I actually like don’t mind mowing my lawn. I have a battery-powered push mower called a Neuton, which I push around my 1/4 acre, using one battery for the front lawn, and a second battery for the back lawn plus the…
We used to do a “Christmas in July” day for our niece and nephew. Well, it looks like Christmas came in May to TFHHC… The Parallax microMedic contest kit has arrived. Among the most interesting components are: Universal Remote Control4-Directional…
FileMaker Pro from Apple is a desktop database development system, similar to Access. After developing a solution using the desktop version (either Windows or Mac), you can deploy it on iOS devices, (iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone), sometimes with minimal changes. On…
Parallax, along with with the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center and Carnegie Mellon, are sponsoring the microMedic contest for the use of vital-sign sensors for medical applications. Parallax has assembled a sensor and component kit targeted to…
Interesting discussion , “Risks” loom for health exchange technology about the software development for the Colorado Health Information Exchange by a group from the University of Colorado called Health Policy Solutions. Colorado’s health exchange is supposed to debut in just six…
NPR’s Planet Money Team have a segment about Steven Brill who wrote the recent March 4, 2013 Time Magazine article about the lack of transparency in hospital billing. “Obamacare will increase the risk for insurance companies, and therefore will increase…
Interesting article about Patient Portals suggested by Stephen Wilkins over on the LinkedIn Patient Engagement Group from Mind The Gap. As the article describes, the portals can be pretty useless. I received the following after inquiring why my patient portal “MyHealthOnline”…
In a post, Patient engagement will be tough task for health tech on InfoWorld http://bit.ly/ZpKCJh As an example, I learned last week at the HIMMS 2013 conference that one pilot project of at-home wireless glucose monitors at several hospitals reduced…
“What would old people do with a fiber optic broadband internet connection to their home?” (Click to enlarge the image).
I found myself building list of the applications that we would expect to be running in our rural senior housing sites, for both residents (The Technology Enabled Home) and the housing and health-care staff that are onsite. This should give…
