovation (healthcareguy.com)
Junior Healthcare Associate (NYC) (attorneyjobsinnyc.wordpress.com)
Entrepreneurship on the Rise at Wharton (mbastartupblog.com)
7 predictions for the future of health care technology (venturebeat.com)

Box gets into health IT with HIPAA compliant apps

Posted on April 29, 2013June 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

Box gets hip to HIPAA, adds health-record apps
Jordan Novet, gigaom.com

Think some cloud-storage options are no good for privacy-sensitive applications like health care? Box wants you to think again. Keen on boosting its enterprise customer base and prepping for an IPO, the company said Wednesday it’s now…

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HIPAA to Healthcare Professionals: Get On the Cloud (mozy.com)
Privacy and Security Officers are Critically Important Roles (riscconsulting.com)
Health care developers who build on Box get HIPAA compliance for free (venturebeat.com)
Three Big HIPAA Myths (managemypractice.com)

Healthtap: health professionals give free advice online

Posted on April 28, 2013June 23, 2013 by timbatchelder

The Ultra-Popular App That Has Convinced Doctors To Give Their Services For Free
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

HealthTap gives you access to medical professionals to answer your health queries, and it doesn’t cost you a dime.

There was a time not too long ago that doctors lived in an analog world. They only answered questions from patients that came i…

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The Instagram-for-doctors is gross, scary, graphic – and it could save your life (digitaltrends.com)

Chronic pain and happiness

Posted on March 24, 2013June 20, 2013 by timbatchelder

How Chronic Pain Has Made Me Happier
Rob Heaton, lifehacker.com

Seven years ago I did so much cycling that my legs blew up. My body completely gave out and my brain decided that from now on everything was going to hurt all the time so that I would stop running myself into the ground. Since then I’ve had every…

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7 Benefits of Smiling and Laughing that You Didn’t Know about (lifehack.org)

Startup incubator for digital health and healthcare technology startups

Posted on January 31, 2013February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder

Startup incubator for digital health and healthcare technology startups
rockhealth.com

Accelerate

Think you have an idea that can change healthcare? Learn more about our program, meet our mentors and teams, and see if you have what it takes.

Attend

If you’re seeking ways to connect with the digital health community…

http://flip.it/SmtFv

NYC plays matchmaker to hook up healthcare groups with startups to commercialize tech tools (medcitynews.com)
2012 Digital Health Funding Report by @Rock_Health (slideshare.net)
MedSys Group Announces ‘Beyond the Boom’ at HIMSS 2013 (prweb.com)
Health Care DataWorks Refocuses Leadership Team to Capitalize On Growth Opportunities and Address Evolving Needs of Hospitals and Healthcare Systems (prweb.com)
Jim Stogdill :: Have an idea for a health care startup? (radar.oreilly.com)

Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile

Posted on January 17, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile With Acquisition Of Health Innovator Epocrates
By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com

Epocrates, the startup whose mobile apps provide drug reference advice to more than half of American health care providers, is being acquired by Athenahealth, the data management platform for doctors—a marriage of two Most Innovative…

RT @FastCompany: #FCMostInnovative Health data company Athenahealth goes mobile with acquisition of health innovator Epocrates: http://flip.it/mzVEz http://flip.it/5l4qu

Athenahealth partners with iTriage app (bostonherald.com)
It S***s To Be A Healthcare Entrepreneur (forbes.com)
Athenahealth: Seeking Staff on a Mission (live.wsj.com)
athenahealth and Mashery team up for health developer-friendly API initiative (gigaom.com)
Acquisition Target Entrada ‘Goes Deep’ With athenahealth And NextGen (forbes.com)

This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart

Posted on January 17, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

Test results become far easier to process, since they’re visual.

Blood tests are one of those things that always seem to slow down doctor appointments. You’re in the room. The nurse takes blood. The doctor sees you—speculates a lot—and agre…

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Blood-test device ‘goes under skin’ (bbc.co.uk)
Tiny, personal blood testing laboratory gets under your skin (gizmag.com)
Hope new blood test can end chemotherapy sooner (abc.net.au)
Scientists have developed a tiny, portable personal blood testing laboratory that sends data through mobile phone (phys.org)
Your Phone’s Ringing – Because You’re Minutes from a Heart Attack (livescience.com)

The Slow Medicine Movement

Posted on January 12, 2013April 24, 2013 by timbatchelder

(via The Slow Medicine Movement: My Mother, Your Mother « The Healthcare Marketer)

I Kick. I Stretch and I am 50! 50 Years Old… (kinesisliving.wordpress.com)
Slow Travel (edintoedin.wordpress.com)
Physicians blend ancient wisdom and complementary practices with conventional medicine (blogs.vancouversun.com)
Slow medicine (whyy.org)
Medicinal Cannabis Activist Creed (kiefair.com)
All Medicines are Drugs but not All Drugs are Medicines (cheesekadiaz.wordpress.com)

The Cash-Only Doctors Club

Posted on December 24, 2012June 2, 2013 by timbatchelder

English: Years U.S. states passed unlimited practice rights for Doctors of Osteopathic medicine (D.O), equal to those of Medical Doctors (M.D.)Gevitz N. The D.O.’s: osteopathic medicine in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

businessweek.com

Concierge doctors don’t take insurance, but do make house calls. Once an option only for the rich, they may change health care for everyone

RT @BW: Is concierge medicine the future of healthcare? | http://flip.it/0htzp #longreads http://flip.it/fHvQI

The Cash-Only Doctors Club

Paul Hsieh on Concierge Medicine (healthcarebs.com)
Dear Congress: Listen to doctors on the front lines of medicine (kevinmd.com)
Concierge Medical Practice: Dr. Bruce Feldman Announces Availability for Speaking Engagements (virtual-strategy.com)

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