Category: Health Informatics

  • Visualizing aging via web app stimulates financial literacy

    Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money By Colin Lecher, popsci.com People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly. Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced ver­sion of your­self, you’re more…

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  • Farmingo digitizes organic farmers markets

    Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmers Market Bonnie Cha, allthingsd.com The ben­e­fits of your local farm­ers mar­kets are plen­ty. You’re get­ting fresh food, sup­port­ing local farms and help­ing to cre­ate a more sus­tain­able food sys­tem. But with lim­it­ed hours and loca­tions, you prob­a­bly can’t take advan­ta… RT @allthingsd: Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmer’s Market…

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  • Personal genomic price drop: 23andMe

    What Is 23andMe Really Selling: The Moral Quandary At The Center Of The Personalized Genomics Revolution Steven Kotler, forbes.com This week, 23andme, the per­son­al­ized genomics com­pa­ny found­ed by Anne Woj­ci­c­ki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, got an influx of invest­ment cash ($50 mil­lion). Accord­ing to their press release, they are using the money to…

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  • Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery

    Phil Plait, slate.com [Note from the author: This is not my first vaccine rodeo, and I expect some interesting remarks in the comments section. As always, I have copiously linked key phrases in this article to more information backing up my claims. Please read them… Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery Related articles The “no compassion”…

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  • Marijuana Vending Machine Maker’s Stock Skyrockets

        Mike Epstein, mashable.com Based on this month’s elec­tion, the idea legal­iz­ing mar­i­jua­na seems more pop­u­lar than ever. Two states, Wash­ing­ton and Col­orado, have legal­ized pot at the state level. With the legal mar­i­jua­na mar­ket look­ing stronger than ever, th… http://flip.it/cTo9v Marijuana Vending Machine Maker’s Stock Skyrockets Related articles Ready For Marijuana Vending Machines?…

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  • The new golden age of biotech in Massachusetts – Business

    By Steven Syre, bostonglobe.com We’re liv­ing in a new a gold­en age of biotech­nol­o­gy in Mass­a­chu­setts. By this I don’t mean the sheer num­ber of start-ups and other young local com­pa­nies hop­ing to make their marks. Nor am I high­light­ing the impres­sive list of glob… http://flip.it/mReYH The new golden age of biotech in Massachusetts –…

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  • Philips Survey Reveals One in 10 Americans Believe Online Health Information Saved Their Life

      philips.com ANDOVER, Mass., U.S.A. – A recent U.S. sur­vey com­mis­sioned by Royal Philips Elec­tron­ics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a lead­ing health and well-being com­pa­ny, found that con­sumers believe web-enabled, mHealth and mobile apps are part of their… http://flip.it/N9jfs Philips Survey Reveals One in 10 Americans Believe Online Health Information Saved Their Life Related articles…

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  • The Consumerization of Healthcare

    by Lauren Soelberg Treasure, orcahealth.com The sys­temic change in US health­care deliv­ery has been called many things, but they all refer to one thing: the future of health­care will be in the hands of the con­sumers. Today, con­sumers are bet­ter able to make choic­es about their… http://flip.it/e36yc The Consumerization of Healthcare Related articles Dr. Kizer…

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  • Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care

    Written by Heather Punke |, beckershospitalreview.com Decem­ber 12, 2012 Amer­i­can health­care con­sumers are buy­ing into the notion that they must take an active role in their health­care, accord­ing to a recent sur­vey by Wolters Kluw­er Health, part of Wolters Kluw­er, a glob­al infor­ma­tion… http://flip.it/EWQoI Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care Related articles Rate your…

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  • Discovering the next cures from indigenous medicine

    Horseradish Tea And Other Global Cold Cures All Things Considered, npr.org Horseradish Tea And Other Global Cold Cures NPR All Things Considered From chick­en noo­dle soup to alcohol-spiked drinks, every­one has a pre­ferred rem­e­dy for cold symp­toms. Since she was feel­ing a lit­tle under the weath­er, Melis­sa Bloc… http://flip.it/e61h1 Related articles Patent Medicines Get A…

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