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Thursday, 13 August 2015
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Wednesday, 4 February 2015
New Breast Cancer App - CUH
Cork University Hospital (CUH) has launched an app, FYI: Breast Cancer, to help women who are overwhelmed by medical information about cancer.
This new App explains what breast cancer is, the different types of breast cancer, what a breast cancer diagnosis means and what treatments are available.
This new App explains what breast cancer is, the different types of breast cancer, what a breast cancer diagnosis means and what treatments are available.
“As much as 90% of medical information on the internet is inaccurate or difficult to read,” says Consultant Breast Surgeon Mark Corrigan.
“To counter this, and to clearly explain the facts about breast cancer and dispel the myths, we have developed the FYI: Breast Cancer app. It has been made in a very user friendly format, and answers the most commonly asked questions.
“More and more, we see that patients attending a breast cancer clinic are using the internet for information.
“With 90% of patients using a mobile phone on a daily basis, we decided that an app would be the best way to communicate correct, easy to read information.
“We hope that the FYI: Breast Cancer app will make a major difference to the hundreds of women attending breast cancer clinics who find themselves overwhelmed by the medical information they are given.
It is hoped that the success of the app will pave the way for similar apps in other fields, such as prostate cancer, colorectal cancer and diabetes.
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Educational gaming App launched for surgeons
RCSI has launched a new gaming App for iPhone and iPad aimed at testing students’ and doctors’ medical knowledge on the go.
The SurgiQuiz game, which allows surgeons to obtain Continuous Professional Development (CPD) credits, is targeted at surgeons, health sciences students and anyone that is interested in human anatomy.
Developed by the College’s Department of Surgical Affairs in conjunction with the Department of Anatomy, it consists of 3,000 tough questions that are aimed at challenging even practising surgeons.
The game also includes a global leaderboard so people can compete to get their name on the board.
The free App is available for download from the App store on iPhone and iPad. An Android version is also in development.
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Back pain app 'an empowering tool'
An app for people with the chronic back pain condition, (AS), has been likened to having a ‘physio on your phone'.
AS is a type of inflammatory arthritis that primarily affects the spine. It can lead to stiffness, tenderness and discomfort and symptoms typically start in the late teens and early 20s. The condition can also cause pain or swelling in other parts of the body, such as the shoulders, hips, knees and small joints of the hands and feet.
According to Seoirse Smith, secretary of the Ankylosing Spondylitis Association of Ireland (ASAI), if diagnosed early, AS is ‘very manageable' as long as good general health is maintained. This includes a good exercise regime. However, she acknowledged that whether you have AS or not, ‘it can be difficult to stay motivated to exercise and to know what the best exercises for you are'.
This is where the SUAS (Supporting and Understanding AS) app comes in.
"The app can act as a ‘physio-on-your-phone' to encourage AS patients to undertake regular exercises, as instructed by their physiotherapist, to help improve AS symptoms in the long-term. It can also benefit those living in areas of the country with limited access to fitness or health amenities," the ASAI said.
Ms Smith pointed out that since its initial launch last October, it has been downloaded by iPhone users more than 1,000 times and it is hoped that by making it available to android users, many more people will avail of it.
Commenting on the condition, Dr Claire Sheehy, a consultant rheumatologist at University Hospital Waterford, emphasised that early detection of the condition is vital.
"AS is associated with inflammation of joints in the spine which may cause the bones to fuse. This may be very painful. Early detection is vital, as if left untreated, it can lead to permanent stiffening of the spine. However with proper management and exercise, those with AS can live a normal lifestyle and continue doing the things they enjoy," she noted.
She pointed out that regular mobility exercises are ‘an essential part of managing AS' in order to reduce stiffness and pain. "As a flexible, on-the-go tool, SUAS supports those with AS to manage key aspects of daily lifestyle, including managing symptoms, maintaining posture and working with AS," she added.
The SUAS app is free to download from the Play and App Stores and an educational booklet is also available to download from the ASAI site here
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
'Instagram for doctors' to be launched in Europe
An app which enables healthcare professionals to share photos is to be rolled out across western Europe by the end of the year.
The app was designed to enable doctors to share pictures of their patients, both with each other and with medical students.
So far, more than 150,000 doctors have uploaded case photos with the patient's identity obscured.
However, some experts have expressed concern about patient confidentiality.
Patients' faces are automatically obscured by the app but users must manually block identifying marks like tattoos.
Each photo is reviewed by moderators before it is added to the database.
Founder Dr Josh Landy told the BBC that the Figure 1 service did not access any patient records.
"We do not possess any personal medical data at all. The best way to keep a secret is not to have it. We are not an organisation that delivers healthcare," he told the BBC.
But doctors must provide identifying credentials and are also advised to notify their employees and patients to find out about consent policies.
The app is already available in North America, the UK and Ireland.
While digital services such as UpToDate and DynaMed - both requiring a subscription - are already widely used within the healthcare community as clinical knowledge databases, they are not rivals to Figure 1, said Dr Landy.
"UpToDate is an app I love, and have used for years. However, they have a highly curated repository of articles written and edited by experts in the field."
"What our app does is provide the opportunity to contribute any case no matter how classic or unusual. Ours is all image-based and totally crowdsourced."
Thursday, 18 September 2014
LWW Journal App User - Please wait to update to iOS 8
Message from LWW
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We thank you for your patience as we work with our partners to resolve these issues as quickly as possible.
Friday, 2 May 2014
UpToDate Anywhere
Important news from UpToDate:
Through all the changes in medicine, one thing that remains constant is our commitment to improving the quality and effectiveness of healthcare worldwide by improving clinical decisions at the point of care.
This means providing you with access to the answers you need, when you need them. As more and more of you access UpToDate on a mobile device, we've focused on improving the UpToDate mobile experience. To that end, we have begun our global rollout of UpToDate Anywhere, providing institutional UpToDate users with mobile and remote access, and the ability to earn CME credits while you work.
We are on the cusp of releasing an enhanced search and user interface. You'll find search results that are more accurate and easier to navigate, along with a more consistent navigation experience across devices. I hope you and your colleagues will take a moment to review the changes and let us know what you think.
Finally, as I dedicate more and more of my energies to helping UpToDate grow and reach new clinicians around the world, I am pleased to announce that a long-time leader at UpToDate, Dr. Ted Post, will be taking on the role of editor-in-chief. Read more about Ted below.
These are just some of the exciting initiatives underway at UpToDate. .
To access UpToDate click here
This means providing you with access to the answers you need, when you need them. As more and more of you access UpToDate on a mobile device, we've focused on improving the UpToDate mobile experience. To that end, we have begun our global rollout of UpToDate Anywhere, providing institutional UpToDate users with mobile and remote access, and the ability to earn CME credits while you work.
We are on the cusp of releasing an enhanced search and user interface. You'll find search results that are more accurate and easier to navigate, along with a more consistent navigation experience across devices. I hope you and your colleagues will take a moment to review the changes and let us know what you think.
Finally, as I dedicate more and more of my energies to helping UpToDate grow and reach new clinicians around the world, I am pleased to announce that a long-time leader at UpToDate, Dr. Ted Post, will be taking on the role of editor-in-chief. Read more about Ted below.
These are just some of the exciting initiatives underway at UpToDate. .
To access UpToDate click here
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Dementia Facebook app to raise awareness of the illness
Facebook users are being invited to experience what it is like to live with dementia in a bid to raise greater awareness about the disease.
The FaceDementia app, by Alzheimer's Research UK, "takes over" personal Facebook pages, and temporarily erases important memories, mimicking how dementia affects the brain.
People can also watch short videos featuring people affected by dementia explaining what impact the symptoms, simulated by FaceDementia, have had on them or their relative.
Rebecca Wood, chief executive of Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "Facebook's appeal is that it can gather your friends and family and keep them close, with memories and contacts all contained within one space. It also develops a diary of your life since you joined the site and documents your thoughts and musings during that time.
"We wanted to use these Facebook features to illustrate how those thoughts and memories can be confused, or forgotten altogether, as experienced by some of the hundreds of thousands of people living with dementia."
"Stigma around dementia is due in part to a lack of public awareness and understanding, so FaceDementia will be invaluable in helping people better understand the condition."
Friday, 28 March 2014
Musical Therapy which supports speech
Munster hooker, Damien Varley has backed an innovative App, which uses music and signs to help children with an intellectual disability find their own voice.
The burly scrum specialist — a classically trained musician who sang on a charity CD last year — took time out of a hectic training schedule to help launch the Cope Foundation’s Sign-along Songs App in Cork.
“It’s a really positive initiative,” he said.“The concept is about ‘total communication’ — a whole body engagement using hands, eyes, voice, music, signing, and language.
The app was developed over the last year by language and music therapists in response to a lack of Irish resources for parents and children.
The iPad app uses music and signs to help children under eight with intellectual disability develop their vocabulary. It includes five original songs and nursery rhymes that target specific and sometimes challenging vocabulary and signs.
While it is aimed primarily at children with an intellectual disability, those involved in its development say it can be used by all, and could help bring together children in pre-school or early primary school settings.
Read more here - Irish Examiner
The burly scrum specialist — a classically trained musician who sang on a charity CD last year — took time out of a hectic training schedule to help launch the Cope Foundation’s Sign-along Songs App in Cork.
“It’s a really positive initiative,” he said.“The concept is about ‘total communication’ — a whole body engagement using hands, eyes, voice, music, signing, and language.
The iPad app uses music and signs to help children under eight with intellectual disability develop their vocabulary. It includes five original songs and nursery rhymes that target specific and sometimes challenging vocabulary and signs.
While it is aimed primarily at children with an intellectual disability, those involved in its development say it can be used by all, and could help bring together children in pre-school or early primary school settings.
Read more here - Irish Examiner
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Belfast Medics develop X-ray app
A group of medical consultants in Belfast have teamed up with IT specialists to develop a mobile app that can identify where a doctor is going wrong when interpreting X-rays.
The app helps medics develop their skills. It also identifies areas of weakness that can be worked
on in training and that could potentially save lives.
According to those behind the training tool, it is the
first of its kind in the world.
Dr Tom Lynch is among the founders. He said: "This is the medical and IT worlds coming
together in Northern Ireland and producing something which is really
unique."
Primarily the device, known as Experior, will be
used in accident and emergency and cancer departments, but could eventually be
rolled out across all health specialities and even into education, industry and
financial services.
Dr Lynch is head of nuclear medicine at the Northern
Ireland Cancer Centre in Belfast.
View more information here
View more information here
Friday, 20 December 2013
Tablets and apps might be doctor's orders of the future
Daniel Kraft is a trained doctor who heads up the medicine school at the Singularity University, in Silicon Valley, California. When interviewed he is carrying a device that looks suspiciously like a Tricorder, the scanners that were standard issue in Star Trek.
"This is a mock-up of a medical tricorder that can scan you and get information. I can hold it to my forehead and it will pick up my heart rate, my oxygen saturation, my temperature, my blood pressure and communicate it to my smartphone," he explains.
In future, Dr Kraft predicts, such devices will be linked to artificial intelligence agents on smartphones, which in turn will be connected to super-computers such as IBM's Watson, to give people instant and accurate diagnoses.
Dr Kraft was also wearing four wristbands, monitoring a range of things including his heart rate, his sleep pattern and how many steps he takes each day.
Last year, the UK's Department of Health said that it was looking at the possibility of doctors prescribing apps, although they are currently unregulated, leading some medical experts to question what role they should play in healthcare.
Thursday, 7 November 2013
Electronic and Internet Health Tools May Decrease In-Person Physician Visits
Will the growing use of health information technology (IT) and electronic-health (e-health) applications impact the future demand for physicians?
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and The Commonwealth Fund think so. Based on their analysis of recent trends in digital health care and a review of the scientific literature, the authors conclude that patients’ future use of physician services will change dramatically as electronic health records and consumer e-health “apps” proliferate.
The findings appear in the November issue of the journal Health Affairs. “The results of our study are important because they provide a forward looking snapshot of how health IT will profoundly impact the American health care workforce over the next decade or two,” said the study's lead author Jonathan Weiner, DrPH, professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School and director of the Center for Population Health Information Technology (CPHIT).
The impact of health IT on the care delivery environment will be far-reaching. Weiner and colleagues estimate that when electronic health records and other e-health systems are fully implemented in just 30 percent of community-based physicians’ offices, U.S. doctors will be able to meet the demands of about 4-9 percent more patients than they can today due to increased efficiency.
The authors reviewed health informatics and health services research literature through June 2013 using MEDLINE, the Cochrane Database and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s database on health IT.
Click here to view full article
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and The Commonwealth Fund think so. Based on their analysis of recent trends in digital health care and a review of the scientific literature, the authors conclude that patients’ future use of physician services will change dramatically as electronic health records and consumer e-health “apps” proliferate.
The findings appear in the November issue of the journal Health Affairs. “The results of our study are important because they provide a forward looking snapshot of how health IT will profoundly impact the American health care workforce over the next decade or two,” said the study's lead author Jonathan Weiner, DrPH, professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School and director of the Center for Population Health Information Technology (CPHIT).
The impact of health IT on the care delivery environment will be far-reaching. Weiner and colleagues estimate that when electronic health records and other e-health systems are fully implemented in just 30 percent of community-based physicians’ offices, U.S. doctors will be able to meet the demands of about 4-9 percent more patients than they can today due to increased efficiency.
The authors reviewed health informatics and health services research literature through June 2013 using MEDLINE, the Cochrane Database and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s database on health IT.
Click here to view full article
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Smartphones to help deliver care for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients
The HRB Clinical Research Facility (CRFG) at NUI Galway is supporting research utilizing smartphones for the care of patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Professor Laurence Egan, gastroenterologist at University Hospital Galway and Head of the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at NUI Galway is the Principle Investigator for this research study.
The research aims to assess a new smartphone application or ‘app’ in the care of patients with IBD (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis) to see if patient care can be improved by using this smartphone application. Patients record their IBD symptoms daily on the ‘app’. This information is then sent securely to the clinical research team at HRB Clinical Research Facility, Galway.
Previous studies have demonstrated that using static telephones to follow up IBD patients improves patient satisfaction with their care. However, the use of smartphones to help deliver more personalised health care has not been tested in a scientific setting. This study will test the technology and explore if patients using a smartphone software application to record their daily symptoms will help prevent flare ups of their condition through close monitoring by clinicians and therefore reduce hospitalizations and improve their health and well being.
Click here to view full article
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| Prof. Laurence Egan (left) and IBD research nurse Aine Keogh |
The research aims to assess a new smartphone application or ‘app’ in the care of patients with IBD (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis) to see if patient care can be improved by using this smartphone application. Patients record their IBD symptoms daily on the ‘app’. This information is then sent securely to the clinical research team at HRB Clinical Research Facility, Galway.
Previous studies have demonstrated that using static telephones to follow up IBD patients improves patient satisfaction with their care. However, the use of smartphones to help deliver more personalised health care has not been tested in a scientific setting. This study will test the technology and explore if patients using a smartphone software application to record their daily symptoms will help prevent flare ups of their condition through close monitoring by clinicians and therefore reduce hospitalizations and improve their health and well being.
Click here to view full article
Monday, 23 September 2013
Phone app offers 'verbal autopsies' to improve death records
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