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…
1. We have begun a “soft opening”… with our Tele-Yoga for COPD/CHF patients, transmitting to 3 patients in their homes in California, which have been equipped with DocBoxes. Originating from our “studio” (the community exercise room) in one of Cathedral…
Can Hospital Chains Improve the Medical Industry? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
I’ve spent the last four days on a trip to Vancouver B.C. for a meeting of our fledging research network. Several colleagues from the U.S. independently mentioned how well things worked in Canada, how multicultural the society is, and how…
We have been deploying iPads for our health-care application, and I transferred my iPad from a person credit account to a corporate account. In the process I though it was understood that my credit card would no longer be charged,…
Parallax has added a Polar heart-rate sensor with chest strap to its line of sensors, as well as a receiver. Both are around $30.00 each. Found in the super wonderful Nuts and Volts magazine.
Getting Real About Fixing Health Care Found this post from Doc Searles from back in 2009. NY Times: Oregon Study Shows Benefits, and Price for Newly Insured Researchers say Oregon’s lottery system for granting health insurance has made it the…
The Medical Advocacy Blog chronicles one women’s attempt to participate and advocate in the care of her terminally ill husband, and the wider implications of the Electronic Health Record. I now sit in meetings for hours and watch power point…
Times and technology change. My previous wireless scale from Tanita cost $350.00 and used BlueTooth to communicate to a computer. The FitBit Aria wifi scale works on a conventional wifi network. It will automatically register your weight and percentage body…
I’ve had a FitBit pedometer for over a year now. Actually I’m on my second one, as I lost the first one. They are so darn unobtrusive that you hardly know they are missing. At $99.00 a pop, though, it…
