Category: Health Informatics

FDA reigning in medical apps

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

FDA to start reining in the Wild West of medical apps
by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, cnet.com

The FDA says it is only regulating products that turn smartphones into medical devices it already oversees, such as apps that let your phone act as an electronic stethoscope or give feedback on CPR.

The Wild West of mobile med­ical apps is get­t…

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Tired of long lines at the pharmacy? ZappRx tests ‘mobile boarding pass’ for prescriptions — Tech News and Analysis

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

Tired of long lines at the pharmacy? ZappRx tests ‘mobile boarding pass’ for prescriptions — Tech News and Analysis.

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Anthropological perspectives on why dieting is a waste of time

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Daniel Lieberman: ‘Dieting is a disaster for everyone’
Interview by Ian Tucker, theguardian.com

Harvard’s professor of human evolutionary biology explains why obesity is the major 21st-century problem – and why we are ill-equipped to deal with it

Daniel Lieberman is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard and has published…

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Raw cacao shake

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Raw Cacao Shake – figgy & sprout
figgyandsprout.com

Choco­late: most peo­ple are used to call­ing it cocoa, cocoa beans, cocoa pow­der. But when it comes to raw food, why do peo­ple use the word cacao (ka-COW), which looks like a mis­spelling of the mo …

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Favorite LA juice bars

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

6 favorite L.A. juice bars
By Betty Hallock, latimes.com

Late­ly it seems like there’s no L.A. neigh­bor­hood with­out a juice bar. They’re expand­ing faster than you can say kale-avocado-cilantro-lemon-cucumber-caraway-jalapeno-celery smooth­ie. It’s no won­der. Fans of juice — the kind often made wit…

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I have cancer, what’s your excuse?

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

I have brain cancer. What’s your excuse?
Ronnie Castro, venturebeat.com

You may have caught the arti­cle by my friend and co-founder Matt Ehrlich­man last month, titled “My 32-year-old co-founder has a brain tumor — seri­ous­ly?“

To set the record straight, I’m 33 now, not quite old enough to start lying about my ag…

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Calico: Google’s first leap into health enhancement

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

Calico: How Google’s stab at the fountain of youth could transform health care
Christina Farr, venturebeat.com

Google is back in the health busi­ness with a mys­te­ri­ous new ini­tia­tive to com­bat death itself.

Google’s top exec­u­tives didn’t say much about the biotech ven­ture, called Cal­i­co, when they announced it on Sept. 18, except to say that i…

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23andme: how to use genetic testing while ensuring privacy

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

How to use 23andMe without giving up your genetic privacy
Sarah A. Downey, venturebeat.com

Sarah A. Downey is an attor­ney, pri­va­cy ana­lyst, and writer at Abine, an online pri­va­cy start­up in Boston. Find her on Twit­ter @SarahADowney.

If you’re like me, the idea of know­ing what’s in your genet­ic pro­file is both…

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Academia.edu wants to publish every science article online

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Meet Academia.edu, a startup that wants to publish every science PDF online
Christina Farr, venturebeat.com

Just a few years ago, an entre­pre­neur with a goal to pub­lish every sci­en­tif­ic research paper on the Inter­net would have seemed ambi­tious, maybe even a lit­tle crazy.

How­ev­er, with the rise of online edu­ca­tion and lead­ing…

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Beddit sleep sensor

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

This sleep-sensing device wants to get in bed with you, but it won’t cuddle
Rebecca Grant, venturebeat.com

When the princess sens­es some­thing small under her bed in the fairy­tale “The Princess and the Pea,” it prove that she is, in fact, a princess.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly putting Bed­dit under your sheets won’t have the same effect, but it could help yo…

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Cover your teeth with diamond dust to stimulate enamel growth

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

Dentists May Start Covering Teeth in Growth-Stimulating Diamond Dust
Ashley Feinberg, gizmodo.com

Looks like there’s a new candidate for most awesome supermaterialin town. Dentists may soon start fighting bone loss by covering our teeth in itty bitty nanodiamonds, making repairing teeth quicker, cheaper, and much less painful.Read more…

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The future of biometrics is personalization and experience

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

The future of biometric data tracking isn’t about devices, it’s about experiences
Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com

Every­where you look these days, there seems to be yet anoth­er sensor-enabled device or mobile app that wants to mon­i­tor every­thing from your heart rate and pos­ture to your brain waves and breath­ing pat­terns.

Dr. Leslie Saxon is the found…

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