I just ran across this great short post on informatics and had to share it. I wish Dr. Gibson had written this post a couple years ago when I first used the word “informatics” with my new health center colleagues. When I said the word, I might as well have been speaking Klingon — no…
Fitbit was one of the first to bring a consumer activity tracker + web site + mobile app ecosystem to the edge of the mass market, and they’ve won a lot of converts over the last couple years. But at the same time, there’s been an explosion of other trackers and platforms for capturing physical…
The quantified self movement keeps chugging along, with updated tech announcements coming from both Withings and BodyMedia this week. BodyMedia will introduce an updated version of their arm-mounted health data collector, theoretically shipping in August. The new version is quite a bit more attractive than the current one. It measures activity / movement, sleep patterns,…
Here are my selected links, with commentary, from the Health IT, community health center (CHC), nonprofit, and general IT sectors today. Please pass me any recommendations you’ve got in the comments or hit me up on Twitter: @jmproffitt. Products PhoneFactor (Mini-Review at SC Magazine) Add 2-factor authentication based on phone calls, SMS messages, and OATH…
Here are my favorite links from the Health IT and general IT sector today. Follow me on Twitter to get most of these links real-time, albeit with less commentary. OCHIN awarded federal grant to help community health centers with HIT OCHIN has scored a 3-year $775,000 annual grant to provide services to client clinics dealing…
