The launch of the Understanding Targeted Cancer Therapies tutorials on the National Cancer Institute website (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/understandingcancer/targetedtherapies) marked the unveiling of Medicom Digital’s innovative software engine for displaying educational information.
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The Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLM) 2009 Annual Conference: Personal Electronic Health Records: From Biomedical Research to People’s Health was held at the National Institutes of Health on May 20-21 and featured an outstanding lineup of 25 experts in the field.
Some of our developers are headed to the Google IO conference this week in San Francisco where we will be learning about new technologies surrounding the Google Health platform, OpenSocial (Google’s common social networking platform), and Android (the “gPhone” software). If you are headed to the conference from the health arena, we’d love to meet up with you. Drop us a line on our contact form.
A new animated tutorial developed by Medicom Digital for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is now available on Cancer.gov. This hour long tutorial provides an extensive visual overview of targeted therapies and how they work. It will offer physicians who treat patients with life-threatening cancers a comprehensive tool to educate them on these ground-breaking new therapies.
In addition to the Overview module that launched this week, we are currently working with the NCI to develop additional modules specifically addressing targeted therapies for breast, multiple myeloma, lymphoma, lung, and colon cancers. If you are interested in funding one of these modules or a module for another cancer type, please contact us.
In addition to 3D animations, video, voiceover, and text, the Medicom Digital’s new tutorial engine features hierarchical navigation, searching, bookmarking, quizzes and more. We will be posting more information about our new tutorial engine in the coming days.
Cancer.gov – Targeted Therapies Tutorial
This is a short video demonstrating one of the sections of the new tutorial.
Update 8/18/09: We have added a new section to our website for Medical Animations with demos and more.
Google Health was first launched publicly exactly 1 year ago today. As a launch partner with Google, we released the Heart Attack Risk Calculator on behalf of the American Heart Association. This risk calculator, which estimates users’ 10-year risk of a heart attack, was one of the first consumer health risk assessment tools to leverage the power of a personal health record (PHR). Google Health integration helps take the hard work out of completing a health risk assessment tool by automatically accessing the answers to health questions from users’ Google Health profiles. Because the Heart Attack Risk Calculator was the first Google Health application to offer bi-directional communication, users received the additional benefit of being able to update their Google Health profile if they had newer information.
Over the last year, as an approved Google Health Integration Consultant we have built 2 more applications that run on the Google Health platform. In February, we released the Go Red Heart CheckUp on behalf of the Go Red for Women campaign. This tool has been featured in a number of web and national television ads.
In April, we launched the My Diabetes Health Assessment tool with the Heart of Diabetes campaign. The My Diabetes Health Assessment is designed to provide cardiovascular risk info for users with type 2 diabetes.
In the next year, we look forward to several additional Google Health (and Microsoft HealthVault) linked health tools for our clients. In addition, we are working on the next phase of these tools that allow for ongoing health tracking and real-time risk calculations. We are excited to extend the work we have done on our current rich web applications to: desktop reminder applications, mobile applications for iPhone and Google Android, and website widgets for portals and social network sites.
If you are looking for clever, well-designed health tools that motivate users to make healthy decisions, please contact us.
Google Health Directory – Go Red Heart CheckUp
Google Health Directory – Heart Attack Risk Calculator
Google Health Directory – My Diabetes Health Assessment
Part of the Medicom Digital team is at the BIO conference this week in Atlanta as part of our partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
If you are a biotechnology company looking for MOA videos, other medical animations, patient website showpieces, or sales tools like cost effectiveness economic models, please contact us. A member of our team can meet with you at the show.
Below is a sample device animation from a project last year:
Stay tuned for more information about our new Targeted Therapies Tutorial partnership with the National Cancer Institute later today.
Medicom Digital has now completed 3 Google Health enabled applications on behalf of our clients and Google Health has listed us as an Integration Consultant on their website. If you would like to integrate your software with Google Health, please contact us. Our company developed the AHA Heart Attack Risk Calculator tool that launched with Google Health in May 2008. We have been very involved with the Google Health team over the last 16 months as we have developed a number of different Health Services that utilize their PHR system.
Google Health Integration Consultants
About Google Health
Google Health services that we’ve developed:
Update 8/18/09: We have launched a new page for our PHR Consulting Services.
Weight loss device animation created by Medicom Digital for Enteromedics, Inc. has been shown in several recent TV news reports.
CBS Morning Show: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4026229n
KNBC TV, Los Angeles: http://video.knbc.com/player/?id=252016
WCCO TV, Minneapolis: http://wcco.com/local/anti.obesity.device.2.757252.html
On May 19, 2008, Google made the much anticipated announcement of the Google Health site. The American Heart Association’s Heart Attack Risk Calculator developed by Medicom Digital is one of the links available from the Google Health site. This calculator was demonstrated by Google as part of its site announcement press conference, because the Heart Attack Risk Calculator is one of the first two-way online data transfers implemented by a service using Google Health. The secure transfer of data through the click of a button makes the Heart Attack Risk Calculator easier to use, and is an excellent way of encouraging consumers to understand one of their most important health risks.
CBS press release announcing the launch: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/19/scitech/pcanswer/main4109522.shtml.