This just showed up in InovaHealth's Twitter stream:
In 10 years each individual will have their own health data cloud - @ISBLeeHood. #P4Med
— Inova Health System (@InovaHealth) March 27, 2012
Fascinating idea; frustrating that Twitter makes so few details available. Might be possible to learn more from Lee Hood's organization, The Institute for Systems Biology.
Not your typical "scientific" video, but lots to think about and marvel at here.
Just saw this via Lucien Engelen but can't digest it fast enough. This is a whole new way to approach medical care—actually could make conversations with a doctor more practical and less of a black box. There's potential for helping users see what they're doing to their bodies and the effect their behavior is having on their health. Even though this seems like an application for the future, it looks like the developers have already made public demonstrations. They claim that this kind of visualization of personal medical data can actually lower the costs of health care.
.@TaxiCanada Declares War On Potholes With An iPhone App (And big marketing stunt!) is.gd/ksLRoP via @FastCoCreate
— Fast Company (@FastCompany) March 21, 2012
@FastCompany returns to the pothole theme.I'm intrigued by the willingness of Canada to encorage drivers to report potholes by offering a reporting championship. Mostly I wonder how to encourage the same kind of engagement with citizens in Fairfax County, Virginia. Most of the time when I report a road problem here, the reponse I usually get is VDOT is reponsible (AKA it's not my problem. And VDOT is the most unresponsive agency I can name!).
An international research team has succeeded in manufacturing the world’s first flexible, organic transistor that will help make patient monitoring devices easier to implant and integrate with the human body, and is expected to be adopted into wearable, patch-like health monitors or implantable devices like pace makers.
The article, brought to my attention by @InovaHealth, claims "The innovation has far-reaching implications. The transistor can easily be manufactured and broadens the usage of the organic transistors as medical devices due to its flexibility and ability to cover large areas. Potential applications offered by the biocompatible transistors include wearable electronics that read bio-information from outside the skin, or implantable electronics that directly extract health information from the body. The invention also opens a new path to the development of thin film sensors which detect tumors, inflammations, and early cancers."