It’s time to redesign medical data

Dr Shock
February 15, 2011
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Your medical chart: it’s hard to access, impossible to read — and full of information that could make you healthier if you just knew how to use it. At TEDMED, Thomas Goetz looks at medical data, making a bold call to redesign it and get more insight from it.

It starts off with an interesting experiment in dentistry. Fear doesn’t work in communicating messages about health.

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One Response to “It’s time to redesign medical data”

  1. Yes, these could be easier to read so patients and families caring for their loved ones would be able to help with medications, etc. Especially when a loved one is in the hospital and not able to know what is going on around them.

  2. FancyScrubs on February 16th, 2011 at 11:28 am

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