Medical device “Plug-and-Play” interoperability is a crucial issue today with the eventual goal being an integrated clinical environment, in which all devices are interconnected, in plug-and-play fashion, for better management. Most medical devices used in hospitals don’t “talk” to each other in event the simpest of ways that our PCs “talk” to our printers!
Peter Szolovits, a professor of computer science at MIT who studies medical data integration says “where you have a bunch of data simultaneously, you can do a better job of trying to understand what’s going on with the patient.”
The issue is important enough for Mass General Hospital in Boston to have established the MD PnP program dedicated to “leading the adoption of open standards and technology to interconnect medical devices for improving patient safetyand healthcare efficiency.”
MD PnP is part of the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) and now the group has proposed a new set of standards for an”Integrated Clinical Environment.” Julian Goldman, director of MD PnP, calls the standards “a comprehensive [design] platform… that allows the global community to innovate and build cool things on top of it that improve patient safety.”
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Ohad Gilboa- inventor and developer of Vayar Vision, turned me on to Google’s Similar Images capability today.
I now see that TechCrunch wrote about it back in April (Google Similar Images First Look), but I somehow missed it. While I’m embarrassed to be saying “wow” over something that’s nearly five months old, I thought it was cool enough to overcome that and share…
R. Scott Raynovich at Contentinople says he thinks social networks and their marketing model are flawed. The problem, he says, is that with social networks, the content and marketing are inextricably intertwined so that half of the alleged “content” is really just people promoting themselves or products – i.e., marketing.
In a social network, says R. Scott, you are expected to be your own BS filter, and many are failing to filter themselves at all. And the more BS there is, the more a brand associated with that BS degrades.
Social networks, he concludes, need to develop a viable marketing model that cleans up the BS with better filter messages and real marketing value that preserves the integrity of the content.
Your thoughts?
Read the full post at Contentinople.