How Citizens, Technology Help Track and Attack Ebola Outbreak | People 4 Smarter Cities
Big Data and analytics are not just making cities smarter, they are also saving lives. Read how communities in West Africa are combining IBM technologies and know-how with citizen engagement to help contain and combat the Ebola disease outbreak.While science and medicine are playing key roles in the fight against Ebola, technology and citizen input also are doing their best to help tackle the outbreak.
Computermodeller indtager en stadig vigtigere rolle i biologisk forskning og laboratoriearbejde:
Det tog tre måneder på tre meget kraftige computere. Det kan vi nu gøre på tre uger eller dage. Så kan vi køre forsøg igen og igen eller ændre på vores forsøgsopstilling løbende for at få de korrekte resultater. Jeg kan kigge på 10.000 patienter i stedet for 800, og det er nødvendigt for at forstå cancer som sygdom, siger han.
Blood vessel shear stress increase in blood vessel diseases such as atherosclerosis leads to platelet activation and pathological thrombosis
This ability of platelets to target areas of vascular stenosis, such as in regions of atherosclerotic plaque formation, by responding to changes in their physical microenvironment can be the cause of life-threatening stroke. However, this same physical mechanism of platelet activation served as the inspiration for the development of mechanically activated nanotherapeutics that can specifically target drugs to flow-obstructed blood vessels and concentrate thrombolytic agents at these sites
It has been demonstrated that only 1/100 of the regular treatment dose is needed with the use of nanotherapeutics
Although conversations used to begin by pitting population vs personalized medicine, improved data capture and data sources have the potential to support population and personalized medicine that more aptly defines the roadmap for the future. There are times when the data will suggest that broadly treating a population uniformly will be optimal, particularly when the disease state is prevalent, the risk of adverse outcomes is high, and serious adverse effects of the intervention are infrequent. However, personalizing therapies will be better in other scenarios to optimize benefit and reduce risk. Studying a population and characterizing individuals simultaneously will become routine. Researchers and clinicians must be vigilant in applying the best analytic techniques to better understand the complex interactions that influence human health and disease and to select therapies based on the clinical circumstances.
Currently, the discussions around wearables, population tracking, and the quantified self movement within medicine are very polarized. This op-ed reminds us that the world is grey as opposed to black or white.
Denmark leads in the overall prevalence of electronic health records (EHRs) and in sharing health data across the five regions. Denmark receives a 3.5 score out of 4, the highest score of all countries in the analysis, indicating that Denmark is very close to full implementation of coherent digital health data sharing.
Sewage surveillance can help predict infectious disease in urban environments.
For mange af dem, som aldrig søger traditionel psykologhjælp, kan det være nemmere at tage imod netbehandling, hvor man ikke skal møde psykologen ansigt-til-ansigt og samtidig kan blive hjemme i trygge rammer.
Michael Madrid, 47, a software developer in New York City, saw an orthopedist because of knee pain and was sent for an M.R.I. When he called the office for results he was told he had to come in to get them, to protect his “privacy.” The scan showed a small ligament tear that required no treatment, and Mr. Madrid was billed $170 for a second visit.
The doctor could easily have given the patient this information over the phone. It would spare the patient the drive to the doctor’s office–but then the doctor wouldn’t get paid. The economics of medicine stand in the way of progress.
This is why Dick Cheney had the wireless capability of his defibrillator disabled
Apparently it is possible to monitor movement - even breathing - with specialized LED lamps. Whether this technology is smart enough to discern people from objects or animals remains to be seen, but it is interesting.
Hver dag får 40 personer her i landet hjerneslag, totalt 15000 i året. I Østfold blir to-tre personer rammet daglig. Å få riktig hjelp tidsnok er helt avgjørende for pasienten. Nå skal en spesialbygget slagambulanse testes ut. “Dette er et rullende røntgenlaboratorium med mer utstyr. Det er helt nytt i Norge”, forteller generalsekretær Erik Normann i Norsk Luftambulanse.
Også nytt i resten av verden - der finnes nemlig kun 2 andre lignende ambulanser.
There is no clear mechanism for getting the data to physicians, and issues surrounding modes of transmission, data storage, confidentiality and privacy, and physician reimbursement are examples of challenges we are facing as a medical community
The explosion of data is happening as labs adopt new, even faster equipment for decoding DNA. For instance, the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said that during the month of October it decoded the equivalent of one human genome every 32 minutes. That translated to about 200 terabytes of raw data.
This is the most interesting of Google’s medical moon shots, as it builds atop of their strengths.
Microsoft’s Band needs to grow up first
Den aktuelle situationen er elendig. Heldigvis bliver der nu sat fokus på problemerne.
Ambulance Drone
Not faster than a speeding bullet, but still impressive.
The work is still at an early stage.
That statement should’ve been highlighted in the article.