Some of the members of the International ICanFunction (mICF) Partnership were able to meet at the Annual Meeting of the World Health Organization Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC) in Tokyo, Japan from 8th – 14th of October 2016. The event was also an opportunity to showcase the recent developmental steps for our mHealth solution, connecting …
MedicineX is the most discussed health care conference in the world. In 5 conferences over 20 million people were reached! We were extremely pleased to be accepted at Stanford MedicineX 2016 as this is a conference that aligns perfectly with our philosophy – We put the person into personalized medicine. Olaf with Lieutenant Colonel Downing …
ICanFunction (mICF) presented at Stanford MedicineX Read More »
mICF was selected to present an Oral Ignite! Session at Stanford Medicine X in Silicon Valley. You are invited to join Dr. Olaf Kraus de Camargo ( Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University, Canada), who will enthuse you with his talk “The ICanFunction international partnership – from diagnosis to function”
In August 2016 a small working group of the mICF partnership submitted a grant application to the U.S. based federal agency, National Institutes of Health entitled “ICanFunction mHealth Solution (mICF): Improving mental health of vulnerable youth in South Africa by mapping narratives of context and functioning to ICF.” If successfully funded, a mental health mICF …
A prototype of a patient-driven ICF-based assessment tool is being developed for persons with severe disabilities so that they can self-report their life situation. A Finnish team is developing the first mICF proof of concept in their “Feasibility Study of a Patient-driven Mobile ICF-based ICanFunction Assessment Tool (mICF)”. This one-year project (2016-2017) aims to design …
After a successful pitch of mICF in the Dutch Hackethon, a team worked out a mock up to build an interface for mICF. The team used the case of Tineke, a patient suffering from spinal cord disease, having a dream: travelling to Rome. But when she wanted advice on how she could travel to Rome …
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The Term Editor is an open source software suited for developing and maintaining terminologies, ontologies and information structures. The mICF content in Term editor includes ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) terms, natural language terms (i.e. related terms and synonyms) and terms from instruments to measure functioning in different languages.
Source: THL Title: Feasibility Study of a Patient-driven Mobile ICF-based Assessment Tool (mICF) Description: To develop and test the user experience and feasibility of a patient-centered proof-of-concept (POC) of the mICF.
