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Susan Smiley

Redefining Medicine with Apps & iPads - 0 views

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    Cursory but insightful overview of role technology in medicine
Uche Amaechi

Redefining Medicine With Apps and iPads - The Digital Doctor - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    I like how Dr. Heineken forces his residents to interact directly with the patients first, then consult technology - puts the technology at the service of the doctor, not the other way around.
Matthew Ong

Personalizing medicine through emerging biotechnology - 0 views

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    A fascinating talk on the barriers broken by this new biotechnology. Personalized medicine could be coming our way soon...I wonder how this would transform the teaching of biology in school too.
Jessica O'Brien

Doctor and Patient - Teaching Doctors About Food and Diet - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • For the last 15 years, to help schools with their nutrition curriculum, the University of North Carolina has offered a series of instruction modules free of charge. Initially delivered by CD-ROM and now online, the program, Nutrition in Medicine, is an interactive multimedia series of courses covering topics like the molecular mechanism of cancer nutrition, pediatric obesity, dietary supplements and nutrition in the elderly.
  • More recently, Ms. Adams and her colleagues have begun working on online nutrition education programs geared toward practicing physicians.
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    I wonder how many medical students and physicians are learning through online information, such as these nutrition modules, to make up for the gaps in current medical education curriculum? These nutrition modules are interactive and let students take electronic notes while reviewing the material.
Maung Nyeu

Apple Woos Educators With Trips to Silicon Valley - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    After School officias from Little Falls, Minn., visited Apple HQ, they decided to spend $1.2m on 1700 iPads. Late Mr. Jobs in an interview with Wired mangazine said, "what's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology." "Mr. Jobs blamed teachers' unions for the decline in education." Walter Issacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, writes Bill Gates and Steve Jobs "agreed that computers had, so far, made surprisingly little impact on schools - far less than on other realms of society such as media and medicine and law."
Susan Smiley

Mobile Health Tech: From Novel Startups to Global Industry - 0 views

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    Very interesting article about mHealth summit and explosion of medical tech devices. Yet most innovations are for the consumer industry as opposed to the providers, who need innovations just as much. The regulations and approvals necessary for physicians is a huge hurdle.
Joe Prempeh

Open Access Week Oct. 18-24 - 2 views

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    Open Access can have important implications for educational technology. From the website: ""Open Access" to information - the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need - has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole. "
Michelle Chung

Harvard Medical School's Learning Technology Must Be Smart...Right? - ReadWriteEnterprise - 0 views

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    SpacedEd learning software educates through repetition of wrongly answered questions. Practice makes perfect.
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