Good Reads in Healthcare UX #hcux November 15, 2010

A few quick links fo you this morning: This is the first of what may become a bi-weekly series of articles with direct impact on Healthcare User Experience. In this weeks post, some thoughts on design for behavior change, on how tablets specifically iPads are changing the delivery of care, a call to action for well-designed consumer health care devices, the impending explosion of ‘telehealth,’ and the possibilities enabled by availability of patient data. Enjoy.

• Emotional Automation: Bonding with Technology to Improve Health « The cHealth Blog

  “During a keynote panel discussion at the Connected Health Symposium last week, I proposed a new idea that challenges the need for face-to-face doctor patient interactions to deliver quality care. Here’s a synopsis of my remarks”

• Healthcare IT Consultant Blog: Specialty Article: How the iPad is Changing Mobile Health Care

  “Part of that success in the workplace is due to health care professionals interested in deploying the iPad as a telehealth mobile computing device. Even before the iPad hit the market, some hospitals had ordered dozens of units for large- and small-scale pilot programs. In places where the iPad wasn’t initially considered by mobile IT departments, doctors purchased their own and brought them into the office and began carrying them on their rounds at hospitals. ”

• TEDMED: Walt Mossberg Calls For Focus on Consumer Medical Tech – Health Blog – WSJ

  “The WSJ’s consumer tech columnist Walt Mossberg has some health problems, namely diabetes and heart disease, he told the TEDMED crowd last night. And he’d really like it if the same kind of innovation he writes about could help out people like him.

  “As we get diseases that [can] be managed, we need to take the kind of technology that’s in this,” he said, holding up his Apple iPad, and “put it into the hands of consumers to maintain their health or manage disease.”

• TeleHealth Still Waiting… « Chilmark Research

  “Indeed, it does seem inevitable that at some point in time telehealth will take hold as the current system of care continues to spiral in a chaotic unsustainable trajectory. Something has to change, something will change and the technologies discuss at this event will be a part of that future equation. The multi-million if not billion dollar question is when.”

• Stephen J. Downs: Why I Want a Blue Button

  “It’s a simple practice: when a patient logs in to her account, provide a highly visible, clickable button to download her records in digital form. As Dr. Diamond noted, the federal government has taken a leadership role in modeling this practice. The Department of Veterans Affairs started providing blue button downloads to all patients of the VA system back in August and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has launched a similar blue button service for all Medicare beneficiaries. And their efforts have not gone unnoticed – more than 60,000 veterans have downloaded their medical data since the launch.”

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