Showing posts with label social networks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social networks. Show all posts
Monday, April 16, 2012
audio/video/text: Topol on The Creative Destruction of Medicine (technology/social networks/patients sharing data/Patients Like Me, young patients, privacy ...)
(Dr) Topol on The Creative Destruction of Medicine
eg. MS/Facebook (Canada/stents/Facebook; I use this as an example (there are others in the interview) as the social networks moved forward clinical trials for MS patients where no support existed prior.....)
add your opinions
medical technology
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networking
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patients
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privacy
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social networks
Sunday, January 22, 2012
press release: Group Settings Can Diminish Expressions of Intelligence ((fMRI))
Blogger's Note: note #6 in 'findings' section (gender related)
".....Research led by scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute found that small-group dynamics -- such as jury deliberations, collective bargaining sessions, and cocktail parties -- can alter the expression of IQ in some susceptible people. "You may joke about how committee meetings make you feel brain dead, but our findings suggest that they may make you act brain dead as well," said Read Montague, director of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory and Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, who led the study."
add your opinions
dynamic fmri
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gender
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group dynamics
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social networks
Thursday, August 19, 2010
full free access: Preparing for a Consumer-Driven Genomic Age Health Policy and Reform
"Advances in genomic technologies permit the simultaneous analysis of millions of variants across the genome and may soon allow for meaningful estimation of one’s risks of developing cancer, diabetes, and other common diseases. These advances are converging with the movement toward consumer-driven health care and patient empowerment. Whereas in the past, medical testing was firmly under the control of medical practitioners, genomic information is now increasingly available outside traditional medical settings. Patients are no longer subordinate, passive recipients of physician-initiated genetic testing; rather, patients can instigate their own testing and often know more than their clinicians about particular genetic topics. Indeed, health care providers are increasingly bypassed altogether, as patients embrace direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests and turn to social networks for help in interpreting their results. In the future, a primary role of health care professionals may be to interpret patients’ DTC genetic test results and advise them about appropriate follow-up. How can we maximize the benefits of these new developments and minimize the harms? How can we encourage patients’ involvement and autonomy yet establish appropriate safeguards while avoiding inappropriate paternalism? How do we promote the understanding that interpretations of genomic information may evolve as research unravels the meaning of gene–gene and gene–environment interactions and the roles of noncoding DNA sequences, copy-number variants, epigenetic mechanisms, and behavioral factors in health and disease?..."cont'd
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autonomy
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consumer driven genomics
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direct to consumers
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dna sequencing
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DTC
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empowerment
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epigenetics
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paternalism
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social networks
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unclassified variants
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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