Using patches for people with lazy eye, have for a long time been the most common treatment for children.. Tho the therapy has limited success and does not work at all in adults with the same condition, but then it is called Amblyopia. Researches at McGill University in Montreal are now testing a method of how to improve visual functions in adults that have this condition. They are using puzzle [ Read More ]
The Swedish government party Miljöpartiet have stated that patient should be able to write in their own journals. This was said by Gustav Fridolin that is Miljöpartiets voice. They raise five points that they hope to be something for the future in the Swedish health care. Patients should be able to read their journals live from there homes and be able to by themselves write in them. Local health centers [ Read More ]
On the 19th of April 2013, the current batch of students of the Master’s Programme in Health Informatics, Karolinska Institutet together with a group of teachers and PHD students visited the IBM Client Center in Stockholm to get more information about the ongoing health care projects run by IBM. During the presentation that lasted more than two hours, Stefan Ohlsson and Torbjörn Hägglöf explained to us what Watson is and [ Read More ]
A project in Sweden at Karolinska University Hospital did experiments with telemedication solutions to adjust medicine dosage. The effect was reduced hospital hours, but the cost for this solution was still high. An interest to look what the current market could offer to solve this cost problem, lead to game-controls. A computer software that detects what buttons on the control is pushed and a camera that helps record body movements. [ Read More ]
Östergötland county had several problems with it-system that did not work as intended and became a time theif. It took time from the users and this resulted in patients being placed in second hand. A question was raised by Anders Bernholtz, working at the county in Östergötland. How can we help the health care staff to find the right information? They started putting focus on the end user, with the [ Read More ]
The modern aging program is created and designed by the inernational organization ACCESS Health International. They are dedicated to improve access to healthcare world wide. Modern aging program helps young entrepreneurs to take their ideas from vision to reality and make them as impactfull as possible. The program offer a sponsored four-month innovation program that have seminars and workshops. Those with the most promising ideas will get coaching and mentoring [ Read More ]
In Hasso-Plattner-Institut German scientists developed an interactive floor which can detect the movements of people in that certain room. According to the pressure generated the floor can ‘see’ who is walking and identify the user. After having identified certain steps the floor can understand if someone is standing or is walking. According to the scientists ‘The interactive floor can ignore inactive users, identify and track users based on their shoes, [ Read More ]
Maria Kvist, MD, PhD will have a seminar on HIC 24 of April. Maria is a researcher in Health Informatics and associated with HIC and Department of Computer and System science at Stockholm University. She studies the language in clinical text and is a member of Hercules Dalianis research team “Clinical Text Mining Group” at DSV. The opening of patient portals in several countries gives patients access to their own [ Read More ]
The TEDMED multidisciplinary conference about future in health and medicine is approaching, and the Health Informatics students are working to offer other students and staff at Karolinska Institutet a chance to follow the event on campus in high quality simulcast from the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The details for the session have been decided, and the event will take place in Inghesalen, on the 2nd floor of the new Wiederström building on Solna campus [ Read More ]
A suit that is full of electrodes have the ability to increase the movement of people with cerebral pares. 19 year old Lisen Derlow tested the suit with a good result. The suit contains 58 electrodes and have the name Electrodes, it have been developed by a Stockholm company called Inerventions that was created 2009 by a chiropractor. The suit aims to get muscles that spasms or are tense to [ Read More ]
Jeremiah Scholl a affiliated HIC researcher have recently got a article published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. The articles objective is to determine how much physicians are interrupted in there daily work routines by mobile devices. This is a very interesting topic since we today at the HI master program often talk about mobile devices and how they become more and more a accepted tool in the health [ Read More ]