Spleen on a chip

This Spleen-On-A-Chip Will Clean Your Blood Like A Machine BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.comUsing nanobeads that strip out anything bad in your blood, this machine could be a solution to deadly blood infections, especially in places far from a hospital. Which is why the military is very interested.Sep­sis is a whole-body inflam­ma­to­…This Spleen-On-A-Chip Will Clean Your … Continue reading Spleen on a chip

SV Angel says health informatics is a mega trend

SV Angel Says Health Informatics Is One Of Its New “Megatrends” Kim-Mai Cutler, techcrunch.com SV Angel, one of the Val­ley’s best-known early-stage firms, says it’s start­ing to look heav­i­ly at health star­tups that take a “software-first approach” towards human biol­o­gy, med­ical research and patient care. The firm has always had a l… RT @Techmeme: SV … Continue reading SV Angel says health informatics is a mega trend

IT has disrupted finance so why is healthcare lagging behind?

Information technology has revolutionalized financial services. So why is healthcare so far behind? Phil Fasano, Guest Contributor, gigaom.com The U.S. leads the world in health­care expen­di­tures – an astound­ing $2.7 tril­lion in 2012 and ris­ing every year. Yet in one recent study of med­ical out­comes in the world’s most high­ly devel­oped coun­tries we ranked last. … Continue reading IT has disrupted finance so why is healthcare lagging behind?

Box gets into health IT with HIPAA compliant apps

Box gets hip to HIPAA, adds health-record apps Jordan Novet, gigaom.com Think some cloud-storage options are no good for privacy-sensitive appli­ca­tions like health care? Box wants you to think again. Keen on boost­ing its enter­prise cus­tomer base and prep­ping for an IPO, the com­pa­ny said Wednes­day it’s now… Box gets hip to HIPAA, adds health-record … Continue reading Box gets into health IT with HIPAA compliant apps

Healthtap: health professionals give free advice online

The Ultra-Popular App That Has Convinced Doctors To Give Their Services For Free BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com HealthTap gives you access to medical professionals to answer your health queries, and it doesn’t cost you a dime. There was a time not too long ago that doc­tors lived in an ana­log world. They only answered ques­tions … Continue reading Healthtap: health professionals give free advice online

Chronic pain and happiness

How Chronic Pain Has Made Me Happier Rob Heaton, lifehacker.com Seven years ago I did so much cycling that my legs blew up. My body completely gave out and my brain decided that from now on everything was going to hurt all the time so that I would stop running myself into the ground. Since … Continue reading Chronic pain and happiness

Startup incubator for digital health and healthcare technology startups

Startup incubator for digital health and healthcare technology startups rockhealth.com Accel­er­ate Think you have an idea that can change health­care? Learn more about our pro­gram, meet our men­tors and teams, and see if you have what it takes. Attend If you’re seek­ing ways to con­nect with the dig­i­tal health com­mu­ni­ty… http://flip.it/SmtFv Related articles NYC plays … Continue reading Startup incubator for digital health and healthcare technology startups

Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile

Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile With Acquisition Of Health Innovator Epocrates By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Epocrates, the start­up whose mobile apps pro­vide drug ref­er­ence advice to more than half of Amer­i­can health care providers, is being acquired by Athenahealth, the data man­age­ment plat­form for doctors—a mar­riage of two Most Inno­v­a­tive… RT @FastCompany: #FCMostInnovative Health … Continue reading Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile

This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart

This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Test results become far easier to process, since they’re visual. Blood tests are one of those things that always seem to slow down doc­tor appoint­ments. You’re in the room. The nurse takes blood. The doc­tor sees you—speculates a lot—and … Continue reading This $10 Chip Turns 50 Blood Tests Into A Brilliantly Simple Chart

The Slow Medicine Movement

(via The Slow Medicine Movement: My Mother, Your Mother « The Healthcare Marketer) Related articles I Kick. I Stretch and I am 50! 50 Years Old... (kinesisliving.wordpress.com) Slow Travel (edintoedin.wordpress.com) Physicians blend ancient wisdom and complementary practices with conventional medicine (blogs.vancouversun.com) Slow medicine (whyy.org) Medicinal Cannabis Activist Creed (kiefair.com) All Medicines are Drugs but not All … Continue reading The Slow Medicine Movement

God’s Hotel Book Review

(via ‘God’s Hotel’ Book Review - An Account of Health Care Past - NYTimes.com) Related articles Watsi, a Crowdfunding Site, Offers Help With Medical Care - NYTimes.com (cannonballcc.org) Stupid Writer Tricks - NYTimes.com (everythingscrivener.wordpress.com) Why does almost every site out there make it so hard to leave? @NYTimes reports (alexisohanian.com) Booklist | 'The Dispensable Nation,' … Continue reading God’s Hotel Book Review

The Cash-Only Doctors Club

  businessweek.com Concierge doctors don’t take insurance, but do make house calls. Once an option only for the rich, they may change health care for everyone RT @BW: Is concierge medicine the future of healthcare? | http://flip.it/0htzp #longreads http://flip.it/fHvQI The Cash-Only Doctors Club Related articles Paul Hsieh on Concierge Medicine (healthcarebs.com) Dear Congress: Listen to … Continue reading The Cash-Only Doctors Club