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Ni av ti vil treffe legen på nett
http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/04/20/nyheter/innenriks/helse/11361851/
Svar på blodprøver, oversikt over medisiner og innsyn i egen journal er blant de helsetjenestene som nordmenn etterspør på internett.
Det viser en undersøkelse av folks forventninger til helsetjenester på nett som Respons Analyse har utført på oppdrag fra Teknologirådet.
- Helsetjenester på nett er noe folk nå vil forvente mer av, sier Tore Tennøe i Teknologirådet til Aftenposten.
Tirsdag legger rådet fram sine anbefalinger for Stortinget, og Tennøe mener at helsevesenet må innse at internett blir stadig viktigere.
Undersøkelsen viser at det stort sett er private aktører som står bak informasjon om helse og sykdom på internett, og Teknologirådet mener derfor at det offentlige bør ta ansvar for å gi informasjon som også er tilpasset norsk lov.
- Tiden har kommet for en mer sentral regi, mener Tennøe.
1.098 personer har deltatt i undersøkelsen, og 85 prosent svarte at de ønsket mulighet til å bestille legetime på nett, 73 prosent ønsket å fornye sykmeldingen, 65 prosent å få svar på prøver, og 43 prosent ønsket mulighet til å stille spørsmål om sykdom og helse.
Roughly translated: Nine out of ten want to see their doctor online. “People expect to reach more of their own health (sickness) data on the internet.” ”The norwegian health service needs to realize that the internet is becoming increasingly important.”
-It doesn’t really change much, but it makes it more easily accessible -the future we should be living in 10 years ago.
There will not be a “uneven-distributed-future”-monolog from me.
Digest: the wall street journal
Can Technology Cure Health Care?
Digital records are supposed to reduce errors, help stem the soaring costs of health care and make it more efficient. But so far, they haven’t lived up to that billing. How can doctors and hospitals make sure that changes?
The Power of Sharing
The electronic exchange of information about patients among doctors and hospitals is still rare, but it promises to lower costs for providers and improve health care.
Avatar II: The Hospital
Doctors, nurses and students are using online community Second Life to learn how to cope with crises, boost clinical skills and make their facilities more efficient.
My Data, Your Data, Our Data
Medical researchers are often stingy about sharing data, even after they publish. An ambitious project hopes that getting scientists to share information can deepen their understanding of diseases.
(-does not only apply for scholars but for lay people too.)
Innovations in Delivering Health Care
…Innovations in health-care delivery that touch on a variety of areas—public policy and high technology, hospital procedures and market competition. But all of them in some way revisit the most important relationship in care—the one between doctor and patient.
-sorry about the long boring post (scrambling of links)
Lots on health care, little on happiness & motivation.
A hunch..
“Look. Getting good recommendations is difficult, yet most of us rely on recommendations to guide us.”
“What should I be for Halloween? Do I need a Porsche? Should I dump that loser? Is Phoenix a good place to retire? Whom should I vote for? What toe ring should I buy?
It’s a cruel world out there. Coin-flipping, I Ching consultation, closing your eyes and jumping, postponing the inevitable, Rock-Paper-Scissors, and asking your sister are all time-honored means of getting a recommendation — and yet we think there’s room for one more: Hunch.
In 10 questions or less, Hunch will offer you a great recommendation to address your choice, problem, or dilemma, on thousands of topics. Hunch’s recommendations are based on the collective knowledge of the entire Hunch community, narrowed down to people like you, or just enough like you that you might be mistaken for each other in a dark room. Hunch is designed so that every time it’s used, it learns something new. That means Hunch’s hunches are always getting better.”
The theory behind using collective knowledge for decision making
“Researchers have documented how decisions made by diverse and independent groups of people are often superior to those made by individuals – even experts. The reason is that knowledge is often spread among many people. The challenge is to identify it, collect it, and effectively use it.
Take, for example, expertise about colleges or cars. In a random, large group of people, most probably know something about a few examples (say, the college someone attended or the car they currently drive) but are not experts on the topic as a whole (as a college guidance counselor or auto executive might be). If you were able to collect and organize all the various bits of individual knowledge that the large group possesses, you’d have a pretty complete picture of the topic overall.”
So, in other words:
“Hunch is designed to soak up collective knowledge and then organize it in a useful way to offer you smart recommendations. Hunch proposes custom recommendations for you that it wouldn’t necessarily give to somebody else. But at its core, Hunch’s recommendation algorithm is just a mathematical framework. It’s the users of Hunch who give the algorithm proper training and personality by contributing to it and making it clever, funny, and nuanced…. but most of all very useful in helping everyone to get smart, efficient recommendations.
Healthy Imagination
“We’ve partnered with media sites to make it easier for you to find a snapshot of the most talked about issues in health, helping you take the first step in creating a healthier you.”
this seems like a great niche-browsing/bookmarking site. ..but what impressed me most (immediately) is the gorgeous visualization of what has been shared the most this day! Sure its blue like all health products / services are.. (Angelikis remark) -but it makes up for a rather close link to snowflakes. /pretty, polite etc.
MORSEL
“With health and wellness, a little can go a long way. With this in mind, we’ve developed Morsel, a mobile application that helps people get a little bit healthier, every day. By suggesting simple, daily tasks that anyone can do, Morsel empowers you to take control of your well-being, one step at a time. With fun, achievable goals, Morsel makes a healthier lifestyle accessible to everyone.”
inspiring about design and people
Great presentations by Black-belt Jones /Matt Jones of Dopplr and Berg.
infographics-galore
David McCandless, the man behind the blog informationisbeautiful and the book The Visual Miscellaneum had a lecture at AHO today.
Why am I blogging this? Visualizing information makes it more accessible for more people. (When done right) -It can make it easier to grasp and to see the bigger picture / “you start seeing it in a different way” -It allows for the information-ingredients you have to be assembled in a different way. By laying different data-sets on top of each other you might uncover pockets unexpected or untold opportunities.
Of course you can lie and manipulate and confuse quite elegantly with visualizations and charts, (Spaghetti /the cloud of data that might be pretty, but don’t tell you much. -also might be too much information.) -All in all that makes it important to remember 4. things to have in the back of your head when making these types of visualizations
:Interestingness, Integrity, Function & Form
Example of visualization from the blog:
Confessing to be a mega-fan / geek here, I bought the book last fall and had the 1. edition. -I swapped my 1.edition today for the 2. and got a nice little drawing in it. -numbers of errors in the 1. (98) compared to numbers of errors in the 2. edition (2) It was a brilliant little lecture, definitely amongst the top 3 in 2009/2010.
(having a almost unflawed book with a cool drawing by the author in it vs. having the 1.edition, just to say I was amongst the first was not a difficult choice.)
platforms/ingredients/conversation
The conversation prism shows the activities and the networks that make the Social Web. It offers an overview of the most common online social platforms today. By Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas.
The weekend newspaper
I normally don’t buy news papers – I read them at cafes or other places that have them lying around for their customers. (Last time I bought one was tree years ago.) However I made an exception this saturday and I bought Dagbladet. (A proud member of the colored press.) I would not post this if it were not for the one interesting interview in Magasinet, the magazine following the newspaper, -an interview with Jørgen Skavlan, “the most popular General Practitioner in Norway” that wrote an article a couple of months ago, resulting in a huge debate of the sick-leave arrangements in Norway. The article that created an avalanche of a debate over here was first posted in Aftenposten under the title “Nå tar vi oss sammen” translating to pulling our selves together.
Magasinet (/Dagbladet) saturday 6. of feb.
The interview was originally in norwegian and only parts of it have been extracted and translated for this post.
-Jørgen Skavlan talked of the paradox that though Norway has one of the worlds best health arrangements and offerings (“helse- og velferds-tilbud”) we are the ones with the highest percentage of people away from work, due to sickness or inability to work for shorter or longer periods of time. (See earlier SSB post for numbers on the matter.) He also talks of the problems of addressing this as people are likely to be offended and assume he’s saying the norwegian people are trying to exploit the system. In the interview he states that he is not talking about cancer patients, people with hart disease or reumatism or any other with a severe illness, but about the rest of us.
Jørgen Skavlan further suggest 4 fundamental things for change in health care in Norway:
- We need to change our attitude. We have to learn to take better care of our selves and each other. -We cant act as spoiled as we have become, walking around thinking that the GP’s or any other instance will fix every problem in our lives for us.
- We need a sustainable system that support for regular checkups or screenings
- We need doctors that dare to show authority without coming of with an authoritative attitude.
- We need politicians that can translate these goals into laws and regulations, and employers who engage in the matter.
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He later talks of humor and art as what keeps himself with good health and good spirit. And he talks of health relations:
“People go to gyms and gets massages, but what about the mind/soul? To receive therapy should be considered a status symbol. I’m not saying it has to be a psychologist or a psychiatrist. The best therapist can be your buddy. It can be your wife” (…)
In the last part of the interview, Skavlan admits to have been on sick-leave himself: He had to take a partial sick-leave and work only 50% at a period for 6 weeks. His body showed symptoms of something being neurologically wrong. He was confirmed healthy, but had been to busy with to many projects at once. This last part might seem a detail to some but I believe this is a very important point; that we are becoming to stressed with our “symptoms of modern life” and need to not find ourselves constantly running/being exhausted from running because we have to many things to do.
// One of the concepts that came out of the workshop last week was pockets of free time + recreational time, from the aspect of beeing in control (or semi-control) of your own time. In the visualization of this the team ended up with a playful approach to in-between-time that they called “license to thrill” a concept where you are given the opportunity to give to someone else.
Ingrid
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