Hans Oh's Blog

Month: April 2005

  • Patient blogs & the Electronic Health Record

    In a previous post, I wondered about the utility of turning electronic health records into blogs, owned and maintained by the patient with health care providers providing additional contributions. It wasn’t a completely thought out idea, but I was just brainstorming a bit. iHealthbeat.org reported on how High Point Regional Health System in North Carolina…

  • Telemedicine in the news

    Here’s an article reporting on how technologies can be used to connect patients and physicians over great distances (i.e., telemedicine). The article is in Today’s Globe and Mail, titled “Hi-tech checkups byte into travel“. What I find interesting is how the technology is portrayed in an entirely positive light. It’s as if the technology can…

  • Reference manager, electronic databases, and other thoughts from a systematic review

    Here are some thoughts as I work on my systematic review. Electronic Databases I’ve been searching Medline and EMBASE and I have as good a search strategy that I’ll get. Since I’m mostly looking for theory-type papers, I think I’m going to get a considerable amount of “noise” – okay, I can deal with that.…

  • IBM to build computer models of health system

    Now here’s an interesting report that I came across today. It’s titled “IBM developing test system to share health data” available from the Computerworld.com site. The article reports how IBM has decided to develop a “test” system that will allow for simulations of health encounters to see what types of information are to be shared…

  • The story of eHealth

    Okay, so I’ve been thinking about what the “story” behind eHealth is, and I think I’ve finally found an image that captures it. As you can see, there’s a gentleman seemingly receiving a hug from someone emerging from the computer screen. I think that in many ways, we like to think that the technologies we…

  • "Give it away, give it away, give it away now"

    Sure, the title of this post is from a Red Hot Chili Peppers song, but it’s an interesting one. Today’s Globe and Mail had an article reporting on how much information is available for free on newspaper websites (“How much should newspapers give away?“). The content wasn’t that interesting or surprising in and of itself,…

  • Who uses eHealth?

    Here’s an interesting article that just came out describing the people who use eHealth, titled “Survey details data on those using eHealth“. Some quick findings: Those aged 35-54 years are the most likely to use ehealth; Of those surveyed, 74% of the respondents had searched for health information on the Internet; WebMD is the most…

  • Blogs for the medical field?

    I came across this interesting article from BusinessweekOnline titled “Blogs will change your business“. The article was a description of the blog phenomenon and how it may impact businesses. While the examples were interesting to illustrate how the power of information is changing the dynamic between companies and customers, I got to thinking about the…