June 2011
10 posts
PatientTouch - iPod Touch Solution for Bedside...
This is the kind of software I want to make myself as much as I want to use it in my hospital. If it feels as good in practice as it looks in this video, it would totally change the way we work — for the better. Company website here.
Why Nokia et. al. are Losing, in a Nutshell →
Horace Dediu writes:
The re-framing of the device from being a terminal to being the center of user’s focus is the “disruption” which is sweeping aside all the incumbents in the phone space. They all did what was expected of the best managers: they listened very closely to their best customers. That also leads to blindness when the industry itself is being ripped apart by disruptive forces.
MobileMe + AppleID ! = iCloud
Apple’s newly-posted info on the shift from MobileMe to iCloud raises a significant question John Gruber hinted at today: If MobileMe accounts cannot be merged with AppleIDs, how will users whose MobileMe and AppleID accounts are separate be able to migrate to iCloud and keep both their synced data and their purchases?
Given the choice between manually recreating my MobileMe information or...
Peanuts Wallpapers
I’ve made a set of wallpapers based on the Peanuts characters. The inspiration came from Louis Mantia’s great wallpapers, and from his video tutorial on how he made one based on “The Shining” by Stanley Kubrick.
27-inch iMac (2560 by 1440): http://cl.ly/7no4
24-inch iMac: 1920 by 1080: http://cl.ly/7oJg
iPad (1024 by 1024): http://cl.ly/7oFi
iPhone (960 by 480):...
Voalté's Project Manager on Getting Nurses... →
The concept is quite simple. Why buy tools for others to use without their involvement? It’s like having someone else buy you shoes without asking you what size you wear and how you plan to use them - to walk or to run.
Quite simple, indeed.
EMR Software Needs Nurses as Designers
Inpatient hospital software is infamous for its bad design. The nursing components of most EMRs are particularly bad. The problem with bedside nursing software is that virtually no one involved in the design of it is actually a bedside nurse. There are armies of programmers, database engineers, and interface designers. But there are, to my knowledge, no bedside nurses involved in the visual or...
60 Percent of Europe's Physicians use Wikipedia →
I don’t find this figure at all shocking. Wikipedia’s medical articles are often very thorough, and well-referenced. They are a great place to find a quick review before delving more deeply into other references.
Nurses look up diagnoses on Wikipedia regularly. Exposure to the broad field of pathophysiology in nursing school is limited at best. Only the most common diseases and...
Lark: Novel iPhone-syncing Wristband for Gentle... →
The new Lark sleep system promises to wake even the heaviest sleeper gently, and on time, without the adrenaline rush of a typical alarm clock. The way it works is through a vibrating wristband, which sync via Bluetooth to an accompanying iPhone dock. The vibrations have been tooled to wake sleepers gently, yet they claim it’s effective enough to wake even heavy sleepers. It’s been...