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The Future of Health Care Is Social [slideshow]

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The Future of Health Care Is Social

Too many of us are too busy to be healthy--not because we lack awareness. It's finding the time to do it that's the problem. In an age of 24/7 connectivity, time feels more pressed than ever. Yet, it may be that the very technology allowing us this around-the-clock connection can transform how we manage our health.READ»

Augmented Reality Gets New Dimension: Layar Adds 3-D

Layar is going into the third dimension, using clever positional and graphical coding to create three-dimensional metatags that appear to be embedded in the real three-dimensional physical world imaged by a smartphone.READ»

Soon Your Phone Network Will Be a Vanilla Data Channel

Nokia just revealed it won't let phone networks apply any proprietary customization to its hot little MID/smartphone the N900. It's another sign that in the future your cell-phone network will be way less important than it thinks it ...READ»

Twitter and Facebook Come to FiOS TV, but Verizon's Still Just a Widget Wannabe

Verizon's just added something to FiOS that's either a blessing or a curse for Twitter addicts--a live feed of your Twitter account that'll appear on your TV over the show you're watching, part of a new Widget Bazaar that also ...READ»

Exploring the Apple Tablet Rumor...Again

The Apple Tablet--long hoped-for magic unicorn of the high-tech gadget world--is back in the news. But this time instead of merely speculating, people are saying they have hard numbers to back up their rumors. So--is it real? The ...READ»

Will Your Next Prescription Drug Be Made Out of Recycled LCD Screens?

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi flick, but researchers at the University of York have discovered that waste material from old LCD TVs can be recycled for medical purposes.READ»

Infectious Disease Cruise Conference

One tip to avoid the spread of infectious diseases: Don't gather in confined spaces. Like, you know, a ship at sea. (We haven't forgotten all those news stories about the stomach-churning, disinfectant-resisting norovirus.) This ...READ»

DNA Purification Gets Portable for Developing World

DNA analysis is key to many modern medical techniques, but usually requires a whole bunch of electronics and chemistry in a lab environment. That's not suitable for poorer nations, so a science team has simplified it to the ...READ»

Best Buy Dabbles in Online Crowdsourcing

Best Buy's a big name and, you know, it's pretty successful. But that doesn't mean it's closed-minded, and won't listen to good ideas from the public. To that end, it's just launched an online Suggestions Box.It's called the Best Buy ...READ»

How BodyMedia Is Making Fitness Data Personal

John "Ivo" Stivoric Cofounder, CTO, and VP of New Products BodyMedia Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Making It Personal Ivo Stivoric, 38, has developed wearable fitness sensors for clinical patients for more than ...READ»

Why Walgreens Is Building Its Own Universal Health-Care System

Walgreens, the $59 billion drugstore giant, is building its own universal health-care system, with more than 700 retail and corporate clinics.READ»

Travel Search Wars: Google Tests City Guides, Bing Travel Plagiarizes

Seems like travel functionality is a trending topic in search engine design: Google's testing intelligently-created City Tours. Meanwhile Bing Travel, which we wrote about recently, is in trouble over an alleged plagiaristic ...READ»

Magnetic Blood Cleaning Procedure Could Save Lives, Star-Trek Style

Here's a medical innovation that's pretty amazing: It's a blood filter that could actually reduce deaths from sepsis in hospitals. The system works by removing dangerous bacteria not by using fine porous filtration, but instead the ...READ»

Did The iPhone 3G S Sell a Million This Weekend? You Betcha

Some analysis last week poured cold water on the idea that the new iPhone 3G S would outsell its predecessor on the first weekend, and only make 500,000 sales. We say otherwise, and there's plenty of data around the net to back that ...READ»

Scientists Design "Virtual Twins" to Pre-test Medical Treatments

Customized computer models of blood flow, bones and muscles, promise a way to study a medicine's effects before treatment.READ»

Google Street View Now Lets You Navigate Like a Superhero

Google's Street View app has always been, if you think about it, a bit mind-blowing (that's why we put Stephen Chau on our list of the 100 Most Creative People). But amazing--and free!--as it is, the app has never been very easy to ...READ»

A Prescription For Doing Good – Pfizer’s New Ethonomic Treatment Plan

Over the last several months, I’ve introduced companies that are successful while also doing good for all stakeholders – employees, the community and shareholders. Many of the companies that I have introduced are younger, ...READ»

Sony, Microsoft Motion Controls Will Beat Wii at Its Own Game

Nintendo Wii's role as king of motion gaming consoles is at risk. Sony and Microsoft have both previewed motion control systems at the E3 video game expo, and both systems knock Wii clean off the throne--even though neither has ...READ»

How Much Would You Pay Your Doctor to Tell You to Behave?

You are the CEO of your body, and physicians are simply your consultants. Unfortunately, doctors need for you to give up all your fun, and behave. No wonder you don't want to pay us for that advice. READ»

Could Real-Life Tricorder Inventions Combat the Next Pandemic?

Swine flu still rumbles on in the background, and it is still dangerous--but could two new inventions revealed this week give us Star Trek-like medical technology to help us combat future pandemics? Claims that scientists have ...READ»

OLED's Best Use Yet: Skin Cancer-Killing Bandaid

When you read about OLEDs it's usually in the context of some super-performing display or TV, but now there's interesting news about a medical exploitation of OLED lights. They're being tested as a very efficient way to kill skin ...READ»

Gates Foundation Grants $100K Apiece To 81 Wild Ideas

Last year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation inaugurated its Grand Challenges Exploration--a five-year, $100 million program to encourage path-breaking research that's ordinarily too visionary to attract ...READ»

Healing Yourself Via YouTube: The Amazing and Frightening Future of Health Care

Social media is going to change the health-care industry just as radically as it changed entertainment, finance, and publishing. I know this to be true not because of any insider info or the research backing Chuck Salter's ...READ»

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Microsoft and Mayo Clinic Unveil Free Site for Storing Medical Records

Today the Mayo Clinic and Microsoft unveiled a free Web site aimed at solving the thorny problem of keeping up all your medical records. Powered by Microsoft's so-called Health Vault system, the Mayo Clinic Health Manager ...READ»