I’m delighted to write a geust blog for BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care about how palliative care care be improved through use of digital health technology. I also reflect on how this presents an opportunity to learn from the COVID19 pandemic. Specifically, I reference an article by Clabburn and colleagues, which describes the novel use of ‘Ivy Street’, a Virtual Learning Environment to support palliative and end of life care education.
Read my guest blog here:
I was delighted that our letter about Big Data and palliative medicine was published in ‘Palliative Medicine’. This was in response to an editorial by Peter Tanuesputro which described how Big Data analysis of linked data has the potential to support care by indentifying patient needs. Our letter describes five challenges which need to be considered in order to make meaningful use of Big Data analysis in palliative care.
The letter is freely available in full from the link below.
I was delighted to be invited to write a guest blog for the European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) website, about my role in developing podcasts for ‘Palliative Medicine’ in my role Digital Editor for the journal.
The full blog post can be found here:
Learning through listening EAPC guest blog
How to access the ‘SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care’ podcasts
I am currently the Digital Editor of the Palliative Medicine journal (the world’s highest ranked journal, peer reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to improving knowledge and clinical practice in the palliative care of patients with far advanced disease: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pmj ). In this role I lead the development of podcasts to enable dissemination of the journals’ work to a wider audience. Essentially this work follows on from my foray into the podcast world through my AmiPal podcasts (https://soundcloud.com/mypal), which are podcasts about palliative care, technology and innovation.
On the 14th June I was delighted to present a poster about the development of these Palliative Medicine podcasts at the 2017 North West Annual Medical Leadership and Management Conference which took place in the AJ Bell stadium. The poster featured some initial data on the popularity of the podcasts and some download data. Essentially the podcasts are doing very well with many authors getting into the process of recording podcasts which have been well received.
A link to the ‘SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care’ podcasts can be found through the Palliative Medicine site here: http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pmj/podcasts
You can subscribe to the podcasts from iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/sage-palliative-medicine-chronic/id1179036261?mt=2
The podcasts are available from most podcast app services by simply searching for ‘Palliative Medicine’. However, if you need the RSS feed to subscribe to can do find that here: http://sagepalliativemedicine.sage-publications.libsynpro.com/rss
If you’re an author of a paper published in Palliative Medicine are interested in recording a podcast, please feel free to contact me.
This evening I had the pleasure to attend a networking event at ‘Sensor City’ Liverpool. Sensor City is a Liverpool-based technical innovation centre and University Enterprise Zone; it aims to support the creation, development, production and promotion of cutting edge sensor technologies for use in a wide range of sectors.
The event was entitled ‘Connected cows and better mousetraps’ and detailed myriad potential ‘use-cases’ for the application of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in industry.
http://www.sensorcity.co.uk/event/connected-cows-better-mousetraps/
The session was led by Mark Maidman, a representative from Actility (https://www.actility.com/) a company specialising in IoT devices.
As a palliative care doctor interested in technology my immediate thoughts are about the potential uses of IoT to support care of people with advanced disease and complex needs. Events like these are excellent in fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration which will hopefully lead to innovation through sharing expertise and resources.
Further information about sensor cities events can be found here:
http://www.sensorcity.co.uk/events/
Are you interested in the role of emerging technologies in facilitating supportive and palliative care for individuals and populations? If so, please free to comment and get in touch with me.
In this episode I provide an overview of the use of bioimpedance analysis to assess hydration over time in a patient with POEMS syndrome. This was published in the BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care journal and can be found through the link provided below.
Nwosu AC, Morris L, Mayland C, Mason S, Pettitt A, Ellershaw J.
Longitudinal bioimpedance assessments to evaluate hydration in POEMS syndrome. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-000991
spcare.bmj.com/content/early/201…-2015-000991.full
Nwosu AC, Mayland CR, Mason S, Khodabukus AF, Varro A, Ellershaw JE. Hydration in advanced cancer: can bioelectrical impedance analysis improve the evidence base? A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2013; 46(3):433-446.e6
www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3…0499-X/abstract
Researchgate link: www.researchgate.net/publication/23…the_Literature
Nwosu AC, Mayland CR, Mason SR, Varro A, Ellershaw JE. Patients want to be involved in end-of-life care research. BMJ Support Palliat Care 2013, Dec;3(4):45.
spcare.bmj.com/content/early/201…13-000537.extract
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In this episode I will provide an overview between the differences between research, audit and service evaluation. This is important to distinguish as research studies require ethical approval before they commence, whereas the other project types do not.
Is your project research, evaluation or audit? (Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative website)
www.apcrc.nhs.uk/governance/is_it_research.htm
NRES Defining Research leaflet.
www.hra.nhs.uk/documents/2013/09…ning-research.pdf
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In this episode of MyPal I discuss the potential uses of virtual reality (VR) in healthcare and what this may mean for palliative care.
Beyond gaming: virtual reality in healthcare. Claire Bower. BMJ Blogs 2014.
blogs.bmj.com/bmj-journals-devel…ity-in-healthcare/
What can Oculus Rift do for healthcare?Mike Miliard. HealthcareIT news 2014.
www.healthcareitnews.com/news/what-ca…o-healthcare
The future of pain relief? Dutch burns unit trialling new virtual reality computer system that distracts patients from the agony of their wounds. Paul Donnelly, Daily Mail 9th Aug 2014.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art…ony-wounds.html
IS VR CHANGING HEALTHCARE?
weareformation.com/is-vr-changing-healthcare/
A Survey of Health-Related Activities on Second Life. Leslie Beard et al. J Med Internet Res. 2009 Apr-Jun; 11(2): e17.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762804/
Virtual reality for the palliative care of cancer. Oyama 1997
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10175345
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Photo by Jordi Boixareu
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In this episode of MyPal I interview Dr Laura Chapman (Palliative Medicine Consultant and Training Programme Director for Palliative Medicine in Health Education North West- Mersey) and Dr Daniel Monney (Specility Trainee in Palliative Medicine) about the Eportfolios’ Case Based Discussion (CBD) supervised learning events (SLEs). We discuss practical tips for educational supervisors to help conduct these SLEs.
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In this episode I discuss social media and palliative medicine. I focus on my recent blog that was published on the EAPC website about my study about the use of Twitter to evaluate communication about palliative care on social media.
‘Social media and palliative medicine: a retrospective 2-year analysis of global Twitter data to evaluate the use of technology to communicate about issues at the end of life’ by Nwosu AC, Debattista M, Rooney C, et al published in BMJ supportive & palliative care2015;5(2):207-12.
spcare.bmj.com/content/5/2/207
EAPC Blog – Social media and palliative medicine: An opportunity for community and professional engagement
eapcnet.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/soc…al-engagement/
EAPC Blog: With great power comes great responsibility: Using Facebook to explain palliative care – Dr Leeroy William
eapcnet.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/wit…lliative-care/
Palliative Medicine Teaching – Facebook and Twitter
www.facebook.com/PallMedEd
twitter.com/PallMedEd
E-Hospice: Discussion of palliative care on Twitter is largely positive, and increasing – Dr A Nwosu
www.ehospice.com/uk/Default/tabid…ArticleId/12212/
E-Hospice: Harnessing social media to enhance hospice care
www.ehospice.com/uk/Default/tabid…ArticleId/11617/
E-Hospice: Social media and palliative care
www.ehospice.com/uk/Default/tabid…ArticleId/10009/
Symplur and the Heathcare Hashtag project – Dr Mark Taubert
blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2015/08/16/…pcare_blog_sidetab
Palliative social media – Mark Taubert et al
spcare.bmj.com/content/4/1/13.ab…943e-bce5b3763321
Why don’t end-of-life conversations go viral? A review of videos on YouTube. Imogen Mitchell et al
spcare.bmj.com/content/early/201…be1a-bcbfa3a40024
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