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Devices that report data are somewhat a focus on the Medical Quack and it appears now the accelerometers are going to get even “smarter’ and as usual we need to make reporting data a “game” in order to interest and average American consumer, as that’s what everything revolved around today in a big way...
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Healthcare is fair game for this and in this interview from CNN, a toothbrush is used as an example. With devices, such as the IPhone, we see some of this with going on line to compare your work out figures and other items against others on the web or with friends. This is also a legal outlet...
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We have yet one more device to enter the arena. The Gruve was developed on conjunction with Mayo Clinic . The push is for employers to incorporate the product for use in wellness programs, although you can certainly buy on yourself. I originally wrote about the product a few months...
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We live in the world of integrated software and employee participation is an option with a device such as an iPhone to monitor activity, along with being connected to a Wellness Coach that could send you emails and text messages, some could be a nice warning telling you that you are not moving enough...
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Mon, Sep 7 2009
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This is a very interesting bit of software that is also free to download to use with an iPhone. It is slated as a “game’ and allows an individual to complete with other individuals using the software and creates full 24 hour report of every move you make and how many calories were burned. ...
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Sat, Jun 6 2009
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Transit companies are not the only ones with cell phone use being an issue. I think we are going to see more of these types of stories hit the press. There are solutions….and the wireless carriers have to buy in though. Microsoft's Device Manners Policy Patent Enforces "No-Talking...
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This is a post I wrote about several hot topics, including role models for personal health records, like maybe Oprah? Also discussed is how technology and healthcare need to come together, to create a union and avoid intrusive and disruptive technologies so it is done correctly with healthcare...
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If this is not risk management by insurance companies calling the shots for healthcare, I don’t know what is, and stands to completely work to disintegrate the doctor-patient relationship, not to mention the insurance company doctor relationship. It seems like every week there’s some new risk management...
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So here we are thinking that monitors are only for seniors and children, well think again as here comes the health coach, reduced premiums for participating and showing proof of what you are doing, electronically. Maybe this device, since their focus is risk management? The Muve Gruve Device Measures...
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I have covered both products in the past, links below for additional information. I appears the future lies in having a device literally “in house” to keep the communication lines open on what’s going on. Both companies are working on standards in this effort. Hopefully we won’t forget...
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The Muve Gruve device sounds very similar to another device that I posted about a few months ago, check out the human audit trail related reading below. This one get on the intrusive technology list for one big reason, right from the company web page, it is targeted at risk management to help promote...
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There’s a lot of truth to this study in more ways than one. Shoot I’m sitting around Twitter hoping to inspire some physicians, readers, PHDs, journalists, business leaders, business organizations, students, you name it, to just try a FREE PHR, and see what power is there and what they do. ...
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Sun, Nov 23 2008
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I am glad someone else out there on the web has also chimed in here on this subject too. I have pen named some of the medical devices offered today as “ Intrusive Technology”, and it lives out there among us, whether we know it or not. It also goes beyond just the doctor-patient relationship...
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Sun, Nov 9 2008
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