The D:Scribe is a pen that digitizes your writing to send as a text message. You write whatever you want, circle the name of the recipient, and the pen sends the data to your cell phone via Bluetooth, which in turn fires off the text or email message. The current status of messages is displayed on the pen's little OLED display.This post at geekology about a special digital pen got my attention. I love pens especially fountain pen. Since PC's and electronic patient files a pen is hardly used anymore. I used to have a whole range of fountain pens. .....read more »

Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader. The pilot project announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 patients at the Cleveland Clinic who volunteered to an electronic transfer of their personal health records so they can be retrieved through Google's new service, which won't be open to the general public.On biz.yahoo.comRelated posts: Google storing online medical records? Google and Microsoft battle on health Read patients records between 1852 and 1914 ..read more »

The short history of Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) in treatment resistant depression is hampered by some drawbacks. Scientifically the results of a double-blind randomized sham controlled trial with no definitive evidence of short-term efficacy for adjunctive VNS in treatment resistant depression were of major importance. Of human interest was the undisclosed background of Dr Nemeroff, then editor in chief of the journal in which he published a review about VNS for treatment resistant depression. Not only did he not disclose his position as head of the "mechanism of action" advisory board at Cyberonics; the paper's first draft was written by .....read more »

During your residency in psychiatry in The Netherlands you have to have at least 50 sessions of psychotherapy. This is done for several reasons. The first one is of course the notion that in performing psychotherapy, the relationship is the very instrument of the treatment. Residents in psychiatry should be aware of their own feelings about their patients — a process called countertransference. Another advantage is the awareness of what it means to be in psychotherapy for a patient. And sometimes residents can benefit from the treatment of their own complaints. Sometimes this therapy is useful for their .....read more »

9 Curricula were identified in a literature search for curricula addressing resident-pharmaceutical industry relationship. Lack of experience may make young doctors particular vulnerable to pharmaceutical industry influence. These interactions between doctor and pharmaceutical companies have an impact on doctor knowledge and prescribing practice. The pharmaceutical companies have different and efficient marketing techniques to influence doctors. Residents may be even more influenced when not educated about these threats.Inconsistency in content (of the curricula), application and evaluation methodology prevents any meaningful synthesis of dataThis was the conclusion of a systematic review of the curricula.The literature search obtained 121 articles, of which 78 .....read more »

Professional writers spend most days of their adult lives writing. For those among them who specialize on long form non-fiction, their writing is not that different from the types of research papers that plague college students. Assuming that these writers do not want to spend most of the days of their adult lives hating what they are doing, it stands to reason that, over time, they have figured the least painful possible way to schedule a large amount of writing.The most important rules are:get up in time, between 7 and 8 amwork for 2 to 3 hours than stop for .....read more »

We're beginning to finalize our program for Games for Health 2008 on May 8-9 in Baltimore.We're planning close to 40 sessions including sessions on epidemiology in World of Warcraft, Game Addicition, Nurse Training, Rehabitainment, and a special session with some of the biggest companies in healthcare.Stay tuned there is much more to come but click through to see some of the great content planned thus far for our largest event yet!This is the announcement for the new conference. A lot of interesting subjects will be presented in sessions about (computer) games in health care.For example:The Case of the Food Detective .....read more »

I think the latter. Heard this number this afternoon on the radio, couldn't get it out of my head, terrific. In the record you can also hear a Spanish Speaking Woman. This is live.No mp3 available, search the whole @#!!% Internet.Enjoy!Related posts: Psychiatry and movies: David Helfgott, Genius reborn Sensation Seekers, Crazy or Both? Internet-Based Learining for Medical Education: Old Wine in New Bottles? ..read more »

Future search will depend heavily on what the engine knows about you: Where you live, what your friends like, and what you’ve found useful in the past. It’s unlikely that the average consumer will invest time and effort in building redundant online personas across several search engines in order to improve results.Users make very little use of advanced search facilities, they assume that search engines understand their query's. Many new search sites are trying to build a better mousetrap by trying new appraoches. You can read about the reasons why the World Needs Another Way to Search?Thanks Gigaom.comAlways wondered how .....read more »

Terrific post, go read it. For each reason the author provided literature.21 Powerful Reasons To ExerciseJust a few examples, I leave it up to you to figure out why I did choose these examplesBone strength and prevention of osteoporosis.Better night sleep: time-proved "Insomnia Rx".Alternative to hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women.New brain cells development (neurogenesis).Related posts: 6 Sleep Aids Without Pills 3 Reasons why the Dutch are famous Insomnia and Depression ..read more »