A blog written by Ivor Kovic.....about medicine, science, internet, soap bubbles, design, imaginary friends, books, music for robots, uncreative taglines...

Taking 100.000 lives per year in the UK

Do you know who is the infamous killer from the title? AIDS? No Lung cancer? No Breast cancer? No All of them combined? No, its sudden cardiac arrest. Watch a short documentary about the massive loss of life in the UK due to sudden cardiac arrest and ways that the death rate can be dramatically […]

8 March 2013 | iphone, medicine | No Comments

Published 2 papers and 1 video

Just recently my colleague and I have published two research papers. I am very proud of the first one titled “Mobile phone in the Chain of Survival”, which was published after a lot of research in the Resuscitation journal. This short paper gives an overview of vast possibilities possessed by mobile phones to be of […]

25 June 2011 | iphone, medicine, science | No Comments

Webicina smartphone app

My dear colleague dr. Bertalan Mesko, better known as Berci, who just happens to be one of the best medical bloggers out there, has recently published his own smartphone app. You see, apart from running a super successful blog called ScienceRoll, Berci is the founder and managing director of Webicina, a site that has been […]

15 March 2011 | iphone, medicine, science | 2 Comments

G for Geneva, G for Gold

I just came back home from 38th Exhibition of Inventions Geneva held in Geneva, Switzerland. Among around a thousand inventions, including 55 from class M (Medicine, Surgery, Hygiene, Orthopedics, Materials for the handicapped), I have demonstrated my CPR device (you can see it in my presentation from Amsterdam). The whole experience was truly fantastic and […]

24 April 2010 | design, iphone, medicine, science | 3 Comments

Twitter Interview With Diario Medico

Today, journalist Alain Ochoa (@alainochoa) conducted an interview on Twitter with me for Diario Médico (@diariomedico), Spain’s leading medium for health professionals. We mainly talked about mobile technology and its use in medicine. Follow the link to read the whole tweeterview titled Mobile health from Croatia.

3 February 2010 | internet, interview, iphone, medicine | No Comments

Mobile Monday Amsterdam impressions

Several day ago I came back home after presenting at the Mobile Monday Amsterdam event titled Mobile Health. That is me on the left I am still impressed by the whole thing. First of all I have to congratulate the organizers (Marc, Yuri, Maarten, Sam, and Martijn) for doing a great job. They fully supported […]

29 January 2010 | design, internet, iphone, medicine, science | 4 Comments