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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I try to see both side of this coin and yes having reminders and helpers is not a bad thing at all, it’s just the data side with privacy issues that seem to be the bug here as health insurance companies provide “behavioral underwriting” today to analyze every small item on your agenda. Companies...
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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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Back about 6 months ago when I started talking about the Blue Tooth Inhaler, everyone thought I was nuts and thought I was talking about Star Wars type of information , well the devices are either on their way shortly or are here. I’ll give you an equation here as to how this works: Medical...
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Somebody brought up this question the other day on how do insurance companies get your medication information. The information below goes back to a post I did about 3 months ago on the two main companies that provide the information for the insurers. I’ll add a little bit more this time to...
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