Factors Engaging Users of Diabetes Social Media Channels on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: Observational Study.

Background: Diabetes patient associations and diabetes-specific patient groups around the world are present on social media. Although active participation and engagement in these diabetes social media groups has been mostly linked to positive effects, very little is known about the content that is shared on these channels or the post features that engage their users the most.

Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze (1) the content and features of posts shared over a 3-year period on 3 diabetes social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) of a diabetes association, and (2) users' engagement with these posts (likes, comments, and shares).

Panel: Big Data & Social Media for Empowering Patients with Diabetes.

Millions of people living with diabetes are using mobile phones, Internet and social media to socialize with other patients, share experience or search information relevant for their self-management. This phenomena is leading towards a new paradigm of hyper-connected diabetes digital self-management. This is also leading towards an explosion on data, a large amount of data is collected on populations around the world.

Video Conferencing Services in Healthcare: One Communication Platform to Support All.

We present a novel approach to the design of video conferencing (VC) systems, taking advantage of recent technological achievements in web-based implementation. Delivering VC functionality as a service over the Internet opens new grounds for easier integration, support, and application in many scenarios, since hardware-agnostic ad-hoc VC connections are a feature of the proposed architecture. Validity is demonstrated through latency measures in surgical telementoring service and comparing them to reported thresholds.

Assessing the impact of telestration on surgical telementoring: A randomized controlled trial.

Introduction: Using graphical annotations in surgical telementoring promises vast improvements in both clinical and educational outcomes. However, these assumptions do not consider the potential patient safety risks resulting from this feature. Major differences in regulations regarding the implementation of telestration encourage an assessment of the utility of this feature on the outcomes of telementoring sessions.

Video calls from lay bystanders to dispatch centers - risk assessment of information security.

Background: Video calls from mobile phones can improve communication during medical emergencies. Lay bystanders can be instructed and supervised by health professionals at Emergency Medical Communication Centers. Before implementation of video mobile calls in emergencies, issues of information security should be addressed.

Use of telephone and SMS reminders to improve attendance at hospital appointments: a systematic review.

Patients failing to attend hospital appointments contribute to inefficient use of resources. We conducted a systematic review of studies providing a reminder to patients by phone, short message service (SMS) or automated phone calls. A PubMed search was conducted to identify articles published after 1999, describing studies of non-attendance at hospital appointments.

Flexibility in interaction: sociotechnical design of an operating room scheduler.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to learn about factors that influence the design and implementation of situated computing solutions that support hospital work. This includes social and technical aspects of the actual systems that will be implemented, as well as the appropriate design methodology for developing these systems.

Methods: Staff at a surgical department at a University hospital were engaged in a participatory design (PD) process to help solve a problem that was presented by the staff: scheduling of patients and surgery rooms, and creating awareness of the status of ongoing surgeries.

Disrupted rhythms and mobile ICT in a surgical department.

Purpose: This study presents a study of mobile information and communication technology (ICT) for healthcare professionals in a surgical ward. The purpose of the study was to create a participatory design process to investigate factors that affect the acceptance of mobile ICT in a surgical ward.

Methods: Observations, interviews, a participatory design process, and pilot testing of a prototype of a co-constructed application were used.

A large, high resolution tiled display for medical use: experiences from prototyping of a radiology scenario.

The scope of the project was to assess the value of using high-resolution, very large displays in a hospital setting. We applied a scenario informed prototyping method and user-involvement in order to do this. Initial results suggest that the technology could prove very useful in clinical conferencing settings like the communicating process between the radiology department and the other hospital departments using their services.

The potential of digital monochrome images versus colour slides in telescreening for diabetic retinopathy.

We explored the potential of digital monochrome images as an alternative to colour slides in screening for diabetic retinopathy. Twenty-eight patients with diabetes were recruited for the study and 20 actually participated. Using a fundus camera (Nikon 505AF) one set of three digital images and one set of three colour slides were taken per eye.

Challenges in telemedicine and eHealth: lessons learned from 20 years with telemedicine in Tromsø.

The Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine (NST) has, over the past two decades, contributed to the development and implementation of telemedicine and ehealth services in Norway. From 2002, NST has been a WHO Collaboration Center for telemedicine. In August 1996, Norway became the first country to implement an official telemedicine fee schedule making telemedicine services reimbursable by the national health insurer.

Risk analysis of information security in a mobile instant messaging and presence system for healthcare.

Introduction: Instant messaging (IM) is suited for immediate communication because messages are delivered almost in real time. Results from studies of IM use in enterprise work settings make us believe that IM based services may prove useful also within the healthcare sector. However, today's public instant messaging services do not have the level of information security required for adoption of IM in healthcare.

[May heart murmurs be assessed by telemedicine?].

Background: Children often have heart murmurs; referral to a specialist is common. A service for remote auscultation of heart murmurs was established in which heart sounds and short texts were sent as attachment to e-mails. Our aim was to assess the quality of this method.