tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53537000040841879072024-03-05T16:46:44.950-08:00zorgbeheer healthwarezorgbeheer healthware opensource health2.0 software developmentBart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-15377576782218637042012-04-24T03:16:00.001-07:002012-04-24T03:16:09.612-07:007 reasons why should attend HealthStartup III in Nijmegen (.NL), June, 26 - 2012<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(69,67,67); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> We’re excited to announce the third edition of HealthStartup to be held in <strong>June </strong>in<strong> Nijmegem</strong>, The Netherlands. The theme of this edition is <strong>Big Data</strong>; therefore we’re looking for startups that place data at the heart of their business model and business proposition. These can include startups that <strong>capture, monitor, aggregate, integrate, analyze or visualize health-related data</strong> for any number of purposes, including<strong>patient monitoring, medical diagnosis, medical decision support, medical research, public health monitoring</strong><strong>, self-tracking/quantified self, fitness tools, systems integration</strong> and so on.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(69,67,67); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">For HealthStartup III we are looking for 5 high-potential startups to pitch their business to a hand-picked audience of investors and healthcare decision makers. Following the pitches, each startup will be the focus of a 90 minute break-out session. This is probably going to be one of the most intense and rewarding feedback sessions you will ever have.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(69,67,67); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">If you’d like to present your startup at HealthStartup III ‘Big Data’ then please apply <a href="http://healthstartup.wufoo.com/forms/healthstartup-registration-form/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(1,174,255); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial;">here</a>.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(69,67,67); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">And if you’re not convinced yet, have a look at this presentation outlining the 7 reasons why you should participate!</p> </div><p /><div><iframe marginheight="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/12555274" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe></div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-17203628752749971632012-01-19T13:46:00.001-08:002012-01-19T13:46:15.139-08:00If you love us, send more disruptive & digital startups in healthcare!<div class='posterous_autopost'>HealthStartup organises events in Europe that bring together entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals, policy makers and investors. <br />We also track emerging trends in health-tech and are building an international network of healthcare experts and decision makers. <p /> Frank Boermeester, partner <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/healthstartup">@healthstartup</a> made a great presentation about the 7 reasons why you should participate at our events:<p /><iframe marginheight="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/11150243" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe><p /><div>hehe, for some people 1 reason is already enough :)</div><p /><div>If you would like to pitch at an event, please fill in this simple form: <a href="http://goo.gl/J4vzO">http://goo.gl/J4vzO</a></div> <p /><div>Thanks!</div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-88001198794074223272011-11-09T14:19:00.001-08:002011-11-09T14:19:33.691-08:00Curious about further suggestion on the line-up for TEDxMaastricht<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/xEPjaIW2WRBmm25j83Hp12NF9XIMGIhHSorlY5jn7CJh0HHxwnHNMFz1ygrS/TEDx_logo_Maastricht.png"><img alt="Tedx_logo_maastricht" height="197" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/b4du7VRokmUiQn4JwvhjnGih5AiYTYmFMZIRfFCPWJa6uPgPHebJaqWfw9sT/TEDx_logo_Maastricht.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <p>The 2012 programme of TEDxMaastricht will be centered around five tracks<br /></p><ul><li>Medicine around the World</li><li>Health is a data problem</li><li>E-health is Empowered-Health</li><li>To talk or not to… listen</li><li> The gamification of health</li></ul><p>More information about these tracks will be revealed later. If you have any suggestions about speakers who would fit in one of these tracks, drop a line <a href="http://www.tedxmaastricht.nl/program-detailed_draft/">below this page</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.tedxmaastricht.nl/abouttedx/background/">http://www.tedxmaastricht.nl/abouttedx/background/</a><br /> </p><p>TEDxMaastrichts mission is to help the world understand that change in healthcare is imminent. We aim to fire up and grow a movement of people who believe the next decennium should be the era of the rising of self-empowered patients. Embracing the patient, their family and informal care into the healthcare team.</p></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-85767170244496995052011-08-26T14:21:00.001-07:002011-08-28T02:52:03.849-07:00Assessing the value of an innovative startup in healthcare: updated scorecard<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img alt="Hsu_pitcher" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/Dp89zdfc1ss0jYxnLkPMBfq0BJ32tlHtlad6WQxNODOaDHAEsFP2lW5fsx9z/hsu_pitcher.jpg" width="375" /> </div><p></p><p>Our departure point is that in healthcare the products/services will have to survive in a unique ecosystem with unique challenges and unique opportunities. Excellent outline of some of these challenges and opportunities can be found in <a href="http://hbr.org/web/extras/insight-center/health-care/will-disruptive-innovations-cure-health-care">this Harvard Business Review article by Clayton Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy</a>.</p><p>Therefore, while the basic principles for startups, customers and investors apply (<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/everything-important-from-startup-2011-in-30-seconds-2011-5">and here’s a fresh example</a>), there are additional considerations that are very important for healthcare startups.</p><p>With that in mind, our objective is to create a simple, straightforward scorecard <strong>specific to the healthcare sector</strong> that would allow a potential customer or investor to quickly evaluate a startup along the criteria that matter to such customer or investor.</p><p>Read more @ <a href="http://HealthStartup.eu">HealthStartup.eu</a><br />
</p></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-27994300055951431552011-07-29T08:28:00.001-07:002011-07-29T08:33:15.737-07:00Develop a simple, straightforward indication of the impact and viability of innovation in healthcare<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/mbtSwbWcVUEUBDPBFgcXsAOKlBsH0F1mjhEGUz8aeRohsXV5eeV8OqkoVd3Q/HS_scorecard_v2.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Hs_scorecard_v2" height="735" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/7fwPZfVnUlOaOD1EcaLpZ8JXtc5WXUIueYsn22E7qIcr7cbXewHLOpt2BnV9/HS_scorecard_v2.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div><p></p><div>As we are preparing our first HealthStartup event on October 5, we receive quite a lot of questions on how we plan to evaluate the participating projects – and how we plan to measure the output of the event.</div><p /><div>Our goal is to develop a tool that would give buyers of the startups’ services – as well as potential investors – a simple, straightforward indication of the project’s impact and viability. It should also be useful as a guideline for the startups themselves in evaluating potential markets, raising funds, and communicating with various target audiences.</div><p /><div>With that in mind, we’ve started developing a “project scorecard” which will include three aspects of an innovation and produce an overall score indicating the viability of a project.</div><p /><div>The scoring on a simple numeric scale (1-4) will be carried out by participants during the event; scores would be tabulated and communicated after the event.</div><p /><div>Attached is our initial thinking on the parameters within the scorecard. We would very much appreciate your input, any additions (or reductions) to the list of the question, clarifications, etc.</div><div> </div><p /><div>So, please read through the article at <a href="http://healthstartup.eu/?p=118">HealthStartup</a> and leave your comments!</div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-25932655761497098072011-06-15T13:49:00.001-07:002011-06-15T13:54:05.180-07:00Will we get the healthcare ecosystem to collaborate on improving mankind?<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/wb3ZAUofwbJz2IxERx9URgmZdSxLJhGflqLqfwQ9g4KI3P1HFZAVpS7pxDDh/aggregation.jpg"><img alt="Aggregation" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/srMwT6kpglywt0sNrUZ9ZiSV6EmmoWfnmm71EeTMCV31DyVscsPlKZlzJgIe/aggregation.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div><p></p><div><div>We have very high development cycles of devices and techniques (18 months or less) AND an industry moving at a ludicrous speed.</div><p /><div>We have an enormous amount of incompatible data, coming from: </div><div><ul><li>different devices, </li>
<li>via different systems, </li>
<li>via different (mobile) OSs</li>
</ul></div><div>Despite great efforts of organisations like <a href="http://www.continuaalliance.org" target="_blank">Continua Health Alliance</a>, it's an illusion to think that -someday- we will be using the same (open) techniques/standards worldwide to collect and combine health-data.</div><p /><div>Striving towards compatibility and interoperability is essential, but I believe this should be complemented by focussing on efficient ways to aggregate all that incompatible data (the equivalent of <a href="http://friendfeed.com/" target="_blank">Friendfeed</a>) and display it as <a href="http://zorgbeheer.blogspot.com/2008/08/dipity-for-healthcare.html">a coherent stream</a> in a personal health record. </div><div>Fusion with data from energy-sources, city- & home-services and social media will further leverage the potential of the collected data.</div></div><p /><div>Extra advantage is that the collected data can be searched upon anonymously. Possibilities to improve mankind by developing cures & remedies faster, improving diagnoses, improving adherence, ... and at the same time lowering the (healthcare)costs and giving more opportunity for 'face time'.</div><p /><div><b>Good examples are:</b></div><a href="http://www.data.gov/health" target="_blank">http://www.data.gov/health</a><div><a href="http://www.numerahealth.com/" target="_blank">http://www.numerahealth.com/</a><br />
<div><a href="http://www.gravityeight.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gravityeight.com/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.scanadu.com/" target="_blank">http://www.scanadu.com/</a></div><div><a href="http://runkeeper.com/" target="_blank">http://www.runkeeper.com</a></div><p /><div>Will we find good plumbers to connect the different data-pipes? </div><div>Will the diameter of the data-pipes be wide enough to cope with an enormous data-flow?</div><div>Will our buckets be big enough to store collect/store the data? </div><div>Will we find enough good craftsmen to visualize and interpret that flow? </div><div>Will we get the ecosystem to collaborate on improving mankind? </div><p /><div>Slide from '<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/BartCollet/mhealth-is-huge" target="_blank">mhealth is huge</a>' preso at MoMoAMS.</div></div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-79918255142836850392011-06-13T02:52:00.001-07:002011-06-13T02:58:27.718-07:00Ambient Assisted Living solutions to achieve the market breakthrough<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>Summary of notes of the AAL workshop in Brussels on June 7, 2011</div><p /><div><b>Personal summary</b></div><div>Many platforms and many applications and many users = many end-to-end products/services = 'The Long Tail' in assisted living. Going from 'one size fits all' to 'one size fits one' (quote from openurc).</div><div>Open source, flexibility, synergy and interoperability are the way to cope with current and future society variables and the velocity of technological evolution. Committee not fond of small scale projects (like Flanders Care) or closed source (like Apple).</div><div>User based involvement and consolidation of players in the ecosystem is imperative.</div><div>Whereas I think building data-aggregations (function like translators) will offer solutions for agile connectedness, none of the participants I spoke to seem to agree. Also my believe that creating an open environment through regulated APIs would leverage the potential of SMEs, didn't have many supporters.</div><div>AAL products and services have the advantage they aren't (always) considered as medical devices.</div><div>Matchmaking in AAL: find information/products/projects/... I can't understand why the EU hasn't started with making a list of people and companies involved, there's no public searchable list or inventory! If a complex ecosystem is one of the barriers, you should start by identifying the stakeholders!</div><p /><div><b>Liked</b></div><div>Users can pick any controller they like to interact with the system.</div><div>Trialog: standardisation for interoperability is supported by the EU commission</div><div>Repository (like sourceforge) in Brazil around assisted living. At this time they have 50 apps</div><div>Medical reminders are displayed on the TV while watching.</div><div>Freemium in assisted living (business model on operational level).</div><div>Increase system-family engineering to speed-up development.</div><div>Fusion with energy, e-health, city- and home-services and social media.</div><div>Web guidance tools for self-care (like measuring blood pressure).</div><div>uAAL works together (complementary) to openurc, continua and osami.</div><div>EU 2020 target: increase healthy years with 2 years</div><div>Personal UI: anywhere, anytime.</div><div>Presentations of openURC and Osami.</div><p /><div><b>Barriers</b></div><div>Interoperability</div><div>Hesitant stakeholders</div><div>Lack of standards</div><div>Regulation and laws (Continua)</div><div>No awareness of AAL among end consumers</div><div>Stand alone projects (small ecosystem or small market) are too expensive</div><div>Assembly or choreography of the healthcare service ecosystem is a huge challenge (<a href="http://casala.ie">casala.ie</a>)</div><div>Guidelines for privacy and security</div><div>Liability</div><div>Speed of technology: healthcare technology goes faster than the ability of the EU committee to make a roadmap for it</div><div>Venture capital doesn't fund platforms or ecosytems.</div><div>Practicality and usability.</div><div>Producing a healthcare product may cost 100,00 EUR, putting it on the market may costs millions. Cost of production-ready healthcare-product testing (at least 500-1000 people) is too high for SMEs.</div><div>SMEs are not interested in (open source AAL) platforms, they are only looking for short term business possibilities.</div><div>Critical support services and sustainable maintenance.</div><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/hGImXeffw1WrVMbSdvPy4XhWbBt6dZaBR8Sp2ehisfmwr368novbSKwFRwW0/AAL_1.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Aal_1" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/EBDKU7hnaJGNx6OIyZj6hMxpwdv7UMZ5W8ygSPK0EXBWwRnwMGg1fF6J7z0X/AAL_1.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/el62yjgX4qFgnQdmg9CpJLdo6M0LBV0zzaDfJdEIBaRuCc9Sgd0waNQnJpxq/AAL_2.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Aal_2" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/WG2thrxnXJSFifydW0p5oyud7VyRUK4Zp2LBbEi4Y3Bjzryab7U1klIOuGIq/AAL_2.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/OBH7a3nbfM561ZdfMJU8FQtc65eLWCSJJnCUIgyJfWeIL7c09CTODTkhv9MP/AAL_3.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Aal_3" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/zsUrGzuzMUhbT7yuZlrGOX9UodnakMwiaGqrWK2lsN8nDJ1z5IVoMpMgNNQU/AAL_3.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/DbzEkwDvRrXvr3xHkjdRClluZxYLEOrzkhrK3AZa8jCEMRAetCHmfn0J3nQI/AAL_4.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Aal_4" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/D6qTGlKXs6CydrTsfGJECKHyG7fCDjgeGgTk5CuLJtHcQHFfky67hQpNLG9n/AAL_4.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/2TJUCaBleunWCHDM90uyvABZldi7C7oZICJFhX4qaRYLmQNlby9VQoc6WLM7/AAL_5.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Aal_5" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/0C6Z1AmTdD75qHJq9NXPLKogdfDdmpVmzD5NBp06TBGn3kIA0hdv0PG4Xdiz/AAL_5.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/d6uNufQc4Xck0MXoxuOrDTZIP5UtGyGUa6b588RvT4BWWqTFEXlY2SCGj7uX/AAL_6.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Aal_6" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/U8GLGk3NtxhZ6UAvglUxYHtLivhNS2ryWoRy4AG0oek67ZqkkAoDJy4QCJcO/AAL_6.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/gcIPlhP5XhCbwDPAhkFd91Pi45wBkDhe3hJEkpWBteHZEn0Q3BJo9MqLZOo3/AAL_7.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Aal_7" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/6CXpJHFxw3QD4c4bJAe8Il3tqHc7IFydFTu4pPKrDCZTqqDqePMk26wSZhlQ/AAL_7.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> <div class='p_see_full_gallery'><a href="http://bartcollet.posterous.com/ambient-assisted-living-solutions-to-achieve">See the full gallery on Posterous</a></div></div></p></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-29598307667504754662011-06-06T04:22:00.001-07:002011-06-06T04:27:02.750-07:005 Healthcare challenges summarized in 1 image<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_file_embed'><a href="http://bartcollet.posterous.com/5-healthcare-challenges-summarized-in-1-image"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/pdf.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'><strong>5_healthcare_challenges.pdf</strong> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/BYTdJdcACrE2x65DYvwKvCiwTGG1zWFJPqreHbsKChxTu0IjoGE5cLMQL0IQ/5_healthcare_challenges.pdf">Download this file</a> </div></div><p>Attached an older 1-page depiction I made to illustrate the 5 challenges in healthcare.</p><div>I post it here because several people asked if they could use it (YES you can!).</div><div>Other reason is that I'm bored by presenters spending 10 minutes explaining these challenges (WE KNOW! move on!).</div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-74694284573947853122011-06-04T08:08:00.001-07:002011-06-04T08:11:31.425-07:00Assessing healthcare innovations in ICT: the society scorecard<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/nfSScKriqyHVvAwrZ6KLYtsIfl8AMEOgnmukpQUoyfFagqbvCnMKIa5klrSw/scorecard_healthcare_society.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Scorecard_healthcare_society" height="735" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/zneGuO7wfENpJXqmw1F6noJ89k4G25y3HN3BK6zVrWMQ2OwAqt6vfoAxDOrJ/scorecard_healthcare_society.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div><p>What's the <b>real</b> <b>worth</b> of an innovation in healthcare? </p><div>What's the<b> impact on a society</b>?</div><p /><div>Preparing for Westartup healthcare, I dug up a simple scorecard I used to determine the impact of an ICT - innovation in healthcare.</div><div>The scorecard gives a score, based on questions from 5 different angles:</div><div><b>Care organisation</b></div><div>What's the ROI? (workflow, efficiency and general cost reduction) </div><div>Does it have a quantifiable impact on marketing and recruitment?</div><div>Will it simplify making business/management decisions?</div><div>Is it interoperable with other aspects of the healthcare ecosystem?</div><div>What are the costs to train people to work with the product/service? How simple is it to use?</div><div><b>Care consumer</b></div><div>Does it offer convenience? Will it allow to reshape healthcare to fit people's lives (and not the other way around)?</div><div>What about participating in the process? Will it help the consumer to interact?</div><div>Exactly how does it improve the quality of the treatment from a consumers perspective?</div><div>Will it offer peace of mind?</div><div>Is it easy/simple to use?</div><div><b>Care practitioner</b></div><div>Can you quantify the improvements on efficiency, workflow and time?</div><div>Is it user friendly? Is it simple to use? Is it intuitive?</div><div>Will it enhance interaction with other practitioners?</div><div>How interoperable is it with the other tools I use?</div><div>Can it simplify decision making?</div><div><b>Taxpayer</b></div><div>Will it lower healthcare costs? Will it lower reimbursement costs by lowering re-admission, enhancing adherence, ... or by lowering efficiency in workforce and processes? </div><div>Does it improve the quality of treatment?</div><div>Can it speed up developing a cure?</div><div><b>Business</b></div><div>I can haz 458 Italia?</div><p /><div>The weight of the 5 scores might differ for each product/service, but calculating an overall result is feasible and meaningful.</div><div>Suggestions on improving this simple model are welcome!</div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-76575373199640232552011-05-31T12:16:00.001-07:002011-05-31T12:30:15.730-07:00Cloud storage for the exchange of health information<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_file_embed'><a href="http://bartcollet.posterous.com/cloud-storage-for-the-exchange-of-health-info"><img alt="" src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/pdf.png" /></a> <div class='p_embed_description'><strong>ZH_dossier_voorbeeld.pdf</strong> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/f3lpua130a7wORuFBJSRxBNg5mkC3P7AbEYcFC6MMKguWzPJMY9EjgHa7UKD/ZH_dossier_voorbeeld.pdf">Download this file</a> </div></div><p>For several years I'm complaining that paper health records are getting lost when one of the elderly residents of our carehome is hospitalised.</p><div>We did all kinds of efforts to prevent loss of the papers, but no success till now.</div><div>In case of loss we had to fax (alas, no email) the papers to the central reception of the hospital (alas, no fax at the specific department).</div><div><div>I was approached by a hospital and a software vendor to find a solution.</div></div><div>A logical suggestion was to use cloud storage (like <a href="https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/home#:::">Dropbox</a>, <a href="http://www.nomadesk.com/">Nomadesk</a>, ...) and to use encrypted folders (per user or per organisation) for such papers. Such cloud solutions are easy to use, very flexible, easy to implement and safe enough for this purpose. When hospital staff reacts outraged 'how unsafe this is', I point them to the current 'solution' where we fax the papers to the central reception.</div><div>I'm very curious which cloud solution they are going to produce, how cheap it will be and how user friendly it will be.</div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-43981456345855958022011-04-30T12:29:00.001-07:002011-04-30T12:48:32.710-07:00Questions for the future of home automation in health care<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img alt="Zorgcongres" height="90" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/LIUv0KdTNy0jUeeK75bTpM1T9vR1MWVR4XGTAKEP3FOqU2Tj7ThTSOGnvabJ/zorgcongres.jpg" width="484" /> </div><p>Next thursday I will be member of a panel (together with Joachim De Vos from <a href="http://www.livingtomorrow.be/" target="_blank">Living Tomorrow</a> & Philip Minnaert from <a href="http://www.eigentijd.be/">Care Home Carpentier</a>) discussing about the future of home automation in health care.<br />
It will be a very interactive discussing with an audience filled with health care professionals (link to the event, in dutch, here: <a href="http://www.facilitynights.com/zorgcongres/" target="_blank">http://www.facilitynights.com/zorgcongres/</a>).<p /><b>Looking forward to the answers they will be giving to following questions:</b><br />
</p><ol><li>Is home automation (or technology in general) for elderly "comfort"or "necessity"? (responding to attractiveness, progress, HR deficit)</li>
<li>How will a nursing home -through technology- 'take care' of a region? (through linked houses)</li>
<li>Is home automation a violation of privacy?</li>
<li>Will residential care evolve into houses of mourning? (because technology enables the elderly to stay home longer and more independently)</li>
<li>Will residential care be organised solely by large institutions ... or only through local (linked) initiatives?</li>
<li>Given the labor shortage, deploying robots is inevitable - or should we import "guest workers" in large quantities?</li>
<li>How much will automation technology blur the boundaries between skilled medical professionals and unskilled manpower?</li>
<li>What happens to human contact when communication with the outside world is done via screens (and / or augmented reality)?</li>
<li>If a multitude of devices and software are used, how important will the "openness" of health systems be?</li>
<li>Will the developments of home automation move from a permanent place in the house to the bodies of care consumers?</li>
</ol>If you would like to see other questions answered, ... your suggestions are welcome!</div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-27166899541876364562011-04-05T12:40:00.001-07:002011-04-30T12:47:38.748-07:00EPD20 and EPD20wiki: happy collab!<div class='posterous_autopost'>Inspired by #TEDxMaastricht, a group of Dutch healthcare professionals are co-operating to describe a Electronic Healthcare Record 2.0 wiki.<div>Keep an eye on <a href="http://www.epd20.nl">http://www.epd20.nl</a> the following days.</div><div>The LinkedIn group is here: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/EPD20wiki-3858209">http://www.linkedin.com/groups/EPD20wiki-3858209</a></div><div>Humbled that the info from the open wikimap will be used (with input from <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/michlr">@michlr</a> & <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/icmcc">@icmcc</a>: <a href="http://www.mindmeister.com/nl/87194521/wwepd">http://www.mindmeister.com/nl/87194521/wwepd</a>)</div><div>Already certain the end result will be of very high and compassionate quality.</div><div>The momentum is here!<br />
<p /></div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-52423941136161578662011-03-16T13:29:00.001-07:002011-03-16T13:29:25.042-07:00Untitled<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/rlqADuJwyAixwmjFHnDqAhweDfEdmctlGjxouyqbqwwEwfdfCzexowjjtfhe/wifi_central_big.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Wifi_central_big" height="340" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/rlqADuJwyAixwmjFHnDqAhweDfEdmctlGjxouyqbqwwEwfdfCzexowjjtfhe/wifi_central_big.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://tweetdeck.com">TweetDeck</a></div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-56938185761547009792011-02-23T05:38:00.001-08:002011-02-23T05:42:58.790-08:00Will the iPod Nano watch impress the healthcrowd?<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/wIiY2pwbeumiWU4rLJO9p7IEOM5aQ8bFmx68xT0wczNwr4kxoeCPsxeif84h/photo-310-580x433.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/SFLp8nfGV9BkcCeOYru6yNzcPuXzTXIgxA9BmMnNIATS1bqbTrJI4LfxltCJ/photo-310-580x433.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="373"/></a> <p>Easy to use<br />
Easy to wear<br />
Convenience for the win.<p />And it doesn't look like a medical (or other stigmatizing) device. Acceptance is guaranteed because such a shiny device is a 'wannahave'.<p />I wonder how long it will take before you can use Facetime on it.<br />
With a GPS inside you will 'warned' when a friend is near, when you should get medicine from a nearby pharmacy, which subway to take, ...<br />
You could communicate with relatives, doctors, ...<br />
Notifications will appear when to take your medicine, when to go to the doctor, ...<p />And the real winner would be to integrate different monitoring solutions. <p />Source: GottaBeMobile -> <a href="http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/02/22/lunatik-review-ipod-nano-as-a-watch-is-awesome-but-does-not-impress-the-ladies">iPod Nano as a watch is awesome, but does not impress the ladies</a><br />
</p></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-71364257726334550702011-02-21T14:29:00.001-08:002011-02-21T14:29:45.159-08:00HIMSS 2011 in Storify<div class='posterous_autopost'><script src="http://storify.com/bart/himss.js"></script></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-36036699504160004322011-02-15T13:58:00.001-08:002011-02-15T14:03:54.160-08:00What damage could a Healthphone do?<div class='posterous_autopost'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/RCmzZ9gweB0tIplbqjCggbBm3S4bfoPXdJtEfpq5SDPZEmGA5rk8TQKlvzeA/pic-wristmount.thumbnail.gif" width="425" height="217"/> <p>If Garmin can sell a GPS that can do voice too,</p><div>alas not very successful,</div><div><div>what are the chances of a health monitoring device 'that can do voice' too?</div><p /><div>I imagine a ruggedized device with long battery life,</div><div>large + bright touchscreen, a decent camera, accelerometer, GPS </div><div>and -most important- the equivalent of a Swiss Knife in connectivity: bluetooth, zigbee, ant, IR, Wi-Fi, NFC, barcode, RFID, ...</div><p /><div>Should consider the device as a medical Toughbook, but vastly improved and much smaller.</div><p /><div>I'm on the lookout!</div><p /><div>Image -> <a href="http://imprinttalk.com/?p=2523">Imprint Talk</a> (have a look at their tripple flip design too)</div></div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-44543419051301503612011-02-07T11:20:00.001-08:002011-02-07T11:22:22.735-08:00WESC or Louis Vuitton in the wireless sensor industry<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyUBEQ8GWU6LU_7gyIjtm1UjTLMBnwgnCfUyDy0-XLYbcchC8Co1XDHNVrYu4HknlgC4uZH5IDC55iE4IGvlbNbxRUr-n1uAK_bXPRrai-lEITRgjsrLU8IFcxiQ89zG2Vh0vjsVLaPZ_z/s1600/wescvuitton-752864.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyUBEQ8GWU6LU_7gyIjtm1UjTLMBnwgnCfUyDy0-XLYbcchC8Co1XDHNVrYu4HknlgC4uZH5IDC55iE4IGvlbNbxRUr-n1uAK_bXPRrai-lEITRgjsrLU8IFcxiQ89zG2Vh0vjsVLaPZ_z/s320/wescvuitton-752864.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571029801200175938" /></a></p><div class="gmail_quote">Recently I was looking at 2 mhealth business plans, in particular the parts about sensor design.<div>The sensors should be wearable to guarantee permanent monitoring.<br />
<div><div>What struck me was that both companies were looking at "patient acceptance" as a HUGE hurdle for sensor sales.</div><div>Looking at the design of their devices, I understood their problem better: "They are UGLY!!!".</div></div><div>The devices had that typical "designed by a medical professional from the former USSR" signature.</div><div><br />
</div><div>If you want to solve patient acceptance, let Louis Vuitton or WESC take care of your design.</div><div><br />
</div><div>The burden of being sick and the necessity to be monitored can be worsened by making you wear ugly or uncool devices, especially with children.</div><div>Parents want their sick kids to grow up like 'normal' children.</div><div>If you can give these children a sensor that is cool to wear, this coolness might even 'lighten' the situation a bit for that child.</div><div><br />
</div><div>All types of wearable, unobtrusive sensors will have a great future because of simplicity and ease of mind.</div><div><a href="http://www.nickhunn.com/" target="_blank">Nick Hunn</a> already gave fine examples like doorknobs and toothbrushes for monitoring, but why don't we also use helmets, clothing, wigs, earphones, scarfs, seats, ...?</div><div>I'm convinced that if you trow in more designers, this will make the sickness easier to wear (ha!).</div><div><br />
</div><div>Fashionistas for healthcare!</div></div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-6717979956424263622011-02-03T13:10:00.001-08:002011-02-03T16:14:23.875-08:00The Health Care Blog: Physician Executives Should Not Ignore How Smartphones Will Transform Healthcare<div class="posterous_autopost"><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_medium_quote">Physician executives who ignore smartphones and their healthcare applications will miss the most important disruptive technology trend in the next five years. Physician executives who understand how smartphones will transform the industry for providers, payers, patients, and employers will thrive in their careers.</blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2011/01/physician-executives-should-not-ignore-how-smartphones-will-transform-healthcare.html">thehealthcareblog.com</a></div> <p>A great round up of mobile solutions for healthcare, excellent research numbers and relevant quotes from different players in that field by Kent Bottles (@KentBottles). </p><p>Haven't read about the love that people feel about their device(s) or "second self". Now i'm even more convinced that upcoming baby boomers will embrace mhealth (broad definition). </p><p>Tying together the healthdata that will come through a giant firehose will indeed be very challenging. Companies that will specialize in health data integration and aggregation (slide 25 & 26: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/BartCollet/mhealth-is-huge">http://www.slideshare.net/BartCollet/mhealth-is-huge</a>) will prosper. </p><p>Now i'll have a look at some examples/companies that Kent posted and i'm not familiar with ... yet. </p><p>Over & out!</p></div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-35764124574249413322011-01-19T08:22:00.001-08:002011-01-19T08:22:33.106-08:00What’s wrong with mHealth? Ask Rube Goldberg…. Part I | LargePond<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p class="thetitle"><span class="name">What's wrong with mHealth? Ask Rube Goldberg.... Part I</span> <span class="little">2011-01-05 16:47:46</span></p> <p>I attended a meeting the other day where buzzwords like “mhealth”, ehealth, “connected health,” “wireless health”, and a slew of others (collectively “xhealth”) were thrown around the room like confetti at a parade.</p> <p>At one point, the discussion became pretty heated around the attributes of the mhealth market compared to ehealth as well as which was higher in the perceived health information technology (HIT) hierarchy. I listened carefully as each participant passionately shared their unique point of view about the size and definition of each respective market and, of course, how their company was positioned to be the market leader. I have to admit, it was pretty tempting to jump in especially when someone in the group tried to create a new buzzword in an effort to plant their flag in yet another nebulous and ill-defined mobile healthcare niche.<br /> <span></span><br /> In the race for healthcare innovation, coining buzzwords, and carving up prospective market segments, it seems like people have lost sight of the real prize — adoption. Specifically, near-term adoption.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.alargepond.com/2011/01/05/whats-wrong-with-mhealth-ask-rube-goldberg-part-i/#more-171">alargepond.com</a></div> <p>Excellent read, you can read part II here: <a href="http://goo.gl/pJ95M">http://goo.gl/pJ95M</a></p></div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-80997083617264266222011-01-17T15:44:00.001-08:002011-01-17T15:50:45.791-08:00Freemium in care: Zorgbeheer care-platform looking for webdev<div class="posterous_autopost"><a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/tdHRcutQnyRlOUUxOEFOaXtK89nDawzqVN6U2dNGtYzkbAHIqmeBOW4eCrCb/Zorgbeheer_webdev.jpg.scaled.1000.jpg"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/R7AogALZ7fuLxpnHYXxXVk5djG0tcoOFpNk4PsXYf6ys2WNIh0oQaVna24M0/Zorgbeheer_webdev.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" height="340" width="500" /></a> <p><a href="http://www.zorgbeheer.com/" target="_blank">Zorgbeheer</a> (dutch for 'care management') is a platform for Flemish care-managers since 2006.<br />It grew from a small private communication platform for carehome owners to a communication platform for the <a href="http://captainsofcare.com/" target="_blank">captains of care</a>.<br />The website has about 5 to 600 unique visitors a day.<br />There's a strong demand for further development, which should take the platform from it's current situation (stage 1) to a perpetual stage 3.</p><p><b>Stage 1</b><br /></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> Mostly inspection, supervision and small improvements of the current situation.<br /></div><b>Stage 2</b><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Major overhaul with open source CMS (<a href="http://www.joomla.org/" target="_blank">Joomla</a>, <a href="http://drupal.com/" target="_blank">Drupal</a>, ...) or own development.<br />Improvements in <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/BartCollet/matchmaking-in-care" target="_blank">matchmaking</a><br />Offering mobile content<br /></div><b>Stage 3</b><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Crowdsourcing care professionals for needs and building web and mobile apps to fill those needs ... and offering the apps for free.<br /></div><br />Where's the money?<br />First two stages will be paid by commercial revenues (ads).<br />During the last (perpetual) stage, the webdev company can develop apps for individual care organisations too. The webdev business card being a solid (and proven) reputation as Zorgbeheer-platform-builder.<p>Why in English? It's a site in Dutch!<br />As far as I know, there are no platforms offering the stage 3 solution; improving care by offering web and mobile tools for free.<br />This format might be interesting for international development.</p><p> Requirements<br /></p><ul><li>Good knowledge of <a href="http://www.joomla.org/" target="_blank">Joomla CMS</a> (in stage 1)</li><li>Proficiency in mobile development</li><li>Experience with mapping, communication and community (matchmaking) tools</li> <li>Determined to produce apps that are Fisher Price easy.</li></ul> You can improve care AND earn a living.<br />Win-win!<br />Contact: bart at mhealth BE</div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-46418340828252804102011-01-04T16:01:00.001-08:002011-01-04T16:29:16.379-08:002011 Predictions in Medicine, Healthcare, Technology and Innovation « ScienceRoll<div class="posterous_autopost"><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>2) Curation -> will there be a market for RSS-feed experts, offering you a tailorfit newsoffer?<br />4) Mhealth will be a entire ecosystem (identification, payment, location, monitoring, etc.). Lots of apps will try to ‘plug in’ to EHR’s, which will leverage their usefulness enormously. Question here is: “Can mobile operators cope with the sudden increase in 3G/4G data usage?”.<br />6) The importance of ‘voice’: i fully agree. But don’t underestimate the imortance of interface design (simplicity – i like the term ‘fisher price design’)<br />12) Will we also see patients that are so empowered that they will be doing live reporting from the hospital? Or broadcast an ‘investigation’ in realtime?<br />14) SoMe presence in pharma … but also in care-institutions. Mainly deployed for recruitment purposes, painting a pleasant SoMe environment.</p> <p>If i may add 2:<br />explosion of tech for boomers<br />data-mining of health data</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://scienceroll.com/2011/01/04/2011-predictions-in-medicine-healthcare-technology-and-innovation/">scienceroll.com</a></div> <p></p></div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-25272167154898013592010-12-28T09:33:00.001-08:002010-12-28T09:33:50.024-08:00Senior housing should lead with tech-enabled service to drive costs down<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_short_quote">that the current approaches are unsustainable and so last-century</blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/senior-housing-should-lead-tech-enabled-service-drive-costs-down?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AgingInPlaceTechnologyWatch+%28Aging+In+Place+Technology+Watch%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">ageinplacetech.com</a></div> <p>Baby boomers do NOT want to go to a senior house, <br />the cost to house them in a senior house are unsustainable anyway. <br />And if the cost would be sustainable, there wouldn't be (human) staff to take care of customers. <br />There's only one way to cope with these problems and that's at home monitoring, collaborative (family) caring and preventive medicine. Mhealth can play a major role in these 3 solutions.</p></div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-50889170683480363302010-12-23T12:21:00.001-08:002011-01-17T15:53:03.526-08:00Improve patient - doctor communication with a smartphone<div class="posterous_autopost">Dutch insurer VGZ made this great iPhone app (Android coming soon) to improve communication between patient and doctor.<div>After accepting the User Agreement you can use this app to:</div><div><ul><li>prepare your visit to the doctor by taking notes (you can use a FAQ for your specific medical problem)</li> <li>use these notes (checklist) during the visit</li><li>you can even record (by doctors consent) the doctors diagnose</li></ul></div> <div>All notes and recorded material are for personal use only and can't be published publicly.</div><p></p><div>Other features include finding your doctor by GPS and/or rating the service by certain criteria.</div> <p></p><div>I really like the FAQ-feature where you can have a look at questions that most people -with a similar medical problem- ask their doctors.</div><p></p><div><div>YouTube Dutch version</div><div> <object height="300" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_mbFcR8vLyQ&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1"><param name="wmode" value="window"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_mbFcR8vLyQ&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="window" height="300" width="500"></embed></object></div> </div></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-3759558560661337452010-12-18T14:17:00.001-08:002011-01-17T15:53:33.544-08:00Combine this with the increase of 70+ using inet (Pew)<div class="posterous_autopost">Report: 70 percent want access to mHealth - <a href="http://pulsene.ws/xFXY">http://pulsene.ws/xFXY</a><p>Pew Internet found out that the biggest growing group of internet users are seniors.<br />They will rapidly switch to mobile because of simplicity (touchscreens and user experience).<br />Great combination for mhealth.</p></div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5353700004084187907.post-24040706202247974882010-12-18T03:46:00.001-08:002010-12-18T03:46:52.763-08:00Love posterous even more<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/BBoixrxbwgxqdbrAkshBhcoEHlmvuzFbbsbvcsgkgpxADsemeAhxxxuvEoCs/786643724.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/bartcollet/BBoixrxbwgxqdbrAkshBhcoEHlmvuzFbbsbvcsgkgpxADsemeAhxxxuvEoCs/786643724.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> </p>The recently released groups are already awesome. I love the possibility to quickly switch between the 'regular' site and the groups-site.<br />Beta for one week for crowdsourcing and bugtracking ... and then releasing it. Talking about fastdevelopment!<br />And the Posterous Android app, which i'm using to post this, is also extremly easy to use. Big WOW is the easyness to post accross different Posterous sites.</div>Bart Collethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05002053153913129322noreply@blogger.com0