Jen McCabe Gorman

Good, bad or indifferent, health information management (HIM) is made up of women. via hospitalimpact.org From: "Hospital Impact - Understanding health information requires an understanding of women." Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

One thing I am still getting used to, though, is when patients call me by my first name. There seems to be a void in this area of etiquette: How does one address one’s physician? It is almost always an older patient who will use my first name, in a friendly, offhand way. And, I have observed, these patients are usually men. It might seem natural if I have had a long-term relationship with these people, caring for them over the years, but often these patients seem to make a decision at the outset to be on a first-name basis with me. I wonder about these people. Are they trying to be chummy? Is it a power thing, making them feel less vulnerable while they sit half naked on the exam table? Do they just call everyone by their first names? via nytimes.com From: "Cases - Etiquette of How to Address Someone in the Exam Room - NYTimes.com." Look out for more on the Redefining Patienthood project before this year closes:... - Jen McCabe Gorman

Personal biometric tracking ("me-trics") is growing like a gremlin hitting a swimming pool. Ok, so maybe that's an overstatement of the small, tight sector's early strength, but not by much. Wired Magazine 'legitimized' the segment with a #quantifiedself themed article. There's even a Quantified Self meetup group in San Francisco and Silicon Valley (where @shazow and I recently demoed early lessons learned from building and launching http://getupandmove.me). Big business is getting involved: Qualcomm has been showing all kinds of promising iPhone wireframes with external biometric sensor feed integration (at TEDMED and Telecom Council of Silicon Valley's mHealth meetup for a start). I know of at *least* 3 Bay Area startups that are working on customized biometric sensors for health and vital sign tracking and constant data feeds. And while all of this has to happen, and we SHOULD be evolving quantitative leaps and bounds beyond the current constraints of a wired heart monitor the size... - Jen McCabe Gorman

Yesterday at TEDxSV Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired Magazine and author of The Decision Tree, talked about a concept where individual decision-making will become paramount in health. For the past year, I've been working on a concept that explains how we might harness individual decision-making choices, and the control someone has over them (real AND perceived). I realized as I looked back through emails and blog posts that I've failed to clearly define this so others can get to work using it. I'll keep this blog post clear and concise in style, rather than verbose and metaphorical, in the hope that it will lead to an acceleration in how we talk about healthcare reform and 'meaningful use' of individuals' health data. The theory is something I'm calling Choice/Control Aware Care, and I believe it is the second generation of Participatory Medicine. It was born on the floor of @susanlindsey's kitchen when @mdbraber was visiting Maryland over a year ago. He and I were talking... - Jen McCabe Gorman

"This isn’t some big VC-backed play hoping to take over the world,” says Schnitzer. “We’re two guys who spent a month and a half building what Facebook should have built a long time ago." The guys from Mobcast, Nikolai Sanders and Jason Schnitzer, just became my new heroes. There are a ton of services in healthcare that I look at and think "D$%@, they should have built this a long time ago." A way to challenge and motivate each other to move is one of them. This is the whole reason we built Get Up and Move. But now there are new frontiers to explore for microfitness challenges. We're going to boldly go where no health/wellness app has gone before. For example... Would you like to *see* where other guammies are doing their http://getupandmove.me challenges? Join a 'local' challenge? I sure would.... Also, some yummy goodness on our 3 week Bday - we're now 134 completed challenges! Woo hoo! You commented, we listened - @shazow coded up some language to show your Twitter friends that... - Jen McCabe Gorman

"This isn’t some big VC-backed play hoping to take over the world,” says Schnitzer. “We’re two guys who spent a month and a half building what Facebook should have built a long time ago." The guys from Mobcast, Nikolai Sanders and Jason Schnitzer, just became my new heroes. There are a ton of services in healthcare that I look at and think "D$%@, they should have built this a long time... more... - Jen McCabe Gorman

ONC to hold Beacon grant assistance Web meeting The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS will host a conference call Monday from noon to 2 p.m. ET to provide technical assistance to those organizations interested in applying for federal contracts under the new Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program. On Dec. 2, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced her department was launching the three-year, $235 million Beacon Community Program, including $220 million to contract with up to 15 not-for-profit and government organizations that are leaders in health information technology to "generate and disseminate valuable lessons learned that will be applicable to the rest of the nation's communities." It is a Web meeting, but a dial-in phone line also is available at 800-369-1863. The participant pass code for the call is 4530396. More information about the Beacon program is available at HHS’ Web site. — Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer via... - Jen McCabe Gorman

About Seppukoo The invisible Committee - --> “This is the end. My only friend, the end.” You are more than your virtual identity «Virtual life» is an - often - abused term used to describe the whole of one person online activities. But as media communications let our second/online/offline identities overflowing into real life - and vice-versa - the distinctions between the real and the virtual are becoming, more and more confused. Which is virtual? And where's the real? Beyond all those questions only a fact remains: that our privacy, our profiles, our identities, our relationships, they are all - fake and/or real - entirely exploited for a sole purpose: to be sold as a product. But are those lives really worth to be experienced? Pass away. Leave your ID behind. Rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, ancient japanese samurai preferred to die with honor, voluntarily plunging a sword into the abdomen and moving the sword left to right in a slicing motion. The name of this... - Jen McCabe Gorman

via fastcompany.com ePatients like whoa... From: "8 Medical iPhone Apps You Should Prescribe to Your Health-Care Professional | All Up in Your Business | Fast Company." Hat tip to Brian Dolan, @mobilehealth, from MobiHealthNews, for the great link. Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

via chipchick.com From: "http://www.chipchick.com/wp-cont...." More info: "http://www.chipchick.com/2009...." "VITAband can be this generation’s Medical ID bracelet. It’s a digital identification bracelet with two key functions: it stores personal health records to give first responders access to critical information in the event of an emergency, PLUS gives access to tap payment technology through a RFID chip – and this is all on your wrist, just like in Japan where this technology is extremely popular. So the VITAband works out great if you end up in the hospital. All your medical data is on your wrist, and when you are done just tap your wrist and pay your bill. To get started it will cost you $39.90 for the bracelet and an annual subscription. For every year thereafter it will cost you $19.95 a year to store your data and be able to use it to pay for purchases. You can easily replenish your VITAband with funds... - Jen McCabe Gorman

Holiday shoppers looking for that perfect last minute holiday gift have a new option this year that could literally save the recipient's life. The new 911 Medical ID ™ card provides the security of personal medical information that can be carried as easily as a credit card, and is a great present for travelers, seniors, caregivers, parents, students, the chronically ill, and many others. If you’re severely injured in an accident, suffering from a severe allergic reaction, or impaired due to a medical emergency such as a stroke, heart attack or seizure, you can't possibly speak for yourself. The new 911 Medical ID™ was created to relay your important health information to first responders, emergency room doctors, or other medical personnel. Approximately two millimeters thick, the 911 Medical ID™ is the world’s thinnest USB medical information storage device, fitting in your wallet as easily as a credit card. This new Portable Personal Health Record (PHR) provides a simple way to store... - Jen McCabe Gorman

Loma Linda opens health ‘geoinformatics' laboratory Students interested in public health and wanting to learn how computerized mapmaking and data analysis software can be used to improve the health of populations around the world will be able to take training at the newly opened Health Geoinformatics Laboratory at Loma Linda (Calif.) University. The lab was opened in partnership with ESRI, a Redlands, Calif.,-based developer of geographical information systems software, according to a news release Tuesday by the software developer. The lab “will provide undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on experience in applying modern information system technologies that combine maps and satellite imagery with data about the geographic locations of diseases, healthcare resources and socio-demographic characteristics of communities,” according to the release. Undergraduate students will be able to earn Bachelor of Science degrees in public health, health geographics and biomedical data... - Jen McCabe Gorman

TEDx's are locally organized mini-TEDs that have traditionally had closed attendee lists. But TEDxSV is breaking new ground supporting social change. We're opening the kimono. For the first time, you'll be able to participate WITH us live, on the day of the event! TEDxSV partnered with Ustream to deliver a live video stream on Saturday, Dec. 12th, LIVE from Stanford University, starting at 10am Pacific Time. Ustream is the leader in live video on the web, and if you haven't watched an event yet, they make it easy and painless. Set up your user account ahead of time so you can chat as soon as we go live... http://www.ustream.tv/ Then tune in here on Saturday: http://www.ustream.tv/channel... Also, think about organize a group or Tweetup to participate via our TEDxSV(satellite) program.... TEDxSV(Satellite ) http://www.tedxsv.org/... - we are looking for remote groups around the world to watch UStream.com's coverage of our video with us and interact with our audience and... - Jen McCabe Gorman

TEDx's are locally organized mini-TEDs that have traditionally had closed attendee lists. But TEDxSV is breaking new ground supporting social change. We're opening the kimono. For the first time, you'll be able to participate WITH us live, on the day of the event! TEDxSV partnered with Ustream to deliver a live video stream on Saturday, Dec. 12th, LIVE from Stanford University, starting... more... - Jen McCabe Gorman

via photos.nj.com From: "Scientists at AT&T Labs in Florham Park have created wireless-enabled medical devices." Whoops. Someone wasted a ton of grant money on this bad boy... Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

There is a widespread faith, beginning at the very top of our government, that pouring money into computerization will lead to big improvements in both the cost and quality of health care. As this study shows, those assumptions need to be questioned - or a whole lot of taxpayer money may go to waste. Information technology has great promise for health care, but simply dumping cash into traditional commercial systems and applications is unlikely to achieve that promise - and may backfire by increasing costs further. via roughtype.com From: "Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Throwing computers at health care." Proof. Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

A "PHR" is a Personal Health Record. PHRs can collect and store official records, labs, tests, and claims data directly deposited by providers. They can also store other health-related data such as heart rate, glucose levels, medications, allergies, exercise habits, lifestyle, sexual history, personal notes and other data you create. The term 'PHR' implies you control this type of electronic health record - because its 'personal,' it's yours. But that is simply not true of all PHRs. How much control do you really have? Think twice about who you allow to see, use, or control your most sensitive, personal health records, from DNA to prescriptions. Patient Privacy Rights (PPR) did our best to decode PHR privacy policies and spell out what control you have over your information. PPR makes no recommendations on specific PHRs. The Report Card is our opinion based on the information available on these companies' websites. via patientprivacyrights.org From: "Patient Privacy Rights: PHR Report... - Jen McCabe Gorman

That means Rummble users can geotag tweets with their current location (if they choose to share it) and any venue in the world. This real-time geo-data is consumable by everyone on Twitter, regardless of whether they are signed up to Rummble or not. This is one of the first social apps (outside of twitter clients) to use geo tweets. It adds geo lat/long into tweets for Twitter’s Location-api for status updates posted out of Rummble. This covers the user’s location, check-ins and tweets posted of Rummble reviews of a bar or cafe etc. Tweets from the Gowalla and Foursquare aps are geotagged if the setting has been switched on in twitter settings. From: "The Latest from TechCrunch - Spam - Yahoo! Mail." @shazow, yes sir, right space, right time. Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

**Note to fellow early stage founders - when you can't sleep, spooling up a new Posterous is a great cathartic way to slow the mental gyroscope. I wrote this post pre-counting sheep last night.** 1am and all is well. And quiet. This isn't insomnia. My eyes feel like they have hidden fishing weights rooted to the sockets. I could probably start drooling and twitching upright in my chair. Now I see why programmers really get rolling between 11pm and 4 or 5am, despite the never-quite-conquered desire to snooze. There's no one around. It's like the external world is giving you a pillow of silence and stillness, gently, like a doting parent tucking you in tight. Anyone who wants to be up and moving at this time *really* wants to be doing, well, whatever it is they're doing. And so do I. And so I'm awake. It's day 5 post-launch of Contagion Health's first web app, Get Up and Move (#getupandmove). Andrey and I decided to go out on a limb and show you a snapshot of our admin stats panel so... - Jen McCabe Gorman

"HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is expected to announce a three-year, $220 million Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program to contract with up to 15 not-for-profit and government organizations that are leaders in health information technology use to "generate and disseminate valuable lessons learned that will be applicable to the rest of the nation's communities." Read more at ModernHealthcare.com and in Health IT Strategist. Comment on this story and read the HITS Reader Forum. From: "HITS Alert: Sebelius to announce $220 million for HIT advancement - Inbox." Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

"HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is expected to announce a three-year, $220 million Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program to contract with up to 15 not-for-profit and government organizations that are leaders in health information technology use to "generate and disseminate valuable lessons learned that will be applicable to the rest of the nation's communities." Read more at... more... - Jen McCabe Gorman

via youtube.com From: YouTube - 倖田來未 Koda Kumi - Get up & Move [Dance] @shazow, I think it's obligatory that you and I learn this move for move ;) Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

via youtube.com From: YouTube - 倖田來未 Koda Kumi - Get up & Move [Dance] @shazow, I think it's obligatory that you and I learn this move for move ;) Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

For them, everything is to be experimented upon -- for example, if they walk into a bookstore and they're used to reading history they might try psychology. All these behaviors are powerfully enhanced by a capacity to ask provocative, challenging questions of the world around them. via cnn.com Question, question, question. If we don't ask the hard questions about health/healthcare and what motivates healthier behaviors, for ourselves, for others - who will? The responsibility, the exploration, is ours to embark upon. Or not. Cyber Monday. Not just for shopping. Explore the current online health and wellness landscape. Question assumptions. Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

via youtube.com Listening to this on the Blip.FM ContagionHealth channel while working on getupandmove.me UserVoice stuff. Bang bang bang bang, vamanos, vamanos... Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

via youtube.com Listening to this on the Blip.FM ContagionHealth channel while working on getupandmove.me UserVoice stuff. Bang bang bang bang, vamanos, vamanos... Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

I'll admit it. I fell off the wagon. As a former cross country runner, newly minted vegequarian (pescatarian) and health 2.0 type, I used to live a pretty healthy life, full of 1.5 hour workouts. Ahh, those beautiful runs along the Embarcadero, those 3.5 hour, 7 mile hikes around Flag Pond in Southern Maryland. Gone, all gone, as soon as I got semi-serious about starting Contagion Health. When you're founding a health software company, ironically fitness is the last thing on your mind. About 3 weeks ago I pulled on a pair of jeans and realized something was amiss. Largely amiss. And I decided to do something about it. But with healthcare conference season in full swing, a gig helping the kick-ass team at Dealmaker Media for a bit, a fellowship with the Health Strategy Innovation Cell at Massey College, UToronto, it was ridiculously hard to block off 1.5 hours to work out. To fix this big and increasingly burgeoning Battle of the Bulge, I'd need to start small. REALLY small. 5 minutes... - Jen McCabe Gorman

I don't understand why I have to go to school at all, the internet knows more than all the teachers there put together. via 27bslash6.com From: "Too cool for school." Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman

Police are arresting people purely for the purpose of ensuring that their DNA is sampled and recorded on the police's national database, a report by Government advisory body the Human Genetics Commission (HGC) has said. The report recommends that police stop automatically taking DNA samples in England and Wales when someone is arrested and says that they should be given guidance on when and when not to take a DNA sample via out-law.com !!!!! Permalink | Leave a comment  » - Jen McCabe Gorman