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The Walking Gallery of Health Care
http://reginaholliday.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/walking-gallery.html
"We are the Gallery that walks. We are the Patients that wear our stories on our backs. Soon we shall to come to a city near you and create gallery space in moments. We won’t pound a single nail into the walls to hold the art. Dozens of people will walk into a space wearing business jackets or doctor’s lab coats. That alone is not unusual. But these jackets will be works of art. Each one shall be painted with the story of a patient or an element of medical advocacy by me or another artist. These masterpieces will be worn on the backs of government employees, technology gurus, medical professionals, social media activists, CEO’s of companies and artists. It shall be a great meeting of the minds."
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Ms Regina Holliday is an activist, artist, speaker and author. She also began the advocacy movement called ‘The Walking Gallery of Health Care’ that consists of medical providers and advocates who wear patient story paintings on the back of business suits. This walking wall of 330+ individuals who attend medical conferences is providing a patient voice and changing the conversation. Professor Fernando Martin-Sanchez was invited to participate in this movement and he received his jacket with the motive that it is reproduced here.
If you would like to support Regina’s continuing work in medical advocacy through the arts go here: https://www.gittip.com/ReginaHolliday/
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HealthXL is a collaboration between some of the largest health care corporations in the world, focused on developing meaningful commercial projects. HealthXL vision is to drive innovation in health care globally by connecting leading brands with the most exciting technology companies to improve the lives of millions of people. HealthXL invited Professor Fernando Martin-Sanchez to join their wide network of Advisors / Mentors.
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Health Data Exploration Project
http://hdexplore.calit2.net/wp/
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The Health Data Exploration project – based at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) – is creating a Network of innovators in PHD to catalyze the use of personal data for the public good. This Network will bring together companies, researchers, and strategic partners to strategize, coordinate, and experiment with using PHD to understand health.
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The HDE Team has approved the application presented by Professor Fernando Martin-Sanchez to join their network of experts who believe in the use of personal data for the public good. As an Advisor, Professor Martin-Sanchez will have the opportunity to apply for Agile Research Grants, be listed in the member directory and HDE website, getting invitations for meeting and collaborations with other network members in agile research projects, hackathons, policy-making and special events.
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3D Non-Contact Falls Detection, Prevention and Behavioural Monitoring
One in three people aged 65+ suffer a fall each year, and the frequency of falls rises with age and frailty level. Injuries from falls are a major public health concern, causing a significant load on health services in hospitalisations for hip fractures, upper limb injuries and traumatic brain injuries.
A team based at HaBIC is developing a research project into improved monitoring to detect deterioration and falls in seniors. Currently there is a range of monitor types which can be used to observe people at risk for falls. However, there are many factors affecting the usefulness of these systems, as well as real and perceived concerns in using monitoring technology. The aim is to investigate a 3D non-contact sensor system (developed by Semantrix) to monitor behaviour and detect falls in older people.
In this pilot study, the sensor system will be evaluated with residents in an aged care facility, with specific regard to its feasibility, accuracy and acceptability. The system is privacy-preserving, as it uses non-identifying skeletal images to monitor movements. Partners for this study are Industry and health research organisations, with seed funding from the Melbourne Networked Society Institute (formerly know as IBES). Results are expected to be available in the second half of 2015.
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Clinical Informatics and eHealth Online Subject 2015
Dr Kathleen Gray and Ms Dawn Choo from the University of Melbourne, Prof Anthony Maeder from the University of Western Sydney, Dr Sue Whetton and Dr Kerryn Butler-Henderson from the University of Tasmania, have recently developed a fully online, interdisciplinary postgraduate subject for students enrolled in clinical health professions. This subject aims to equip students with foundation clinical informatics and ehealth knowledge which they can apply to clinical practice.
This Australian Government, Office for Learning and Teaching extension project ‘ Coordinated interprofessional curriculum renewal for ehealth capability in clinical health professional degrees’ revealed a paucity of ehealth content in higher education health professional courses. The 2014 final report ‘ Advancing Ehealth education for the clinical health profession’ is accessible online.
The 12 week subject trial will commence on Monday, 2 nd March and will run until the end of Semester 1, 2015. Student learning outcomes and feedback will be analysed and reported on after the trial. Clinical Informatics and eHealth is anticipated to run as an accredited 12.5 credit points elective subject for postgraduate students from 2016 onwards. |
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Having had his completion seminar in December 2014, Mark Merolli is now in the final write up stages and planning to submit his thesis in the near future. He has been working on developing a framework and methodology for generating evidence of health outcomes from social media use in chronic disease management. Over the process he has had much of his work published in esteemed peer reviewed journals, including the Journal of Biomedical Informatics and Journal of Medical Internet Research and has had a standing partnership with the Royal Melbourne Hospital - Royal Park Campus for part of his research.
This year, Mark will be attending the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference in Madrid, Spain. Mark is a member of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) - Social Media Working Group. The group is made up of a handful of researchers from around the globe with a special interests and expertise in use of social media in medicine. The group has been accepted to deliver a panel on "ethics surrounding social media research" and Mark will present on the ethical issues of using social media in participant recruitment.
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One of the major studies Mark completed as part of his PhD was a global online survey of people living with chronic pain, examining their perceptions towards the role social media play in their self-management. The survey was designed based of earlier literature suggesting that social media were most inclined to impact elements of psyhological, social and cpognisitve health. The underlying notion being that there are mechanisms underlying social media use that may help explain the link between health outcomes and social media use. The data collected was rich and provided a much deeper conceptualisation of these underlying mechanisms, labelled "therapeutic affordances" of social media. Qualitatively identified, they include: self-presentation, connection, exploration, narration and adaptation. This conceptualisation was the core focus of the first manuscript published from this study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR): "Therapeutic Affordances of Social Media: Emergent Themes From a Global Online Survey of People With Chronic Pain" (http://www.jmir.org/2014/12/e284/). A second manuscript was constructed specifically examining the quantitiative findings of the survey and also published in JMIR. In this manuscript, findings suggested that social media are most commonly reported by people with chronic pain to positively impact psychological, social and cogntive health (as previously reported in earlier studies). Perhaps most interesting was correlations suggesting that these improved reported health outcomes may be most credited to the narration and adaption affordances of social media. This manuscript was entitled: "Patient-Reported Outcomes and Therapeutic Affordances of Social Media: Findings From a Global Online Survey of People With Chronic Pain" ( http://www.jmir.org/2015/1/e20/) |
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MEDINFO 2015 eHealth-enabled Health
The 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics will be held in São Paulo city, Brazil, from 19 th to 23 rd August, 2015. It will be the first time that Latin America will host such an important and prestigious international medical informatics conference.
MEDINFO is the main conference promoted by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and its 15 th edition will be organized by the Brazilian Health Informatics Association (SBIS).
Professor Fernando Martin-Sanchez in its capacity of Co-Chair of the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) was responsible for managing all conference submissions. More than 793 submissions have been received. |
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HLA PD Day with Julie Glanville
Wednesday, 1 April 2015 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Julie Glanville coordinates YHEC's information and review services including rapid reviews, systematic reviews, and indirect and mixed treatment comparisons. Julie is a co-convenor of the Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group and a co-author of the Cochrane Handbook chapter on searching for evidence. Julie’s research interests are in search filter design and appraisal, and the efficient identification of research evidence for systematic reviews, economic evaluations and models and health technology assessments.
HaBIC is offering a limited number of places at no charge to University of Melbourne staff and graduate students, on a first-come first-served basis. To register please go to: https://www.regonline.com.au/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1680738
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Evidence-based EMR implementation
Natalie M. Pageler MD, MEd
* Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatric Critical Care, Stanford University School of Medicine
* Director of Clinical Informatics, Stanford Children’s Health
* Associate Fellowship Director, Clinical Informatics, Stanford University Medical Center
* http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Natalie_Pageler/
Ella Latham Lecture Theatre
Royal Children's Hospital
Tuesday 3rd March. 12pm - 1pm
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AMIA 2015 Student Design Challenge
The Human Side of Big Data - Facilitating Human Data Interaction
AMIA is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Student Design Challenge (SDC). In this challenge we invite teams of graduate students from different scientific disciplines and of various backgrounds to propose creative solutions to a specified problem related to healthcare. We seek novel solutions that incorporate cutting edge computational and interactive technologies and take advantage of the considerable advances in such research areas as biomedical informatics, human-computer interaction, computer science, information visualization, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, among many others. A panel of distinguished members of the AMIA community will review the proposed solutions and select the best proposals based on a number of criteria, including their originality and transformative potential. Eight teams selected as finalists will be asked to attend AMIA Annual Symposium and present their solutions during the AMIA poster session. The top four teams as selected by the SDC panel will be invited to participate in a formal presentation at AMIA.
Timeline
- June 1, 2015 – proposal submission deadline
- August 1, 2015 – notifications to authors
- September 1, 2015 – final accepted revision submission deadline
MedTech's Got Talent
This entrepreneurship challenge supports emerging entrepreneurs to develop and refine skills in pitching a business concept, developing a technology roadmap, and launching commercialisation activites for their medical technology innovations.
There is no charge to participate, and participants tap into real resources (money, expertise, network) to ideally position themselves for start-up success.
For the purposes of this challenge, ‘medtech’ is any technology or service related to medical devices, diagnostics, or ehealth/health IT. This can include many applications in related fields like sports tech.
Further Information: http://www.stcaustralia.org/entrepreneur-challenge/
Funding Amount: $40,000 Grand Prize, 5 x $20,000 finalist prizes
Due Date: Earlybird applications close Monday 30 March, 2015
Submit Application To: STC Australia Online Form
Eligibility: Teams must have at least one currently registered student/currently employed PostDoc or recent graduate. Email: info@stcaustralia.org |
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