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Holistic Health and the Science of Healing
A while back, at a networking event for healthcare marketers, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Julie Reardon. She has a Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine practice in Austin and has a different...
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Home Automation and Home Health Care
How Home Automation Can Change the Home Health Care Industry By Spencer Blohm In-home care is one of the biggest growth industries of the last twenty years. It makes sense; elderly folks don’t want to...
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Powering tiny medical circuits in the body
A batteryless electrostimulator next to medicinal pills for size comparison. (Photo: Austin Lee) In my interview last year with Dr. Metin Akay, he described the daunting problem of powering tiny...
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Personal Exoskeleton cleared by FDA
This revolutionary technology, which allows people with Spinal Cord Injury to stand & walk, receives clearance for personal use in the U.S. ReWalker Oliver with his fiancée Annika, Berlin, Germany...
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Desperate Patients Look to Lab-Grown Organs
Last week Yvonne and I watched a two-hour NBC News special report by Meredith Vieira, A Leap of Faith, that blew us away and had us both to tears. It was about an Italian scientist and surgeon, Dr....
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Medical Sensationalism For Profit
In this serious but somewhat satirical video Senator Claire McCaskill’s questions Dr. Oz about medical sensationalism, reminding me of what’s wrong with our health care system and prompting these...
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101 MiniTrends in Health Care
This image is from MiniTrends, a book by John Vanston that I strongly endorse. I’ve known John for years and did consulting work for his company, Technology Futures. His book inspired my Modern Health...
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HealthSpot visits reimbursed by Medicaid!
HealthSpot and CareSource Team to Improve Access to Healthcare Managed Care company creates value for Medicaid members, increasing access to care through HealthSpot telehealth platform. With visits...
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What is Functional Medicine?
I first encountered the term Functional Medicine a few years ago during a lecture by Dr. Lane Sebring at a World Future Society dinner. In keeping with the focus of this organization, he titled his...
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About Operating Room Safety
Make Sure You’re in the Safest Possible Operating Room The Hazards of Hospitals We all think of the hospital as a place we go to get better, but hospitals in the United States are making people sicker...
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FUTURE OF YOU is a 27-min video by KQED and QuestScience about digital sensors, activity trackers and the Quantified Self movement. From wearable activity trackers to personal genetics, it explores the...
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Snooze or Lose – TODAY Show series summary
On November 9th, TODAY launches a weeklong “Snooze or Lose” series with a commissioned survey exploring why Americans can’t sleep. Highlights with the best statistics and videos are shown below, but...
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Cars for seniors who can’t drive themselves
EDITOR: When seniors can no longer drive a car, they lose their independence and become dependent on others for the simplest things — shopping for groceries or Christmas gifts, getting a haircut,...
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Sleep Statistics from Sleepless in America
By Wayne Caswell, Intelligent Sleep and founder of Modern Health Talk This last Sunday, I watched “Sleepless in America,” a 2-hour documentary on the National Geographic channel, and I captured some of...
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MiniTrends affecting Telehealth
Overlapping MiniTrends affecting Telehealth include health reform, the Internet of Things, speech recognition & synthesis, and real-time language translation. I’ve written a lot here about health...
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Music as Medicine
I’ll be home for Christmas Henry has Alzheimer’s, lives in a nursing home, and is mostly unresponsive and depressed, but watch what happens when he’s introduced to music. The part of the brain that...
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The Elusive Smart Home
With the annual Consumer Electronics Show starting next week, the news media is filled with marketing hype about the elusive Smart Home market, which is nearly as misdirected today as it was in 1957....
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‘The Patient Will See You Now’ Envisions New Era
‘The Patient Will See You Now’ is a new book by Dr. Eric Topol that envisions a New Era in healthcare where we consumers take more responsibility for our own health and wellness and have the tools to...
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Ways to Prevent Empty-Nest Boredom
The kids are grown and out of the house, leaving you with more time on your hands than you’ve had in decades. While that feeling of freedom can be gratifying at first, after a while, it can also start...
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How to Make a Smart Bed for your Smart Bedroom
Here’s you can make a smart bed for your smart bedroom. Because good sleep so closely tied to good health, I’ve posted dozens of articles about sleep, including many about technology and how...
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