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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nintendo’
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 »
Aging Boomers & Market Opportunties
Posted in consumer health, PHR, tagged aging, baby boomers, Nintendo, Sharp Brains on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Anyone following the healthcare IT market has a clear understanding (or at least should) that a key market driver for consumer-facing healthcare IT solutions is that ever aging baby boomer generation. This generation is relatively wealthy, compromised of over 77 million adults (if you include adults not born in the US it’s about 83M), often [...]
