Category: Biomedical Informatics

  • IT has disrupted finance so why is healthcare lagging behind?

    Information technology has revolutionalized financial services. So why is healthcare so far behind? Phil Fasano, Guest Contributor, gigaom.com The U.S. leads the world in health­care expen­di­tures – an astound­ing $2.7 tril­lion in 2012 and ris­ing every year. Yet in one recent study of med­ical out­comes in the world’s most high­ly devel­oped coun­tries we ranked last.…

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  • Box gets into health IT with HIPAA compliant apps

    Box gets hip to HIPAA, adds health-record apps Jordan Novet, gigaom.com Think some cloud-storage options are no good for privacy-sensitive appli­ca­tions like health care? Box wants you to think again. Keen on boost­ing its enter­prise cus­tomer base and prep­ping for an IPO, the com­pa­ny said Wednes­day it’s now… Box gets hip to HIPAA, adds health-record…

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  • Twitcident: tweet mining for emergency management

    Tweet-Mining For Crowd Management, Social Weather, And Emergencies BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com It’s not just for insane hashtags anymore! Twitcident is mining the service to help manage everything from fires to crowded concerts. Twit­ter might seem like an enor­mous stream of aim­less chat­ter. But, to an increas­ing num­ber of agen­cies,… Tweet-Mining For Crowd Management, Social…

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  • Healthtap: health professionals give free advice online

    The Ultra-Popular App That Has Convinced Doctors To Give Their Services For Free BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com HealthTap gives you access to medical professionals to answer your health queries, and it doesn’t cost you a dime. There was a time not too long ago that doc­tors lived in an ana­log world. They only answered ques­tions…

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  • Anthropological bed bug solution: kidney beans

    A New Solution For Bedbugs: Kidney Bean Leaves BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com It’s actually an old solution, which was mostly lost when bedbugs were eradicated. Now that they’re back, this natural remedy might be better than any pesticides we’ve thrown at them. It only takes one infes­ta­tion with bed bugs to make you an… http://flip.it/olFwT…

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  • Mason jar lunches: safe, healthy and mobile

    Pack Multi-Layered Meals in Mason Jars for a Grab-and-Go Lunch You Can Make in Advance Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Finding time to pack a lunch ahead so you can eat well and save a bit of cash can be tricky. Thankfully the solution to making a healthy, tasty lunch that you can grab in the morning…

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  • Choosing the right oils to cook with

    Why You Should Have More than One Oil In Your Kitchen (and How to Choose The Best Ones) Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Anyone can toss some oil into a pan and cook, but if you want to up your cooking game, consider using different oils based on the dish you’re making and how you plan to…

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  • Fish swimming in water contaminated by anti-anxiety drugs turn into weird loners

    sarahpetersmiller1969, grist.org WikimediaAll by myself. I don’t need anyone at all. I know I’ll survive. I know I’ll stay alive. Perch are shy. They like to band together for protection, swimming together in schools the way nerds all share the nerd table in the high-school… Fish swimming in water contaminated by anti-anxiety drugs turn into…

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  • Eco mart: Etsy for Eco

    Eco Market is like Etsy for Eco Chris Tackett, treehugger.com Eco Market is bringing together organic and natural product producers in what has been called an “Etsy for Eco” model. http://flip.it/pUD6b Related articles [Etsy Treasury] Etsy team “Let’s support and promote each other” bundle of treasuries (funkyboxstudio.wordpress.com)

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  • Lifesaver jerrycans water filter

    LifeSaver Jerrycan purifies 5 gallons of water for drinking and showering C.C. Weiss, gizmag.com The LIFESAVER Jerrycan is a large water purification jug that could be of great use to everyone from campers to inhabitants of remote villages. The Jerrycan incorporates a built-in filtration system which can purify 18.5 liters (4.9 gallons) of wa… LifeSaver…

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  • Formaldehyde in wrinkle free clothing causes health problems

    Formaldehyde in Wrinkle-Free Clothing May Cause Skin Problems ecouterre.com Pho­tos by Laura Pedrick for the New York Times Wrinkle-resistant clothes are a boon for folks who’d rather never see the busi­ness side of an iron again, but the permanent-press fin­ish we so covet com … RT @inhabitat: The awful truth about “wrinkle-free” clothing http://flip.it/aHAB5 http://flip.it/lG9GS…

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  • Thinking of Starting a Business? Check Out Consumer Health Technology

    April Joyner, inc.com Inc. magazine Apr 8, 2013 New apps and devices are bringing diagnosis and treatment straight to the end consumer. fea­tured com­pa­ny Well­frame brings arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to heart care. The Afford­able Care Act put a… Thinking of Starting a Business? Check Out Consumer Health Technology http://flip.it/DF2GI http://flip.it/mkzag Thinking of Starting a Business? Check…

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  • Mapping your DNA could save your life

    Why Mapping Your DNA Could Save Your Life Lauren Drell, mashable.com You may think you know yourself like the back of your hand, but unless you’ve been DNA tested, there’s probably a lot you don’t know about yourself. Within each of the 50 trillion cells in your body rests the microscopic DNA that programs your…

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  • Chronic pain and happiness

    How Chronic Pain Has Made Me Happier Rob Heaton, lifehacker.com Seven years ago I did so much cycling that my legs blew up. My body completely gave out and my brain decided that from now on everything was going to hurt all the time so that I would stop running myself into the ground. Since…

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  • Nanotechnology heater and cooling body wear

    How Winter Woes Inspired A Nanotech Fix For Everything From Cold Necks To Knee Pain By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Kranthi Kiran Vistakula developed technology that can keep your body comfortable in outside temperatures that range from -50 to 50 degrees Celsius. With the excep­tion of Russ­ian nov­el­ists, not many peo­ple can say their big break…

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  • Don’t eat Fukushima fish

    Fish Near Fukushima Reportedly Contains High Cesium Level AP, huffingtonpost.com TOKYO (AP) — The Japan­ese util­i­ty that owns the tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant says it has detect­ed a record 740,000 bec­querels per kilo­gram of radioac­tive cesium in a fish caught close to the plant. That’s 7,400 times the gov­ern­me… RT @HuffingtonPost: Record level of radioactive…

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  • Chemistry makes healthy foods more appealing

    Can Chemistry Make Healthy Foods More Appealing? Rachel Nuwer, smithsonianmag.com Photo: holtmiGive a baby her first spoonful of mashed spinach or blended brussell sprouts and you can likely watch her face pucker up in shocked torment. Veggies tend to be a dreaded childhood bane for many youngsters, yet there are exceptions to … Can Chemistry…

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  • Night reading on ipad to protect melatonin production

    (via How to Enable Night-Reading Theme in any iPad or iPhone App) Related articles iPhone App Leads Wellesley Police To Suspect In Car Break-Ins (boston.cbslocal.com) His name wasn’t Earl: but he returned my lost iPhone with some iPad Karma (daniweb.com)

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  • Eyewear for computer users

    (via ‘High-Performance Eyewear’? Guess Again. – NYTimes.com) Related articles If Pigs Could Fly (eyewearetcblog.wordpress.com)

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  • End computer induced blue light insomnia

    (via No More Blue Light Induced iPad Insomnia) Related articles Depression Induced Insomnia? (mylifeinbitsandpieces.wordpress.com) Welcome – More posts about insomnia coming soon! (insomniacolorado.com) Do You Dream Of Dreaming…If Only You Could Get To Sleep? (happyholistichealth.wordpress.com) Dozens of Casualties in String of Attacks Across Iraq – New York Times (nytimes.com) Dick Cheney defends NSA surveillance programs…

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  • Visualizing food lifespan

    Put an End to Spoiled, Wasted Food with This Handy Chart Alan Henry, lifehacker.com The costs of wasted food go far beyond the money you may have wasted buying something and letting it spoil. We’ve talked about ways to stop wasting food before, but if all you really need to know is “How long will…

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  • Esophageal bracelet for chronic acid reflux

    Bracelet-Like Device Could Alleviate Chronic Acid Reflux, Says Study Bridgette Meinhold, ecouterre.com Up until last year, treatment for chronic acid reflux involved acid-suppressing drugs, but a new device fitted around a patient’s esophagus is showing promising results to provide relief. A recent study through the Mayo Clinic shows that nearly al… RT @inhabitat: A tiny…

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  • Swarm social science eliminates time wasting office meetings

    Ditch Time-Wasting Meetings By Turning Your Office Into An Ant Colony BY MICHAEL J. COREN, fastcoexist.com Scientists have started applying lessons from how ants operate to the corporate world. The result: fewer meetings, more time working, and tasks completed much more quickly. Ants may free us from that scourge of mod­ern soci­ety: the meet­ing (an……

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  • Secret lives of animals captured by motion sensitive digicams

    Secret Lives of Wild Animals Captured by 1 Million Camera-Trap Images Brandon Keim, wired.com Thanks to motion-triggered digital camera traps, scientists have a powerful tool for studying reclusive animals in remote, inaccessible areas — and also for generating animated .gifs of gorillas scratching their stomachs. Brandon Keim Secret Lives of Wild Animals Captured by 1…

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  • Basis band is the best fitness tracker

    Basis Band Review: The Only Fitness Tracker Worth Buying By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com The first fitness tracker that could actually help you get in shape, thanks to a goals system that works with your life and sensors that actually track your fitness. The Basis Band is the best fit­ness track­er on the mar­ket. It’s the…

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