This runs along the same lines as personal health records and let’s get down to basics here as every application says you are not perfect and you need to fix something, who wants that! Most of the folks that talk and develop I lot of the applications would not use it themselves, but kind of know what is good “for those guys over there”. This strikes me as funny as nobody gets why the consumers are not just thrilled to use all these applications that are going to tell them something negative about themselves, Duh? Right now there’s more than enough in the nightly news to feel like we are being blamed for all the budget problems in the US just because we exist for goodness sakes. 
I like technology and what it can do and pretty advocate good stuff and I get tired of the “Junker” software created out there too that nobody uses. I happen happen to like what I am pitching and that is the FDA bar code recalls. First of all, guess what it gets that smartphone into the consumer’s hand and they are using it to find recalls, finally someone gives the consumer something that’s not going to tell them how bad they are, and does the just the opposite if we were able to use phones this way. Fat chance getting folks like the FDA and pharma companies to get off their luddite behinds and get on to this so far.
Microsoft Tags – Microsoft MSDN Posts Ideas from the Medical Quack About Use in Healthcare!
Heck even the White House could warm up to this idea with the same technology to keep uninvited guests out…we remember that one, right?
Next up we see the press articles that talk about government leaders talking about how health IT illiterate consumers are and they are just as illiterate. No role models there and I have yet to hear anyone from HHS talk about how the Surgeon General’s PHR has shown value for them and we are living in the social world today. That tells me they really are not that social and we sill have the paradigm of “its for those guys over there” along with big echoes of “Magpie Healthcare”.
What’s On the Agenda Tonight–World of Warcraft or Work on My Personal Health Record
All these endeavors are not bad but we all know more will fail or fade than get used. This article says the University is a good position to create apps, well who isn’t and that is not a statement to discount any of their efforts but more of what’s reality out there today, who isn’t? Now on the other hand, why do people flock to games on their phones, because it is fun and the game is not going to make them feel bad. Some try to make healthcare games, but the underlying object of telling you that you are not doing something right is still there. The VA the other day is talking about Vista their medical record system and about having a custodian for the open source. There’s also a company who did work with the source and created a commercial installation, so will these 2 talk? I don’t know but thought it was a good idea since there’s a lot of code written here?
VA Issues Draft for a Vista EHR Open Source Custodial Agent-Have They Spoken to Medsphere to Perhaps Collaborate-Is There Anyone Really Going To Do That?
It’s an interesting world as everybody seems to talk a big show with declaring such expertise and yet it never gets there most of the time. Perhaps the University here will come up with something as that’s what mobile apps seem to be mostly today, create and see if it sticks on the wall. You know, come to think of it, Harvard has a mobile platform and I just wonder if UCSF will talk with them….collaboration again knocking at the door maybe or are we still the on the best mouse trap campaign.
Experts these days in software are getting harder to find and that is partly because such a glut of it out there so anymore, and again I like software and used to write it, I don’t get very excited and with nobody doing anything for the consumer other than telling how bad they are with an application, it’s hard to get behind most of it. Who do you want to teach you how to drive a car, a person who read a book about it and has never driven or an individual who has driven a car for years and has lots of hands on experience? I think we all know that answer but yet in software we keep getting the “book” guys out there and they can’t show value for the consumer, no matter what they do or say.
So all in all its just another app in the wall <grin>. BD
At the University of California, San Francisco, Jeff Jorgenson and his mHealth development team are building next-generation patient apps. Those apps will be highly personal, getting smarter as they learn more about the user. The phone might, for example, urge you to walk by the bar you are approaching because it knows you are stressed out – from the mood information you have inputted – and having a few drinks might make you relapse into smoking.
As an organization, UCSF is in a good position to create future apps. It has the medical knowledge, physicians who are interested in mHealth, the technical support from information services and patients who would use the apps. But it is not easy to coordinate all this, especially when nobody has the money to make it happen. Until now, funding for mHealth projects has come from the information services unit budget and various grants.
The problem with grants is that applicants need to show what they are going to do, and it takes money to create a demo. This is where wStack, an app engine created by Suarez, helps. It provides one engine to create demos and many kinds of applications. It also works in smartphones like iPhones and Android devices as well as in simpler phones.
The race is on for the killer health app at UCSF | SF Public Press
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