Category: Health Informatics

  • SleepCoach: Web based ethnographic approach for insomnia

    This is a good idea: a web based method to deliver cognitive therapy for insomnia. I’ve also looked at something called the ZEO which tracks your movements too. There is Mac software that uses the Mac’s webcam and an infrared light to do the same which I have tried. Welcome to the new SleepCoach. Related…

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  • Ensuring self destruction of your digital information

    Increasing research shows that for human health, ensuring that one’s digital information is deleted when no longer needed is just as important as retention. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-08/st_thompson Related articles IDC Releases Alarming Trends for the Digital Universe (brandenwilliams.com) Power and dumb machines are the biggest challenges for big data (alexrudloff.com) Librarian entrepreneurs (mbanks.typepad.com) @datamineruk: What is ‘Open…

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  • In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Magazine

    via www.wired.com An interesting new article in Wired on the way that social networking, crowdsourcing and software driven, personal manufacturing is transforming the manufacturing of every type of good. Indeed the worlds of bit and atoms are merging at a rapid clip. Related articles Innovation Lessons From 3-D Printing (sloanreview.mit.edu) Bits of Atoms (farisyakob.typepad.com) Robots Will…

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  • Neurovigil: Replacing a Sleep Lab with an iPhone?

    This is amazing. Daniel Heimpel: Revolutionizing Sleep Science. Related articles iBrain, a Device That Can Read your thoughts (thehandiestone.typepad.com) Leading Phoenix Sleep Center Now Treating Both Adult and Children’s Sleep Disorders (prweb.com) Why a Sleep Apnea Diagnosis May Save Your Life (health.usnews.com) Make Your Dreams Sweeter With These Wonderful Sleep Apps (appadvice.com) Sleep is not…

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  • Heartbeat software: life science document management solutions

    Heartbeat Experts. I’m looking for the best slide and content/document management system for pharma. According to KM for Med affairs CBI conference this is one of the best. Also, Cadient group, Exploria, Open Q, Skila, look good. Related articles Doctors: Become a key opinion leader using social media Best Practices In KOL & Prescriber Management…

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  • Biotechnology and Entrepreneurship, MS | NYU-Poly

    Biotechnology and Entrepreneurship, MS | NYU-Poly. Related articles Researchers set record for detecting smallest virus, opening new possibilities for early disease detection (phys.org) NY-Poly Detector Sets Record for Smallest Virus Identified without Electon Microscopy (medgadget.com) By detecting smallest virus, researchers open possibilities for early disease detection (esciencenews.com) Millimeter Frequencies Proposed for 5G (dailywireless.org) Searching for 1,000…

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  • Carnegie Mellon Program in Biotechnology and Management: Healthcare spending and GDP

    Biotechnology and Management. The healthcare system costs the United States $2.7 trillion — 17.5 percent of gross domestic product — in 2010. More than 40 percent of that cost — about $1 billion — comprises pharmaceutical, diagnostics, biotechnology and medical devices. Related articles Inspiration – Carnegie Mellon ETC Projects (designgames12.wordpress.com) Carnegie Mellon University-Rwanda Launches Graduate…

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  • Organogenesis Inc. Home—the world leading tissue regeneration company

      Organogenesis Inc. Home—the world leading tissue regeneration company. Building a huge office in Canton and looks like a good company… Related articles Going Beyond State-Of-The-Art In Tissue Regeneration (medicalnewstoday.com) Histogenics Gets $49 Million for Tissue Regeneration – and Recapitalization (nextbigfuture.com) A few days in Nanomedicine – regeneration, synthetic vaccines, gene therapy, medical tests 1…

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  • Quantum2: an innovative skills development program provided by the Information Professional Development Group at ProQuest

    Quantum2: an innovative skills development program provided by the Information Professional Development Group at ProQuest. Interesting site for information professionals on setting up an information/KM center. Related articles Research databases on the new ProQuest platform (lmulibrary.typepad.com) ProQuest Rolls Out New Graduate Education Program (detroit.cbslocal.com) ebrary Fortifies Strategic E-book Acquisition for K-12 Libraries with Common Core…

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  • Alex (Sandy) Pentland Homepage: Honest Signals, Reality Mining, and Sensible Organizations

    Alex (Sandy) Pentland Homepage — Honest Signals, Reality Mining, and Sensible Organizations. What if you could see yourself as others see you? What if you could have a God’s eye view of how the people in your social network interact? Or `see the rhythms of interaction for everyone in your town? Or even the entire…

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