WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: February 23, 2012 Featuring: John Moore, MD, PhD Candidate, MIT Media Lab – New Media Medicine David Judge, MD, Project Leader, CIMIT Ambulatory Practice of the Future; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School New technologies by themselves cannot create more robust patient-provider partnerships. But, with a lot of ingenuity and thoughtful design, and a commitment to creating tools that help put patients more in charge of their health, technology can be a game changer. That’s the guiding principle behind some fascinating work under development at the MIT Media Lab, and that’s where this WIHI takes place for its first ever “live on location” broadcast. If you’ve never heard of NewMediaMedicine, you’re in for a treat. Using a conceptual and software platform called CollaboRhythm, researchers are designing and testing tools that offer patients real-time data about their own chronic health conditions that can then be easily conveyed to a health care provider, enabling coaching and communicatio