Technology
OpenGraph’s Potential for Socializing Health and Wellness
Facebook’s Timeline is coming. If you haven’t seen it, the Timeline is essentially a chronological view of everything you’ve ever shared with Facebook – all the way back to when you were born (something that will need to be artificial for those of us at a more advanced age). The user experience and the very [...]
Food for thought – 9 steps to significantly improving health and healthcare
I spend a lot of time thinking about how health and health care in the US came to the current state. In thinking through how to categorize the woes of our health and our health care system, I began articulating what it would take to significantly improve our current state. In order to foster productive [...]
Wellness Through Connectivity
The holy grail of wellness continues to be sought through social connectivity.
It’s no secret that a critical success factor in wellness programs of any substance from weight loss to smoking cessation to fitness has been in the power of groups. Group aerobics programs, community outreach, and weekly Weight Watchers meetings not only offer economies [...]
Behavior change to improve health
The state of health in America
The state of health in America is in crisis. Obesity rates, diabetes rates, depression – all one needs to do is turn on the TV or surf the web to understand that we’re on a razor’s edge. It can seem overwhelming because of the sheer scale of the problem. What [...]
Tip-toes in the mobile application minefield
The mobile technology landscape is a varied and technologically heterogeneous. As far as device capabilities have come in the last 5 years, handsets still host various run-time environments that present fragmented options for innovators. While iPhone has been the clear market leader in smartphone applications in the past 2 years, there are a myriad of [...]
mHealth: the icing on the Health IT cake
For those whom might resist adopting health information technology, mHealth promises to bring health information technology to them
The rapidly changing landscape for personal management of health and wellness – what’s your mobile strategy?
The convergence of 1) attention on moderating the healthcare cost trend along with 2) the rapidly evolving capabilities of mobile phones provides a huge opportunity for healthcare product and service providers. Those who can demonstrate the ability to deliver value through the mobile channel have the potential to reap large return on their investment.
Obesity crisis in America – where is the focus on nutrition?
Much ado has been made of the fact that obesity is a full-blown crisis in America. Turn on the news and in any given week it seems like stark statistics are being presented: 33% of American adults are obese. 68% of Americans are obese or overweight. 20% of American children are obese.
Given the relationship between [...]
Thoughts on the new healthcare reform law
Understanding the details of the new health reform law is challenging – but the focus on “access” is just a start. Much more will need to be done to really reform our healthcare model in the US, and to moderate the rapidly escalating cost trend.
Technical insight on the IGB application
iGetBetter is an advanced web application built primarily using 3 key technologies – Microsoft .NET 3.5, Entity Framework with MySQL and JQuery coupled with Windows Communication Foundation. From Microsoft the .NET 3.5 development framework allowed the development team to leverage several prepackaged tools allowing for a fast development cycle. Whenever client input led to design [...]
