Dr.Neelesh Bhandari's Posts - MedTech I.Q.2024-03-29T01:52:03ZDr.Neelesh Bhandarihttp://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/DrNeeleshBhandarihttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2524271008?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://medtechiq.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=2az9iprs7hil5&xn_auth=noMobile Apps in Medicinetag:medtechiq.ning.com,2010-03-22:2140535:BlogPost:295692010-03-22T06:48:23.000ZDr.Neelesh Bhandarihttp://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/DrNeeleshBhandari
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<span style="font-size: small;">Smart phones and small hand held devices are making medicine safer and faster. They are being used to provide information, administrative and patient management services.And predictably, their use is shooting up.…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Smart phones and small hand held devices are making medicine safer and faster. They are being used to provide information, administrative and patient management services.And predictably, their use is shooting up.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.mmm-online.com/smart-phones-and-apps-proliferate-among-docs-surveys-say/article/165079/">Medical Media and marketing</a> reports that about 80% of all US physicians will be using smart phones by 2012, and not just for drug reference or clinical information. An explosion of new healthcare professional-facing apps - over 1,500 in Apple's app store alone - will expand mobile device usage to include patient care and administrative functions, according to Manhattan Research survey.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Half of the apps available in the Apple app store's medical category are for medical reference</b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, 9.3% of the apps are calculators,</span> <b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">7% of the apps are for EMR and operations</b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, 3.4% are for prenatal and infant care, and 3% are for chronic disease management, including diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol and asthma management, according to a quantitative study on mobile health apps conducted by MobiHealthNews. Emergency information, medication adherence and CME apps make up a combined 4% of the total medical apps (roughly 24% of the apps in the medical category were labeled "other" or "miscatagorized").</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apps exist for <a href="http://www.appfairy.com/category_18/Medical.htm">almost everything</a>, and if its not there, <i style="color: #cc0000;">Go build it</i>.</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br/>EBooks are here to stay, and are changing the way Medic<span style="font-size: small;">ine is studied. The</span> sheer volume and weight of Medical literature makes it the ideal candidate for 'Whole batch" conversions to an eBook readable format.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <b>Mobipocket</b> file format is a binary format for the distribution of eBooks. It is one implementation of the Open eBook Publication format with a number of proprietary extensions. The <a href="http://www.idpf.org/specs.htm">Open eBook Publication format</a> is developed and specified by the <a href="http://www.idpf.org/">IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum)</a> an independent organization formerly known as the Open eBook Consortium. As a consequence, the Mobipocket format is based on HTML and is reflowable. Mobipocket supports most features of standard HTML to format and layout text and images.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">A few other noteworthy formats include EPUB and Fictionbook. Kindly note that i have not considered any of the non-Open standards.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The .epub or <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OEBPS" title="OEBPS">OEBPS</a> format is an open standard for e-books created by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Currently, the format can be read by the Apple <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad" title="IPad">iPad</a>, Barnes and Noble <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nook" title="Nook">Nook</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Reader" title="Sony Reader">Sony Reader</a>, BeBook, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Digital_Editions" title="Adobe Digital Editions">Adobe Digital Editions</a>, Lexcycle Stanza, BookGlutton, AZARDI, Aldiko and <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WordPlayer&action=edit&redlink=1" title="WordPlayer (page does not exist)">WordPlayer</a> on Android. Several other reader software programs are currently implementing support for the format, such as <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DotReader&action=edit&redlink=1" title="DotReader (page does not exist)">dotReader</a>, FBReader, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobipocket" title="Mobipocket">Mobipocket</a>, uBook and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okular" title="Okular">Okular</a>. Another software .epub reader, <a class="external text" href="http://lucidor.org/lucidor/" rel="nofollow">Lucidor</a>, is in beta. Notably, <i style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Kindle still does not support this format.</i></span> <br/> <span style="font-size: small;">The <b>Kindle</b> supports Mobipocket file format, PDF file format, Amazon's proprietary DRM-restricted format (AZW), as well as the PRC and the TXT formats.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Eveda</b> format is used for Multimedia EBooks.The 'multimedia eBook' term is used in contrast to media which only utilize traditional forms of printed or text book. Multimedia EBook includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">My Choices for Medical Literature ?- At present, it is <b>PDFs and Mobi</b>, besides EPUB.</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br/></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waiting for a suitable multimedia enabled file format, with annotation and bookmarking support.</span></div>
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</ul>Interactive e-learning in Medicine - A study.tag:medtechiq.ning.com,2009-11-20:2140535:BlogPost:270752009-11-20T07:30:00.000ZDr.Neelesh Bhandarihttp://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/DrNeeleshBhandari
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<span class="spacey"><b>Technology used</b>- live interactive webcasting using a scan converter, mixer, and digitizer,…</span></div>
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<span class="spacey"><b>Technology used</b>- live interactive webcasting using a scan converter, mixer, and digitizer, and video server to embed a presenter-controlled talking head or copy of the presenter’s computer screen (normally a PowerPoint slide) in a student chat room.</span><br />
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<span class="spacey"><b>Activity studied</b> -</span> <span class="spacey">16 students from six countries and ran weekly 2.5-hour live sessions for 10 weeks.</span><<font color="#660000"><i>small size, but lets not be choosy</i></font>.><br />
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<span class="spacey"><b>Content</b> used included the use of computers by patients, patient access to records, different forms of e-learning for patients and professionals, research methods in eHealth, geographic information systems, and telehealth. - <<font color="#990000"><i>bias galore!</i></font>></span><br />
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<span class="spacey"><b>Conclusion</b>- The model of <big><b>synchronous e-learning</b></big> based on interactive live webcasting was a successful method of delivering an international postgraduate module. Students found it engaging over a 10-week course. Although this is a small study, given that synchronous methods such as interactive webcasting are a much easier transition for lecturers used to face-to-face teaching than are asynchronous methods, they should be considered as <<i><font color="#660000">important</font></i>>part of the blend of e-learning methods.</span><br />
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Detailed study here-<br />
<a href="http://www.jmir.org/2009/4/e46?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JMedInternetRes+%28Journal+of+Medical+Internet+Research+%28atom%29%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">Use of Live Interactive Webcasting for an International Postgraduate Module in eHealth: Case Study Evaluation | Jones | Journal of Medical Internet Research</a><br />
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</div>Web 2.0 in Health care - Health 2.0tag:medtechiq.ning.com,2009-10-05:2140535:BlogPost:250092009-10-05T12:30:00.000ZDr.Neelesh Bhandarihttp://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/DrNeeleshBhandari
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With increasing avenues for communication and knowledge dissemination, the practice of health care is changing faster than imagined. Free services like you tube, face book, Wikis, blogs, Twitter, social networks eg. <a href="http://www.patientslikeme.com/" target="_blank">Patientslikeme</a> and a host of other services provide a health consumer with ample information and opinions. No longer is a patient forced to blindly trust his doctor"s judgment.…
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With increasing avenues for communication and knowledge dissemination, the practice of health care is changing faster than imagined. Free services like you tube, face book, Wikis, blogs, Twitter, social networks eg. <a href="http://www.patientslikeme.com/" target="_blank">Patientslikeme</a> and a host of other services provide a health consumer with ample information and opinions. No longer is a patient forced to blindly trust his doctor"s judgment. The patient can easily search for more opinions, review personal experiences of friends and strangers plus the latest research studies in the field. This has changed the role of a Doctor to one of facilitator of health, rather than the unquestionable saviour .<br/>
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E-Health insider has come up with a 108 paged report titled ‘<b>Web 2.0 in the Health Sector:</b> Industry Review with a UK perspective’. {£575.00 (inc VAT)}<br/>
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<a href="http://www.e-health-insider.com/img/ehi_reports0332/EHI-ehealth_20_research_report_2008_Exec_Summary.pdf" target="_blank">The report</a> argues that e-health 2.0 will first and foremost be consumer-led. Health is consistently one of the most searched for subjects online. The application of web 2.0 technologies into health is already challenging traditional doctor-patient relationships and beginning to place far greater power in the hands of consumers. These changes are likely to be rapid and may prove highly disruptive. Further, it concludes that new applications based on social health networks and content generated by health service users themselves - such as reviews of doctors and hospitals – will rapidly evolve to challenge existing healthcare systems and create new ways of delivering healthcare.<br/>
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<b>The profiles provide a snapshot of innovation across healthcare: from organisations providing <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_community" title="Virtual community" rel="wikipedia">online communities</a> for patients with specific conditions, tools for chronic disease management, sites that enable patients to rate the quality of care they receive, together with tools to enable clinicians to better search for and share research data.</b><br/>
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<b>No doubt Web2.0 has changed the game</b>, bringing about a total rethink in long established practices.But this is just the beginning.With Web3.0 and Personalized Medical services like <a href="http://www.webicina.com/" target="_blank">Webicinia</a> and <a href="https://www.23andme.com/" target="_blank">23andme</a> , internet technologies are bound to change the rules of health care for ever.<br/>
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A few other interesting reads,<br/>
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* <a href="http://philbaumann.com/2009/01/16/140-health-care-uses-for-twitter/" target="_blank">Using Twitter in Health care</a><br/>
* <a href="http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/8-The-Social-Life-of-Health-Information.aspx?r=1" target="_blank">Social Life of Health Information</a> -<br/>
* <a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2008/The-Engaged-Epatient-Population.aspx?r=1" target="_blank">The Engaged E-patient Population-<br/>
</a>Search engine rankings for Medicostag:medtechiq.ning.com,2009-06-20:2140535:BlogPost:201702009-06-20T06:30:00.000ZDr.Neelesh Bhandarihttp://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/DrNeeleshBhandari
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<div align="justify">Recently read the Latest edition of <a href="http://www.jhidc.org/" target="_blank">Journal of Health informatics</a> in developing countries. Specifically, <u>Search engines</u> : a study of nine search engines in four categories…</div>
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<div align="justify">Recently read the Latest edition of <a href="http://www.jhidc.org/" target="_blank">Journal of Health informatics</a> in developing countries. Specifically, <u>Search engines</u> : a study of nine search engines in four categories by Dallas Knight (Health Informatics Programme University of Otago, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-45.8666666667,170.5&spn=0.1,0.1&q=-45.8666666667,170.5%20%28Dunedin%29&t=h" title="Dunedin" rel="geolocation">Dunedin, New Zealand</a>). This study’s objective was to determine how search engines within different categories compare, and to look at features and trends of search engines that are commonly used for queries by both health consumers and professionals.
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The query terms used for this study are<br />
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* Ulcerative colitis<br />
* Benign positional vertigo<br />
* Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma<br />
* “online tool” for help with depression<br />
* exercise after bowel cancer operatione<br />
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Search engines within the general category (Google, SearchYahoo!) performed best overall.<br />
Meta search engines (Dogpile, Jux2) also performed well with vertical search engines (Healia, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.kosmix.com/" title="Kosmix" rel="homepage" target="_blank">Kosmix</a>, Healthline) next. Health portals (Revolution Health, WebMD) produced relevant useful results for common terms, but not for unusual query terms.<br />
<a href="http://polls.linkedin.com/poll-results/41144/jqozu" target="_blank">This poll on linkedin</a> attempts to quantify "What biomedical search engine do you use?"<br />
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You can log on to the poll for statistics about Search engine use by age, gender, job title etc. A lot of insight <a href="http://polls.linkedin.com/poll-results/41144/jqozu" target="_blank">there,</a> i assure you.<br />
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Other important medical education and learning tools <a href="http://www.jhidc.org/index.php/jhidc/article/view/23/54" target="_blank">the study</a> talks about include<br />
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* Custom built Search engines (eg Google, Rollyo and EureksterSwiki )<br />
* Blog sites, wikis and podcasts<br />
* social bookmarking with Del.icio.us and Digg.com<br />
* RSS site feeds read by aggregators or emails<br />
* Yahoo Pipes! for channelizing information<br />
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The few services and tools it missed include,<br />
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* Zotero firefox extension and <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/product/evernote" target="_blank">Evernote</a> web clipper - for online research notes<br />
* Ning for community building<br />
* Youtube(eg.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/medicaleducation" target="_blank">youtube.com/medicaleducation</a>) and Medicalvideos.us for videos.<br />
* <a href="http://twitter.com/LastMohican" target="_blank">Twitter</a> for sharing updates<br />
* Docstoc and Scribd for document search<br />
* Freemind for brain mapping<br />
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Check out <a href="http://digital-medicine.blogspot.com" target="_blank">digital-medicine.blogspot.com</a> for more.<br />
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