What I've Been Watching

I will write a more in-depth post on my school/practicum in a few days. For now, I want to share these wonderful items with you all:

First, I love seeing health data presented in a beautiful and understandable (to lay-people) way. Particularly when that health data is personalized. Through Twitter I stumbled across this TEDMED video of Thomas Goetz speaking about the importance of presentation in health as well as some redesigns of how to present test results to patients.



Goetz/Wired Magazine's redesigns can be found here: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/ff_bloodwork/all/

This video led me to the work of some researchers at Dartmouth who came up with a different way to present health and drug statistics. You can check that out here: http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring08/html/disc_drugs_we.php

It looks like a nutrition facts label...with drug statistics:

So many people doing such neat things. Now practice needs to start catching up to research