Several New Sites – Blogs and Other

Thanks to John Sharp for blogging about several interesting sites that I visited this morning:

• Life as a Healthcare CIO Blog (see example entry on PHRs) – this is a new blog by one of the more outspoken CIOs in the industry.  Based on the initial entries, it should be an interesting blog to follow.
• eHealth Initiative Blueprint – I haven’t read the PDF yet, but it sounds like an interesting organization.  Browsing the site offers lots of information and strategy level thoughts on how to improve healthcare across constituents using IT.
• Curehunter – a new healthcare online data mining tool for pulling up disease specific research and information.  As described on their website, the uses for the application are:
  • For patients we provide low-cost Summary PDF Reports with all drug evidence for all known cures or symptom improvement
  • For medical professionals CureHunter on-line access delivers decision support in 10-20 seconds of real clinical time to make an evidence check as SOP as a BP or Temp
  • For pharma research scientists we offer powerful data export functions that deliver over 1.5 million specific clinical outcome data points to new drug discovery software
• VisibleBody – this is a 3-D model of the human anatomy which will soon be available online.  The graphics that you can see look great and it seems like an interesting and fun tool.  Probably a good way to teach your kids or even explain to patients what is going on inside them.  From the site, here are a few things they say about using it:
  • View highly detailed models of all body systems. 
  • Search for and locate anatomical structures by name.
  • Click on anatomical structures to reveal names.
  • Rotate and explore anatomy in a virtual space. 
  • Peel away layers to view relative placement of the components of all body systems. 
  • See placement of specific organs relative to other anatomical structures. 
  • View anatomical structures with or without surrounding anatomy. 
  • Investigate anatomy virtually, without the costly cadaver lab.