TechTool Thursday 040
TechTool review SonoSupport by SonoSupport on iOS
Website: – iTunes - Website
SonoSupport is a comprehensive guide to all things ultrasound. If you want to read up about best ultrasound techniques or need a refresher, SonoSupport aim to provides it all for in one app
Design and User Interface
The design doesn’t set the heather alight but it is clear to read. There is so much info on each page and a lot of scrolling – it can become a bit tiresome. And switching between screens seems rather slow. It’s more like reading a textbook that looking at an app user interface. However, the images a...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 25, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Application eLearning Emergency Medicine Equipment / Technology Featured iOS Reviews TechTool SonoSupport Tech Tool Ultrasound Source Type: blogs
ACLS Training Center Offers Learning Resources and Certification
As an EMS educator who has been posting educational material online for over four years now, I’m always encouraged to see EMS training institutions moving their content online. I’d like to make you aware of one recent addition to the online E-learning offerings, ACLS Training Center. The folks over at ACLS Training Center asked me to take a look at their latest offerings and I like what I see.
They are offering BLS, ACLS and PALS certifications online for reasonable prices with immediate certification available on completion. I know that a lot of folks out there struggle with managing their shifts and making it...
Source: The EMT Spot - October 24, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: administrator Tags: Everything Else slider Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 113
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
Welcome to the 111th edition, brought to you by:
Kane Guthrie [KG] from LITFL
Tessa Davis [TRD] from LITFL and Don’t Forget The Bubbles
Brent Thoma [BT] from BoringEM, and
Chris Nickson [C...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 21, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
The Medical Futurist: Weekly Introduction
As a medical futurist, I work on bringing disruptive technologies to medicine & healthcare; assisting medical professionals and students in using these in an efficient and secure way; and educating e-patients about how to become equal partners with their caregivers.
I publish a daily newsletter about the future of medicine, and share related news almost every hour on Twitter. Scienceroll.com is updated on a regular basis about the future of healthcare with an emphasis on social media.
I’m the author of Social Media in Clinical Practice handbook; and the founder of Webicina.com, a service that curates me...
Source: ScienceRoll - October 20, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: Medicine Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 039
TechTool review Epocrates Bugs + Drugs by Epocrates on iOS
Website: – iTunes - Website
Bugs + Drugs uses cloud-based information on bugs and their sensitivities. Epocrates has joined up with athenahealth to create this app. athenahealth provides data from its electronic health records (it has 15 million patients) and that information is geo-analysed and presented to you by Epocrates.
Essentially you can view geographically-targeted information about the bugs and sensitivities that are prevalent.
The aim is to help you decide on the best antibiotic treatment for your patient, while waiting for the cul...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 17, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured athenahealth epocrates iOs iphone Reviews Tech Tool TechTool Source Type: blogs
Factors that Influence Healthcare Information Technology Adoption – Breakaway Thinking
The following is a guest blog post by Laura Speek, learning and development specialist at The Breakaway Group, a Xerox company. Check out all of the blog posts in the Breakaway Thinking series.
Healthcare organizations of nearly every variety are heavily involved in analyzing a smorgasbord of choices in electronic health record (EHR) technology. While some care providers still face the challenge of transitioning from paper to digital records, others are already moving to next-generation electronic systems.
Clearly, the cornerstone benefit of EHRs is improved patient care. However, that objective is best achieved when heal...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 16, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Implementation HealthCare IT Breakaway Thinking Engaged Leadership Healthcare IT Adoption Laura Speek The Breakaway Group Xerox Xerox Healthcare Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 112
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
Welcome to the 111th edition, brought to you by:
Kane Guthrie [KG] from LITFL
Tessa Davis [TRD] from LITFL and Don’t Forget The Bubbles
Brent Thoma [BT] from BoringEM, and
Chris Nickson [C...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 14, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
HHS Issues 2014-2018 Draft Strategic Plan
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published its draft of the Fiscal Year 2014-2018 Strategic plan. Every 4 years, HHS updates its strategic plan, which describes its work to address complex, multifaceted, and ever-evolving health and human service issues, including:
Health Care
Research and Innovation
Prevention and Wellness
An agency strategic plan is one of three main elements required by the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 (P.L. 103-62) and the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-352). An agency strategic plan defines its mission, goals, and t...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 14, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
The Use of Thrombolysis as a Treatment for Acute Stroke
Conclusion
Left deliberately blank.
..it is now up to you – the medical and the non-medical public to make up your mind…
The References
Intravenous desmoteplase in patients with acute ischaemic stroke selected by MRI perfusion-diffusion weighted imaging or perfusion CT (DIAS-2): a prospective, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Lancet Neurology 2009 Feb.;8(2):141–150. PMCID 2730486
Effects of alteplase beyond 3 h after stroke in the Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolytic Evaluation Trial (EPITHET): a placebo-controlled randomised trial. Lancet Neurology 2008 Apr.;7(4):299–309.PMID 18296121
Random...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 7, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Michelle Johnston Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured IST-3 lysis Prof Daniel Fatovich Prof Simon Brown stroke Source Type: blogs
JellyBean 011
Half of the Intensive Care Network.
All of @NeuroICU
Some large proportion of Bedside Critical care and SMACC
Oli is a very FOAMy man
Why is he so good?
Has he got a deep dark secret?
Does he use perFOAMance enhancing supplements?
Is he the real Tyler Durden?
Out with the old and in with the new at the Paul Young curated CICM ASM and some Brutalism.
The post JellyBean 011 appeared first on Life in the Fast Lane medical education blog. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 3, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education eLearning Featured Conference JellyBean NeuroICU oliver flower SMACC Source Type: blogs
Infostandards.org
Health and Social Care Information Centre -The site aims to provide a single place where all information
standards can be located, along with valuable supporting material, such
as e-learning, implementation guidance and case studies. It also
enables users of the site to become active participants in the
development of standards, by providing the means to share material, draw
on each others' experiences and engage in discussions about existing
and potential future standards.
Website
HSCIC - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 30, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 110
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
Welcome to the 109th edition, brought to you by:
Kane Guthrie [KG] from LITFL
Tessa Davis [TRD] from LITFL and Don’t Forget The Bubbles
Brent Thoma [BT] from BoringEM, and
Chris Nickson [C...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 23, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 110
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
Welcome to the 109th edition, brought to you by:
Kane Guthrie [KG] from LITFL
Tessa Davis [TRD] from LITFL and Don’t Forget The Bubbles
Brent Thoma [BT] from BoringEM, and
Chris Nickson [C...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 23, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 038
TechTool review First Responder by Ryan Kohler Apps on iOS (iPhone and iPad)
Website: – iTunes - Website
First Responder has been developed by Dr Ryan Kohler, a Sports Medicine doctor who set up Sports Concussion Australasia. The aim of the app is that it is to be used on the sports field by parents/teachers/coaches to determine the likelihood of a significant head injury. It essentially helps them assess the athlete and indicates to them whether it is safe to play on, or if medical attention should be sought
Design and User Interface
The design is simple but clear, and the app ran very smoothly for m...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 19, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Application Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured iOS Reviews TechTool first responder FirstResponder iPhone App Sports Medicine Tech Tool Source Type: blogs
