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Take Home: UMass Medical School and WPI have developed an app that can detect atrial fibrillation.  This moves connected and mobile health closer to reality.  The really important development with this approach might allow us to treat patients who have AF intermittently (paroxysmal) differently than we currently do.  Because we are worried about stroke, patients now get blood thinners all the time because we are concerned that they will have recurrences without knowing about it.  With this technology, in the future, we might see validation of a strategy that allows use of blood thinners when patients are in AF only, sometimes called a pill in the pocket.

"Formerly hosted by the UNC TLT Collaborative, this year the TLT Conference is being hosted by UNC-Pembroke, with support by the UNC System, and will be held April 13-15, 2010 in Second Life. The presentations and demonstrations will be held on the five NC Education WeBIEE islands. NC Education is a Second Life group funded by the community colleges and open to all of North Carolina education. Registration for the 2010 UNC TLT Conference is free! You can attend from your home, office, library . . . anywhere you have a broadband internet connection -- for free!!"

An example of a educational technology conference held in Second Life. Many of our community will attend - Hope to see you there!

"The California Healthcare Foundation has released a new whitepaper, How Smartphones Are Changing Health Care for Consumers and Providers, authored by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. Key findings include: * Two thirds of physicians used a smart phone in 2009 * 6% of physicians were using an electronic medical records system * 42% of Americans use smartphones * Top uses of smartphones for consumers include: medication adherence, home monitoring, fitness apps, managing chronic conditions"

Describes the use of geotagging for photos uploaded from some cameras and phones to the internet and being able to track to someone's home location. Represents the down side to some technology.

AHRQ announces "Taking Innovations To Scale", featuring new resources and tools to help innovators spread their innovations and potential adopters learn how to implement innovations in their organizations.

'CNA' stands for 'Certified Nursing Assistant'. It refers to the nursing helper who assists the doctors and registered nurses during various operations as well as for patient care in nursing homes and hospitals. Though being a CNA is not a glorious job, it can definitely be a good option for a substantial career in allied health care field.

Leaders in the Use of Technology in Nursing Education to Collaborate with the Global Community ABNF 2010

Free, high-quality digital materials for health sciences education.

Make sure to take the tour

MOSEP - More Self Esteem with my e-Portfolio

I like this site because it explains all the avenues that a nursing degree can take you.

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself. Works like CiteULike

"HEAL is a digital repository that allows medical educators to discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources. Through generous funding by IAMSE, HEAL is becoming a dynamic, user-centered digital environment to allow medical educators to share and discuss teaching resources and methods. This is being accomplished through the incorporation of key characteristics of Web 2.0 technologies into HEAL including user reviews of resources and user tagging (searchable keywords) of resources. "

This is a good site for resizing images, putting captions on images and working with images for your projects.

Nurse Tim (Tim Bristol) has many resources for the media / net savvy nurse and nurse educator.

"Claroline is an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web."

This is an open source LMS, which could be compared to MOODLE

After a quick review, i would say this open source is much more friendly than Moodle and feels more like you are in a microsoft application...definitely worth use