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Dr. Howard Bleich

Alicanto expands functionality for virtual tumor boards and clininical trials

Alicanto™ is a social learning platform developed by Yuri Quintana that supports online communities of practice and the learning health system. Alicanto is being used at BIDMC for cancer clinical collaborations across an extensive hospital network https://www.alicantobidmc.org.
Recently, Alicanto has added new tools to support group collaboration for online virtual tumor boards and managing clinical trials....

App Evaluation Project: Transforming Mental Health Care in Canada

Mental health apps provide fast and cost-effective access to portable resources that aim to help people experiencing mental illness and addiction. But with little to no research to support the claims of app developers, healthcare providers and consumers struggle to select and make the best use of these resources. Dr. Yuri Quintana led a project with Homewood Research Institute in Canada to conduct...

e-Health In Latin America

Innovating Healthcare with Serious Gaming

(07/06/2017 - Barcelona, Spain) - I am excited this week to be delivering a week-long course on serious games for health and the launch of my new book with Dr. Oscar Garcia Panella, the academic director of the...

‘Serious Games for Health’, los videojuegos diseñados para mejorar la salud

La Vanguardia

Los expertos Yuri Quintana y Óscar García proponen que los juegos eduquen, entretengan y favorezcan un mejor acceso de los usuarios al mundo sanitario.

Serious Games for Health. Mejora tu salud jugando es el primer libro práctico que se edita en España sobre juegos aplicados a la salud. Sus autores son los expertos Yuri Quintana, profesor de Harvard y director de Informática Sanitaria Global en el centro médico Beth Israel Deaconess, y Óscar Garcia Pañella, director académico del primer grado de Videojuegos y Juegos...

Research Capacity Building in Africa

(01/20/2017 - Cape Town, South Africa) - I had the privilege to participate in the AORTIC AFRICA & AACR Cancer Research Workshop held in Cape Town, South Africa this week. This workshop...

Advancing People-Centered e-Health in Chile

(05/17/2016 - Santiago, Chile) - I had the opportunity to present at the Future Health Now conference in Santiago, Chile on May 7, 2016. The conference brought together patients, health professionals, government, companies to present innovations that can be entered into the daily life of patients to improve their quality of life. See the video highlights of this event. It was wonderful to see many new innovators with...

Collaborations with WHO/PAHO to Advance e-Health in Latin America and Caribbean

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(12/23/2015 - Boston, MA, USA) - I will be collaborating with the Pan American Health Organization to Advance e-Health in Latin America and the Caribbean region. This collaboration will allow us to tap into the vast expertise of BIDMC’s...

La gamificación de la salud

From el Mundo

El director de Global Health Informatics de la Universidad de Harvard, habla a INNOVADORES de la aplicación de metodologías de gamificación en salud para pacientes y profesionales

La introducción de las tecnologías en el ámbito de la salud viene creciendo en los últimos diez años y, de forma más pronunciada, estos últimos cinco su crecimiento ha sido vertiginoso por la exposición de la población a las nuevas tecnologías. En gran parte gracias a la adopción masiva del móvil pero también porque el sector privado está viendo en este sector oportunidades...

Yuri Quintana, Ph.D.

Chief, Division of Clinical Informatics, BIDMC