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BAVC Panel: DRM at World's End

Mar 07, 2008 By Jess Hemerly

I participated as a panelist at the Bay Area Video Coalition’s fourth in a series of four “Innovation Salons” last night. The title was “Scramble...

The continuing challenges of RHIOs and EHRs

Mar 04, 2008 By Vivian Distler

In August, I wrote about the demise of the Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) in Santa Barbara. In January, the California HealthCare...

In-store health clinics, Part 2

Mar 04, 2008 By Vivian Distler

A website called RNCentral.com has come up with a list of 20 ways Walmart's in-store clinics will affect health care. Some of the observations are...

A British twist on a GHE trend

Mar 04, 2008 By Vivian Distler

On the Global Health Economy map, we identified retail health as a "big story" that led us to "[e]xpect innovations such as in-store clinics to open...

Cheezborger, cheezborger, cheezborger

Feb 29, 2008 By Vivian Distler

I can't believe I have not written about this before now. IFTF Research Affiliate Jamais Cascio has analyzed the carbon footprint of the all-American...

Even hospitals think wellness is an important part of health

Feb 26, 2008 By Vivian Distler

The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently issued a report entitled, "Health for Life: Better Health, Better Health Care," which places a great...

Online health user data

Feb 26, 2008 By Vivian Distler

From Forrester Research, via iHealthBeat: ...

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet--and be as healthy?

Feb 26, 2008 By Vivian Distler

A recent New York Times article describes the process by which perfume makers are rapidly developing and patenting new smell molecules, which are...

More on the accuracy of online health information (and a digression into Web 3.0)

Feb 25, 2008 By Vivian Distler

Last week, I posted an entry about a recent study reported in Cancer about the accuracy of health information available online. Today, there is news...

An open source electronic health record platform

Feb 25, 2008 By Vivian Distler

As much as I am in favor of electronic health records (EHR), I recognize that compatibility is a problem. For example, my EHR at the Palo Alto...

A step forward for Google Health

Feb 25, 2008 By Vivian Distler

It's been a while since I have written about Google's efforts to become the home for people's personal health records (see this post, for example). ...

A small-scale example of Open Health?

Feb 25, 2008 By Vivian Distler

This excerpt from an article in The Scientist reminded me of some of the Open Health concepts we have been discussing: For most of biology, . . . oral...

Food with a human twist?

Feb 25, 2008 By Vivian Distler

Thanks again to BoingBoing for turning me on to this fascinating excerpt from an article in Steps Magazine (which I have never heard of...

E-mail apnea

Feb 25, 2008 By Vivian Distler

Every now and then, I find something oddly health-related on BoingBoing, a blog that bills itself as a "directory of wonderful things" (many of which...

The accuracy of health information online

Feb 25, 2008 By Vivian Distler

The blog, e-patients.net, recently highlighted a new study published in the journal Cancer that examined the quality of health information people find...

Wal-Mart goes green

Feb 20, 2008 By Vivian Distler

This is not really a new story, but I did want to flag the long article on MSN Money about Wal-Mart's efforts to re-invent itself as an "eco-hero."...

The impact of medical tourism on medical devices

Feb 19, 2008 By Vivian Distler

The Center for Business Intelligence (CBI) will be hosting a webinar on this topic on February 26th, 2008. According to the website , the webinar will...

Functional foods hit the L.A. scene

Feb 18, 2008 By Vivian Distler

Another hip and trendy fad? Celebrity-studded restaurants in Los Angeles are now offering menu choices that specifically claim to boost immunity and...

Social networking comes to the life sciences

Feb 18, 2008 By Vivian Distler

Last month, Collexis announced the launch of BioMedExperts.com, an online social networking site that is being billed as the MySpace for research...

Wii as a health tool

Feb 08, 2008 By Vivian Distler

I was taking a quick break from an editing project and skimming the AP Wire news headlines when this one caught my eye: "Doctors use Wii games for...

Stanford's Texting4Health Conference

Feb 01, 2008 By Vivian Distler

The Health Horizons Program is sponsoring the upcoming Texting4Health conference, February 28th-March 1st, 2008, at Stanford University....

Taking anytime, anyplace health to a new high

Jan 26, 2008 By Vivian Distler

[img_assist|nid=817|title=|desc=|link=none|align=center|width=494|height=640]This is the kind of story for which one might expect to say, "Only in San...

Science@Work How-To: SharpBrains

Dec 10, 2007 By Jess Hemerly

We were fortunate to have SharpBrains founder Alvaro Fernandez with us at our Fall Exchange on the Future of Work. From their website: ...

Black market actors in China's virtual asset economy

Dec 09, 2007 By Lyn Jeffery

Researchers at Peking University's Institute of Computer Science and Technology, with the University of Mannheim's Laboratory for Dependable...

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