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Harnessing information power for your patients and your practice. Part 2 of 2.

Special title for this installment: Information power forming the future of neurology and medicine.

Hear these reports:

Elsevier’s WiserWiki Allows Physicians To Update Evidence-Based Medical Information With Experience-Based Practice Insights: WiserWiki potentially creates a virtual, living, continually updated medical manual – possibly much more useful and ‘in the now’ – than a periodically updated, edition-based textbook (which only a handful of ‘experts’ edit)!

Illumin8 research tool to help researchers answer complex R&D questions faster and more accurately: The first web-based research tool that integrates ‘natural language search technology’ with the large amounts of content from Elsevier’s scientific articles and web sources.

Education in the third dimension: Enactive learning - ‘learning by doing’ - may be poised for a big comeback because now, thanks to the large, active European Union-funded research network called Enactive.

Med Schools Adjusting to Millennial Students: Medical educators are looking into a variety of different ideas on how to best teach this new tech-savvy, team-oriented generation. We predict that collaborative approaches - including wiki technology - and audio and video podcasting, and the use of iTunes U - will be important parts of their modern teaching approaches!

Thoughts on the ‘Global Brain’: Medical ideas here on Earth (thanks to information technology) are now well interconnected by a web of ‘synapses’ - the billions of nodes of the world wide web. It’s like a ‘global brain.’ Stored information on blogs and wikis - like WiserWiki – are analogous to stored memory in the brain’s synapses. And podcasting (‘audioblogging’) is like the ‘voice’ for the global brain!

Next week’s show will be the first of a new series of STAT special-topic installments: Rife with Strife – uncertainties and controversies in neurology and medicine. The focus will be on the cerebral vascular disorders and stroke.

Flow Productions will be producing additional lines of podcasts based on cutting medical news and information. Click for demos: Audio magazine format and video (’enhanced podcast’). If you are interested in sponsoring one of the shows please contact info@flowproductions.org.

 

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Harnessing information power for your patients and your practice

This week’s show: The I.T. Sword has Two Edges: benefits and Risks of I.T. for neurology

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Double-edged Sword of I.T.: It’s reaching into physician practices whether they’re ready for it or not. The government’s seeing to that. Is it a ‘brave new world’ for neurology and medicine? One possibly with significant risks and benefits: clinical practice guidelines and electronic medical records. Ninety (90)% of authors of clinical practice guidelines had financial relationships with the pharmaceutical industry (according to JAMA back in 2002). See the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) website.

Will you recommend that your patients put their health records in the hands of Google, Microsoft or Wal-Mart? You may soon be getting requests to do so. See this Newsweek story.

The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI): This software is available to equip every physician in the US with electronic prescribing software. Created by a coalition of health insurers and software companies, it’s compatible with the software in 99% of the nation’s pharmacies. It’s easy to learn and free of charge. Could there be future privacy and control-related risks with this technology as well?

CaringBridge.org: Patients or their families easily create - for free - their own private website so that family and friends can provide the patients and caregivers with support through guest book messages and photos.

I.T. for Autism: This is a must-see video produced by Amanda Baggs who has autism. We became aware of the video thanks to Wired Magazine. Ms. Baggs might otherwise be considered mute and retarted, if not for technology. She shares amazing insights with us from her valuable and intelligent perspective using her computer and synthetic voice technology from Dynavox. Dr. Mike Merzenich, neuroscientist at UC San Francisco is quoted: the idea that 75 percent of autistic people are mentally retarded is “incredibly wrong and destructive.” Let’s see if many more autistics start ’speaking out’ through information technology.

Next week’s show: It’s the second part of this two-part series on Information Technology for Neurology: new learning enhancements available through I-T, the use of ‘Wikis’ for the establishment of independently developed clinical practice guidelines, and more.

 

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Information to optimize your medical IT efficiency.

Our first installment of Information technology for neurology: information to optimize your medical IT efficiency — with focus on the electronic health record.

Publication Date: 10/20/06.

Show notes: Information technology is reaching into physician practices whether they are ready for it or not. The electronic health record will be a requirement in all practices within four years. What should you look for in an EHR system? What work has already been done for you in finding a system that’s suitable for an ambulatory setting? What’s the purported ‘Top 8’ HER solutions for neurology professionals? How do new regulations affect your electronic communications? And how can you make technology work for you? The answers to all these questions and more are on STAT!

Show Links:
www.aan.org
www.cchit.org
www.healthcomputing.com
www.ahima.org
www.centerforhit.org
www.hhs.gov