the virtual GP

A Brazilian Primary Care Unit

alexandregouveia — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:03:39 +0000

The Brazilian Family Health Care Programme is one of the most interesting health care reforms that have occurred in the last decade in the world. This video (made by a brazilian colleague) shows how the new primary care units are organized by geographical areas and the type of infrastructures that they now are having and for a long time awaited.

For more information read this article from the BMJ by Matthew Harrys and Andy Haines.

I’m attending at the moment the EQuiP Invitational…

alexandregouveia — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:02:15 +0000

I’m attending at the moment the EQuiP Invitational Conference in Copenhagen, that is occurring from the 6th until 9th of April, with the theme “Value for Money in general practice: management and public trust”.

http://www.equip.ch/

This conference has an excellent panel of speakers and some of the main discussions are highly relevant for the future guidance of primary health care in Europe and other countries in the world.

I’m having a presentation regarding clinical and health governance in Portuguese primary care. I will present results of a focus group study aiming the definition of a conceptual framework for effective implementation of governance in the Portuguese NHS.

Follow my twitter stream @agouveia, as well Carlos Martins (PT) @mgfamiliarnet and David Darmon @davdarmon (FR).

Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

alexandregouveia — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:14:40 +0000

Thomas Goetz: It’s time to redesign medical data

alexandregouveia — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:48:36 +0000

Ken Robison’s Changing Education Paradigms – Animated Version

alexandregouveia — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:00:07 +0000

Healthcare professionals and social media by @amcunningham

alexandregouveia — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:07:54 +0000

The latest post in Anne Marie Cunningham’s blog “Wishful thinking in medical education” highlights some interesting ideas about the role of social media in healthcare and if healthcare professionals should also involve themselves into social media.

For more information, check her at @amcunningham

Medicine 2.0`10 Maastricht

alexandregouveia — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:06:25 +0000

Improving Eye Care

alexandregouveia — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:59:19 +0000

QIPP

alexandregouveia — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:46:30 +0000

This is a very interesting website from the NHS Evidence that is focused in the QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) initiative in the UK.

In the NHS Evidence – QIPP website you can access “real examples of how staff are improving quality and productivity across the NHS“.

“The aim of the NHS Evidence – QIPP collection is to provoke thoughts, ideas and discussions about changes that can be made locally in the NHS”

“There are lots of really powerful examples around of things we can do to improve quality while improving productivity.”

David Nicholson, NHS Chief Executive

More information:

NHS Evidence: QIPP

UK Department of Health: Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP)

Example: Atrial fibrillation – detection and optimal therapy in primary care

Opportunistic screening by pulse palpation of patients over 65 has been used in 18 regions to improve detection of atrial fibrillation. Quality is improved by the optimal treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation reducing risk of stroke. Productivity is increased by the reduction in costs associated with stroke and its complications.

Introducing Papers

alexandregouveia — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:11:12 +0000

Normally I access and read a dozen articles a week, all of them in PDF. I used to save them on my hard disk, by using a predefined naming system for the folders and articles.

Then I tried Mendeley for some while but I found it a little slow and heavy. Two days ago, I performed a small research on how to organize my personal library of science and then I found out Papers, from Mekentosj.

In a simple way, it’s just the software I’ve been looking at: organizes all the papers I have at my computer, renames them, saves them at a specific folder, matches the PDF with PubMed (merging all the info from the database), and much more.