Im aktuellen JAHRBUCH HEALTHCARE MARKETING 2013 findet sich ein interessanter Beitrag von Frau Prof. Dr. Viviane Scherenberg und Frau Dr. Ursula Kramer. Frau Dr. Kramer war eine unserer letzten Interviewpartner auf mobile-medconcept. In dem Beitrag geht es um Hintergründe, Handlungsbedarf und schlummernde Potentiale in Bezug auf GesundheitsApps und bietet damit einen perfekten Einstieg in das Thema.
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With the introduction of Apple’s Siri in the last year, free-form speech recognition has exploded in the mainstream. The technology around Siri, however, has been used in the medical field for some time for documentation with programs like well-known Dragon Medical™ by Nuance Healthcare. Nuance’s CMIO, Nick van Terheyden, MD was willing to speak with me about the advances Nuance has made in the domain of speech recognition, data mining, and documentation innovation in the healthcare space. Dr. van Terheyden has been in the healthcare industry for > 25 years, working in imaging and other internet startups before coming to Nuance and finding his niche as a clinician advocate to adopting technology in standard practice. Dragon, now on its 10th medical version has been used commonly within healthcare enterprises, including in radiology reading rooms across the country for dictating reads of XRay/CT/MRI films and more. Over its time, it has been adapted to take into account accents across the world in addition to learning and increasing its vocabulary each time someone dictates. The next innovations in this space are what one would expect: with the data Dragon is collecting, clinical language understanding is growing. With the use of such ontologies […]
It seems as if Europe is slowly but surely moving forward when it comes to digital health 2.0 – both in terms of startups and events. As a Europe-based media outlet, with a strong readership in the US though, we are happy to be able to support some great people out there, who are also aiming to disrupt healthcare in terms of a media partnership with there and have a chance to support events as media partners. When the masses will be gathering at Germany’s largest fair for healthcare IT – the ConhIT – the conaisseurs will be gathering in Berlin, Europe’s (rightly) self proclaimed hub for tech entrepreneurs. Miles away from boring panel discussions, there will be an ecclectic mix of people, who meet at the so-called Innovations & Investments in Healthcare Summit in Berlin, from April 26 – 27 2012 (It’s great to see people like Halle Tecco, CEO of Rock Health or Sutha Kamal, Co-Founder of Massive Health coming all the way to Berlin and discuss with some industry experts twice their age. It looks like the event is going to be very diverse, not only in terms of the program, but also in terms of attendees – […]
Wenn es nach dem Aktionsforum Gesundheitsinformationssystem afgis e. v. geht, sollten App-Nutzer vor dem Download einer Gesundheits-App prüfen, welche Angaben der Entwickler zu seiner App freiwillig macht. Denn diese Angaben, die im “Gesundheits-App-Fact Sheet” der afgis zusammengefasst sind, lassen Rückschlüsse zu auf die Qualität einer health-App. Auch App-Entwickler gibt das Gesundheits-App-Fact-Sheet wertvolle Orientierung. Sie können […]