They were out of stock with the assembled boards, so I bought the kit for a savings of $10.00. I followed the instructions on the web, without problems taking probably double the estimated time of one hour, I took two.…
Interesting stuff. Here’s the data regarding people with chronic conditions…. People living with chronic conditions: In order to segment this group, we asked a series of questions to determine if a respondent is living with any of the following health…
I’ve been trying out the (frankly, brilliant) TVOut library by Miles Metzler which allows your Arduino to talk to a TV using either NTSC (North America) or PAL (Europe) composite video. The hardware setup takes only two resistors, three jumper wires…
The LA Times, this morning has an article about using Skype for tele-psychiatry sessions, something that has been debated for a long time. Excerpt: Dr. Nilesh Shah, director of telemedicine for the VA San Diego, is blunt about his assessment…
As an Arduino newbie, I’ve now gone far enough down the Arduino road to start making some mistakes. As they say in the prayer, “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done…
Withings has announced a new activity tracker which, like the FitBit will also track sleep patterns. A new capability is that it also will give what looks like a static heart rate read-out when you press a finger to the…
Thats the Arduino board at the top, and a mini-breadboard with the heart-rate monitor chip and 7 segment display on the bottom. Not quite as elegant as a Polar wristwatch monitor (which I compared to for accuracy)… but its…
As Leeba Lessin (CareMore President) stated ”Primary care has become a specialty referring mechanism, not care driven.” Said differently, our flawed reimbursement model has effectively turned primary care physicians (PCP) into “milk in the back of the store” — i.e., a…
Sitting at the end of my Comcast business internet service, I was interested to see that the president of Comcast, David Cohen, in a reverse “Let them eat cake” moment, doesn’t think consumers need gigabit broadband. In an opinion piece…
Following up on the next post, why we don’t need gigabit broadband… Here is a great video (in English) of a dentist who performs major surgery in office in rural Oberhausen using telemedicine connections. Oberhausen is a small town of…
