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NIH Offers Mobile Health Workshop for Behavioral Science With Mobile Health Algorithms And Formulas-We Want To Know Your Thoughts and What You May Do (Grin)

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:18:00 GMT

Well here it is now from the government. A couple years ago I started posting about behavioral health and mostly relative to insurance companies. They use data to project risk and keep cost down with their algorithms. Guess what, they want the data like everyone else to predict and keep costs down, nothing new here. The event is cosponsored by Qualcomm. Is this amazing that we have reached this point with wanting all the data available to predict our behaviors? They want to know what you are going to say and do next and mobile technology as well as for better health gets mixed in there. This is all fine and dandy if you are on the receiving side to profit but when you are the little person out there it’s a bit over whelming. We still need the balance of what is called participatory sensing before this moves forward or there could be a real angry crowd develop out of some of this if not implemented correctly with the proper privacy.

Are Cell Phones Enabling anyone to be a Scientist or Doctor - Participatory Sensing from CENS at UCLA

Participatory Sensing – Medical Devices Reporting Data for Patient Compliance

Like it or not (and I don’t like all of this either) the algorithms for predictive behaviors now have the attention of the NIH. This means getting data from your smart phone, medication compliance, what your personal habits are, etc. so this is still pretty touchy when you have one side wanting power and control justifying by saving money (which it could save some) but more or less wielding it out of control with thinking that algorithms will give them all the answers. Grants are given out for this.

UCLA and 5 University of California Hospitals Receive $9.9M from HHS Study Use of Wireless and Remote Care Management to Reduce Hospital Readmissions–Participatory Sensing

If that still is not good enough, this IPA has a 3 million dollar bounty for the algorithms that will predict and prevent re-admissions to hospitals.

Heritage Providers Continues to Promote $3 Million Dollar Prize to Create An Algorithm To Predict and Prevent Hospitalizations

Research and crunching numbers certainly helps but not when out of balance with humans ethics and we are seeing that out there today with those who perhaps are not as digitally literate and it’s technological war fare. The news you see doesn't quite address this topic enough with connecting all the dots as sometimes the news is maybe a bit distracted with more ratings and OMG type of material. They have to market and sell like everyone else out there. We have these developing, the human audit trails with data to use to analyze: (I wrote this 2 years ago).

The Human Audit Trail to automatically track your fitness and sleep and a few other things…

From the website:

“Using mobile technologies to more rapidly and accurately assess and modify behavior, biological states and contextual variables has great potential to transform medical research. Recent advances in mobile technologies and the ubiquitous nature of these technologies in daily life (e.g., smart phones, sensors) have created opportunities for research applications that were not previously possible (e.g., simultaneously assessing behavioral, physiological, and psychological states in the real world and in real-time). The use of mobile technology affords numerous methodological advantages over traditional methods, including reduced memory bias, the ability to capture time-intensive longitudinal data, date- and time-stamped data, and the potential for personalizing information in real-time. However, challenges in mobile health (or mHealth) research exist. Importantly, much of the work being done in mHealth arises from single disciplines without integration of the behavioral, social sciences and clinical research fields. Without integration, mobile technologies will not be maximally effective. is unlikely in other discipline or trade-specific venues”.

The Smart Inhaler with Blue Tooth and Wireless Capabilities

There are other devices too, recently mentioned was the application that works with an iPhone to measure your activity for the day. You can read more at the link below. There needs to be a balance on how and where devices are used to create better health and not end up with a big brother effect, that in turn will end up defeating the purpose for the sake of just saving a few dollars. At any rate the NIH wans to get in on adding their 2 cents to savings end of things it looks like as well.

The White House is very aware of participatory sensing and made this video on the topic about a year ago. BD

White House Speaks About Wireless Technology – Healthcare And Participatory Sensing

Participatory Sensing

The National Institutes of Health will offer a mobile-health workshop for behavioral science researchers, federal health officials and other members of the medical and health technology communities this summer, according to a news release from the Washington-based agency.

Participants in the weeklong NIH mHealth Summer Institute will receive instruction on the engineering, behavioral and clinical science behind mobile-health technology and will work to develop potential mHealth research projects.

"NIH is committed to harnessing the power and reach of mobile technologies to extend healthy life and to reduce the burden of illness and disability," said Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, in the release.
Mobile technologies such as smartphone diagnostic and imaging applications, electronic health records and wireless home-use medical devices "hold the promise of reducing costs and errors, removing geographical and economic disparities and personalizing healthcare," according to the release. The institute will take place June 20-24 in San Diego; applications to participate are due Thursday, March 3. Additional information and registration can be found at the website of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.

NIH offers mobile-health workshop - Healthcare business news from Modern Healthcare

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Relying on Experts When They May Not Exist–Many Intelligent and Smart People But Do We Have Misconceived Paradigms-TED

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:42:00 GMT

I thought this was a well thought out presentation and difficult to give no less too.I feel she does make some very good points as what and who we designate as experts and wealth is not always the dividing line here, like we sometimes think it may be. Decision making is getting harder as we all have more alternatives and sources of information that we didn’t have a few years ago. We still believe that experts are able to come to better conclusions than we can and that may not always be the case,although they can add input. The parental guiding of the “expert” can be dangerous she states as we get stuck in old paradigm. She feels we have become addicted to “experts” and their opinions.

The independent source within our brain sometimes switches off when listening to the “expert” as again it has been what we have done for years. Medical and financial experts get it wrong, and we can look at Wall Street for the financial example as I really don’t probably need to mention. How much faith do we put in economists, and she states she is one of these herself. Experts also command huge chunks of money too. She states there’s a bit of danger with not being ready and willing to take experts on, in other words ask questions and don’t believe everything you may be told at all times. We want explanations in languages that we can understand. She mentions Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt believes in this philosophy and again allows others to offer their information and advice. Once you listen to this you may have an entire different opinion of what the “expert paradigm” is. We certainly know they don’t exist in any form in Congress today if you want to take a pot shot as what we deal with today <grin>.

Of course this has direct healthcare impact as this is what we are trying to do with getting patients involved in our own healthcare. Uncertainty and doubt too is something we all live with today and is becoming an uncomfortable norm. BD

Smart decisions often require considering the advice smart people — that is, experts.

But according to economist Noreena Hertz, relying too much on them can be limiting — or even dangerous

Why we rely too much on experts - SmartPlanet

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Trademarkia Data Base Opens for Business- Trademarks, Business Intelligence Information-Algorithm To Search With Chatter From Social Networks

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:39:00 GMT

This is very cool if you have trademarks or are wanting to file one for sure. I can’t help but think in the pharma end of healthcare that Trademarkia will perhaps be used quite a bit. All the trademarks issued in the US since 1870 claim to be listed. I just went to the general page and they have a section for the “latest” trademarks and found one of my old clients in Irvine, California “Newport Scents” listed a recent file. You get to see trademark images and all the additional information on file.

From the Website:

“Trademarkia is the largest search engine for U.S. trademarks. Each month hundreds of trademarks around the world are filed by licensed attorneys in the Trademarkia network! You can register your trademark in 55+ countries in the world through Trademarkia Network. Trademarkia.com is a free search engine of publicly available government records. Trademarkia.com is not a law firm and does not represent owners & correspondents listed on this page. “

Now take a look and see how the trademark is being discussed on social networks:

You can also browse Trademarks by category:

This gets even better if you need to file a trademark too as it has most countries listed to where you can use the site to file for a trademark and includes the US Patent and Trademark office. What this tells me is that the filing of trademark stands to become more of an automated process too. The fee listed for filling is $159.00 and they offer a 100% money back guarantee. I put the healthcare spin on this but any industry can use it. Again, I think if one was looking to establish a trademark this would be a good place to go and check out if there’s anything similar or already in place that might create some delays along the way. There’s also a link to where you can view the latest trademarks filed through the system. I look this to grow and be a very busy site for obvious reasons. BD

Trademarkia scans of all the marks and returns results in a visual grid that’s a lot easier to make sense of than the USPTO’s trademark database. You can search by company, theme, product category, or even filing attorney. Companies can also file a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office through the site. And Trademarkia.com offers trademarked logo search that allows users to search inside millions logos for specific features or design elements

Trademark Database Trademarkia Debuts Automatic Activity Notifications

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Technology Has Been Abused for Profit –Algorithmic Formulas Used to Further the Stance of Greed on Wall Street and in Healthcare Organizations Traded on the Exchanges

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:29:00 GMT

Hopefully we will all get educated on what is ruling and running the US today, it’s not Tea Parties or the Soap Opera Congressional press we see everyday, it’s technology along with business models, software and the algorithmic formulas used to carve out money where it did not exist before. Every business uses software today and competition with programming and creating desired results seems to have taken the main stage. This represents a lot of the hidden cost of our healthcare in the US.

I do have to somewhat think that big banks, healthcare organizations traded on the stock market, and more just have to love the challenge of thriving monetarily on what they can pass off with algorithmic reasoning. Ask any stock trader on Wall Street today, they will commonly tell you it’s all about the “algos”. With consumers too we are also fighting “tech denial” and when one is not curious to learn and find out exactly what is happening, well the tech folks actually don’t worry about this too much as the more ignorance that exists, especially in public opinion, the easier it is for them to continue their business models and efforts, as with little education or interest in how this takes place, it makes it easy for them.

Congress doesn’t seem to get it and they too are folks living in “tech denial”, spoken to by lobbyists that know the game plan and how to represent banks and companies in a way that will make sense outside the area of technology and yet still allow them to continue on, business as usual. The lobbyists watch the soap operas too and intervene when necessary with creative verbal and perhaps otherwise convicting methodologies to serve their interest. Bottom line is to keep working the business models that make money and intervene in the soap opera only when necessary so as not to lose footing.

Does Congress recognize healthcare in the US as a crisis? I am beginning to wonder, when you compare a big crisis like Haiti. Are we running around judging people in Haiti who need care based on how they have taken care of their health, don’t think so, but yet the judgment system is alive and well here in the US, failure to recognize a crisis on our own home ground. This is not to take away from the crisis by any means at they need every bit of help they can get in Haiti, but again I draw attention to the “tech denial” folks that are in positions to make a difference, and are they? Do our leaders recognize this crisis? I am really beginning to wonder if our leadership as well as many here in the US are too distracted to fully comprehend what is happening. Look what he have out there, former candidates taking 2 years to say “I lied”, again more OMG stories and a source of distraction to a degree. Now looking back can we say “thank goodness” on this account?

Again, member of Congress ask for information and reports, but will they understand them, or does this get rolled up into the healthcare soap opera too? I keep saying this and there’s real merit here too, as informed patients have better results and the same holds true for our leaders as they are someone’s patient too, are they not? I would really like to see real collaboration here and end the old “witch hunt” game and figure head finding fault methodologies that go nowhere except for the fact that it makes more news media and doesn’t touch a solution.

Grassley Sends Inquiry to Hospitals – If He Participated As an E-Patient, We Might See Some Better Questions Asked And He Could Have a Better Idea About How Health IT Works and the Value It Creates

Deals cant be made like they used to be, and for goodness sakes, kept quiet, we have transparency and the internet today; however some still think this old system will work and we end up with yet one more chapter of a healthcare soap opera, like the Nebraska deal on Medicaid. Everybody know about it and it makes people mad as it is not fair to all, so again the best way to go into this is to have your cards up as people just get mad when they find out what really goes on. We still have so many efforts made in this area and we end up with one more OMG story, more arguments and one more chapter in “As the Congress Turns”.

What is a good legal decision and what is doing the “right thing”? When I read as everyone else did about the Supreme court decision to allow companies to invest heavily in political campaigns this week, I was shocked as was everyone else. A legal decision was made, but ask yourself, “is this the right thing to do”, I don’t think so and it somewhat appears to me to be another example of a system not wanting to take responsibility or to shift it into another area.

Legal decisions and “the right thing” are not always the same today, a paradigm difference from what we have grown up with over the years and I hope that .png?imgmax=800" alt="" />somebody along the line will also take issue with this. Legally you can run software too that creates undue profits, but is this the right thing to do? I think a step back to “Right Thing 101” could certainly stand to change some of the old paradigms we used to live by and perhaps bring an awakening into the fact that just because it has a legal opinion, it’s not the right thing to do.

As long as banks and big business though can continue to impress upon us that they have a “legal” ruling, even though they as humans may know deep inside that this is not right, nothing will change. One good example I can think of is the CEO of United with his famous statement, “Our shareholders will prosper”, cold hearted, yes and even Senator Rockefeller with that comment asked the man how he can sleep at night. I too sometimes wonder how people like that sleep at night too.

UnitedHealth Executive testified at the Senate – Rockefeller was not very satisfied

Is this the right thing to do to keep health insurance companies on the stock exchange? Nothing will change with consumers installing any trust as there have been way too many stories out there on how you can’t trust them. EHR medical record companies have to be accountable and be certified to ensure proper integration and workability, do insurance carriers have to show they are accountable, not yet to any big degree and thus we hear about one of the biggest shams in healthcare with using technology against people, and the lawsuits are filed and more are coming on the use of a data base that used figures to gouge both consumes and doctors in payment schedules to yield higher pay outs for shareholders, and yet we still continue to award anti fraud to those same organizations that defrauded thousand to fight fraud, does this make sense?

“Fair Database” to Replace Unfair Ingenix Data Base – Run by Non Profit

All of this leads me to this belief?

The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers

And this:

“Department of Algorithms – Do We Need One of These to Regulate Upcoming Laws?

I write about this issues to try to break through here a bit and bring reality back into the picture as to what really goes on behind the scenes so hopefully with an educated public, we stand a better chance at real healthcare reform and by knowing more than just what’s on the surface, we as consumers can help fight and win the battle so the US does have real healthcare reform and hopefully we can drop some of these OMG stories that distract and seem to just get in the way of any real progress. BD

Key quote at 4:15 President Obama "Those who oppose this fee say the banks cant afford to pay back the American people without passing on the costs to their shareholders and customers. But that's hard to believe when there are reports that Wall Street is going to hand out more money in bonuses and compensation just this year than the cost of this fee over the next ten years. If the big financial firms can afford massive bonuses, they can afford to pay back the American people."

YouTube - Wall Street Can't "Take The Money And Run"

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How Important is Business Intelligence Software Today – Important Enough to be Available on an iPhone for Mobile Reference

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:50:00 GMT

The mobility move both with people and devices continues to evolve. I can go back about 10 years or so ago and attest myself for having information at my fingertips when I was in outside sales. I began with mobile devices before they were phones, a simple black and white PDA. What did it do for me, let me run circles around all my peers for one and have the absolute top sales results where I worked. In the early days people used to look at me and think I was a bit strange, as I could pull all my business account information out of my purse, where I kept my PDA, piece of cake and the customers liked it!

Did others do this, nope. They looked at it and thought “gee that is interesting” but the level of curiosity dropped at that point and they went about their merry way carrying around trunks full of paper records and having to call the corporate offices when they needed information about their accounts, wasting a lot of the client’s time. Recently an article came out linking intelligence with curiosity and that is one of my main stays, how can I perk the curiosity of an individual, in sale and marketing if you don’t tap into this, move on as you could be wasting an entire amount of time if you can’t touch that element with an individual or group.

The Link between intelligence and Curiosity Is Discovered

Here we are now, years later with extreme information availability and sad to say we still have some of the same individuals I mentioned above, those who are NOT curious and this is a big factor today with education, how do we spark that note with some individuals? Those who have and learn how to use business intelligence, and now with mobility soar above the rest, they are appreciated by clients and can handle a much larger workload in an intelligent fashion.

Here we go, business intelligence (with those algorithms) on the go, working it’s way into the business models of the future for companies who invest and want to stay at the top of the helm, information is knowledge and power today, we don’t have the time to chase paper reports and charts, and might I also say laws as well. Congressional algorithms to create algorithmic centric laws would go a long way today, so think of the 2 examples above that I mentioned from my own experience, is this what we see today, think about it. BD

MeLLmo, a Del Mar, CA, startup developing graphics and visualization software, has raised $4 million from private investors to accelerate its penetration in the market for 3G mobile devices. The secondary round means MeLLmo has now raised a total of $10 million from its angel investors since the company was founded 21 months ago.

“I think we’ve ended up with a whole new paradigm for how to visualize and analyze data,” says Santiago Becerra, a co-founder and MeLLmo’s chairman and CEO. While the company initially focused its software for use on Apple’s iPhone, Becerra tells me MeLLmo intends to broaden its development efforts to other 3G smart phones. And as the advantages of its software become more widely understood, Becerra says he even anticipates demand among PC users.

After Becerra rebuffed him, his friend said, “OK, just give me the name of your company.” After telling his friend he intended to call the company “Roambi,” his friend basically said, “Oh that’s easy. You’re doing roaming business intelligence.”

MeLLmo’s initial application was developed for the iPhone, and is available as a free download from the Roambi website or the Apple iTunes App Store. The company also has been developing paid versions of its publisher application with expanded functionality for enterprise business users, such as supporting SAP Web Intelligence and SAP Crystal Reports. Becerra says he expects the company will be making additional announcements on that front in coming months.

MeLLmo Raises $4M to Expand its Market for Mobile Business Intelligence Software | Xconomy

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