Google Health, a first look
It's been a busy week for the Google Health team. Last week we announced our partnership and pilot with the Cleveland Clinic. This week, the team has been at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conference ...
GlassFish and Friends in Health Industry - Sun, Afga and ICW ...
Afga, ICW and Sun have launched the Open eHealth initiative to leverage Open Source in the Health industry. Open eHealth's goal is to create a community-driven software development platform to speed up the digitization of the healthcare ...
Twitter for Health
In fact, this Friday (2/29) there will be a conference on Texting 4 Health at Stanford focusing on using SMS to improve health behavior. Though it is not explicitly on the agenda, I would hope that they will also be discussing how ...
Health minister may test diaper after complaints
Ontario’s Health Minister, George Smitherman, said he is “seriously considering” wearing a diaper incontinent seniors wear to determine whether they are an appropriate product to be used in nursing homes. ...
Body Image Is Stronger Predictor Of Health Than Obesity
Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that the desire to weigh less was a more accurate predictor of physically and mentally unhealthy days, than body mass index (BMI). ...
Health Care Consumerism
The US health care system is in the midst of a transformational change that many believe is centered on consumerism — the process of enabling and engaging consumers more directly in selection and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
Factors associated with self-rated health in older people living ...
Background: Although self-rated health has been extensively studied in community older people, its determinants have seldom been investigated in institutional settings. We carried out a cross-sectional study to describe the physical, ...
Schmidt launches Google Health
Search giant Google launched Google Health and announced major industry partners on Thursday, aiming to be the Intuit for personal health care where people can access all their health information in one spot. ...
Race, Ethnicity, and Where You Live Matters: Recent Findings on ...
Over the past 50 years, remarkable improvements in health care and higher incomes have benefited older Americans from all racial and ethnic groups. But significant gaps persist and have even widened among some groups. ...
WHO's Health Rankings, by Arnold Kling
suppose that a country currently provides everyone the same quality of health care. And then suppose the quality of health care improves for half of the population, while remaining the same (not getting any worse) for the other half. ...