Monitoring your Ageing Parents with Technology

Over the last year, this report has highlighted numerous innovative initiatives involving elderly care. For this reason, I thought I’d feature an article that ran recently on technology and elderly care in the New York Times. The article is valuable in that it not only introduces different ways to bridge elderly-care through technology but it [...]

Mental Health Mobile Applications

Mobile phone applications are being developed at a rapidly to help supplement and or bolster treatment options for mental health patients. Though the idea is not novel, I thought the continued buzz about different options out there and the ever-diversifying marketplace of applications warranted our attention. In May, NPR aired a noteworthy piece on this [...]

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 [...]

Future of Biking: Copenhagen Calls for Innovations

Copenhagen has one of the world’s most ambitious local climate policies, striving to become a zero-emission community by the year 2025. To achieve this commitment, the city already has put several measures and lines of investment into motion, actively collaborating with companies and technology experts. Together with Living Labs Global, the City of Copenhagen invites [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“It’s not rocket science, but…”

In his third law for predictions about the future, Arthur C. Clarke famously declared that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This is truer today than ever before, and almost every day sees the introduction of some new mobile application that is widening the boundaries for what we traditionally perceive as possible. A [...]

It’s no place really, but it’s real.

Hamburg – Mediterranean Matchmaking Summit, January 16. The prolific writer William Gibson has stated that we live in an age that is dominated by a post-geographical feeling. The development of the internet and the mobile generation has revolutionized the way that we view the world,