Ever since the industrial revolution, there has been a fear of machines taking over our work and medicine is no different. There can be a feeling among digital health enthusiasts that doctors are anti-innovation and that they will have to reinvent them or be left behind. Nothing further from the truth in a profession where life-long learning is part of the course
Category: Healthtech for clinicians
The digital doctor’s bag.
Listen to this as a podcast courtesy of the IFMiL or Catalan Institute of Medical Education and Leadership. When you think of the traditional image of a doctor outside of the hospital or the consulting room, he or she always carries a bag. Much like Mary Poppin’s carpet bag, it is full of magical instruments. Apart […]
Telemonitoring
Listen to this as a podcast courtesy of the IFMiL or Catalan Institute of Medical Education and Leadership. What is it? Telemonitoring has been defined as “the distance monitoring of components of a patient’s health as part of a larger chronic care model” as recently as 2016 (1). It is clear, however, that real-time telemonitoring […]
Telemedicine – a brief introduction.
Listen to this post as a podcast instead. What is it? Telemedicine is, as its name explains, medicine at a distance. This can be synchronised in time with both doctor and patient being in contact at the same time or asynchronous with a time lag. Telemedicine has existed in one form or another as long […]
10 minute podcast updates
Sometimes reading a blog post or an article is hard to fit in. Try getting your updates with these podcasts in ENGLISH. An introduction to the GDPR for doctors. The difference between anonymisation and pseudoanonymisation in health data – stay compliant with GDPR. Polypharmacy. Communicating with patients.