Institute For The Future

A nexus of Health Horizons' areas of interest: Open Health meets games for health

Next month, the Serious Games Initiative will host its Games for Health conference. There will be sessions on epidemiology in World of Warcraft, Game...

Another entry into the online health search engine/social networking platform space

iMedix bills itself as a new way to find and share health information. Its home page features quotes from various media sources proclaiming its...

I don't usually think of Wired as a source of information for the Health Horizons blog, but this recent headline caught my eye: The Cigarette of the...

I confess that I have never heard of Aaron Wall, but according to the Med Tech Sentinel blog, he is quite knowledgeable about search engine...

The New York Times recently had a pretty decent article about debates over brain enhancement in academia:...

Please comment below with your suggestions for people we should invite to the Spring Exchange at Maker Faire. Please list NAMES, AFFILIATIONS, and...

I participated as a panelist at the Bay Area Video Coalition’s fourth in a series of four “Innovation Salons” last night. The title was “Scramble...

In August, I wrote about the demise of the Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) in Santa Barbara. In January, the California HealthCare...

A website called RNCentral.com has come up with a list of 20 ways Walmart's in-store clinics will affect health care. Some of the observations are...

On the Global Health Economy map, we identified retail health as a "big story" that led us to "[e]xpect innovations such as in-store clinics to open...

Cheezborger, cheezborger, cheezborger

I can't believe I have not written about this before now. IFTF Research Affiliate Jamais Cascio has analyzed the carbon footprint of the all-American...

The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently issued a report entitled, "Health for Life: Better Health, Better Health Care," which places a great...

Online health user data

From Forrester Research, via iHealthBeat: ...

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet--and be as healthy?

A recent New York Times article describes the process by which perfume makers are rapidly developing and patenting new smell molecules, which are...

Last week, I posted an entry about a recent study reported in Cancer about the accuracy of health information available online. Today, there is news...

As much as I am in favor of electronic health records (EHR), I recognize that compatibility is a problem. For example, my EHR at the Palo Alto...

It's been a while since I have written about Google's efforts to become the home for people's personal health records (see this post, for example). ...

This excerpt from an article in The Scientist reminded me of some of the Open Health concepts we have been discussing: For most of biology, . . . oral...

Food with a human twist?

Thanks again to BoingBoing for turning me on to this fascinating excerpt from an article in Steps Magazine (which I have never heard of...

Every now and then, I find something oddly health-related on BoingBoing, a blog that bills itself as a "directory of wonderful things" (many of which...

The accuracy of health information online

The blog, e-patients.net, recently highlighted a new study published in the journal Cancer that examined the quality of health information people find...

This is not really a new story, but I did want to flag the long article on MSN Money about Wal-Mart's efforts to re-invent itself as an "eco-hero."...

The Center for Business Intelligence (CBI) will be hosting a webinar on this topic on February 26th, 2008. According to the website , the webinar will...

Another hip and trendy fad? Celebrity-studded restaurants in Los Angeles are now offering menu choices that specifically claim to boost immunity and...