I have now almost finished my first year on the Master program to be what they call a Health Informatician. It have for sure been an interesting year and I do look forward to the next and last one. I have now almost finished my first year on the Master program to be what they call a Health Informatician. It has for sure been an interesting year and I do [ Read More ]
This is a thing that i really like. So simple and so easy and i think it is amazing that i have never heard of anything like it before. When someone hit, poke, touch or put something warm or cold on our skin, signals will be sent to our brain for us to analyze. Did it hurt or was it pleasant? Many children and grownups don’t like having an injection, it [ Read More ]
On the 21st of May 2013, the current first year students (including myself) of the Global Master’s Programme in Health Informatics at Karolinska Institutet met with the programme coordinators Sabine Koch and Vasilis Hervaits (from Karolinska Institutet) and Uno Fors and Stefan Möller (from DSV, Stockholm’s University) in order to discuss and give feedback about our first year as Health Informatics students. Before talking about the meeting, I just have to mention that in many countries (including [ Read More ]
Health Hack Day have started! All participants was assembled at Kista in the Scandic Victoria Tower at floor 23 with a nice view. We got to listen to several innerspring and interesting entrepreneurs and researchers in different projects. It was an great start with a good chance to meet people and learn more about what needs are out there. The evening ended with something to eat and then to the [ Read More ]
This year the WoHIT conference was organized in the lovely city of Dublin between the 13th and the 15th of May. As a student at Karolinska Institutet, I had the opportunity to take part in that big annual event as a volunteer. There were many reasons I decided to join the conference as a volunteer instead of a regular attendee and the most important one of course is skipping to pay the registration fees. As [ Read More ]
Health Hack Day will be held in Kista, Stockholm. It starts 17th of May and stretches over the weekend to Sunday afternoon. Health Hack Day is a competition for soft- and hardware hackers, designers, researchers, entrepreneurs and business developers. Take the opportunity to meet new people, networking and share your experiences and ideas. And of course have allot of fun. Read more about the event on the official homepage here. [ Read More ]
Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics is a new course offered by Coursera and is starting on the 20th of May 2013. According to the description on Coursera: ‘This course examines the implications of informatics for practice, in nursing, public health, and healthcare in general. It covers electronic health record issues and relates ethical, legislative and political issues to health informatics. Students will also explore global and future informatics issues.” The course Syllabus [ Read More ]
Here is an interesting project from GE where they are doing research on how virtual reality can replace drugs that reduce pain in patients with chronically diseases. “Interface designer Dr. Diane Gromala has experienced chronic pain for the last 25 years. Working with concepts of mindfulness meditation, where a patient focuses on their pain to control it, Dr. Gromala and her team have built an immersive virtual reality environment that [ Read More ]
Since I joined the Master’s Programme in Health Informatics, many words and expressions have been added to my personal vocab. I think the most frequently used of such words is “Data”. In most of the assignments we wrote/write, the word “data” has been repeated at least once(if not dozens of times!). The supporting literature was also stuffed with the word “data”. This was relatively new to me since I’m basically [ Read More ]