Update, Corporate Cities
Briefly, I wanted to update my last post Corporate Cities. Since writing, I discovered a couple similar ventures that I thought I’d note here. First is the Philips Livable Cities Award. Philips wants to promote health and well-being in cities, and they’re doing this by offering 3 grants totaling €125,000. They’re collecting simple ideas from [...]
What’s new in Mobile Health?
I’ve rounded up a number of interesting mobile health gadgets that have emerged on the market over the last 6 months. Here are a collection of self-explanatory videos which give us a pretty good glimpse at how these gadgets work and how they can be used. Check them out below: MedApps A mobile outpatient monitoring [...]
Cell Phones Help Bring Basic Sanitation to Africa
It is predicted that by 2015, 2.7 billion people will lack access to sanitation—this is an especially disheartening figure if you consider that, today, more people have access to mobile phones than toilets. Optimistically, however, a number of innovators around the world are attempting to use this new found access to technology to address the [...]
Apple Heart Monitor
Are We About To Witness A Digital Service Revolution?
The launch of the book ”Connected Cities: Your 256 Billion Euro Dividend” this week in London by Living Labs Global in collaborationwith Design London, heralds how introducing new digital services in cities promises the change the way citzens live in cities around the world.
New telehealthcare service in the US
Next year, OptumHealth, will give patients in the U.S. the ability to connect with primary care physicians online through NowClinic, an online platform that uses video chat. For 45 dollars, patients with or without insurance can have a consultation with a primary physician, avoiding the stress and hassle of making appointments.
Americans Want Mobile Health Services
Following months of hype grinding, partisan-politics, Obama’s healthcare bill was just barely passed in the House of Representatives this past weekend, getting American just a little bit closer affordable healthcare. As the bill moves forward (it still needs to be put to the Senate floor), and as it (hopefully) reshapes American healthcare, it will be [...]
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