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Posted on Jul 28, 2016 in Perspective Pieces | 0 comments

The Future of Automated Mobile Eye Diagnosis

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Cassie A. Ludwig, BS1, Mia X. Shan, BS, BAH1, Nam Phuong H. Nguyen1, Daniel Y. Choi, MD1, Victoria Ku, BS1, Carson K. Lam, MD1

1Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine 2405 Watson Drive, Palo Alto, CA, USA 94305

Corresponding Author: carsonl@stanford.edu

Journal MTM 5:2:44–50, 2016

doi: 10.7309/jmtm.5.2.7

The current model of ophthalmic care requires the ophthalmologist’s involvement in data collection, diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment execution. We hypothesize that ophthalmic data collection and diagnosis will be automated through mobile devices while the education, treatment planning, and fine dexterity tasks will continue to be performed at clinic visits and in the operating room by humans. Comprehensive automated mobile eye diagnosis includes the following steps: mobile diagnostic tests, image collection, image recognition and interpretation, integrative diagnostics, and user-friendly, mobile platforms. Completely automated mobile eye diagnosis will require improvements in each of these components, particularly image recognition and interpretation and integrative diagnostics. Once polished and integrated into greater medical practice, automated mobile eye diagnosis has the potential to increase access to ophthalmic care with reduced costs, increased efficiency, and increased accuracy of diagnosis.

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Posted on Jul 28, 2016 in Perspective Pieces | 0 comments

Pretesting mHealth: Implications for Campaigns among Underserved Patients

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Disha Kumar, BS, BA1,2, Monisha Arya, MD, MPH3,4

1Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA; 2School of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA; 3Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases and Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA; 4Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center 2002 Holcombe Blvd (Mailstop 152), Houston, Texas 77030, USA

Corresponding Author: disha.kumar@bcm.edu

Journal MTM 5:2:38–43, 2016

doi: 10.7309/jmtm.5.2.6

Background: For health campaigns, pretesting the channel of message delivery and process evaluation is important to eventual campaign effectiveness. We conducted a pilot study to pretest text messaging as a mHealth channel for traditionally underserved patients.

Aims: The primary objectives of the research were to assess 1) successful recruitment of these patients for a text message study and 2) whether recruited patients would engage in a process evaluation after receiving the text message.

Methods: Recruited patients were sent a text message and then called a few hours later to assess whether they had received, read, and remembered the sent text message.

Results: We approached twenty patients, of whom fifteen consented to participate. Of these consented participants, ten (67%) engaged in the process evaluation and eight (53%) were confirmed as receiving, reading, and remembering the text message.

Conclusion: We found that traditionally underserved and under-researched patients can be recruited to participate in a text message study, and that recruited patients would engage in a process evaluation after receiving the text message.

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Posted on Oct 14, 2015 in Perspective Pieces | 0 comments

Mobile Solutions For Physicians Shackled by Electronic Medical Records

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Jordan Koll1, Gregory Hansen, MD, MPH2

1Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; 2Department of Pediatrics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Corresponding Author: Gregory.Hansen@umanitoba.ca

Journal MTM 4:3:32–34, 2015

doi:10.7309/jmtm.4.3.6

Within Health Delivery Organizations (HDOs), leaders, information technologists and privacy officers have been focused on the acquisition, implementation, and security of enterprise Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems. Unfortunately the investment of money, human resources and time is at the expense of addressing daily physician workflow complexities. To optimize patient centered care, we must unshackled the physician from the EMR desktop and move them closer to the patient. For this reason, physicians should engage with key stakeholders to identify the financial, legal, administrative and human resource challenges of delivering efficient workflow solutions alongside the deployment of enterprise EMRs.

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Posted on Oct 13, 2015 in Perspective Pieces | 0 comments

The Potential Value of Virtual Environments (VEs) in Rehabilitation

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Leigh A. Lehman, PhD

Center for Innovation on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, 151-B, NF/SG VA Medical Center, 1601 SW Archer Road, Gainesville, Florida 32608, USA

Corresponding Author: lalehman@phhp.ufl.edu

Journal MTM 4:3:26–31, 2015

doi:10.7309/jmtm.4.3.5

The Potential Value of Virtual Environments (VEs) in Rehabilitation

Virtual Environments (VEs) are computer-generated immersive, interactive simulations.1 These controlled settings can be designed to enable assessment and training of a wide variety of daily tasks, including those that are difficult to practice in the real-world for practical and safety reasons.2,3 The use of VEs has attracted increased interest as shown by increasing publications in the realm of rehabilitation. VEs are especially promising in the area of rehabilitation of instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs).4 Despite this recent growth in research, the use of these technologies lacks the validation necessary to establish them as standard practices in rehabilitation. Given the growing use and potential of VEs in rehabilitation, there is a need for specific guidelines to be established for the validity testing of these constructs.

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Posted on Jul 16, 2015 in Perspective Pieces | 0 comments

Yencode – its application in dentistry

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Moidin Shakil, MDS1, Karteek Durbakula2, Kulkarni Spoorti2, Maji Jose, MDS1

1Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Yenepoya Dental College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India; 2Post Graduate Student, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Yenepoya Dental College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

Corresponding Author: karteek.durbakula@gmail.com

Journal MTM 4:2:48–50, 2015

doi:10.7309/jmtm.4.2.7

Quick Response Codes are used in modern day lifestyle for various purposes. Yencode (QR Code) is an innovative approach in recording and maintenance of slide details. Having an access to slide information from any part of the world with mobile QR Code scanner software will enable in early diagnosis and effective treatment. Yencode is a boost to retrospective studies as it saves a lot of time and problems encountered in recollecting old details and minimizes manual efforts in retrieval of information.

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