Mobile Health
feedA place to gather our research for the Mobile Health conference . . . post blog entries about signals & trends, potential experts, publications, etc.
Please add relevant posts to this project page. Keep in mind that this is a closed node, so the setting should remain "private." (If you are already posting a blog for another program (like TH), simply check off the Mobile Health box as well.)
We have been creating individual entries for potential experts and are trying to be very deliberate and consistent in how we tag them. Each one is tagged as "experts" and also gets a sub-category tag, such as "expert-mobility" or "expert-mobile devices." Feel free to create new tags, so long as they are basically consistent in form. When you add an expert, include name, affiliation, and how you think the person can contribute to our research and the conference.
On the right, under "Publications," you will find an IFTF report on the Explosion of Mobility, along with a couple of related PPT presentations. Feel free to upload any other reports, presentations, articles, whatever that would be appropriate.
Thanks!
Pew Project wants to "crowdsource" new Internet health survey
September 29, 2008
Crowdsourcing a Survey: Health Topics
The Pew Internet Project will conduct a national telephone survey this fall about the internet's impact on health and health care. One of the first tasks is to look at our tried...
Americans doing more texting than calling
According to the New York Times, Sept 29:
In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time sent...
Raising our Collective Health
Yikes. I haven't blogged in weeks. Well, that's not entirely true. I had written a long post that got eaten by the computer, and I haven't been the same since. But news of HealthRaising, a current Health Horizons project, deserves to be shared.
Leading up to our Fall Conference, "Reinventing Health Care in a Mobile World," we have invited our clients and colleagues to...
Mobile weight loss pilot in Japan
Yesterday, Rod Falcon and I met with Dr. Atsushi Ito from the KDDI R&D Laboratories (KDDI is the #2 mobile carrier in Japan). He told us about a pilot that his lab ran designed to support weight loss among company employees. This is an important application since the Japanese government is requiring companies to work with overweight employees to lose weight (or be fined). The second...
Wall St Journal: Tools Help Patients Interface With Doctors
[Richard Adler, who posted the following, is an IFTF Research Affiliate.
His relationship with Zume is completely independent of his work for
IFTF, and this post in no way reflects an endorsement on IFTF's part of
Zume. We do, however, think that the Zuri is a great example of a new
breed of mobile health products, which we will be discussing at our conference on...
A new player in the online health care marketplace
Courtesy of my colleague, IFTF Research Affiliate Richard Adler:
American Well is a new company that is creating a "online healthcare marketplace." On its website (www.americanwell.com), it states that consumers can,
"Talk to a doctor anytime, without...
Innovation in Africa: "Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?"
Interesting article describing the innovation capacity of Africa. Mobile devices may be the vehicle by which the African continent can flex it's innovation muscle. More than home electronics/computers/cars, mobile devices are in the hands of many people in the African continent and they are teaching the Western world how to innovate with these devices.
Article from NY...
On-the-go heart monitoring
Researchers affiliated with Northern Ireland's University of Ulster have developed a disposable adhesive electrode patch that uses wireless technology to transmit information about a patient's heart and other vital data (like respiratory rate, temperature, and blood oxygenation levels). According to the university's ...
iPhone and citizen science
Alexis Madrigal throws a link to the X2 Project in his post on the addition of GPS in the iPhone:
Abundant mobility and hacks
I am in India conducting research, and as always amazed by the variety of cell phones and hacks that are available. One of our research partners brought my attention to the fact that many people in India have unlocked iphones, and have jail-breaked their iphones to install 'non-Apple" applications. A popular application is twinkle -- a twitter client that includes location based service...
Fast food facts on the go
I love it when our local rag, the Palo Alto Daily News, is the the source for one of my posts. And it's even more fun when a headline is brought to my attention by a colleague while we are in downtown Palo Alto's only "dive" bar. (I hope I don't get in trouble for revealing too much!) And best of all, the story is about a company that I recently discovered and about which I...
Have cell phone, will get medical care
A couple of weeks ago, I came across a Business Week headline that warmed the cockles of my Health Horizons blogger heart: "Medical Advances--Through Your iPhone?" The article describes several mobile phone health apps. For example, a University of...
Cell phones and health in the developing world
Jan Chipchase is a "user anthropologist" for Nokia, the Finnish cell phone company; he travels the globe to study how people use and think about cell phones. A recent New York Times Magazine article profiles Jan and...
Have you taken your smart pill today?
Coming soon to a pharmacy near you . . . pills that can monitor when they have been taken and what effects they are having on your body. Michael Chorost, who spoke at IFTF's recent Ten Year Forecast Conference, reports in MIT's...
Grad students designing the future
The Health Horizons Program often uses "iBuyRight" as a signal of the impact of mobile phone technology. It is an application that can provide shoppers with social and environmental information about a product, enabling them to make purchases aligned with their personal values. iBuyRight was developed as a thesis...
Citizen Science meets art in San Francisco
Last weekend, an artist-run organization called Southern Exposure (SoEx) held a hands-on workshop in San Francisco that invited people to "[j]oin a team of researchers, artists, and practitioners in a citizen based participatory field study." Participants took part in "collecting, gathering, and analyzing the urban environment in [the...
Your heart rate monitor watch will soon be obsolete . . .
I was cruising for something to blog about when I came across this headline: "DIY pervasive health monitor keeps tabs on your vitals." Do-it-yourself health? Persuasive technology? Six months ago, I wouldn't have had any idea of what those terms meant (nor would you have ever...
On-the-Go Health for Kids?
We explored Mobile Health technology at our Spring Conference (see our forecast and related scenarios under publications)--and we will continue to do so in the coming months.
Mobile technology is more than just a communications channel. It can be used as a tool for self-knowledge, for remote monitoring of medical conditions, and as an interface to access health information.
A...
