Saturday, July 30, 2011

#hcfla Brain-Hacking - Tracy Ingram @tracyingram @intentiontech

Interesting final session from Tracy Ingham. Brain Hacking.

Brain Wave States: Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta.

Beta - Awake
Alpha - Relaxed
Theta, Deep relaxation
Delta - Deep Sleep.

The brain doesn't handle binaural auditory input well. It makes up the gaps to create balance.

Can we use sound to change state - hence change their mood.

The Monroe Institute's Hemi-Sync is the most popular example of this.

iBrainwave (Free)
Brainhack (99c)
i-Doser ($4.99)

Bio Electricity.

"The Matrix is Real"

Microsoft in 2009 received a patent to use Bio Electrical energy.
The same theory is used to allow our fingers to control an iPhone or iPad.
Orion Bioscan can detect cellular degeneration. (A russian device)

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#hcfla Caregiving: It is not as easy as you think - Pam Gaylor

The fascinating story of a changing role for an entire family. a two plus year journey.

Mother fell. Child to Parent. Job change to become caregiver. From a traveling job to a locally based role.

The Pits

- Becoming the advocate
- Frustration with the system
- Home Health Care Nightmare
- Becoming a nurse
- Becoming a research expert
- Support is minimal

The Rewards
- Becoming the Nurse/Research Expert
- Seeing her Mom's improvement
- Giving ALWAYS outweighs Receiving
- New Enriched Life with New Friends

Starting CareGiver's Foundation

Learnings

- Organization is key
- Find Time for You
- Go with your Gut
- Humor
- Document, Document, Document
- Persistence Pays
- Technology

Now for the discussion…..

How do you handle the changing role?
Sons and daughters have different roles because of perceptions of the parent.

Hospice is engaged when people have a 6 month life expectancy.

Technology

Internet - Google is my Friend
Continual Connection to new Technologies
Using Memory Mate

We also talked about BeClose as a monitoring tool set.

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Friday, July 29, 2011

#hcfla HealthCampFlorida.org is tomorrow 7.30.11

The co-founders are on the road to HealthCamp Florida in Tampa via /BWI and SouthWest.

We are looking forward to the walk through at facility sponsor KForce this afternoon and then meeting sponsors for dinner. It will be great to meet the Guidewelll Health team out of Jacksonville and I hear that CEO and twitter nurse of the year Matthew Browning of YourNurseIsOn.com will also be there. So Tampa on Saturday 7.30.11 I the place to be for HealthCamp Florida.

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

#mobihealthDC the audience is mainly technical

Dr. Caterina Lasome is moderating the panel

Douglas naegele - investors and innovators freaked out by regulatory issues. Matthew Holland - social has moved fast in past 24 months.

Lyndsey Hoggle to @Joshnesbit
Can we use this technology to address hunger?

Webmd is educating providers not about meaningful use but about basic issues of adoption. Use comes later. Lots of uncertainty. Douglas N - mobile offer great opportunity to deliver emr to people without PC and broadband access.

Josh Nesbit every app exists within a system

Think can it happen / will it happen

Medic mobile is in 14 countries and works closely with USAID.

Great session!

Congratulations to David Blackburn for organizing!


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#mobihealthDC Matthew holland @webmd looking at evolution of medical content and it's use

Webmd matthew Holland Benefits of platform integration

1. Seamless delivery of content
2. User experience
3. Reinforce education
4. Comprehensive measurement and reporting


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#mobihealthDC @dougnaegele talking about us mobile health #QS references

Kudos to @caroltorgan for #QS data.

Moving to auto sensors so people don't have to manually enter data.

Geopalz for kids

Embedded assessment
Wire coffee makers, pillboxes and other devices.
Senses change over time and detects degradation over time

Asthmapolis. Asthma inhaler coupled with GPS. Mapping usage with far greater accuracy. Yields better understanding of triggers.

Zeo sleep tracker collects data while you sleep.

Medtronic minilink for glucose measurement. Measures every minute

Tattoo with special ink used to measure uv light and fete one glucose levels

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#mobihealthDC @Joshneabit talking about medic mobile

More Malawi physicians in Manchester UK than in all of Malawi!

Cell phones are the obvious tool. Better coverage in Malawi than in Palo alto.

Charge cell phones from bicycles.
Using frontline SMS to manage SMS group network. Move from motorcycle data collection to SMS saved 2100 hours plus fuel.

Natural language processing with 98% accuracy for categorization.

EMRs - paper system leads to people getting lost and dying.

Crowdflower - 1m micro tasks daily. Eg message translation.

USC this in Haiti earthquake. Used crowdflower to recruit 2500 people to review and structure emergency messages.

Now running apps off sim cards. Sim apps give amazing level of penetration since gsm is ubiquitous.
Mms based diagnostics. Take photo from cell phone transmit and diagnose. Moves diagnostics from $200k machines and month long cycles down to hours or days.

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