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Healthy Olympics 2012: Disease surveillance and mass gathering medicine
In just a few short days, London will play host to more than 10 million sports fans from around the world. Is the city ready to keep them all healthy? (Ben Sutehrland/Flickr) In the blockbuster...
View ArticleNew app streamlines and improves emergency care
It may seem like just a smartphone application, but BEAPPER, a real-time alert and communication platform, has been making waves in the Emergency Department (ED) at Boston Children’s Hospital, which...
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New app distills the fine art of interpreting a child’s blood pressure
Hypertension is harder to diagnose in children than you think. A new app, which can work with multiple EMR systems, helps doctors interpret a child's blood pressure readings based on age, height, sex...
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Pay Me Maybe: Can we get past this telemedicine barrier?
Telemedicine has the potential to transform healthcare and lower costs. A new Massachusetts law requires insurers to pay for it—but with a potential loophole. The mandate for broader access to health...
View ArticleUsing DNA sequencing in medicine: The world starts to figure out how
It’s been more than a decade since the Human Genome Project cracked our genetic code. DNA sequencing is getting cheaper and cheaper. So why isn’t it being used every day in medicine? The truth is that...
View ArticleWeb platform tracks ADHD patients in real time
It was a chance encounter. Eugenia Chan, MD, MPH, and Eric Fleegler, MD, MPH, both worked at Boston Children’s Hospital, and had met one another once or twice, but only in passing. Running into each...
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Disrupting health care: The unique challenges facing health tech entrepreneurs
Inventions need a little extra incubating to make them attractive to health care. Jenna Rose is director of Healthbox, a platform that brings together entrepreneurs, strategic partners, industry...
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Personal genomics takes flight as hospitals join forces with industry
A new spinoff business will make large-scale genomic diagnostics a reality in medical practice (Image: Rosendahl) Genomic sequencing and molecular diagnostics are becoming a global business. At the...
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Enhancing patient / care team interaction with an iPad “passport”
In just a 24-hour period, patients in the hospital typically see a variety of doctors, nurses, x-ray technicians and other medical professionals, and undergo a plethora of diagnostic tests—without an...
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Top 10 science and innovation trends for 2013
(Garry Knight/Flickr) Vector has been deliberating about its predictions for 2013, consulting its many informants. Here’s where we’re putting our money this year; if you have other ideas, scroll to...
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Participatory surveillance in public health: Sharing is caring
Sharing via social media is a great opportunity for collecting better public health data and encouraging healthy behavior changes. (bengrey/Flickr) We humans are sharing creatures. We talk about...
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Could “network” analysis of the brain explain autism’s features?
Ed note: The Obama administration is expected to unveil plans for a decade-long Brain Activity Map project next month. This is Part One of a two-part series on brain mapping. How is information routed...
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Mapping the wiring of the developing brain in 3D
Ed. note: Last week we wrote about Jurriaan Peters, MD’s brain network analysis in children with autism. In the second of our two part series on brain mapping, we talk about ways of mapping the brain’s...
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Raising an early warning in the ICU: T3
How can ICU clinicians manage the data from all these monitors? With the Internet’s meteoric rise in the last 20 years—to the point of being available 24/7 in your pocket—technology pundits,...
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Unearthing unrecognized drug interactions, through search data
As we reported on Vector last year, once a new drug is on the market, regulators rely on a mix of surveillance, reporting and data mining to detect adverse drug events (aka side effects). While those...
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Can I have my health data? Some doctors still think no.
(Courtesy Accenture and Harris Interactive) One of the big selling points of electronic health records (EHRs) is patient empowerment. By letting patients have their data, the thinking goes, they’ll be...
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SHRINE: Clinical & population research by the numbers
Clinical research is all about numbers. A new informatics network called SHRINE could help make it easier to get find out if the numbers of patients are there to answer complex questions....
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Mapping obesity with Facebook
What you like on Facebook might say something about how obese your neighborhood is. (Dry Martini/Wikimedia Commons) If one of my Facebook friends were to look through my list of “likes,” they’d find...
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Could more time online improve teens’ health? For diabetes, possibly
Teens with type 1 diabetes can download their blood glucose data and attend "virtual clinics" from home. Most adolescents fight for the freedom to manage their own lives, especially when it comes to...
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Tracking vaccine misconceptions–by mining online data
This 1802 British cartoon skewers the cowpox vaccine, newly introduced against smallpox. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_cow_pock.jpg#file Fifty years after Boston Children’s...
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