5 Healthcare challenges summarized in 1 image

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Attached an older 1-page depiction I made to illustrate the 5 challenges in healthcare.

I post it here because several people asked if they could use it (YES you can!).

Other reason is that I'm bored by presenters spending 10 minutes explaining these challenges (WE KNOW! move on!).

Assessing healthcare innovations in ICT: the society scorecard

What's the real worth of an innovation in healthcare? 

What's the impact on a society?

Preparing for Westartup healthcare, I dug up a simple scorecard I used to determine the impact of an ICT - innovation in healthcare.

The scorecard gives a score, based on questions from 5 different angles:

Care organisation

What's the ROI? (workflow, efficiency and general cost reduction) 

Does it have a quantifiable impact on marketing and recruitment?

Will it simplify making business/management decisions?

Is it interoperable with other aspects of the healthcare ecosystem?

What are the costs to train people to work with the product/service? How simple is it to use?

Care consumer

Does it offer convenience? Will it allow to reshape healthcare to fit people's lives (and not the other way around)?

What about participating in the process? Will it help the consumer to interact?

Exactly how does it improve the quality of the treatment from a consumers perspective?

Will it offer peace of mind?

Is it easy/simple to use?

Care practitioner

Can you quantify the improvements on efficiency, workflow and time?

Is it user friendly? Is it simple to use? Is it intuitive?

Will it enhance interaction with other practitioners?

How interoperable is it with the other tools I use?

Can it simplify decision making?

Taxpayer

Will it lower healthcare costs? Will it lower reimbursement costs by lowering re-admission, enhancing adherence, ... or by lowering efficiency in workforce and processes? 

Does it improve the quality of treatment?

Can it speed up developing a cure?

Business

I can haz 458 Italia?

The weight of the 5 scores might differ for each product/service, but calculating an overall result is feasible and meaningful.

Suggestions on improving this simple model are welcome!

Cloud storage for the exchange of health information

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For several years I'm complaining that paper health records are getting lost when one of the elderly residents of our carehome is hospitalised.

We did all kinds of efforts to prevent loss of the papers, but no success till now.

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).

I was approached by a hospital and a software vendor to find a solution.

A logical suggestion was to use cloud storage (like Amazon, Dropbox, Nomadesk, ...) 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.

I'm very curious which cloud solution they are going to produce, how cheap it will be and how user friendly it will be.

Questions for the future of home automation in health care

Next thursday I will be member of a panel (together with Joachim De Vos from Living Tomorrow & Philip Minnaert from Care Home Carpentier) discussing about the future of home automation in health care.
It will be a very interactive discussing with an audience filled with health care professionals (link to the event, in dutch, here: http://www.facilitynights.com/zorgcongres/).

Looking forward to the answers they will be giving to following questions:

1. Is home automation (or technology in general) for elderly "comfort"or "necessity"? (responding to attractiveness, progress, HR deficit)
2. How will a nursing home -through technology- 'take care' of a region? (through linked houses)
3. Is home automation a violation of privacy?
4. Will residential care evolve into houses of mourning? (because technology enables the elderly to stay home longer and more independently)
5. Will residential care be organised solely by large institutions ... or only through local (linked) initiatives?
6. Given the labor shortage, deploying robots is inevitable - or should we import "guest workers" in large quantities?
7. How much will automation technology blur the boundaries between skilled medical professionals and unskilled manpower?
8. What happens to human contact when communication with the outside world is done via screens (and / or augmented reality)?
9. If a multitude of devices and software are used, how important will the "openness" of health systems be?
10. Will the developments of home automation move from a permanent place in the house to the bodies of care consumers?

If you would like to see other questions answered, ... your suggestions are welcome!

EPD20 and EPD20wiki: happy collab!

Inspired by #TEDxMaastricht, a group of Dutch healthcare professionals are co-operating to describe a Electronic Healthcare Record 2.0 wiki.

Keep an eye on http://www.epd20.nl the following days.

The LinkedIn group is here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/EPD20wiki-3858209

Humbled that the info from the open wikimap will be used (with input from @michlr & @icmcc: http://www.mindmeister.com/nl/87194521/wwepd)

Already certain the end result will be of very high and compassionate quality.

The momentum is here!

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Will the iPod Nano watch impress the healthcrowd?

Easy to use
Easy to wear
Convenience for the win.

And it doesn't look like a medical (or other stigmatizing) device. Acceptance is guaranteed because such a shiny device is a 'wannahave'.

I wonder how long it will take before you can use Facetime on it.
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, ...
You could communicate with relatives, doctors, ...
Notifications will appear when to take your medicine, when to go to the doctor, ...

And the real winner would be to integrate different monitoring solutions.

Source: GottaBeMobile -> iPod Nano as a watch is awesome, but does not impress the ladies