Hans Oh's Blog

Month: March 2010

  • Introducing bant – a diabetes management iPhone app

    Just wanted to congratulate the folks at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation for releasing bant, a diabetes management app for the iPhone. From the bant website: bant simplifies your diabetes management. Enter your readings with a single swipe. Store it instantly to your Google Health account. Share your experience with the diabetes community through…

  • eHealth is now officially mainstream

    I guess that it had to happen eventually and now, I think ehealth can officially be considered “mainstream”. With the US government planning to spend $50 BILLION to push adoption of electronic health records by 2015, it was inevitable that the use information and communication technologies would be a major topic of discussion. Much to…

  • Securing health data – just another challenge in moving towards a modern health system

    Not sure if this is news to people regularly involved in IT, but securing the increasing amounts of electronic health information will be a major issue as organizations move to adopt electronic health records (EHRs). The scary thing is that the perception is that health care organizations are behind the current best practices (yet again)…

  • Physicians and “lean” health care

    A very interesting post about “Getting physicians to buy in to lean health care” is available on HBR.org. The author presents three suggestions on how to encourage support from health care professionals: Physician leaders must anticipate and respond to questions about the appropriateness of applying concepts from outside health care to their organizations Change efforts…

  • 10 Health Innovations to Watch in 2010

    My friend and colleague, Sanjay Cherian, has prepared a very interesting presentation titled “10 health innovations to watch in 2010“. The list of innovations/trends are: Franchised health care in web2.0 Surgical checklists Health map and other mobile health technology applications Direct-to-consumer genetic testing Reverse innovation Personalized care plans based on health data Point of care…

  • Upcoming webcast – Health Information – is it a public good?

    Just an announcement for an upcoming webcast that looks very interesting titled “Health information – Is it a public good?“. This is a part of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) seminar series. The webcast has the following description: The lifeblood of health research is high-quality data. However, the need for…

  • The anti-creativity checklist

    A very interesting post from Youngme Moon at the HBR blog titled “the anti-creativity checklist“. The list is one that is “guaranteed to stifle imagination, innovation, and out-of-box thinking … a checklist designed specifically for people who want nothing to do with disruptive change”. I like the approach to looking at the opposite – too…

  • What’s in a name? Checking for username availability in social media sites via namechk

    Given the explosion in both social media and other types of sites require registration, the ability to get the same username across different types of services can be a very handy thing. When one considers the concept of a “web presence” and/or maintaining an online identity, getting a consistent username is quite important. Getting *your*…