MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'interfaces'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:07:04 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5181958&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2F2ScUo2cTw1c%2F Many of you might remember my recent post about EMR Performance Issues (ie. EMR Slowness). Turns out, the post had a pretty big impact on some readers of the site. In fact, it sounds like it was partially therapeutic for some to realize that they’re not alone. I asked permission to share one of the responses with you so you could get some more first hand perspective on the issue of EMR slowness. I share it in the hopes that others can be aware and avoid it. Plus, I hope the EHR vendors that read this will take it to heart and be fanatically focused on EMR speed and customer support. I’ve removed the name of the writer and the names of the vendors. Plus, realize that it was written originally in an email communication and not necessarily to be published. OMG…you hit the na... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5181958 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:28:48 +0100 5181958 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5118747&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2F-wzekic95sE%2F Patient Doctor Relationship It seems like this topic keeps coming up in my online and social media reading. Basically, the discussion usually centers around the role the patient plays in healthcare. Many people like to discuss what has been called the ePatient. I instead want to talk about the motivations of patients and their ability to influence the healthcare system. Patients in healthcare are unlike “customers” in many other industries. I can’t think of a single patient that wants to go and see a doctor. Ok, maybe they like the doctor and they want to get whatever’s ailing them fixed, but to a person I’m sure we’d say that going to the doctor is the last place we want to be. It’s not like going shopping for a new pair of shoes. There’s no... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5118747 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:12:45 +0100 5118747 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4976035&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2011%2Fenhancing-bcis-through-electrocorticography-ecog%2F Electrocorticography (ECoG) records the “high-gamma” (>60 Hz) frequency profile of the cortex, featuring a temporal resolution of the order of milliseconds [1]. Coupled with a software interface, the use of ECoG was explored in a Brain Computer Interface study when participants were asked to either think or say different vowel sounds [2]. While the recorded [...] (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4976035 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:50:50 +0100 4976035 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4789382&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Fneil%2F2011%2F04%2F28%2Fchicago-hospitals-embark-on-long-hie-journey%2F I live in Chicago, a highly competitive healthcare market with some world-class medical schools (Northwestern, University of Chicago, Loyola, Rush) and a pretty decent record of EMR adoption. At least four major institutions/health systems run similar Epic EMRs: University of Chicago Medical Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Rush University Medical Center and, in the northern suburbs, NorthShore University HealthSystem (formerly Evanston-Northwestern Healthcare). Three NorthShore hospitals–Evanston Hospital, Glenbrook Hospital and Highland Park Hospital–were among the first in the country to reach Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model.(NorthShore’s Skokie Hospital since has reached Stage 7). Several others, notably Rush, Advocate Lutheran General Hospita... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4789382 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:01:25 +0100 4789382 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4566179&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2011%2F03%2F08%2Fcare360-ehr-medplus-and-quest-diagnostics%2F While some might consider the following commentary an ad for Quest Diagnostic’s Care360 EHR, it’s not. I don’t even have them as an advertiser. Plus, you could easily submit a number of other companies name in the place of Quest. However, the following were some thoughts I had after talking with the people behind Care360 EHR at Quest. First, let me clarify some name issues so we’re all on the same page. Quest Diagnostics is the company. It’s publicly traded on the NYSE with the ticker DGX. Most of you will know about Quest since they’re one of the leading lab companies in the US. MedPlus is the subsidiary within Quest that covers the healthcare IT portion of the company including their EMR software. Care360 is the name of their SaaS EHR software which th... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4566179 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:55:13 +0100 4566179 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4522188&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2011%2Fbraindriver-project%2F After testing an iPhone, an iPad and an eye-tracking device as possible user interfaces to maneuver our research car named “MadeInGermany”, we now also use brain-power. Neuro-signals are acquired using the commercial Emotiv EEG (electroenzephalogram) tool. For more details you may visit the Braindriver project page. (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4522188 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:11:43 +0100 4522188 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4482846&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2Fn_8NskSrwx4%2F There’s a pretty fierce battle going on right now between all the various stakeholders interested in exchanging patient data. The stakeholders range from very large companies to government initiatives to startup companies. One of the major problems that I see is that it’s not completely clear which model of patient data exchange will win out. In fact, let’s not be surprised if a number of different options take hold. With this said, I found it interesting that my favorite open source healthcare IT advocate, Fred Trotter, has chosen to get behind the Direct Project. In Fred’s post describing the challenges with the IHE-protocol HIE model approach is flawed and that the direct exchange of healthcare information is the way to go. In fact, he provides the following two ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4482846 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:09:45 +0100 4482846 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4082166&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2010%2F10%2F10%2Fcpa-comment-on-emr-pricing%2F In response to my previous post about possibly creating an EMR pricing comparison website, I got a really interesting set of comments from a CPA who’s been assisting their clients in their EMR selection process. You might laugh at the idea of a CPA participating in the EMR selection process. Interestingly, the CPA that I use has also been asked by their clients about the EMR stimulus money and so they were grateful they could ask me some questions. This aside, I found this person’s comments interesting. I think they also illustrate some of the challenges in EMR pricing and some of the thirst for EMR pricing also. I removed some identifying information and some other comments about EMR and HIPAA. Otherwise, the comments are in tact. I have been pondering trying to do some sort o... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4082166 Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:45:54 +0100 4082166 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3687200&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2010%2F06%2F22%2Fnew-gesture-based-system-from-mit.html   Researchers at MIT have developed a new gesture-based system that combines a standard webcam, colored lycra gloves, and a software that includes a dataset of pictures. This simple and cheap system allows to translate hands gestures into a computer-generated 3d-model of the hand in realtime. Once the webcam has captured an image of the glove, the software matches it with the corresponding hand position stored in the visual dataset and triggers the answer. This approach reduces computation time as there is no need to calculate the relative positions of the fingers, palm, and back of the hand on the fly.   The inexpensive gesture-based recognition system developed at MIT could have applications in games, industry and education. I also envisage a potential appl... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3687200 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:40:00 +0100 3687200 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585717&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35066&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurodudes.com%2F2010%2F05%2F20%2Fneural-interfaces-workshop-conference-june-20-23-student-status-letter-due-tomorrow%2F 1. Beyond Brain Machine Interface: From Senses to Cognition Co-sponsored by IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and Army Research Office June 20, 2010, Long Beach, CA Travel fellowships, poster abstracts, and registration: http://tnsre.bme.jhu.edu/ 2. 39th Neural Interfaces Conference Co-sponsored by NIH Deep Brain Stimulation Consortium June 21-23, 2010, Long Beach, CA Free registration for students (Faculty Advisor letter due May 21) Program, registration, and further information: http://www.neuralinterfaces2010.com/ A workshop on the topic “Beyond Brain Machine Interface: From Senses to Cognition” (http://tnsre.bme.jhu.edu), sponsored by Army Research Office and IEEE EMBS, will take place on June 20, 2010, just preceding the Neural Interfaces Conf... neurodudes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585717 Thu, 20 May 2010 23:05:44 +0100 3585717 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3577508&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35066&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurodudes.com%2F2010%2F05%2F19%2Faudeo-not-news%2F http://www.theaudeo.com/?action=technology Detects subthreshold electrical activity from laryngeal muscles and attempts to recognize words from it, allowing a sort of silent cell phone, as well as command-and-control applications. They have a technical manual on the website, as well as a video demo of a “voiceless phone call”. (Source: neurodudes) neurodudes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3577508 Wed, 19 May 2010 08:56:37 +0100 3577508 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3331389&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2010%2F03%2F04%2Fskinput-turns-your-body-into-a-touchscreen.html Via New Scientist via Stefano Besana Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft’s Redmond research lab have developed a working prototype of a system called Skinput that effectively turns your body surface into both screen and input device. Skinput makes use of a microchip-sized pico projector embedded in an armband to beam an image onto a user’s forearm or hand. When the user taps a menu item or other control icon on the skin, an acoustic detector also in the armband analyzes the ultralow-frequency sound to determine which region of the display has been activated. The technology behind Skinput is described in this paper the group will present in April at the Computer-Human Interaction conference in Atlanta. Check out the video:   (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3331389 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:49:00 +0100 3331389 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3335438&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2010%2F03%2F02%2Fnomoreclipboards-phr-integrations-with-emr-vendors%2F My very first meeting with a vendor at HIMSS was with NoMoreClipboard. I’d known of them for quite a while, but never really took them seriously before. After meeting with them, I was really impressed with what they’re trying to do in the PHR space. I was particularly interested in them since they have a PHR implementation in a university health center, but they go well beyond that. In fact, I think the greatest potential for NoMoreClipboard is likely in partnerships with smart EMR vendors that want to integrate with a great PHR rather than putting up some half baked piece of junk software that they call a PHR. Yes, if you’re an EMR vendor you likely know what I’m talking about. It’s really hard to focus on creating a great EMR software and a great PHR softwar... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3335438 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:23:19 +0100 3335438 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3298460&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FNVho1duYvkc%2F (Editor’s Note: In 1990, Congress designated the 1990s the “Decade of the Brain.” President George H. W. Bush proclaimed, “A new era of discovery is dawning in brain research.” During the ensuing decade, scientists greatly advanced our understanding of the brain. The editors of Cerebrum asked the directors of seven brain-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify the biggest advances, greatest disappointments, and missed opportunities of brain research in the past decade—the decade after the “Decade of the Brain.” They also asked them what looks most promising for the coming decade, the 2010s. Experts focused on research that might change how doctors diagnose and treat human brain disorders.) Neuroscience is at a historic turning point. To... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3298460 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:54:38 +0100 3298460 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3239665&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2010%2F02%2F04%2Fbidi-screen-3d-gesture-interaction-in-thin-screen-device.html Via Chris Jablonski's blog Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a working prototype of a bidirectional LCD (captures and displays images) that allows a viewer to control on-screen objects without the need for any peripheral controllers or even touching the screen. In near Minority Report fashion, interaction is possible with just a wave of the hand. The BiDi is inspired by emerging LCDs that use embedded optical sensors to detect multiple points of contact and exploits the spatial light modulation capability of LCDs to allow lensless imaging without interfering with display functionality. According to MIT researchers, this technology can lead to a wide range of applications, such as in-air gesture control of everything from CE devices like mobile phones to ... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3239665 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:03:00 +0100 3239665 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3142661&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2F9kNOhVgzN8k%2F Another interesting story from EMRUpdate talking about how one EMR vendor, Medtuity EMR, took 3 locations and tied their EMRs together. However, they didn’t just do one centralized database accessed from each location. Instead, they essentially built patient data interoperability between the 3 locations. Check it out: We just linked 3 sites in October. The docs described what they wanted, including the speed of a separate SQL Server in each facility. They also had a billing office (as the center or hub). They previously used a single server with Remote Desktop as the means of communicating with a central server. They were not entirely happy with that arrangement and so wanted to embark on a SQL Server in each facility. Additionally, they did not want all encounters synched to all fac... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3142661 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:33:47 +0100 3142661 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3036990&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FeXeiCoqQKS0%2F Everyone seems to love talking about RHIO, HIE and all of the other various initiatives happening around sharing patient health information amongst doctors. This weekend, I want to open it up to you the readers to get an idea of what type of participation you’ve had in an RHIO, HIE or other clinical data exchange. Are you participating in one now? Do you like it? Do you hate it? In fact, what do you like and what do you hate? Do you use an EMR to interface with the exchange? What’s the interface like? How much work is it to manage the interface? I’d also be interested in hearing about people who are working through the process now. Where are you at in the process? What’s holding you up from making this happen? Let’s help educate each other on what’s happ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3036990 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:11:30 +0100 3036990 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2800507&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F09%2F15%2Fhealthcare-data-sharing-in-emr-software%2F Healthcare data sharing is one of the hottest topics when talking about the importance of EMR software. Some people call it healthcare data portability. One of the problems I have with these discussions is that everyone has different goals for why they want to share the information. Here’s a partial list of reasons people may want to share healthcare data between various EMR respositories (in no particular order): Clinical data sharing for reimbursement purposes Quality data sharing for broader research goals Quality data sharing to meet ARRA requirements/reimbursement Data shared for continuity of care between providers There are probably other reasons to have EMR software be able to share clinical data. However, you get the basic point. There are a lot of reasons why people want ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2800507 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:45:59 +0100 2800507 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2719786&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F08%2F17%2Freplacing-an-existing-emr%2F I received the following email from a reader of this blog: I am the manager of a 2 physician, 2 nurse practitioner practice with an 11 bed sleep lab. We purchased our EMR in 2006, without much research, because it was compatible with our billing/scheduling program. It is grossly time consuming. Just entering a problem list takes 5 steps (for each disorder we are entering). It will not create notes as many EMRs do. We dictate notes to a transcription service and they are uploaded as documents. Basically it is a non-interactive storage unit, much like our paper charts were, except more time consuming. The company has basically told us that they will not be changing the system. The doctors and NPs are nearing revolt at this point because of the time that they spend trying to use this system. ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2719786 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:18:13 +0100 2719786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2705211&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35066&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurodudes.com%2F2009%2F08%2F16%2Ffrontiers-in-neuroscience-journal%2F The journal, Frontiers in Neuroscience, edited by Idan Segev, has made it Volume 3, issue 1.  Launching last year at the Society for Neuroscience conference, its probably the newest Neuroscience-related journal. I’m a fan of it because it is an open-access journal featuring a “tiered system” and more.  From their website: The Frontiers Journal Series is not just another journal. It is a new approach to scientific publishing. As service to scientists, it is driven by researchers for researchers but it also serves the interests of the general public. Frontiers disseminates research in a tiered system that begins with original articles submitted to Specialty Journals. It evaluates research truly democratically and objectively based on the reading activity of the scienti... neurodudes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2705211 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:02:16 +0100 2705211 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2645409&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35066&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurodudes.com%2F2009%2F07%2F27%2Fzeo-sleep-analyzer%2F Last night was not a restful one for me. Can neurotechnology help make us more aware of our sleep problems? Over at the NYT, David Pogue thinks so. He recently reviewed an alarm clock with an EEG headband transmitter that analyzes sleep (”To Sleep, Perchance to Analyze Data“). As he says in the article, the initial reaction to this kind of product might be, I don’t need something to tell me when I didn’t sleep well. I know when I haven’t slept well! As he says in his nice video review, there are some advantages to all this technology (automation is good!… I certainly don’t keep a daily journal of sleep quality…): But as my wife said, “If I wake up and feel lousy, I don’t need a $400 gadget to tell me it’s because I didn’t sleep well.�... neurodudes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2645409 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:52:16 +0100 2645409 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2639632&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FO3zkvsnC8ro%2F I’m always sad when I come across an EMR implementation that doesn’t have an interface between their EMR and their lab. I can appreciate someone having just implemented an EMR not having a lab interface. However, it should be one of the first things on your list to implement. It’s such a great compliment to your EMR software. First thing I must suggest is that you get a bi-directional lab interface if at all possible. One way lab interfaces can work, but do take more management to make it work right. Why Get a Lab Interface with Your EMR? Lab interfaces are so seamless. The order is made in the EMR and it’s automatically is sent to the lab. Talk about removing a lot of the possibilities for error. In our case, we have an in house lab and so this saves a ton of time ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2639632 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:00:19 +0100 2639632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2553111&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F06%2F29%2Ftowards-a-positive-technology-of-gaming.html In this very interesting keynote given at the recent Game Developers Conference, Jane McGonigal discusses the role of Positive Psychology in gaming. Another significant sign of how the world of ICT is embracing the perspective of Positive Technology...   Learning to Make Your Own Reality - IGDA Education Keynote 2009 View more documents from avantgame. (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2553111 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:03:00 +0100 2553111 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2527922&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F06%2F26%2Freactable.html From the Reactable website: The Reactable is a revolutionary new electronic musical instrument designed to create and perform the music of today and tomorrow. It combines state of the art technologies with a simple and intuitive design, which enables musicians to experiment with sound, change its structure, control its parameters and be creative in a direct and refreshing way, unlike anything you have ever known before. The Reactable uses a so called tangible interface, where the musician controls the system by manipulating tangible objects. The instrument is based on a translucent and luminous round table, and by putting these pucks on the Reactable surface, by turning them and connecting them to each other, performers can combine different elements like synthesizers, effects, sample loop... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2527922 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:09:59 +0100 2527922 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2511517&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F06%2F23%2Fproject-natal-the-gaming-revolution-has-arrived.html I am probably not the first to post about Microsoft's NATAL project, but who cares? The fact is, I literally lack the words to express how deep I am impressed by this new gaming technology. I have no idea if/when this product will come to the shops, but it's hard to believe that Microsoft will have any more competitors in the game industry after its launch. Announced during Microsoft's annual E3 press conference, Project Natal is the point of arrival of several years of r&d by an Israeli start-up called 3DV Systems, which Microsoft recently acquired. Microsoft Xbox Senior Vice President Don Mattrick did state that Project Natal would be compatible with every Xbox 360, but the cost is top secret.. The technology (see video below), allows users contolli... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2511517 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:25:00 +0100 2511517 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469654&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F06%2F10%2Ffrontiers-of-interaction-v.html     Last Monday I attended Frontiers of Interaction V, where I gave a talk on Participative Ecology. The conference took place in Rome, at the wonderful Acquario Romano, Casa dell'Architettura.   I was really excited to be there, because I consider Frontiers the most interesting interaction design event in Italy.   Frontiers is organized and produced by Leandro Agrò and Matteo Penzo, who are also the founders of the Idearium community, the largest e-community on Interaction Design in Italy.   The format of the conference is very informal and fresh. You can meet people of all sorts, from academic researchers to superstars of interaction design, from anthropologists to futurists and young entrepreneurs, a mix of creativity and talent.   At... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469654 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:55:00 +0100 2469654 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452786&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FTfLJdRcLFhs%2F When implementing an EMR you are very likely to also implement an EMR interface. The most common type of EMR interface is with your lab, but you might also have an interface with radiology, pharmacy, vital machines, ekg machines, spirometry machines, etc. The fact is that you are very likely to run into an interface in the process of implementing an EHR. Interfaces with your EMR software are your very best friends, but also can be incredibly frustrating. Sounds a lot like my children. Here’s a short list of ways that EMR interfaces are like kids: Some people just know they want one, but others debate getting one all together. In the end, most people end up with one. They often will cost to implement and also cost (time if nothing else) to maintain. A lot of time is spent at the begi... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452786 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:40:14 +0100 2452786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2314654&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F04%2F06%2Fviolet-mirror.html The company Violet (best known for the Nabaztag) has invented the "Violet Mirror", a RFID chip reader that can be connected to the PC. The RFID can be attached to any object and scripted to trigger applications and multimedia content automatically or communicate over the Internet. This is a usage scenario described in the product's website: "8:40 am – you’re getting ready to leave home. On your desk, next to your computer, a halo of light is quietly pulsating. You swiftly flash your car keys at this mysterious device. A voice speaks out: "today, rain 14°C". The voice continues: "you will get there in 15 minutes". Your computer screen displays an image from the webcam located along the route you’re planning to travel, while the voice reads out your horoscope for the day. At the same ... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2314654 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:11:00 +0100 2314654 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2240775&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F03%2F05%2Fvirtual-cocoon-the-ultimate-vr-device-for-psychotherapy.html Scientists from the Universities of York and Warwick have developed the first Virtual Reality system that allows users to see, hear, smell taste and even touch. The prototype will be presented at Pioneers 09', an EPSRC showcase event to be held at London's Olympia Conference Centre on March 4 If the prototype can really do what it promises, it can have widespread applications in education, business, medical visualization and cybertherapy. Credit: Image courtesy of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council   (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2240775 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:35:00 +0100 2240775 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2228388&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=38130&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tempdev.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D620 TempDev has been a leader in EHR interoperability for years, through our relationships with Midmark and McKesson and our implementation of interfaces between EHRs and labs, radiology, hospitals, devices, registries, PHRs, and practice management systems. As EHRs become more established and the “meaningful use” provision of the HITECH stimulus begins to take effect, there is an increasing interest in providing fully connected health records. As a result, we recently branded our interoperability line “TempDev Connects”. We often find that while the concept of interoperability is attractive to virtually everyone in the healthcare industry, its difficult for non-technical staff to conceptualize how interoperability works. To help, we created the diagram on the left. In ... Implementing EMRs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2228388 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:19:28 +0100 2228388 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2097776&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2Fxcnq9-HcJ8c%2F If you’ve been reading my blog, then you know that I’ve started a pretty interesting and complicated discussion about EHR and EMR sharing of patient data. I first posted an example of sharing data with an EHR and then followed it up with some challenges associated with sharing of EHR data. In my interoperability challenges post, Bjorn from Health Xcel posted a lengthy comment discussing some challenges of data sharing and made the case for RHIO (Regional Health Information Organizations) and HIE (Health Information Exchanges) as a means for sharing patient data between hospitals and doctors offices. His comment was so well done that I’m copying it below for more people to see and read it. I don’t personally agree with everything that was said. I also think he didn&#... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2097776 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:10:40 +0100 2097776 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2086805&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F01%2F06%2Fehr-data-sharing-example%2F In my recent post about hosted EHR versus client server EHR Dr. Rowley commented on the various scenarios that could occur for sharing a patient record. The comment was so worthwhile that I wanted to make it it’s own blog post and add a few comments of my own. Here’s Dr. Rowley’s comments on data sharing scenarios with various EHR: Whether you are an enthusiast of free, hosted, web-based EMRs, or an enthusiast of local client/server installations (or a wait-and-see skeptic), the question of data sharing is one that is important to us all. Maybe the discussion can be best moved forward by considering a real-life scenario and examining how data sharing can occur in different situations. Let’s say that I am the Family Practitioner taking care of Mr. Chest-Hurts, who just w... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2086805 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:20:05 +0100 2086805 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1980599&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F11%2F22%2Fminority-report-interface-g-speak.html this gestural-controlled display by G-Speak is the closest to Minority Report I have seen so far. The system consists of a DLP projector and is equipped with special gloves that incorporate reflective markers take a look at this impressive video (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1980599 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:22:00 +0100 1980599 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1925657&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=38130&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tempdev.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D291 I’ve implemented quite a few lab interfaces with NextGen including local hospitals, Quest, & LabCorp. Many of the groups I’ve worked with are large and want interfaces with multiple labs. I even gave a talk about it at last year’s NextGen User Group Meeting. One would think that once you’ve implemented one lab, the rest are much easier. Other than understanding the process, you still have to go through the entire interface integration again. Why? All lab vendors have their own unique identifier for lab tests. You will have to create a map for all of the labs you want to map on the template, to the codes the lab vendors give you. Not all lab tests are called the same thing between different lab vendors. Ask at Order Entry (AOE) questions can be different between... Implementing EMRs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1925657 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:56:04 +0100 1925657 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1901384&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F10%2F22%2Felectronic-sleep-mask-for-worry-free-train-naps.html From Pink Tentacle       Artist Pyocotan has developed “Noriko-san,” a sleep mask with an electronic scrolling display that communicates the wearer’s destination to fellow passengers.     (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1901384 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:29:58 +0100 1901384 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220083&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2008%2Ftrends-in-brain-machine-interfaces%2F Brain machine interfaces (BMIs) is a field that holds out the hope of allowing severely paralyzed people to communicate with the world, move their limbs, and even walk. Of course, making that happen is far from simple. Nevertheless, researchers are working to develop solutions to the many practical problems that have prevented the idea from [...] (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220083 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:07:13 +0100 4220083 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1469547&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2008%2F05%2F26%2Fhhs-secretary-mike-leavitt-blogs-about-ehr-adoption%2F Today I came across the HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt’s blog. To be honest, I saw Mike Leavitt’s picture on the blog and I felt like I was meeting an old friend. No, I don’t really know Mike Leavitt from the next person on the street. We have never met before and the closest I’ve been to him is probably when I watched him pass by in numerous 24th of July parades in Utah. However, he was the governor of Utah for many of the years I lived in Utah and so I feel like I kind of know the man. Reminiscing aside, I find Mike Leavitt’s blog completely captivating. He currently has been writing about his trip to China. For some reason I’ve always had an inner itch whenever I heard about China. I don’t know what it is, but I find the place completely fascinating... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1469547 Tue, 27 May 2008 07:20:28 +0100 1469547 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220109&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2008%2Fuse-of-deep-brain-stimulation-widens%2F Treatment’s promise moves beyond movement disorders By Tom Valeo Posted in The DANA Foundation’s BRAINWORK Vol. 18, No. 3 | May – June 2008 Electrically stimulating the hypothalamus of a morbidly obese man failed to curb his appetite, but jogged his memory instead, and that has pushed researchers to study whether the technique may hold [...] (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220109 Mon, 26 May 2008 19:00:33 +0100 4220109 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1454241&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2008%2F05%2F19%2Fgoogle-health-beta-live-what-does-this-mean-for-ehr%2F I’ve been following the Google Health announcements for quite a while now and today Google Health finally went live. It’s been a long time coming and so it will be interesting to finally take a look under the hood. I haven’t personally had enough time to do a full analysis of Google Health myself, but techcrunch posted the announcement live and an initial review. I think that techcrunch summed up a major part of Google Health and its meaning for EHR software in the following: Google is planning to open up APIs to Google health to make it easy for other partners to tap into its health platform. And make no mistake about it. That is what this is: a platform. Health apps anyone? Sure does make for some interesting thinking about how an EMR or EHR could integrate with Google ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1454241 Tue, 20 May 2008 07:06:36 +0100 1454241 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1449232&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Fadministrator%2F2008%2F05%2F16%2Felectronically-signed-lab-results-in-your-emr%2F My guess is that many of you are using an HL7 interface between your EMR and your lab. How does your EMR handle the signing of lab results? We worked for an entire year testing, making requests, testing, more requests and more testing before we were able to launch an interface between our lab and EMR, but it’s been one of the best things we’ve done. The reason it took so long is the topic of another post, but it was for good reason. One of the best advantages to a lab interface with your EMR is that you don’t have to worry about what to do with all those paper labs that you’ve signed. Inevitably all those signed paper labs will have to be scanned and attached to a patient in your EMR. Really, that’s why a lab interface is so much better. The interface inserts ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1449232 Fri, 16 May 2008 15:52:18 +0100 1449232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1396182&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F04%2F24%2Fhuman-area-network-han-technology.html Via Pink Tentacle   A new product by NTT, called “Firmo,” allows users to communicate with electronic devices by touching them. A card-sized transmitter carried in the user’s pocket transmits data across the surface of the human body. When the user touches a device, the electric field is converted back into a data signal that can be read by the device. For now, a set of 5 card-sized transmitters and 1 receiver goes for around 800,000 yen ($8,000), but NTT expects the price to come down when they begin mass production. Read more (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1396182 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:12:17 +0100 1396182 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1303207&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F03%2F14%2Fnerve-tapping-neckband-used-in-telepathic-chat.html From NewScientist  A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a "voiceless" phone call for the first time. With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice.     (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1303207 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:31:14 +0100 1303207 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1289739&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F03%2F09%2Fcyber-goggles-high-tech-memory-aid.html From Pink Tentacle   Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a smart video goggle system that should records everything the wearer looks at, recognizes and assigns names to objects that appear in the video, and creates an easily searchable database of the recorded footage.   read more    (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1289739 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:56:54 +0100 1289739 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1253228&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35066&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurodudes.com%2F2008%2F02%2F24%2Femotiv-gaming-headset%2F We’ve certainly come a long way. (And I never knew about the neat engineering trick behind that thing.) It’s hard to judge the merits of this particular interface but I’m sure this is just the first of many such devices that we’re about to see (demo starts 2:00): This is an Emotiv headset. More than the gaming application, I like the idea of using it for IM emoticons. Anyone know if the consumer version will require gel for the scalp electrodes? Hmmm… if gamers are the target audience, I think I have a good idea for a cross-promotional opportunity here. (Source: neurodudes) neurodudes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1253228 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:07:40 +0100 1253228 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1174825&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Fadministrator%2F2008%2F01%2F23%2Fgoogle-health-beta-page-is-up%2F Today I saw an article on TechCrunch that talked about how Google Blogscoped found a Google Health login page for the hopefully soon to be released Google Health. Of course, there isn’t really anything all that special about the login page. It looks just like almost all the other Google login pages. However, the Google Health page did include the following information: With Google Health, you can: * Build online health profiles that belong to you * Download medical records from doctors and pharmacies * Get personalized health guidance and relevant news * Find qualified doctors and connect to time-saving services * Share selected information with family or caregivers Too bad none of the other links work, but it does give some interesting information about what Google Health ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1174825 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:58:27 +0100 1174825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1159580&cid=t_91749_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F218638785%2Fcomputers_that_read_your_thoug.html There's a bit of a battle going on at the moment for Microsoft’s growing mastery over human brainwaves … and you’ll want to follow its progress. It’s really focused on brain-computer interfaces, and it could compromise your privacy far sooner than you think. The idea is to create innovative interfaces …that can key on users' minds rather than a keyboard or touch screen, Microsoft hopes to one-up its peers in the future.The idea is to tap into a computer user’s brain signals ... in ways that sort and categorize mental images – without the user knowing it.Some people are concerned this research may lead to an invasion of privacy … as researchers appear to step closer to the dangerous zones of mind reading. What do you think... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1159580 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:33:04 +0100 1159580 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1014956&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35066&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurodudes.com%2F2007%2F10%2F27%2Feegmeg-neuroimaging-technical-report-eloreta%2F Pascual-Marqui has posted a preprint and would like comments. Read on for details. A technical report with some results in the field of EEG/MEG-neuroimaging (including eLORETA) can be downloaded from: http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3341 Title and abstract are included below. I hope by mid-November-2007 to have the software available (free, academic, public domain, as usual). Feedback would be greatly appreciated! Cordially, Roberto – R.D. Pascual-Marqui The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research University Hospital of Psychiatry pascualm at key.uzh.ch www.keyinst.uzh.ch/loreta —————————————————– Discrete, 3D distributed, linear imaging methods of electric neuronal activity. Part... neurodudes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1014956 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:19:49 +0100 1014956 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1002766&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F11%2F04%2Ftactile-video-displays.html Via Medgadget Researchers at National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a tactile graphic display to help visually impaired people to perceive images. From the NIST press release ELIA Life Technology Inc. of New York, N.Y., licensed for commercialization both the tactile graphic display device and fingertip graphic reader developed by NIST researchers. The former, first introduced as a prototype in 2002, allows a person to feel a succession of images on a reusable surface by raising some 3,600 small pins (actuator points) into a pattern that can be locked in place, read by touch and then reset to display the next graphic in line. Each image-from scanned illustrations, Web pages, electronic books or other sources-is sent electronically to the reader where special software... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1002766 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:40:00 +0100 1002766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=978896&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F174930121%2F …should have one of these. This nifty tool from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center makes it extra easy to search PubMed for articles by authors affiliated with the institution. You received this this post because you’re subscribed to davidrothman.net. Thanks! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=978896 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:37:23 +0100 978896 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=947276&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F10%2F12%2Fthe-hands-on-computer.html   Perceptive Pixel’s Interactive Media Wall (aka the Multi-Touch wall) got the 2007 Breakthrough Award, the annual prize assigned by the journal Popular Mechanics to "cutting-edge projects and ideas leading to a better world". The Minority Report interface supports diverse functions, such as navigate, locate, and manipulate information, all handled through multi-touch gesturing.   Video    (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=947276 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:10:00 +0100 947276 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=904533&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35066&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurodudes.com%2F2007%2F09%2F25%2Feeg-for-your-nintendo-wii%2F Emotiv is a company trying to do a neuro (EEG) interface to game platforms. Emotiv Home Seems ambitious. Do EEG interfaces have a fast enough information transfer rate (bits/sec) for gaming? Maybe it’s not necessary if the game is just detecting your “mood” in conjunction with a standard keypad controller but seems to me you’d want to try and boost bit rates (as several EEG groups, like this one at Fraunhofer, are doing) as much as possible. Anyone used this device? (Source: neurodudes) neurodudes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=904533 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:36:29 +0100 904533 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=852496&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F09%2F08%2F3d-motion-capture-using-a-webcam.html Via Israeli21c      The Israeli company Extreme Reality has developed a technology that allows a user's three-dimensional body movements to be translated onto the computer in real time. For example, when the user runs, so does the animated character in the game. This is the first time anyone has managed to translate the movement of a person into a three-dimension space using only software and a single camera.    read the full article      (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=852496 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:46:52 +0100 852496 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=841569&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F152454585%2F I think it was a little over a year ago that I gave up on the idea of building my own portal for medical information RSS feeds because I had started chatting with Frankie Dolan (of MedWorm and LibWorm fame) and suggesting ideas to her instead. I still get most of my medical RSS feeds from MedWorm, but I’m enjoying seeing how others are building medical RSS portals. Today I’m looking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ebling Library for Health Sciences RSS E-Journal Feeds by Subject and at the Harvey-Semester JournalBot. I learned that UW-M libraries were up to good RSS-ish things from Ratcatcher’s post the other day that contained an abstract of an upcoming paper: Developing and Marketing an RSS Journal Service for your Library Authors: Erika L. Sevetson, MS, Christop... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841569 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:59:26 +0100 841569 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=838600&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F151910571%2F Erin McKean’s TED Talk on dictionaries is wonderful. She’s brilliant and funny and she expanded my vocabulary. Watch and enjoy. More about McKean here and here. Also be sure to check out McKean’s blog, Dictionary Evangelist. You received this this post because you’re subscribed to davidrothman.net. Thanks! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=838600 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:42:28 +0100 838600 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=835116&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F150623437%2F Dangit! I finished writing this post last night, but hadn’t posted it yet. Since Berci has beat me to it, I’ll go ahead and post it now. ————– Curehunter.com has a “visual medical dictionary” that I’m having lots of fun playing with, even though I’m not sure that it is best described as a “dictionary.” Really, it’s a nifty third-party PubMed/MEDLNE tool to visually browse MeSH (as an alternative to the NLM’s MeSH browser). As shown in the screen capture below, it gives the MeSH scope note for “colitis, ulcereative” as the definition for “ulcerative colitis.” Then it grabs related terms from the MeSH Tree Structures and counts the number of citation hits for each: Lastly, it g... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=835116 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:47:48 +0100 835116 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220232&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2007%2Flinear-and-non-linear-methods-for-brain-computer-interfaces%2F This paper includes examples applying EEG data sets to linear and non-linear methods. Also an overview of the various pros and cons of each approach is summarised. The paper follows a formal debate that was held on the pros and cons of linear and non-linear methods in Brain Computer Interface research, at the Second International [...] (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220232 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:15:05 +0100 4220232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=776079&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F08%2F03%2Fmixed-feelings.html From Wired 15.04: See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses — and build a few new ones Read the full article here    (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=776079 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:01:52 +0100 776079 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=764970&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F07%2F29%2Flomak-light-operated-mouse-and-keyboard-gets-2007-idea-gold.html Via Medgadget Lomak International Limited was awarded the Gold Prize in the Computer Equipment category in IDSA's 2007 Awards. Company explains its technology: Lomak (light operated mouse and keyboard) is designed for people that have difficulty with, or are unable to use, a standard computer keyboard and mouse. A hand or head pointer controls a beam of light that highlights then confirms the key or mouse functions on the keyboard. By confirming each key, only the correct selection is entered, which reduces errors and increases input speed. In addition to speed and accuracy, Lomak offers a number of advantages over other access methods including;   versatility and ease of use and training (people can be up and running with it almost immediately) it requires no calibration and can oper... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=764970 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:49:21 +0100 764970 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=743246&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F135123172%2F David reviewed GoPubMed in March, but it has already changed so much that it bears revisiting. GoPubMed uses Gene Ontology (GO) and MeSH (when David posted, it was MeshPubMed) to search PubMed. You really should click over and check it out. The design is deceptively simple, lovely and easy to use. There’s not enough room for everything, so here are the highlights: Hot Topics option: Displays visual representations of how many articles with your concept have been published, top authors and journals, and provides a graphic of countries in which the research is being done. Notably, a disclaimer is posted that states quantity is not the same as quality. GoPubMed option: Lists citations clearly, beautifully. Your search term (and impressively, the main topics of the article) are unobtrusive... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=743246 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:45:01 +0100 743246 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=740352&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F134744033%2F I was going to review Twease today, but I realized that David already did a great job with it, and that one of its creators, Fabien Campagne, left additional notes in the comments section that make for a complete review of what it does and how it works. What neither of them touched on, though, was how beautifully designed it is. Go take a look. Meant as a compliment, I’d call it the “targetization” of Medline! Also, I think it has one of the most straight forward, easy to use and understand tutorials I’ve seen. And while I’m on tutorials I’d recommend, check out this Ovid Medline one from Duke. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=740352 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:17:02 +0100 740352 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=740353&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F134724748%2F Earlier I was thinking about which third-party PubMed tool to review, when I noticed that something didn’t seem right. Then it hit me: I’m not being specific. I’ve been using the terms PubMed and Medline interchangeably, when that is incorrect. MEDLINE is the largest component of PubMed…snip…In addition to MEDLINE citations, PubMed also contains: In-process citations which provide a record for an article before it is indexed with MeSH and added to MEDLINE or converted to out-of-scope status. Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing (when supplied electronically by the publisher). Some OLDMEDLINE citations that have not yet been updated with current vocabulary and converted to MEDLINE status. Citations to articles that are out-of-sco... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=740353 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:50:04 +0100 740353 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=737422&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F134370207%2F So, today I tried out Medie. I’d said I’d write about it as a third party Medline tool. I can’t. At least not as a hospital librarian. I was going to try to give it a pat on its back and insincerely flash it half a smile so it wouldn’t feel too badly about itself. Instead, I’ll tell you what I really think of it. The first problem I noticed was that it doesn’t use MeSH (and therefore you can’t focus or use subheadings), so you’re losing massive precision right away. The other biggie I couldn’t get past was that it lists by PMID number, not title and author. Sounds like I hate it, right? Not at all. Once I learned more about it and understood what it does, I was blown away. As per David’s original post, it is a semantic search engine. The first time I learned of semant... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=737422 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:05:42 +0100 737422 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=737501&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F07%2F17%2Fgesture-control-for-regular-tv.html Australian engineers Prashan Premaratne and Quang Nguye have designed a novel gesture-control for regular TV. The controller's built-in camera can recognise seven simple hand gestures and work with up to eight different gadgets around the home. According to designers: “Crucially for anyone with small children, pets or gesticulating family members, the software can distinguish between real commands and unintentional gestures“.  Premaratne and Nguye predict the system availability on the market within three year. (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=737501 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:13:38 +0100 737501 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=737502&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F07%2F16%2Fdelicate-boundaries.html Re-blogged from We Make Money Not Art   Delicate Boundaries, a work by Chris Sugrue, uses human touch to dissolve the barrier of the computer screen. Using the body as a means of exchange, the system explores the subtle boundaries that exist between foreign systems and what it might mean to cross them. Lifelike digital animations swarm out of their virtual confinement onto the skin of a hand or arm when it makes contact with a computer screen creating an imaginative world where our bodies are a landscape for digital life to explore. Video. (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=737502 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:03:16 +0100 737502 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=734453&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F07%2F14%2Fthe-eyesweb-project.html Via Networked Performance   From InfoMus Lab: Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale’s, Genova, Italy The EyesWeb Project - The EyesWeb research project aims at exploring and developing models of interaction by extending music language toward gesture and visual languages, with a particular focus on the understanding of affect and expressive content in gesture. For example, in EyesWeb we aim at developing methods able to distinguish the different expressive content from two instances of the same movement pattern, e.g., two performances of the same dance fragment. Our research addresses the fields of KANSEI Information Processing and of analysis and synthesis of expressiveness in movement. More. The EyesWeb open platform (free download) has been originally conceived for supporting resear... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=734453 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:15:02 +0100 734453 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220242&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2007%2Fbrain%25e2%2580%2593computer-interface-technology-a-review-of-the-first-international-meeting%2F This article summarizes the first international [...] (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220242 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:23:27 +0100 4220242 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=717975&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F07%2F06%2Ftangible-3d-display1.html Via NewScientist Japanese NTT has unveiled a system that makes three dimensional images solid enough to grasp. The device creates the illusion of depth perception and provides haptic feedback I believe that among its potential applications, this technology could be effectively used in the rehabilitation of the upper limb following stroke     (Image: NTT)   From NewScientist NTT engineer Shiro Ozawa, who developed the system, envisages various applications. "You would be able to take the hand, or gently pat the head, of your beloved grandchild who lives far away from you," he says. Anthony Steed, who works with haptic systems at University College London, UK, says the real-time image capture made possible by the Tangible 3D system is especially interesting. His own research... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=717975 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:30:52 +0100 717975 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=692966&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F127505424%2F Provided by the Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries, Dartmouth College and the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine, the EBM Page Generator looks like a wonderful tool to help a medical library create an EBM page on its intranet, even without extensive Web development skills. Welcome to the EBM Page Generator! Let us help you create your own EBM web page with your resources for your website. Once you’ve gone through the process, you’ll end up with the code to export to your own web site. In five simple steps, your library can select the resources it has available and wishes to include, plug in the appropriate URLs, then copy and paste the code it generates into the appropriate intranet page. Click here for an example of the kind of page you can make with this tool. This... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=692966 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:42:21 +0100 692966 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=682444&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F06%2F19%2Fprometeus-the-media-revolution.html a thought-provoking video about the media revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8ZadKgdC0  (Source: Positive Technology Journal) Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=682444 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:00:00 +0100 682444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220258&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2007%2Fa-survey-of-signal-processing-algorithms-in-brain%25e2%2580%2593computer-interfaces-based-on-electrical-brain-signals%2F “Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) aim at providing a non-muscular channel for sending commands to the external world using the electroencephalographic activity or other electrophysiological measures of the brain function. An essential factor in the successful operation of BCI systems is the methods used to process the brain signals.” In the BCI literature, however, there is no [...] (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220258 Fri, 25 May 2007 06:29:22 +0100 4220258 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220259&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2007%2Fa-review-of-classification-algorithms-for-eeg-based-brain%25e2%2580%2593computer-interfaces%2F The authors review classification algorithms used to design brain–computer interface (BCI) systems based on electroencephalography (EEG). The authors briefly present the commonly employed algorithms and describe their critical properties. Based on the literature, they compare them in terms of performance and provide guidelines to choose the suitable classification algorithm(s) for a specific BCI. You may [...] (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220259 Fri, 25 May 2007 06:22:48 +0100 4220259 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=636590&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F119084508%2F Created at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine (Weill Medical College of Cornell University) by Matthew J. Wood, Kevin C. Dorff and Fabien Campagne, Twease is a… ..web-based tool to search Medline at the abstract level (available from http://twease.org). Twease indexes each word of Medline and provides features that can transparently expand your search to help find the information you are looking for. Twease searches are also partially case sensitive. Short terms are case sensitive, while longer terms are not. For instance, TnT is different from TNT (TnT often stands for Troponin T while TNT often stands for trinitrotoluene). For more details on Twease’s case sensitivity, see the Case Sensitive Searches tutorial page. Finally, Twease can automatically discover common ... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=636590 Wed, 23 May 2007 19:25:36 +0100 636590 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=586967&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F05%2F02%2Fthe-aesthetic-interface.html From Networked Performance       The Aesthetic Interface :: 9-13 May 2007 :: Aarhus University, Denmark.   The interface is the primary cultural form of the digital age. Here the invisible technological dimensions of the computer are given form in order to meet human perception and agency. This encounter is enacted through aesthetic forms stemming not only from the functional domains and tools, but increasingly also from aesthetic traditions, the old media and from the new media aesthetics. This interplay takes place both in software interfaces, where aesthetic and cultural perspectives are gaining ground, in the digital arts and in our general technological culture - keywords range from experience oriented design and creative software to software studies, software art,... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=586967 Wed, 02 May 2007 21:44:21 +0100 586967 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=586160&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F113400939%2F eTBLAST: a web server to identify expert reviewers, appropriate journals and similar publications. Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Apr 22 Errami M, Wren JD, Hicks JM, Garner HR. PMID: 17452348 PubMed Citation Free full text: | HTML | PDF | Try eTBLAST Other posts about third-party PubMed tools: CILIP HLG Newsletter on Third-Party PubMed Tools Ali Baba (3rd Party PubMed tool) FABLE (3rd Party PubMed Tool) Managing Medical Literature on a Mac: iPapers, Papers, Sente, BibDesk Notes on ReleMed MeshPubMed.org PubMed Gold PubMed Reader For MedLibs who use Macs: iPapers PubMed2Connotea / PubMed2CiteULike More notes on BioWizard (Digg for Medical Literature, Part 3.5) More Alternate PubMed interfaces via Journalology BioWizard Enhancements: ‘Digg for Medical Literature’ Part III (Edited) Authorator... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=586160 Tue, 01 May 2007 18:02:31 +0100 586160 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=581559&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F113310627%2F MEDgle has been getting a lot of attention lately (Dean Giustini brought it up in a post to Medlib-L yesterday while the post you’re reading now was only half-finished), but it’s model isn’t really new. There are actually a good handful of tools with which one can search by symptom. There are of course questions of efficacy and accuracy- and I know many clinicians loathe to hear patients attempt to self-diagnose…but we’ll put those matters aside for today and do a brief rundown of the tools of this type. MEDgle starts the user out by entering any number of symptoms and the symptoms’ duration as well as the user’s sex, age range, and whether the user is a smoker of overweight, then having the user narrow the search by selecting body parts or sympto... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=581559 Tue, 01 May 2007 13:17:44 +0100 581559 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=571748&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F112110283%2F I often stumble across good and useful things by accident. Case in point: While using Google to look for a document I had misplaced, a typo caused me to stumble across an article from the March 2007 issue of the CILIP Health Libraries Group Newsletter titled “Internet Sites of Interest,” featuring short descriptions of a number if third-party PubMed tools. I recognized the name of the author, Keith Nockels, because I have subscribed to his blog’s feed since I first discovered it through the Masterlist of MedLib Blogs. I recently wrote a similar item for publication, but selected a completely different set of tools to focus on- so it was loads of fun to see which ones Keith decided to feature. (Mark Rabnett recently wrote a similar piece. Again, there is very little over... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=571748 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:35:35 +0100 571748 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=522932&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35066&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurodudes.com%2F2007%2F04%2F05%2Fmore-halorhodopsin%2F This week’s Nature has quite a few additional halorhodopsin articles for photochannel fans. Halorhodopsin article from Deisseroth’s lab: Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry [News & Views] Also, there is an intriguing article on both the general excitement in the neuroscience community with this new technology and a possible intellectual property dispute over it. (Source: neurodudes) neurodudes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=522932 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:48:47 +0100 522932 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=515473&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F04%2F01%2Fbrain-controlled-devices-and-games.html Via pasta & vinegar  An article in The Economist about brain-controlled devices and games. From the article: At the moment, EEG's uses are mostly medical. Though the output of the electrodes is a set of crude brain waves, enough is now known about the healthy patterns of these waves for changes in them to be used to diagnose unhealthy abnormalities. Yet, because parts of a person's grey matter exhibit increased electric activity when they respond to stimuli or prepare for movements, there has always been the lingering hope that EEG might also manifest someone's thoughts in a machine-readable form that could be used for everyday purposes. To realise that hope means solving two problems—one of hardware and one of software. The hardware problem is that existing EEG requires a helme... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=515473 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:53:27 +0100 515473 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=511675&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F105358511%2F Ali Baba is pretty neat. Ali Baba parses PubMed abstracts for biological objects and their relations as discussed in the texts. Ali Baba visualizes the resulting network in graphical form, thus presenting a quick overview over all information contained in the abstracts. Perhaps the best way to explain what it does is with an example: A patient with cough is treated with codeine. He becomes unresponsive after a while — what is going on? Click for larger image The query entered in Ali Baba was “codeine intoxication”. Ali Baba shows the relationship between codeine (marked in the graph with blue frame), cough, morphine, and poisioning. Poisioning is also connected to morphine and CYP2D6. The solution thus is that codeine is bioactivated by CYP2D6 into morphine, certain pat... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=511675 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:22:46 +0100 511675 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=505799&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35066&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurodudes.com%2F2007%2F03%2F27%2Fopenvibe%2F is an open source software environment “enclosing novel and efficient techniques for Brain-Computer Interfaces, Neurofeedback and Virtual Reality”. I haven’t downloaded and run it, but it looks like it takes EEG data and renders a 3D image of activity in your brain so that you can use this for neurofeedback. Could be fun in conjunction with the build-your-own-EEG projects that we mentioned recently here. Paper: C. Arrouet, M. Congedo, J.E. Marvie, F. Lamarche, A. Lécuyer, and B. Arnaldi. Open-ViBE: a 3D Platform for Real-Time Neuroscience. Journal of Neurotherapy, Vol. 9, Num. 1, 2005 Looks they were recently looking for a postdoc to continue work on this. I dunno if that job is still open or not. (Source: neurodudes) neurodudes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=505799 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:55:03 +0100 505799 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=472495&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F101357130%2F MeshPubMed is a (new?) third-party search tool for PubMed. MeshPubMed retrieves PubMed abstracts for your keywords, detects Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in the abstracts, displays a subset of MeSH relevant to your search, and allows you to browse the ontology and display only papers containing specific MeSH terms. After performing a search, the resulting abstracts are annotated with your query keywords and MeSH terms. The abstracts are grouped using the MeSH terms, which appear in the text. You can use the MeSH hierarchy to systematically explore your search results. Note that only a subset of all terms may be relevant to your query. This subset - the hierarchy of relevant terms - is presented on the left hand side. Sorting documents to a highly organised network facilitates the fi... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=472495 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:41:10 +0100 472495 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=463567&cid=t_91749_113_f&fid=34637&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgaggio.blogspirit.com%2Farchive%2F2007%2F03%2F10%2Fconnecting-your-brain-to-the-game.html Via KurzweilAI.net               The startup company Emotiv Systems has developed a wearable EEG system that allows players to mentally interact with video games, by controlling the on-screen action. From Technology Review  Emotiv's system has three different applications. One is designed to sense facial expressions such as winks, grimaces, and smiles and transfer them, in real time, to an avatar. This could be useful in virtual-world games, such as Second Life, in which it takes a fair amount of training to learn how to express emotions and actions through a keyboard. Another application detects two emotional states, such as excitement and calm. Emotiv's chief product officer, Randy Breen, says that these unconscious cues could be used to modify a... Positive Technology Journal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=463567 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:12:01 +0100 463567 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=404145&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F88053883%2F I’ve been looking at BioWizard more. I still think it is a great idea executed well, but I’m seeing a couple of problems with its “tags”. They’re not really tags The first problem is that the word “tags” implies that the terms assigned to each article are a part of a user-created folksonomy, but this isn’t actually the case. If you look at the citation for PubMed ID 17146093, you’ll see it was indexed with these MeSH terms: If you look at the article’s tags after it has been imported into BioWizard, you’ll see that these MeSH terms have become BioWizard tags: So, calling these “tags” is a disservice both to people who know what MeSH terms are, and to users accustomed to participating in the creation of folksono... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=404145 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:54:19 +0100 404145 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=402409&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F87675834%2F There’s lots of interesting content in this latest issue of the Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries, but I’m especially intrigued by Guus van den Brekel’s article on The Changing of the User Environment (tenth PDF page, numbered page eight). I only gave it the one quick read, but that was enough to make certain I’d read it again more slowly later. Since I couldn’t fly to Norway to see Guus present the paper, I’m glad he has shared it in print. Thanks for the heads-up, Benoit! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=402409 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:00:42 +0100 402409 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=395999&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F86527244%2F Created by Michael Wesch, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=395999 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:48:54 +0100 395999 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=396007&cid=t_91749_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F84899394%2F Matt Hodgkinson, an editor with BioMed Central, points out a couple of alternative PubMed interfaces I didn’t know about on his new blog, Journalology. Among the tools Matt points out, PubReMiner looks especially interesting- but I hadn’t yet seen e-Biosci, Kfinder, or PubNet either. Journalology looks like it is going to be a blog worth reading, so I’ve just subscribed to its feed. Some previous posts on PubMed alternative interfaces and mashups BioWizard Enhancements: ‘Digg for Medical Literature’ Part III (Edited) Authoratory Some Alternative Interfaces and Mashups for MedLibs LitMiner PubFocus Article on HubMed [Thanks to Peter Suber at Open Access News for pointing out Journalology] (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=396007 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:48:27 +0100 396007 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220279&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2006%2Fneuronal-ensemble-control-of-prosthetic-devices-by-a-human-with-tetraplegia%2F “Neuromotor prostheses (NMPs) aim to replace or restore lost motor functions in paralysed humans by routeing movement-related signals from the brain, around damaged parts of the nervous system, to external effectors. To translate preclinical results from intact animals to a clinically useful NMP, movement signals must persist in cortex after spinal cord injury and be [...] (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220279 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:52:40 +0100 4220279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220280&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2006%2Fbrain-machine-interfaces%2F promise to aid paralyzed patients by re-routing movement-related signals around damaged parts of the nervous system. a web focus by Nature “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology,” announced the narrator at the start of the 1970s television series The Six Million Dollar Man. The programme showed scientists reconstructing the shattered [...] (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220280 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:18:58 +0100 4220280 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220281&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2006%2Ftowards-adaptive-classification-for-bci%2F “Non-stationarities are ubiquitous in EEG signals. They are especially apparent in the use of EEG-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs): (a) in the differences between the initial calibration measurement and the online operation of a BCI, or (b) caused by changes in the subject’s brain processes during an experiment (e.g. due to fatigue, change of task involvement, [...] (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220281 Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:54:09 +0100 4220281 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220320&cid=t_91749_122_f&fid=35070&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurobot.bio.auth.gr%2F2005%2Fbrain-computer-interfaces-for-communication-and-control%2F Invited review This paper is a review on Brain-computer interfaces for communication and control. By Jonathan R. Wolpawa(a,b)*, Niels Birbaumer(c,d), Dennis J. McFarland(a),Gert Pfurtscheller(e), Theresa M. Vaughan (a) For many years people have speculated that electroencephalographic activity or other electrophysiological measures of brain function might provide a new non-muscular channel for sending messages and commands [...] (Source: Neurobot) Neurobot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220320 Mon, 02 May 2005 20:25:09 +0100 4220320