Patrick Soon-Shiong M.D. is the Los Angeles billionaire investor who has scooped up the company. Overall the product is a good thing as far as the reminder system and keep folks on track. My only concerns is the privacy factors and the data that it creates for sale. In today’s world...
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The concept of the pill bottle is good and can be helpful but the side of all of this are the profits that it creates for Health IT companies to sell your data. It is what it is. The Colbert Report did a funny video on the Glow Caps a while back too, funny. The Colbert Report Takes...
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This is interesting as I ponder the contract here giving AT&T a new list of consumers to potentially market? As mentioned before prescription medication information is bought and sold and not covered by HIPAA, so where does this open the doors for 3rd party companies to market you too. The...
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You have to love this! I post about all kinds of technology on this blog and have talked about the Glow Caps project and here’s a few links below. “Seniors are great at setting up networks and internet connections”. Goes back to what I keep saying, we need education and we just don...
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