Priyesh's blog

Can you imagine a pill box that blinks on time, beeps if you make a mistake and calls your phone if you still forget? But wait there is more, if you do not respond to phone call it will call your family member or your caregiver ... http://www.boston.com/video/viral_page/?/services/player/bcpid19067533001&bctid=35817028001
Wow..they are really getting close to physically chasing, opening the mouth and popping the pill in...
Dont worry we will get the robot soon :)

VA and kaiser have started sharing limited data from EHRs based on standards developed by Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). They believe that it will lay foundation for the lager implications across the industry where lessons from two advanced but diverse delivery systems can contribute to learning more about interoperability. http://www.fcw.com/Articles/2009/11/30/VA-Kaiser-Permanente-share-digital-patient-data.aspx
Does that have any implications for NZ?

The technology to support dwindling numbers of caregivers in face of ageing population is fast moving from automated alarms, self monitoring and ambient sensing devices towards robotics.

Helen presented the models of genetic testing services in NZ and how a variety o models involving counsellors, GPs, testing labs and sharing of results. Many times GPs send patients or patients themselves go to testing labs. The test reports are shared with patient but may or may not be shared with GPs and genetic counsellors, which raises a lot of ethical issues that are not always addressed. It is about risk of disease, involvement of family or community members, cost benefits of testing as well as the clinical validity of test results.

In the first session, Sheryl Jury talks about her expereinces at her DHB with customizing Microsoft's CRM application for her public health workflow management. An interesting way to demonstrate cross industry utilization of applications. The public health professionals need to Investigate location of the case related groups and events that’s trigger a outbreak. She reports how it helped her team to manage thousands of reports (of notifiable conditions) to find data relationship and build intelligence into reporting.

 In the latest edition of Mc Kinsey Quarterly journal, Mario Marino narrates his memories of early 1990s, when a seasoned executive shared a metaphor: he said that “innovation is like a coral reef. Marine biologists don’t fully understand what causes reefs to form, but they do know that human actions can nurture or harm the process. The same is true for innovation,  —a natural, chaotic, unpredictable process that is hard, perhaps even impossible, for well-meaning outsiders to foster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ygMdUMNYc
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1169305/Microchip-tells-GP-8217-ve-taken-pills.html