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• A comment on Conversation: What is the future of healthcare? How can it become health care vs sickness treatment? What role do technology and innovation play?

  Nov 2 2011: The current "sickness treatment" model is clinician oriented. The technology has great potential to engage patients to their health management.
  The mhealth technologies, smart homes, patient portals are not widely common yet. But they can support patients' decision making and help them monitor and record their daily livings.

• A comment on Conversation: How to effectively reduce alarm fatigue in hospitals?

  Nov 2 2011: A few comments so far have mentioned about integration. That's one of the key issues in my opinion. We need to make sure that technologies that produce alarms should NOT be designed without considering other alarm sources.
  Moreover, customization can help reduce fatigue. So clinicians and patients that benefit technologies should be able to adjust alarms.
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  A comment on Talk: Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch

  Sep 28 2011: I like Dr. Verghese's early warning about the allocation of functions between human and technology. Designing technologies to support physician instead of to replace physician is needed. I believe this is also an economical problem. In the US machines are way cheaper than labor. To decrease the cost of care, more technology make sense but quality may be compromised.
  
  I also like the way Dr. Verghese brings up the ritual aspect of care. Physicians are shamans anyway.

• A comment on Talk: Kate Hartman: The art of wearable communication

  Sep 18 2011: I like the expressive aspect of Wearable communication. It makes an invisible communication visible. For example, others can see when you talk to yourself.
  Using the body as a complement to an art artifact is fun. From the audience perspective, I can imagine that seeing these devices on different people may make us interpret the art work differently.
  I also loved dis-communicator. I need one of them very often these days.

• A comment on Talk: Raghava KK: Shake up your story

  Sep 16 2011: I think this talk gives important messages to designers. Designers should be aware of various perspectives. Tools and technologies should be able serve to different perspectives instead of imposing a specific one. The users should be able to make the tools and technologies to fit their own perspective.
  By the way, the speaker says we need to separate facts from the perspective. I think he is referring to perspective free design. I do not think this is even possible.

• A comment on Talk: Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe

  Aug 24 2011: Eric Dishman's talk has many valid points. He discusses the home health care in general and presents some data examples coming from some "smart home" projects. Smart home refers to a living space equipped with sensors.
  Research shows the significance of home health care. However, the overall health system can not encompass home health care easily. There is no business model that will make home health care a part of complete care delivery. It is not clear how to finance home health care resources? How will the information about home care activities be collected? How will this information be integrated to clinicians' workflow? To conclude, a home health care movement, requires a complete redesign of the health care delivery system. Eric Dishman rightfully address politicians on this issue.
  
  Smart homes promises a comprehensive monitoring of daily activities. Smart homes produce enormous amount of data. The problem is that who is going to analyze this data? Again, this is a workflow problem. How to integrate this information to clinician's workflow?
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  A comment on Conversation: Have a way to measure the impact of TED for the audience.

  Jul 21 2011: I think this is a great question and would love to know about the impact of TED. However, I dont think assessing TED's impact is not a straight forward task. It is worth to conduct a complex program evaluation study though. There is a high risk of over- and under-rating.
  Some measures such as number of listeners do not tell much because we do not know whether listeners got anything from TED. On the other hand looking at comments of the listeners may tell us a part of the story but not everything.
  Looking at the "number of contacts between the people who met at TED, and start-ups or support between them" can be useful but we need to look further and see so how these contacts was useful.
  I can see a PhD thesis opportunity here. A qualitative and exploratory inquiry can be a good starting point.

• A reply on Conversation: As Dave stressed "Let patients help", my question is how can patients help their doctors?

  Jul 21 2011: In order to physicians get data from the patient, patients should be able to collect data that will represent their life experiences. Patients observe a lot of valuable facts that would be useful to physicians for more accurate diagnosis and more realistic and efficient treatment plans. However, data collection tools available to patients are not sufficient.
  If the patients can have sophisticated data collection tool that will be useful to record their life experiences, patients can pass them to their care providers.

• A comment on Conversation: As Dave stressed "Let patients help", my question is how can patients help their doctors?

  Jul 6 2011: Ability to observe daily life and communicating it to the physician is very important but not easy. We are expert of our own life but can we collect sufficient data about it? My personal opinion is no. If we can know/record about our daily life properly and present it to a clinician neatly, that would improve decision making for both sides.
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  A comment on Talk: Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave

  Jul 6 2011: Very touching and inspiring. Patients becoming more involved in their health is incredibly important. However, empowerment of patients may not be very straight forward. Accessing raw data by patients should be a right. However, are patients really ready for this? Without proper tools, environment and education, how can they store the data confidential (e.g. make sure your family members and office mates) and make sense of the data. Personal health records are being researched and developed and hopefully they will be commonly used sometime soon.
  As everybody acknowledges current health care delivery system is full of flaws. However, this is very complex domain and making any change causes domino effect that causes unintended consequences.
  This video brings up an important issue of significance of making the healthcare systems patient-centered (as opposed to clinician centered as it is now). Development of needed tools and creation of an environment where responsibilities and rights are wll set are prerequisite.
  
  I am hopeful. we are getting there.