Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything (30 page)

DARPA is funding work toward a vision that “a cognitive computer system should be able to learn from its experience, as well as by being advised. It should be able to explain what it was doing and why it was doing it, and to recover from mental blind alleys. It should be able to reflect on what goes wrong when an anomaly occurs, and anticipate such occurrences in the future. It should be able to reconfigure itself in response to environmental changes. And it should be able to be configured, maintained, and operated by nonexperts.” CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) and RADAR are projects funded by DARPA toward this end.

CALO Web site.
http://caloproject.sri.com

RADAR Web site.
http://www.radar.cs.cmu.edu

DevonThink:

DevonThink Web page.
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink

Oakes, Chris. 2004. “Software Makes a Tiger of Panther.”
Wired
(July 6).

DSpace is “an open-source platform for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works. Developed by MIT Libraries and HP Labs, DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs, and data sets in an institutional repository.” “A university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.”

Dspace Web site.
http://www.dspace.org

Naone, Erica. 2007. “DSpace Goes Olympic.”
Technology Review
(Nov ember/December).

Sharing information about repairing Xerox copiers:

Bobrow, D. G., and J. Whalen. 2002. “Community Knowledge Sharing in Practice: The Eureka Story.”
Reflections, the SOL Journal
4, issue 2 (Winter): 47-59.

To be productive with your e-memories you must employ Personal Information Management (PIM). There is some great research being done on the topic.

Jones, William. 2008.
Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management (Interactive Technologies).
Burlington, Mass.: Morgan Kaufman.

Jones, William, and Jaime Teevan, eds. 2007.
Personal Information Management.
Seattle: University of Washington Press.

http://pim.ischool.washington.edu

An overview and primer about the nature and organization of information includes descriptions of the Dewey Decimal systems and facets:

Wright, Alex. 2007.
Glut: Managing Information Through the Ages.
Ithaca N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

5. HEALTH

A number of facts cited in this chapter came from presentations at the 2007 New Paradigms in Using Computers (NPUC) workshop. We used information from Dr. Paul Tang, chief medical information officer for Sutter Health, Elizabeth Mynatt of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Peter Miller of Vanderbilt HealthTech Laboratory,

NPUC 2007 Web page.
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/user/npuc2007

Some other sources on electronic health records:

“VA’s Electronic Patient Records Are a Model to Industry.” United States Department of Veterans Affairs press release,
http://www1.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=1277

“Medication Errors Injure 1.5 Million People and Cost Billions of Dollars Annually; Report Offers Comprehensive Strategies for Reducing Drug-Related Mistakes.” National Academies press release, July 20, 2006,
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem
. aspx?RecordID=11623 (refers to the following reference)

Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors (author), Philip Aspden, Julie Wolcott, J. Lyle Bootman, Linda R. Cronenwett (eds.). 2007.
Preventing Medication Errors.
Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.

“Health Information Technology: Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality?”
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9136/index1.html

Amarasingham, Ruben, MD, MBA; Laura Plantinga, ScM; Marie Diener-West, Ph.D.; Darrell J. Gaskin, Ph.D.; Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA. 2009. “Clinical Information Technologies and Inpatient Outcomes: A Multiple Hospital Study.”
Archives of Internal Medicine
169, no. 2 ( January 26): 108-14.

Carter, Jerome H. 2008.
Electronic Health Records: A Guide for Clinicians and Administrators.
Second edition. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians Press.

The UK “spine”:

NHC connecting for health Web site.
http://www.connectingforhealth. nhs.uk

http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/resources/systserv/spine- factsheet

Cross, Michael. 2006. “Getting Hospital Data to Connect to the NHS ‘Spine.’ ”
The Guardian
(August 10).

The European Union e-Health action plan:

European Commission. “The Right Prescription for Europe’s eHealth.”
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/policy_action_plan/index_en.htm

Sherriff, Lucy. 2004. “European Healthcare ‘Online by 2008.’ ”
The Register
(May 5).

Articles about implementing electronic health records:

McGee, Marianne Kolbasuk. 2007. “Why Progress Toward Electronic Health Records Is Worse Than You Think.”
Information Week
(May 26).

Darcé, Keith. 2007. “Unhealthy Records.”
San Diego Union-Tribune
(May 20).

Merlin, Bruce. 2007. “What Killed the Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange?”
iHealthBeat
(March 12).

Molecular imaging agents have been developed by companies like CellPoint:

http://cellpointweb.com

Comprehensive blood sampling by companies like BioPhysical:

http://www.biophysicalcorp.com/biomarker-research

Philips has some home health-care devices, including scales, blood pressure cuffs, pulse oximeters, and glucose meters:

http://www.medical.philips.com/us/homehealth/index.wpd

Also by Philips: “The world’s first large-scale, randomized prospective telemonitoring trial showed that homebased telemonitoring reduced the number of days spent in hospital by 26% and led to an overall 10% cost savings compared to nurse telephone support. Home Telemonitoring also significantly improved survival rates relative to usual care and led to high levels of patient satisfaction.”

http://www.medical.philips.com/main/products/telemonitoring/assets/docs/TEN-HMS_White_Paper_FINAL.pdf

More devices and approaches to biometrics:

Brady, S., S. Coyle, and D. Diamond. “Smart Shoes for Healthcare and Security.” In
pHealth 2007,
Chalkidiki, Greece.

Chan, K. W., Hung, K., Zhang, Y. T. “Noninvasive and Cuffless Measurements of Blood Pressure for Telemedicine.” Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001
. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE,
2001.

Coyle, S., Y. Wu, K. Lau, J. H. K im, S. Brady, G. Wallace, and D. Diamond. “Design of a Wearable Sensing Platform for Sweat Analysis.” In
pHealth 2007,
Chalkidiki, Greece.

Jaimes, Alejandro. “Sit Straight (and Tell Me What I Did Today): A Human Posture Alarm and Activity Summarization System.”
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences
(CARPE ’05), November 2005.

Oliver, Nuria, and Fernando Flores-Mangas. “HealthGear: A Real-time Wearable System for Monitoring and Analyzing Physiological Signals
. Proceedings of the International Conference on Body Sensor Networks
(BSN’06). MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2006.

Ooe, Yasuhiko, Kentaro Yamasaki, and Tsukasa Noma. “PWS and PHA: Posture Web Server and Posture History Archiver.”
Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences
(CARPE ’04), New York, October 15, 2004, 99-104.

Tan Ee Lyn. 2007. “HK Invents Pain-Free Device to Measure Blood Sugar,” Reuters (May 7).

Teller A., and J. I. Stivoric. “The BodyMedia Platform: Continuous Body Intelligence.”
Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences,
New York, 2004.

Ya-Ti Peng, Ching-Yung Lin, and Ming-Ting Sun. “Multi-Modality Sensor for Sleep Quality Monitoring and Logging.” eChronicles Workshop, ICDE, 2006.

BodyMedia Web site.
http://www.bodymedia.com

“Needle-Free Blood and Tissue Measurements,”
http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/archive/index.php/t-1470.html

BiacaMed Web site.
http://www.biancamed.com

Omron health care Web site.
http://www.omronhealthcare.com

Oregon Scientific sports and fitness products.
http://www2.oregonscientific.com/

Smartex Wealthy system.
http://www.smartex.it/garment_en.html

It appears that the cell phone will be the hub for a lot of health information. Allen Cheng at the University of Pittsburgh is working on HeartToGo, for mobile ECG. Daniel Fletcher at UC Berkeley converts the cell phone into a portable microscope for disease diagnosis with CellScope. Portable ultrasound is under development by Richard and Zar at Washington University.

Zhanpeng Jin, Joseph Oresko, Shimeng Huang, and Allen C. Cheng. “HeartToGo: A Smartphone-based Mobile Platform for Continuous and Real-Time Cardiovascular Disease Monitoring.” In
Proceedings of the Microsoft External Research Symposium 2009
(invited paper), Redmond, Washington, March 2009.

Richard, W. D., D. M. Zar, and R. Solek. 2008. “A Low-Cost B-Mode USB Ultrasound Probe.”
Ultrasonic Imaging
30:21-28.

“Mobile phone microscopes: Doctor on call.” 2008.
The Economist
(May 15).

Storing your health information:

Quicken Health Web site.
http://quickenhealth.intuit.com

Microsoft HealthVault Web site.
http://www.healthvault.com

Google Health Web site.
http://www.google.com/health

10,000 Steps a Day:

Isaacs, Greg. 2006.
10,000 Steps a Day to Your Optimal Weight: Walk Your Way to Better Health.
Santa Monica, California: Bonus Books, Inc.

“Laura” the e-nurse:

Elton, Catherine. 2007. “‘Laura’ Makes Digital Health Coaching Personal.”
Boston Globe
(May 21).

6. LEARNING

Deb Roy’s Speechome:

Biever, Celeste. 2006. “Watch Language Grow in the ‘Baby Brother’ House.”
New Scientist
(May 15).

Roy, Deb, et al. “The Human Speechome Project.”
Proceedings of the 28th Annual Cognitive Science Conference,
2006.

Study comparing lectures with Web-based learning and activities:

Wallace, David R., and Suzanne T. Weiner. 1998. “A Comparison of a Lecture-Style Second Coverage of Materials vs. Limited-Coverage Guided Experiential Activity.
ASEE Journal of Engineering Education
.

On the Web:

http://scholar.google.com

http://books.google.com

http://www.archive.org

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu

http://www.questia.com

ePortfolios:

Batson, T. 2002. “The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What’s It All About?”
Syllabus
(Dec 1).

Mason, R., C. Pegler, and M. Weller. 2004. “E-Portfolios: An Assessment Tool for Online Courses.”
British Journal of Educational Technology
25, no. 6:717-27.

On tablet PCs for education,
IEEE Computer
ran a special issue on “Tablet PC Technology: The Next Generation” that included articles on “Ink, Improvisation, and Interactive Engagement: Learning with Tablets,” “Classroom Presenter: Enhancing Interactive Education and Collaboration with Digital Ink,” and “Facilitating Pedagogical Practices Through a Large-Scale Tablet PC Deployment.”

IEEE Computer,
September 2007.

The Gray paradigm of science:

Gray, Jim, Alexander S. Szalay, Ani R. Thakar, Christopher Stoughton, and Jan vandenBerg. 2002. “Online Scientific Data Curation, Publication, and Archiving.”
Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-2002-74
( July).

The Computer History Museum has some online exhibits, as well as some transcribed oral histories.

http://www.computerhistory.org

There are many books, articles, and even think tanks on lifelong learning, for example:

Academy of Lifelong learning Web site.
http://www.academy.udel.edu

Cohn, E., and J. T. Addison. 1998. “The Economic Returns to Lifelong Learning in OECD Countries.”
Education Economics
6, no. 3 (December): 253-307.