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A Bite of the Apple

Posted in Google, consumer health, tagged , , , , , on June 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Yesterday, with much fanfare, Steve Jobs took the stage at Apple’s annual developer conference and announced the pending release of the next iteration of the iPhone. While there has been plenty of press regarding this release, both before (and Apple’s Dark Lord tactics) and after, Job’s presentation also highlighted a number of facts and figures [...]

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Learnings from mHealth Summit

Posted in consumer health, mHealth, telehealth, telemedicine, tagged , on October 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Over the last two days, been attending the Foundation for the NIH’s event, the mHealth Summit.  This being its inaugural year, the event has been covering a wide gambit of issues, but the majority of panel sessions, keynotes and what not have focused on the use of mHealth tech for addressing public health needs in [...]

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Sad Scale is One Sad App

Posted in consumer health, mHealth, tagged , , , , , on June 4, 2009 | 9 Comments »

While it seems that there are an unlimited number of consumer-facing mobile apps for calorie counting/diets, exercise, menstrual calendars and symptom checking, Chilmark has been somewhat struck by the dearth of apps focusing on mood disorders.  Not sure why that is, but we were pleasantly surprised when Sad Scale showed up on the iPhone AppStore.  [...]

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Atlas of the Human Brain, Cool iPhone App, but Could be Even Better

Posted in PHR, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Recently Chilmark Research was a provided a free copy of the iPhone app, Atlas of the Brain by Sylvius MR.  Atlas of the Brain is an app targeting the medical community and can be found within the medical apps section of the iTunes store.  Following is the review written for the website, medmacs, which was [...]

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iTriage: Is this the Future of mHealth Apps?

Posted in consumer health, tagged , , , , , on April 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Couple of weeks back had the opportunity to talk to the CEO and CMO of Healthagen, developers of the iPhone app, iTriage a new, consumer-facing app with some interesting twists, including partnerships with Coalition America, HealthGrades and TelaDoc.  iTriage can be found on the Apple iTunes store for less than a dollar. The co-creators of [...]

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Hot Days and Deep Bowls

Posted in HealthVault, consumer health, tagged , , on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Got back late last night after a relaxing (at least mentally) trip out West, first to give a Keynote presentation at LabInfoTech, and then onto Aspen, Colorado for some downhill skiing escapades and general romping in my old stomping grounds. (Spent most of my teenage years in Colorado Springs.) Beautiful sunny days with temperatures on [...]

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Apple iPhone 3.0: New Possibilities for Health & Wellness Apps

Posted in consumer health, tagged , , , on March 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Today, Apple introduced its latest OS for the iPhone, V3.0.  This new version is a tremendous upgrade from the previous version and will allow Apple, we believe, to continue to dominate the mobile App market.  The website gdgt live has been providing great live coverage of the event today and encourage you to go there [...]

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Doctor Love, iPhone & Epocrates App

Posted in EMR, tagged , , , on February 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »

FastCompany contributor and Social Media guru, Robert Scoble, interviews a Stanford physician on his use of Epocrates on the iPhone.  An excellent interview that is well worth your time for several reasons: 1) With over 600,000 physicians using Epocrates (1 in 4 physicians in the US use Epocrates) it is arguably the number one mobile [...]

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Early iPhone Experiences

Posted in PHR, tagged , , , on February 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Couple of weeks ago, my T-mobile contract expired and I turned to AT&T to get the iPhone.  Was able to quickly sell my Blackberry (BB) Pearl on Craigslist (really like that service) and am slowly getting use to the iPhone quirks. What I don’t like, miss or just haven’t gotten use to on the iPhone: [...]

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IBM Looks to the Clouds, Industry-Specific Clouds

Posted in PHR, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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