Is the healthcare system volatile? Not only are there many moving pieces, but its evolution must be proportional to a combination of various factors: the variable demands of pathophysiology, technology, policies, research, availability of personnel etc. One example of how healthcare demand is vulnerable to change is given by the story of emergency departments (ED). […]
Dr. Derek O’Keefe calls himself a Physicianeer. In this talk, Dr. O’Keefe describes how the fusion of engineering and medicine in one brain is not the future, but the preset. He describes a wide range of projects ranging from NASA to sports! For inquiries, comments and feedback reach-out at communications@snoor.ca
The healthcare cost in Canada has outgrown its generated economic growth rate, leaving us in a estimated $13 billion deficit [1][4]. Working in the hospital and seeing first-hand how despite of amazing technologies and solutions in the market, our patients still receive care in a sub-optimal workflows with sub-optimal technologies. My assessment is that this could […]
We all are familiar with flu season. As December approaches people around us start getting feverish with some sort of monstrous flu; skipping work and school, grandparents in nursing homes being sent to the hospitals and the chaos of “there is a bug going around” takes over. Working in a very high volume emergency department […]
Like many patients in the emergency department, one night in a patient showed up cuffed with two policeman accompanying him. They patiently waited until their turn and finally when the doctor came to see them, they presented their story. The man had been drunk and was dealing with issues at his house. This particular time, […]
As a part of one of my Human Factors Engineering projects, I redesigned an ED tracking software. This is a step by step process that I followed to generate the final – optimized solution.
Entering the new era of evidence based medicine, one would require a great deal of information about the functional and anatomical functions in the body before pinning down a diagnosis. For instance: if the differential diagnosis contains myocardial infarction (heart attack) then we must test for all functional aspects of a heart that may show […]
For years doctors and engineers, have been working to create a replacement for limbs. Whether its been through mechanical levers or high functioning brain computer interface systems, recreating a human limb has put our minds to a test of physiological systems modelling and understanding. Lets look at a prosthetic hand design and how physiology challenges […]
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