HD Explorer, March 25th, 2015
The HD Explorer
The Health Data Exploration Project’s regular scan through the news.
News
Healthcare Without Borders: How Millennials Are Reshaping Digital Health
US-based consumer collaboration agency, Communispace, has undertaken a study of Millennial healthcare values, and their report, “Healthcare Without Borders: How Millennials are Reshaping Health and Wellness” reveals what their finding means for digital health. Read more…
Why Health Care Tech Is Still So Bad
In today’s digital era, a modern hospital deemed the absence of an electronic medical record system to be a premier selling point. But even in preventing medical mistakes — a central rationale for computerization — technology has let us down. Read more…
News Release: How to donate your body to science, without having to die: Launch of Open Humans Network
“Open Humans” project backed by Knight and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invites individuals to share their most personal health information to accelerate medical breakthroughs. Read more…
The world’s first pain relief wearable is available for preorder
One of the wearables we saw at CES earlier this year is called Quell, a drug-free device supposed to help out relieve chronic pain. At the time, details about Quell availability were not available, but the device is currently up for preorder on Indiegogo, where it already hit almost $250,000 in pledges. Read more…
The inside story of how Apple’s new medical research platform was born
On September 27, 2013, during a dimly-lit presentation at Stanford’s MedX conference, Dr. Stephen Friend told an audience about the future of medical research. Read more…
This Wearable Game For Visually Impaired Kids Aims To Help Cognitive Development
A Mexican educational psychologist duo has teamed up to build toys for blind or visually impaired kids. The first device they’re building is a wearable game called Smash-a-ball — pictured above in prototype form — which is being designed to help kids’ cognitive development. Read more…
The digital patient is social, virtual and self-reliant
For the first time in human history, we are being simultaneously inundated with various disruptive technologies. Real game changers such as 3D printing, robots, virtual reality, big data and the Internet of Things are all on the edge of the breakthrough to the general public, while others such as mobile and social media are already established. Read more…
What’s your physician digital health innovator type?
The general thinking is that physicians are not involved enough in digital health — and it shows. Over the past year, I’ve been making it a point to talk with people from around the world, including doctors, about their perceptions of digital health. Read more…
The Times’ Attack on Wearables Is an Attack on Science
NICK BILTON WRITES about technology for the Style section of the New York Times. He’s not a reporter; he does commentary, and as such nobody expects him to be right all the time. Read more…
Thermometer of the future: A wireless, wearable fever alarm armband
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a wearable device that can continuously monitor a patient’s temperature – and sound an alarm when a fever develops to alert a nurse or caretaker. Read more…
Is Google working on a cure for cancer?
Google has filed a patent application with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for a wrist-worn device that could destroy cancer cells in the blood. Read more…
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