Patient advocacy: Improving the cancer conversation

Today’s panel discussion at GE’s healthymagination technology showcase, which is running for two weeks in Midtown Manhattan, asked the question: What’s missing from the dialogue about cancer when it comes to patients, doctors and treatments? One of the topics on the agenda was the impact that current healthcare reform proposals will have on cancer research and patients — a subject tackled by panelists from both the Republican and Democratic sides of the political aisle. From the patient perspective, Carma Bylund, a behavioral scientist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, presented research findings about how doctors in cancer care can better communicate with their patients. She describes her work in the video below:

Carma Bylund, a behavioral scientist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, describes her research findings about how doctors in cancer care can better communicate with their patients.

Also on the panel was GE’s Mark Little, senior vice president and director of GE Global Research, who describes his presentation about the future of cancer diagnostics in the video below. (The “PET” scan he references is a Positron Emission Tomography scan, which is a type of radioactive imaging.)

GE’s Mark Little senior vice president and director, GE Global Research, describes his presentation at GE’s healthymagination showcase about the future of cancer diagnostics and the work being done in GE’s labs.

Read other stories filed from the new healthymagination technology showcase:
* “Visualizing world health with the data artists at GOOD”
* “Dr. Kalkut on feeling spleens, fearful patients & design”
* “Using tech to help make a better diagnosis the 1st time”
* “Developing Health: A clinic grows in Brooklyn”
* “Prof. Bruce Nussbaum on design, tech & emotion”
* “Pediatric design turns scary MRIs into ‘Adventures’”
* “Dr. Gaynor: Individualizing cancer therapies is the goal”
* “GE announces cancer research; $250M fund; clinic aid”
* “GE webcasts Oct. 21 healthymagination press conference”
* “Tackling access with Brivo imaging technologies”
* “A closer look at GE’s pocket-sized Vscan ultrasound”
* “Vscan pocket-sized, ultra-smart ultrasound unveiled”
* “A breakthrough decision support solution for docs”
* “The business of bringing healthymagination to market”
* “At the showcase: Health by design and window tweets”
* “Scintillating tech: The world’s 1st high-def CT scanner”
* “Healthymagination tech showcase kicks off in NYC”

Check out photos from the healthymagination showcase on Flickr

http://www.gereports.com/patient-advocacy-improving-the-cancer-conversation/

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Posted on October 26, 2009
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