This link was sent to me by Susan Burwash... interesting article from the BBC about medical students using Twitter and Blogs to inappropriately share information about patients or institutions.Medics posting messages on networking websites like Facebook and Twitter are breaching patient confidentiality, a leading journal reveals.Research in the Journal of the American Medical Association found …
Tiny URL
Did you ever see the words TinyURL in a web address and think "what is that?" I often wondered, and saw it coming up more and more on Twitter. So tonight I got around to looking it up and found a great description on Wikipedia "TinyURL is a web service that provides short aliases for …
Robots teach kids how to walk
Click on this link to go to source of photograph (not from the news report but a separate website)Roxanne Stein from US television station WBPTV reported on an advanced "walking training" machine that can assist teach people with neurological damage, such as cerebral palsy, to improve their walking. You can see in the video footage …
Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think
This is copied from the Blog "Socialnomics" and was shown to me by Susan Burwash at the UofA. Thanks Susan!Stats from Video (sources listed below by corresponding #) 1. By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network 2. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on …
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Becoming a blog commenter.. I’m growing up!
My blog became a place for me to download (my brain) of information of interest that passed over my desk, came through my email or arrived in my Google alerts, it is a "filter blog" not a "reflection blog". Today I visited OTBlogs.org again (created by Joan G. UofA MScOT graduate next month) and this …
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New Internet Intervention Gives Insomnia Patients a Better Night’s Sleep
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 6, 2009 – The estimated one-third of adults who suffer from insomnia could soon find effective treatment without ever leaving their homes. Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have developed a unique Internet-based intervention, based on well-established face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, that has shown remarkable results in improving patients’ …
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Medical-device maker Saebo flexes muscle in growing market
Henry Hoffman just wanted to help stroke survivors. Today, the occupational therapist is a leading force at Saebo Inc, a growing Charlotte company that develops and manufactures rehabilitation products for stroke survivors. “For years, there were no options,” says Hoffman, Saebo’s president. The company got its start in 2001 as Affordable Therapy Equipment, changing its …
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Study Reveals Tension between Employers and Employees around the Use of Social Media
I received this information from Dave McNamee from Deliotte.Deloitte’s third annual Ethics & Workplace survey, commissioned by chairman Sharon Allen, reveals tension between employers and employees around the use of social media. This year’s survey set out to explore an area of increasing significance to the workplace; use of social networking and its affect on …
STUDY FINDS LINK BETWEEN FACEBOOK USE, LOWER GRADES IN COLLEGE
SAN DIEGO – College students who use Facebook spend less time studying and have lower grade point averages than students who have not signed up for the social networking website, according to a pilot study at one university. However, more than three-quarters of Facebook users claimed that their use of the social networking site didn’t …
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iBrain
I am about to buy the book iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind by Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan. I think it is very important the occupational therapists stay up to date with the impact of the digital world on brain development and the subsequent impact on basic skills such as human …
Anita Hamilton ~ VirtualOT 