Thu 7 Jun 2007
Children are key to future!
Posted by raphael encaoua under Medical software, Pediatric care
Health-e-Child is the second software we will review. Conversly to health plus; health e child is not a health assistant but more a preventive care and medical care tool specialised in following the condition of young children.
Merger of Information, Acquisition of Knowledge: M&A is everywhere
Children are in fact suffering from a disconnection of pediatric care and medical care oriented towards adults making it difficult to have a transgenerational biomedical information plateform to build up cross modality and longitudinal information fusion (they phrase it like this) to enhance research and disease treatment on the long run, this being particularly blattant for chronic diseases or chronic pain. How about paediatric heart diseases or early brain tumors for instance? Paediatric care is not as well organised as medical care given the difficulty to make a good screening + prescription process (parents can describe the pain experienced by a child not the child himself given his lack of vocabulary when young)
I really liked this program because it helped me to understand that the assumption I have made in a previous article. In fact I was talking about paediatric preventive care education in order to underline the paramount importance of driving programs that dwell upon young children care. However the Health e Child program helped me to understand that a bigger issue was the lack of knowledge stemming from early age disease which ripple effects are hardly mastered today. Paediatric preventive care could therefore help to give more cohesion to medical care as a whole and determine the real roots of a late detected disease by consulting early age records.