Yearly Archives: 2013
TEDMED 2013 Highlights
Wow – TEDMED ended about 92 hours ago from now and I’m still processing all the great ideas I heard, feedback I shared, and inspiring talks I witnessed first-hand. I’m still in awe of how much happened over those three and a half days but I want to share some of my highlights with you: [...]
Tapping the “Human Eye API” in Healthcare – Thoughts on Google Glass and Healthcare
I have spent a good deal of time reading about Project Glass by Google and it’s early voyagers that are looking to harness it’s abilities to innovate good for the world. As I reflect, this technology brings me back to my childhood and teenage days of watching movies like Minority Report and the Terminator. I [...]
A Deeper Look At The First Few Days of H7N9 Related Twitter Trend
The H7N9 outbreak has been one for the record books. Social sites, media and public health organizations around the word have seen traffic related to this story. Novel ways of tracking disease are coming to the forefront as useful tools to help public and global health agencies track the H7N9 social, media and disease related trends at a rapid [...]
TEDMED and the “Great Challenges” We Have Before Us in Health Care
If you follow me on Twitter (@Skram), you know that I’ve been humbled to receive a Frontline Scholarship from the organizers of TEDMED to attend this year’s event. You also know from my tweets I can’t wait for the event which starts next week. Something I haven’t seen shared with the world is that the [...]
Tracking Influenza A H7N9 Through Social Media
On March 31st the China Health and Family Planning Commission notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about three cases of influenza A (H7N9) contracted by humans where two of those cases were fatal. The individuals infected H7N9 with came from the provinces of Shanghai and Anuhai, China. The WHO issued the first report of human cases of H7N9 [...]
HHS/CMS Open Data Exploration: EHR Incentive Payments to Eligible Hospitals and Professionals
A little less than two weeks ago, I learned about a new data set from CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) containing “EHR Incentive Program data on eligible hospitals in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program” from Sherry Reynolds, a health policy guru I follow on Twitter and who I later learned works for ONC. My [...]
Tracking the Flu With Tweets – A Follow Up to Our Initial Blog Post
Overview We continue to track the 2012-2013 flu seasons and it continues to perpetuate itself. As discussed in our previous blog post analyzing flu related tweets from week 42 – 51 we have further analyzed through week 2. This post will share just some of the results of further analyzing the trends we have found. [...]
A look back: A comparison of flu trends uncovered by MappyHealth (analyzed Twitter tweets), Google Flu Trends, and two CDC datasets
Overview Health officials across the country are calling the 2012 – 2013 flu season the worst in years. The Social Health Insights team has been tracking flu related symptoms and associated tweets for months leading up to the season. Over the holiday break, we were hard at work analyzing this information for patterns and trends. [...]
Recent Posts
- TEDMED 2013 Highlights
- Tapping the “Human Eye API” in Healthcare – Thoughts on Google Glass and Healthcare
- A Deeper Look At The First Few Days of H7N9 Related Twitter Trend
- TEDMED and the “Great Challenges” We Have Before Us in Health Care
- Tracking Influenza A H7N9 Through Social Media
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More #tornado activity tonight. The #twitter trends remain way above baseline. #staysafe t.co/6dZfpZujaV Time ago 11 Hours via Safari on iOS
- RT @Cascadia: Who will integrate EHR w/ personal fitness apps? @Aetna w/ 38 million customers t.co/43Y8ubXHcD @VentureBeat #heal… Time ago 1 Day via Twitter for iPhone
- @DHSgov we have observed a significant spike in twitter activity related to tornado activity t.co/iu601UStBj Time ago 1 Day via Twitter for iPhone
- Our thoughts go out to everyone in the Oklahoma City area tonight in the wake of today's devastating tornado. #PrayForOklahoma Time ago 1 Day via Twitter for iPhone
- @johnbrownstein thanks John. We second a PH API. Thanks for blazing the trail for us all to innovate forward. #Pubht Time ago 2 Days via HootSuite
- “@NinaJTweets: Check out @cdcgov's Informatics R&D lab, #pubht t.co/jT4uDDHikX” Time ago 2 Days via Twitter for iPhone
- Twitter trend up to 60K tweets per hour with today's tornados - our thoughts go out to the victims @ASPRFusion t.co/iu601UStBj Time ago 2 Days via Safari on iOS
- Our thoughts and prayers go out to those effected by the Moore Oklahoma tornados and those at Plaza elementary school Time ago 2 Days via Twitter for iPhone
- In addition to tornado twitter teen increases we are seeing an increase in flood related tweets #staysafe t.co/tW2ep70qz8 Time ago 3 Days via Safari on iOS
- .@kfor we are tracking the twitter activity during the tornados your experiencing. - hope this helps you t.co/6dZfpZujaV Time ago 3 Days via Safari on iOS
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