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Health gets personal in the cloud

By Brian Ahier
November 19, 2009

Healthcare is one of the biggest industries in the world. The United States spends over 17% of its GDP on healthcare and the issue of the industry's future is being hotly debated in Congress. Whatever happens to other elements of health reform, health information technology will play a key role in moving us towards the goal of bending the cost...

Converting to Electronic Health Records: fits and starts

By Andy Oram
November 10, 2009

Data and communications are critical contributors to health care. I recently attended an event covering efforts in my state to promote Electronic Health Records, and what we can do to move faster.

How the Zeo sleep device works around the limitations of home monitoring

By Andy Oram
October 8, 2009

The Zeo carries out sophisticated sleep monitoring by intensive analysis of electronic signals.

Four short links: 16 September 2009

By Nat Torkington
September 16, 2009

Data Sharing: Empty Archives (Nature) -- asking and answering the question "why don't researchers share their data?" San Francisco Health Visual Dashboard -- Health Matters in San Francisco is a o­ne-stop source of non-biased data and information about community health in the City, and healthy communities in general. It is intended to help planners, policy makers, and community members...

Four short links: 11 September 2009

By Nat Torkington
September 10, 2009

Healthspottr Fellow -- outstanding entrepreneurs will be awarded prizes of up to $250,000 to accelerate their innovative endeavours. Think MacArthur Genius Grant for healthcare. (via Gov 2.0 Summit) jsMath -- Javascript for embedding Math in web pages. (via Hacker News) Google's Undocumented Embeddable PDF Viewer -- Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and...

Health IT in the Healthcare Debate

By Sarah Sorensen
August 12, 2009

In the face of all the uncertainty around healthcare, one thing that is certain is technology (Health IT) is going to play a large role in the transformation and advancement of the every day health and wellness of individuals around the world.

Four short links: 12 August 2009

By Nat Torkington
August 11, 2009

Improving Health Care -- Adam Bosworth's speech to the Aspen Health Forum. It starts strong and just gets better: There is a lot of talk about improving health care. And there is a lot to improve. Inadequate Evidence: We don’t know enough about what works. We should require sharing of population statistics across practices and hospitals in order to...

Four short links: 7 July 2009

By Nat Torkington
July 6, 2009

Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them -- Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen. Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed. I have noticed this myself. It must be balanced...

Four short links: 2 June 2009

By Nat Torkington
June 2, 2009

TypeKit -- Jeff Veen's new startup, making typography on the web fail to suck. Every major browser is about to support the ability to link to a font. That means you can write a bit of CSS, include a URL to a font file, and have your page display with the typography you expect. While it’s technically quite easy...

Four short links: 11 May 2009

By Nat Torkington
May 10, 2009

OSCAR Canada -- open source healthcare (EMR) software, akin to VistA. Se linuxmednews.com for more. Instaviz -- iPhone app for mindmapping/any other blob-and-line diagram. I'm hypnotised by the correction of a fuzzy hand-drawn circle into a clean crisp algorithmic circle. Buddypress -- open source software that turns a Wordpress installation into a social networking platform. Ok, so social networking...

A Healthcare Renaissance: Could Peak Oil Inspire America To Create A National Health Service?

By Julian Darley
December 11, 2008

The decline of petroleum seems to be one more awful problem facing the US, but could it actually be an extraordinary chance to create a fine and fair national health care system?

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