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Courtesy of Wired A health technology revelation… Wired has a great article up about how all the health tracking devices currently in use are turning living into a type of game. Eat now beep beep, exercise now beep beep, your heart rates too high, your blood sugars too low. The idea that such an increase in data [...]  A look at the future of health sciences… Up until now very few genomes had been sequenced and identifying the cause of diseases based on genomic data seemed out of reach. Now two labs working independently have successfully sequenced the genomes of patients suffering from disease, and for only $50 000. This is a huge feat considering [...] courtesy Guger Technologies I hope this health technology becomes affordable for everyone… typing these articles while watching Dexter = great! Intendix will be the first patient-ready commercially available brain-computer interface. Designed to help those who have little to no motor function. Patients will be able to type at about 60 letters per minute and should be able [...]
Eric Topol begins his talk by asking when the stethoscope was invented. Have a guess? It was 1816. Although the traditional stethoscope is still useful, there are better and more comprehensive means of monitoring the heart and lungs. How many other medical diagnostic tools haven’t undergone a major upgrade in almost 200 years? Medicine is [...] That’s one of the slogans from Casttoo. If you can get your hands on a digital copy of your xray, you can personalize your cast to show off what’s happening underneath. Fun, kitschy and clever, these will provide a great conversation starter instead of a depressing glare from onlookers. Casttoo offers a wide array of art and [...] Announced this week, Microsoft HealthVault will allow patients and their physicians to upload, review and organize their health records online. This includes prescriptions, physician notes, lab results and more. General manager of Microsoft Health Solutions David Cerino explains this exciting product: “With HealthVault Community Connect, we are targeting one of the fundamental gaps in the care [...]
by David Pincock Secret DNA databases cataloging citizens of the U.S might sound like science fiction but recently the Department of State Health Services of Texas was caught doing just this. It was found that 800 blood samples from newborns across Texas were taken, without permission, for the purpose of creating a DNA database. [...] For those times when a needle free vaccine won’t work you need a good old fashioned syringe. The problem is that syringes, when reused, spread disease and are major cause of death in the world. Hospitals reusing syringes on multiple patients, drug addicts sharing their needles, or simply syringes left in the garbage all spread disease. Marc [...] The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which took place last month, is the largest technology trade-show of the year and medical technology certainly made its mark this year. Jonathan Linkous of the American Telemedicine Association discusses the trends in consumer health technology at CES and what it means for the health care industry.
How is it that with all of the video communication and social networking tools available, we still access doctors the same way our grandparents did (pre-internet)? Fortunately there are people enabling massive change. Check out the facebook-esque medical platform: Hello Health You can also watch Jay Parkinson talk about the project at Pop!Tech:
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