The extremely popular Wii gaming system will begin connecting directly to health professionals in April. It appears that this will be first offered in Japan combining the existing Wii Fit and Wii Balance devices with bi-directional online communication capabilities. Moving beyond just providing the gaming devices and platform, Nintendo is partnering with NEC, Hitatci and [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Connecting to Health Coaches with Wii Fit
Posted in consumer health, telehealth, tagged Dossia, Google Health, health coach, HealthString, HealthVault, Nintendo, Wii, Wii Balance, Wii Fit on January 30, 2009 | 10 Comments »
IBM Looks to the Clouds, Industry-Specific Clouds
Posted in PHR, tagged cloud computing, Health Cloud, IBM, mHealth on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just stumbled across this article, during the course of research for upcoming Health Cloud report. IBM is sponsoring research at a number of universities around the globe all looking at specific Cloud Computing applications in specific industry sectors. What we found of particular interest in the article is the research in health cloud computing that [...]
Wellsphere Bites the Dust, Everyday Health in Top 5
Posted in consumer health, tagged Everyday Health, Health 2.0, Health2.0, HealthCentral, Wellsphere on January 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Another Health 2.0 flame-out has occurred, this time Wellsphere was picked up yesterday by HealthCentral. Not sure why HealthCentral would even remotely be interested in Wellsphere as Wellsphere is one of those companies I just could not get excited about. Why? Wellsphere use to SPAM me about once a month requesting that I join their [...]
BlackBerry Application Storefront Coming
Posted in Google, tagged Android, Apple, Blackberry, iPhone, mHealth on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Following on the hugely successful iPhone AppStore and the more recent Google Android Market, Research In Motion (RIM) intends to launch its own Application Storefront for the BlackBerry in March. ZDnet interviewed the folks at RIM on their plans, which was published today, following RIM’s announcement Monday of accepting submissions from 3rd party developers. Late [...]
HR 1: Stimulus Package and HIT
Posted in EHR, policy, Privacy, standards, tagged CCHIT, certification, HIT, HITECH Act, HR 1, innovation, ONCHIT, stimulus package on January 26, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Just finished reading/scanning HR 1, the House Stimulus bill focusing on the HIT section, to which some $20B greenbacks will flow. This Bill just went just the Appropriations Committee and will likely pass the full house later this week. The HITECH Act (HIT for Economic and Clinical Health), is massive at some 190 pages, beginning [...]
Web2.0 Use Among Hospitals
Posted in consumer health, health portals, tagged Health 2.0, Web 2.0 on January 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Interesting analysis of hospitals across the country that are using Internet-based, social networking tools, often referred to as Web2.0 (e.g., facebook, YouTube, Twitter) to connect with consumers. Based on this analysis, we are clearly at the very early stages of adoption as only 2.5% of hospitals nationwide are currently using Web2.0 to connect. If one [...]
Open Source Devices & Telehealth
Posted in consumer health, telehealth, tagged Bug Labs, Continua Alliance, medical devices on January 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Imagine what combining an Open Source hardware and software platform together might do in the medical device industry, particularly for less stringent telehealth applications. This is something that some in the industry are beginning to look at by leveraging the novel platform from a small New York city based start-up, Bug Labs. On Tuesday, the [...]
Health Privacy is Dead
Posted in consumer health, policy, Privacy, Security on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The tech guru/gadfly, Robert Scoble, formerly of Microsoft blogger fame and now with FastCompany put up a post on the microblogging site, friendfeed with the title: Health Privacy is Dead, Here’s Why Now Scoble is very well-known in the tech/social media circles, so when he does a controversial post such as this it gets a [...]
PHR Vendor CapMed Acquired
Posted in PHR, tagged acquisition, CapMed on January 16, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Recently, CapMed, one of the oldest PHR vendors in the market was sold by parent, Bio-Imaging Technologies to Metavante Technologies for $500K. Obviously a firesale. While Bio-Imaging seemed like an odd company to be in the PHR market, really don’t see the synergies at Metavante either. Apparently not a very big deal to Metavante either [...]
Feds Launch Two PHR Initiatives This Week
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Health Cloud, PHR, policy, tagged CMS, HHS, Surgeon General on January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This week, the feds made two announcements that have pertinence to the PHR market. CMS PHR Demo Launches in AZ & UT First, CMS announced the launch of the trial PHR program for Medicare members in AZ and UT. Beneficiaries can chose a PHR that fits their specific needs and have it pre-populated with up [...]
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