Category: news
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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…
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Dissertation defence broadcast live
I came across this blog post about a live-streamed dissertation defence. For those who don’t know, dissertation defences are usually closed-door meetings. At the PhD level, the candidate usually makes a presentation (usually about 20 minutes) summarizing his/her research to the voting members of the panel. Most schools require a minimum of three voting members…
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Kaiser Permanente keeps chugging along with EHR implementation
[UPDATE] I forgot to mention that Kaiser was also recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies (2010) for its work on EHRs by Fast Company (link to the 2010 list of most innovative companies). I’m probably biased, but Kaiser Permanente’s Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Centre sounds quite a bit like the…
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Google and health privacy – is it enough?
I’m not sure what to make of this “warning” that Google provides to users of its Google Health service as reported in a recent post on Blogoscoped. I can’t say that I’m completely up to speed on my health information privacy regulations, but this does seem to be a bit odd. This type of…
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ICT standardization and eHealth – a TalkStandards.com forum event
I was recently made aware of an interesting website called Talkstandards. Talkstandards has a stated goal to be “an active online community where developers, researchers, policymakers and other interested parties can share ideas and collaborate on the global standards system”. What is most interesting is that will be hosting a live, online forum event titled…
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Health Affairs issue on “E-Health in the Developing World”
The current issue of Health Affairs (February 2010, Vol. 29, No. 2) is focused on ehealth with a tag-line of “E-Health in the Developing World”. I just stumbled onto this issue so I haven’t had a chance to read it yet. There are a number of articles grouped into some interesting categories including: Policies and…
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Will consumers pay for health content?
A Nielsen report titled “Changing Models: A global perspective on paying for content online” found that consumers are likely to pay for some types of content. The graph from Nielsen’s report summarizes the findings: What about health information/content? I would guess that respondents would indicate “would consider paying” very positively. Conducting a “willingness to pay”…
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Google as ISP – potential ideas for health care innovation?
Google just announced that it will be developing an experimental fibre network. According to the announcement, these are the plans: planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access…