Dan Buckland

Dan Buckland MD PhD is a Emergency Medicine resident at George Washington University Hospital. He covers space and extreme environment medicine as well as app and gadget reviews. For more information see http://danbuckland.me

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April 29th, 2014 Humans are going to Mars, and they are going to need some medical support in order to survive the trip, at least according to a panel held last week at a conference in Washington DC. The discussion, at the Humans to Mars Summit held last week at George Washington University, covered some of the biomedical risks of a potential human...
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April 15th, 2014 Sometimes a clinician just wants a way to keep secure, HIPAA compliant notes on their iPad without having to purchase an entire EMR system to install. Hoping to fill that niche is Insight Notes, an app to keep simple secure notes on the iPad, with an optional backup and export service. The app itself is $9.99 on the app store, but there...
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February 19th, 2014 Figure1, a free app we previously reviewed that gives a professional sheen to the sharing of medical images most clinicians were doing anyway, just expanded to new platforms. We reviewed it when it first came out for iPhones, and since then it has become an iOS app with an iPad edition. Now it is being made available as an Android...
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January 14th, 2014 Remote presence (or telepresence) is a way for experts to provide on-site service or guidance without actually being there. This can be done through many methods, ranging from a simple phone call to walk a user through a procedure to Cisco's immersive wall size conference setup. The potential benefits in the clinic are similarly wide...
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December 17th, 2013 Snow and rain hit the Washington DC area last week just as mHealth 2013 was getting started, shuffling a lot of travel plans and moving some speakers around. Not a lot was announced this year but Medgadget visited the exhibition floor last week and caught up with a few companies. Interestingly, a lot of companies we talked to seem to be...
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July 9th, 2013 At the recent Games For Health conference a variety of developers and companies displayed their ideas for how gamifying health care could improve health outcomes in a scalable and sustainable form that is fun for patients, or at least pleasant enough to want to participate. Due to clinical responsibilities, Medgadget only got to visit...
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May 28th, 2013 Figure1 is a free iOS app (Android to come) debuting today at the Apple app store that hopes to be a “crowdsourced medical image library that healthcare professionals can use to share, rank, and discuss images.” This editor sat down with Annie Williams and Gregory Levey of MovableScience, the company putting out Figure1, back at...
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April 29th, 2013 What is Medgadget doing at the premier watch and jewelry show in the world? Well, mostly what everyone else is doing, gawking at all the shiny things we can't afford. However, there were a few clearly medically related items on display, including the Oris Royal Flying Doctor Service Limited Edition Watch. The watch is a...
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April 29th, 2013 We mentioned Science Exchange, a website for bidding on and soliciting of scientific services, when they launched in 2011, but haven’t heard much about it since. We ran into some of the Science Exchange staff at TEDMED last week and thought we would ask them some questions about how the market for scientific service providers has...
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March 18th, 2013 Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration by Claude A. Piantadosi MD, a Professor of Medicine and Pathology at Duke University Medical School is a technical look at the current understanding of many of the limitations and consequences of human physiology with regards to spaceflight. Aside from the...
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