The Year 2014 in Review
2014 was my first full year with HIMSS in consumer health and full of opportunity.
In January, I went to my first Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It was as massive as I heard, full of large screen TVs, many curved screens, drones, health trackers, etc. I spent most of the time at the Digital Health Summit – a well organized event including patient panels, fitness health device startups, wellness programs, and a demonstration of a exoskeleton. Got to catch up with some friends including Hugo Campos.
At the end of February, I experienced my first HIMSS conference as staff rather than member. A series of full ...
Source: eHealth - February 4, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Sharp Tags: Year in Review Books HIMSS Innovation SocialMedia Source Type: blogs
The Responsive City: Open Data
Last week I went to a presentation at the City Club of Cleveland by Susan Crawford from the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. She is the author of The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance. Just a couple of gems from her presentation:
She sees 3 layers – Fiber, Sensors and Screens. That is, a layer of fiber as the backbone of the digital city, sensors everywhere to collect data about the city and screens to visualize data in ways that are meaningful for decision makers and citizens
“Data on the walls of the city” – again, making data available everywhere to improve the li...
Source: eHealth - November 10, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized Disruptive Technology Innovation Source Type: blogs
Research ShowCASE
Case Western Reserve University has an annual research day called Research ShowCase. I was privileged to be on the Program Board, chaired by Pete Zimmerman, Ph.D. Being both a former poster presenter and an Case alumni, made the event more meaningful. The event included hundreds of posters from post-docs, graduate students, undergrads and even high school students. The event had coverage by the Plain Dealer on this past Sunday including a slide show.
Robotics was a big hit as usual, but at Case, they are now experimenting with Biologically Inspired Robotics. See the video:
Biologically Inspired Unmanned Ground Vehicles fr...
Source: eHealth - April 23, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized clinical trials Disruptive Technology research Source Type: blogs
New Publication: Chronic Kidney Disease in an Electronic Health Record Problem List
Full title is, “Chronic Kidney Disease in an Electronic Health Record Problem List: Quality of Care, ESRD, and Mortality” published in the American Journal of Nephrology. It has implications for CKD but other chronic conditions as well regarding the appropriate use of problem lists in the EMR. With CKD, diabetes and other chronic conditions which can be initially diagnosed with a lab test (eGFR for CKD), early identification is possible. But if the patient is not formally given the diagnosis in the problem list, it may lead the lack of early preventive care which can slow the progression of a chronic illness....
Source: eHealth - April 2, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized CKD EHR EMR Medical Informatics Source Type: blogs
Two Book Chapters Published
Last week I had two book chapters published.
First, a new social media book published by HIMSS titled Applying Social Media Technologies in Healthcare Environments edited by Christina Thielst, an early adopter of blogging in Health IT. My chapter is on “Social Media Hubs: Strategy and Implementation.” The book addresses a wide range of issues including legal and public health.
The second chapter is an update to Health Informatics: Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Technology Professionals now in its 6th edition. My chapter is on eResearch, reviewing how information techn...
Source: eHealth - March 4, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized AMIA Books Medical Informatics SocialMedia Source Type: blogs
Year in Review – SlideShare and Delicious
Two automated reports I came across thanks to the Twitterati.
First is SlideShare personalized year in review shows a definite peak in November after I uploaded two presentations I made in Houston on Social Media Intro and Social Media in Healthcare. My total views on SlideShare are approaching 100,000 with over 20,000 in 2013 alone. And it is not only my most recent uploads which draw the traffic, some over five years old also draw ongoing interest and have 7000 views. Slideshare has been a source of speaking invitations as well.
Delicious has a similar reporting method. The Delicious Annual Report reminds me I joined i...
Source: eHealth - January 16, 2014 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized SocialMedia Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Year in Review – SlideShare and Delicious
Two automated reports I came across thanks to the Twitterati.
First is SlideShare personalized year in review shows a definite peak in November after I uploaded two presentations I made in Houston on Social Media Intro and Social Media in Healthcare. My total views on SlideShare are approaching 100,000 with over 20,000 in 2013 alone. And it is not only my most recent uploads which draw the traffic, some over five years old also draw ongoing interest and have 7000 views. Slideshare has been a source of speaking invitations as well.
Delicious has a similar reporting method. The Delicious Annual Report reminds me I joined i...
Source: eHealth - January 16, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized SocialMedia Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
2013 Year in Review
It’s been another year of achievement and learning. It would have been difficult a year ago to predict how my professional life would change.
My first trip mixed pleasure and work. Being in Salt Lake City, I agreed to speak to the Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Science on some of my work at the Cleveland Clinic and the Cleveland Clinical and Translational Science Consortium. Bernie LaSalle made the event into a series of presentations by the University of Utah Bioinformatics team which was very informative.
Next it was off to the American Medical Informatics Association Joint Summits in San Francisco i...
Source: eHealth - December 31, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized AMIA Cloud Computing HIMSS Medical Informatics SocialMedia Source Type: blogs
Social Media in Healthcare Quality
Today I presented at the Texas Gulf Coast Association for Healthcare Quality on social media in healthcare. Slides are posted on my Slideshare. The video, Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care is below
Quality professionals in healthcare including risk management and patient safety are relatively new to social media. They have some realistic concerns about HIPAA and sharing proprietary information on safety issues. However, they are receptive to learning and sharing best practices. But where to start?
Look for LinkedIn groups, for instance, the Institute for Healthcare Quality.
Follow your own institution’...
Source: eHealth - November 1, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized Social Networking SocialMedia Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Clinical Analytics – Teaching and Learning
Recently I had a blog posted on “Teaching Clinical Informatics” on the HIMSS Clinical and Business Intelligence blog. It is a topic that has not received enough attention in HIT but it is the logical next step as more hospitals, health systems and practices implement EMRs.
Also from HIMSS, I will be speaking at a virtual event, Transforming Care by Improved Decision Making: Deriving Meaning from Big Data on September 18. My topic will be “Developing a Centralized Repository Strategy: The Top Three Critical Success Factors.’
On September 9, I will be on a panel at the Midwest Hospital Cloud Forum in ...
Source: eHealth - September 5, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized BigData Clinical Analytics Cloud Computing health care predictions Source Type: blogs
Clinical Analytics – Teaching and Learning
Recently I had a blog posted on “Teaching Clinical Informatics” on the HIMSS Clinical and Business Intelligence blog. It is a topic that has not received enough attention in HIT but it is the logical next step as more hospitals, health systems and practices implement EMRs.
Also from HIMSS, I will be speaking at a virtual event, Transforming Care by Improved Decision Making: Deriving Meaning from Big Data on September 18. My topic will be “Developing a Centralized Repository Strategy: The Top Three Critical Success Factors.’
On September 9, I will be on a panel at the Midwest Hospital Cloud Forum in ...
Source: eHealth - September 5, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized BigData Clinical Analytics Cloud Computing health care predictions Source Type: blogs
Glass in Medicine – Why There is Promise
In an interview on GlassStories, Kyle Samani gives the most cogent discussion of the pros and cons of Glass. He emphasizes that there is a cost to glass – not just financial but the fact that you have to wear them all the time while you have a fully functional smart phone in your pocket. So he sees limitations to the appeal to general consumers other than the geek coolness. However, on the enterprise side, especially in medicine, he sees real use cases. Specifically,
physicians (and other healthcare providers) need their hands to work whether it is surgery or a physical exam
physicians (and other healthcare provider...
Source: eHealth - August 19, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized #ThroughGlass Disruptive Technology Google Innovation Source Type: blogs
Glass in Medicine – Why There is Promise
In an interview on GlassStories, Kyle Samani gives the most cogent discussion of the pros and cons of Glass. He emphasizes that there is a cost to glass – not just financial but the fact that you have to wear them all the time while you have a fully functional smart phone in your pocket. So he sees limitations to the appeal to general consumers other than the geek coolness. However, on the enterprise side, especially in medicine, he sees real use cases. Specifically,
physicians (and other healthcare providers) need their hands to work whether it is surgery or a physical exam
physicians (and other healthcare provider...
Source: eHealth - August 19, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized #ThroughGlass Disruptive Technology Google Innovation Source Type: blogs
Global Center for Health Innovation
Got to visit this new new center in downtown Cleveland last Friday. Great space to demo new health IT – sponsors committed, space still being built out.
See my post on Health IT Link, a new place to follow my content.
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Source: eHealth - August 16, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized HIMSS Innovation Source Type: blogs
Update on the Internet of Things and Google Glass
Since there already is a convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable computing like Glass, I am combining updates on these.
Recently I came across Sen.se, a platform of IoT but includes data from humans as part of their open platform. They refuse the label of IoT:
“We rather believe in an Internet of Everything where Humans, Nature, Machines, Objects, Environments, Information, Physical and Virtual spaces all mix up, talk, intertwine, interact, enrich and empower each other in all sorts of ways. This is what we are building and we think that we are not alone.”
They are currently in beta and are in...
Source: eHealth - July 29, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized #ThroughGlass Disruptive Technology IoT Source Type: blogs
