healthcare

Google's Data Show Tennessee, Florida Most Troubled Over Health Care

Google's philanthropic Flu Trends site has been able to track swine flu about as well as health care surveillance, according to Bloomberg. What else can trending searches tell us about the state of health in the United ...READ»

reCareered: Who’s Hiring in Health Care - November 2009

Hospitals, Federal Government, Nursing Homes, Home Health, Clinics, and Outsourced Health Services top Health Care hiring during November 2009, based on job advertisements open for 30 days from the top job boards.READ»

Pennsylvania Highmark Blue Shield PPOBlue Health Insurance Plan Information

Pennsylvania Highmark Blue Shield offers the PPOBlue health insurance plan. An affordable Pennsylvania health insurance plan for Central Pa residents.READ»

Doctors Get Mobile Heart Monitoring and Check-Ups With Latitude iPhone App

Remember when the iPod made your music collection mobile, letting you access and sort your library from anywhere? Boston Scientific is on track to do the same thing with patient medical data, via an upcoming iPhone app. "It's all ...READ»

Test-Driving the Networked Body: Philips DirectLife

Philips DirectLife monitors your daily activity and attempts to translate it into a healthier lifestyle. Fast Company staffers take the $99 device, and its accompanying website, for a test-run. READ»

A Hospital Design That Helps Heal

Architecture obviously can't cure patients--but it's naive to think that good design can't at least aid in well-being. And well-being, surely, is the start point in restoring anyone's health. That simple insight helped NORD ...READ»

Million-Dollar Question: Who Owns Your Genetic Data?

The possible benefits of body computing--the use of implanted, digested, or wearable devices that transmit health data--are almost as numerous as the number of tech gizmos the concept has spawned. There's Nike Plus and next-gen ...READ»

Three Ways Hospitals Are Moving From Analog to Digital

That hospitals need to embrace health IT is a no-brainer. If Electronic Health Records, for instance, eliminated as many as 200,000 drug mistakes it would save a combined $1 billion or more each year. Congress has dedicated $30 ...READ»

Health 2.0

As the quest to improve America's health-care system continues, the tech crowd is ready to offer its own prescription: Apply the fundamentals of Web 2.0 (consumer-focused tools; crowd-sourced, minable data; robust community) to the ...READ»

Self-Diagnosing Sickness With the Web

The health-care debate entered a "new phase" this morning, as news leaked that President Obama was re-tooling his plans for reform. But while pundits wait for him to make a major health-care speech next week, millions of Americans are ...READ»

A Solution for Your Healthcare Problems

I hold the key to substantially lowering healthcare costs in my hands—literally. The Vita-mix is a high-powered blender that can mask the bitter taste of vegetables in a delicious fruit smoothie. Before I adopted my daily health ...READ»

Healthcare Reform - The Uninsured and Problems Facing the U.S. Healthcare System

The current reform package won't fix our Healthcare system because it doesn't actually address the problems. Understand the facts and stats regarding the uninsured and how we might actually insure every american without disrupting the U.S. economic system, and without spending Billions of dollarsREAD»

Smart Clothes Save Lives, Let Doctors Spy on Patients at Home

Would you wear a shirt that monitors your heart beat, breathing, and body temperature? The EU-funded HealthWear project is betting that some patients with serious health problems will. The HealthWear team has developed textiles ...READ»

HealthSaaS.net preparing for first clinical trial

HealthSaaS.net research coordinators are preparing for our first clinical trial. Trial participants will be going through lower back spinal fusion performed by three different surgeons. We will be collecting data on ...READ»

How the Networked Body Is Reinventing the Consumer

Leslie Saxon Professor of Medicine; Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine USC school of Medicine Los Angeles, California Reinventing the Consumer Leslie Saxon, 50, has worked in the field of networked health monitoring ...READ»

• Fast Talk: Making It Personal
• Fast Talk: Designing a Lifestyle App
• Fast Talk: Empowering the Patients
• Fast Talk: Gaming the System
• Fast Talk: Building the Plumbing

How Body Sensors Are Gaming the Health System

Marientina Gotsis Media Lab Manager USC School of Cinematic Arts Los Angeles, California Gaming the System Marientina Gotsis, 31, teaches "Games for Health" at USC, and with a grant from Health Games Research, she ...READ»

• Fast Talk: Making It Personal
• Fast Talk: Designing a Lifestyle App
• Fast Talk: Empowering the Patients
• Fast Talk: Reinventing the Consumer
• Fast Talk: Building the Plumbing

Changes Coming to Medicare Supplement in 2010

Get the facts about the changes coming to Medicare Supplement in 2010READ»

Diversity and the Healthcare Sector

Current demographics show that the healthcare sector in the US is faced with a more diverse patient-base than ever before, and this demographic trend is set to continue. This change in America’s demographic poses several challenges for the healthcare sector. What steps can healthcare organizations take in the short-term that will support them in better-serving the needs of an increasingly diverse population in the future, positioning them as leaders as health services providers, and as employers. READ»

Cisco's Web Engine: A Growth Machine

When it comes to economic crisis, grizzled veterans like Cisco have stared into the abyss before and lived to tell the tale. We look at how several giants are approaching today's meltdown with distinctive strategies for not only surviving but also thriving.READ»

Single Payer Is No Silver Bullet for Health-Care Reform

In my last article, I said that transforming health care in the U.S. requires an act of will, not an act of congress. Solutions exist today that can make health care better, faster and cheaper IF you make people responsible for ...READ»

The Value of Web-Based Job Boards in a Economic Downturn-Tiny Info...

The government reports that more than 600,000 people lost their jobs last month. There were that many or more the month before. There are more than 8% of the population unemployed and those are the ones that are reported, that have ...READ»

11 Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface [Video]

Microsoft's interactive table, dubbed Surface, brings the heady dream of interactive computing closer reality. As developers find ways to make Surface's gorgeous multi-user interface shine, more and more companies are turning ...READ»

Why Electronic Health Records Are Worth the Hype -- and the Price

The push for electronic medical records has stirred controversy -- but their potential is immeasurable.READ»

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Bayer Brings 1,450 Sheep On Campus to Manage Landscaping

Yesterday, I wrote about the five most innovative Earth Day initiatives. But a two-week long green initiative from biotech company Bayer takes the crown for the strangest stunt this month. Bayer Healthcare has brought 1,450 sheep ...READ»

The Next X PRIZE: Affordable, Quality Health Care

The X PRIZE Foundation, a nonprofit with the motto "Revolution through Competition," has sponsored contests in the past for space travel innovation, DNA research, and efficient cars. But the organization's newest challenge ...READ»