Implants in your body can notify you via your telephone and warn before you have a heart attack. The website Extreme Tech are writing about a project in Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne that have developed the worlds first implant for health monitoring direct inside the body. The implant is only 14mm big and gets it´s energy from battery tapes on the skin. It can measure different things in [ Read More ]
Coursera offers a number of online courses to people around the world. Anyone can join, register and learn according to his own pace. There is a course called Health Informatics in the Cloud where according to the website ‘this course can help even non-technically trained students gain basic proficiency in health informatics’. So, if you are interested in learning more about – healthcare delivery structure – the technologies involved in health [ Read More ]
Nyköping municipality is the first to produce information for the NPÖ. NPÖ stands for National Patient Overview. It was planed that Nyköping would start producing information already last year but it have been delayed and now the first information could be created. Even tho the delay, Nyköping was first out. The information so far is focused on ADL, contact information and need of interpreter. So far they have not been [ Read More ]
Dan Ma, Vikas Gulani, Nicole Seiberlich, Kecheng Liu, Jeffrey L. Sunshine, Jeffrey L. Duerk& Mark A. Griswold Magnetic resonance is an exceptionally powerful and versatile measurement technique. The basic structure of a magnetic resonance experiment has remained largely unchanged for almost 50 years, being mainly restricted to the qualitative probing of only a limited set of the properties that can in principle be accessed by this technique. Here we introduce an [ Read More ]
In the town of Uppsala there have been a project running where patients have been given access to their own health records online. It have now been decided by the center of e-health and Cehis that the project should be expanded and aim to give more people access to their health records. The project will be lead by Stockholm Landsting. It is also mentioned that the government is planing to [ Read More ]
No, I’m not talking about this “Lime” Lime fruit LIME at KI stands for Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=12168&l=en). Health Informatics master’s programme at KI is conducted by LIME. By the time we started at KI (Sep. 2012), we got our lectures and had our meetings in this building which we shared with lots of other students from different programmes. Berzelius väg 3 After spending some time in that [ Read More ]
Another Swedish article, this time about telemedicine. A randomized study where 1573 patients where randomly selected and divided into two groups. One of the groups got telemedicine equipment, for example surveillance for bloodpressure and bloodsugar. The scientist came to an conclusion that there where no life quality improvements on the patients that had telemedicine equipment at home. The Swedish article can be found here: http://www.dagensmedicin.se/vetenskap/medicinsk-teknik/telemedicin-gav-ingen-effekt/ And the full text here: [ Read More ]