http://www.multiplyd.com Tracking the next generation of healthcare IT ideas Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:12:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WebDiet is an online weight management tool that can help its users eat smarter and healthier. Its a service that proactively sends location-based, customized meal suggestions directly to mobile devices and helps keep track of what you eat. The ides has potential. GPS-based real-time meal recommendations based on your daily intake ... http://www.multiplyd.com/2009/01/04/webdiet/ Another social networking take on healthcare- this one has a platform approach for multiple communities exclusively for providers and professionals in the life sciences and healthcare industry. Within3 aims to facilitate 'trusted relationships' amongst its members. What sets it apart from the usual networking websites is their business model (plus the ... http://www.multiplyd.com/2008/12/28/within3/ Dont think this one qualifies to be a 2.0 idea, but it got me thinking about one. On 25th November 2008, the US Surgeon General announced a major upgrade to their Family History Tool. It's a part of the a national public health campaign, called the Surgeon General's Family History ... http://www.multiplyd.com/2008/12/05/familyhistoryhhsgov/ Another consumer-oriented concept. This one is specifically for patients on multiple medications who are curious to find out how they interact and what side-effects are related to which. DoubleCheckMD is an offering by a Cambridge, MA-based company called Enhanced Medical Decisions, founded by a physician from Harvard. It provides information around ... http://www.multiplyd.com/2008/11/27/doublecheckmd/ Pain is a subjective symptom that is often hard to correctly diagnose and treat on long-term basis. It's the focus of ReliefInsite- an online web diary for patients with chronic pain. The idea is first to provide a simple platform to record and store pain-related data and provide easy-to-interpret analysis ... http://www.multiplyd.com/2008/11/07/reliefinsite/ Ever since Google and Microsoft jumped into it, the PHR (Personal Health Record) space has become red hot. So while PHRs try to move from hype phase to reality, startups like ClearSense are positioning themselves to leverage all those rich, complex details about your health. ClearSense aims to help you make ... http://www.multiplyd.com/2008/09/26/clearsense/ SimulConsult is a diagnostic decision support system started by Dr.Michael Segal. It covers 1,800 diseases that have at least one neurological finding in them. SimulConsult has an interesting logic behind it. Roughly speaking, its knowledge is derived from a 'computational wiki' that is restricted to physician users only. So its database ... http://www.multiplyd.com/2008/08/16/simulconsul/ SpineConnect is a knowledge networking site for spine surgeons to collaborate and support each other on difficult cases. It is the first offering from Syndicom, an online services company focused on communication and collaboration platform for the orthopedic industry. Since its launch in early 2006, SpineConnect has gathered 1174 members ... http://www.multiplyd.com/2008/06/24/spineconnect/ Physician Connect is a new community area on Medscape that allows physicians to securely engage online with other physicians in discussions on clinical as well as non-clinical topics that are relevant to the practice of medicine. The site was launched early this year, and is claimed to have gathered 20,000 ... http://www.multiplyd.com/2008/06/24/medscape-physician-connect/ Medstory is a health information search engine that went into a public beta in mid 2006. In feb 2007, it was acquired by Microsoft. Their interface is pretty minimalistic, with only a search keyword box on the homepage. The results returned with an option to refine it ... http://www.multiplyd.com/2008/06/19/medstory/