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Online health keeps growing and growing

Silicon Valley entrepreneur and blogger Sramana Mitra had an informative post today entitled "Web 3.0 & Online Health (Part 2)."*...

Tuesday I went to a reception at the Innovation Center Denmark, an outfit on Page Mill Road that helps Danish tech companies interested in doing stuff...

Mamma Mia! Get healthy!

At our Spring Conference, Health Horizons' Jody Ranck mentioned the concept of "healthism," which refers to the moral responsibility that society...

A new health social network comes online

The entertainment industry bible, Variety, announced yesterday that two Hollywood execs are launching a health and wellness website to help people...

First, what is a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO)? In very simple terms, it is an effort to allow health care organizations in a...

Catching up with Google Health and Bees

I've been on vacation, so the Health Horizons blog has been silent for the last several days. During this time, a couple of interesting articles have...

Infotech has been giving to biotech for a long time. Now biotech may be giving something back....

Gregory Clark, an economic historian at the University of California, Davis, has a forthcoming book, A Farewell to Alms, that argues that "the...

Assignment Zero, an experimental collaboration between Wired and the new media incubator NewAssignment.net, has reported back on what went right and...

IFTF friends area/code, a pervasive game design consultancy based in Manhattan launched Sharkrunners earlier this week on the Discovery Channel's...

More on tomatoes . . .

A couple of weeks ago, I made some crack about lycopene and ketchup (here). On the American Cancer Society website today, I noticed the headline,...

Virtual reality fundraising is quite real

This past weekend, the American Cancer Society held its third annual Relay For Life® in the Second Life virtual world. For those of you who don't...

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EHRs

iHealthBeat reports on a survey of doctors regarding the use of Electronic Health Records (EHR). Thirty-five percent of physicians surveyed by...

Intel's plans to make health care more techno-savvy

According to Intel chairman Craig Barrett, the health care industry has been slow to adopt existing technology to achieve reform. Healthcare IT News...

Wireless Healthcare, an analyst group in the United Kingdom, has offered an opinion about Google and Microsoft's attempts to build a presence in the...

More food for thought . . .

We often seem to have food on our minds around here at the Institute. All that thinking and creativity makes for hungry folks. And within the Health...

Today's entry comes from my colleague, Jason Tester, at IFTF. He shares a news story from The Guardian about eco-diets and food miles. ...

Via Epicenter, this new forward-looking video, "Prometeus: The Media Revolution."

IFTF Affiliate Richard Adler has pointed me to "Drug Companies Lag in Adopting Social Media To Communicate With Consumers," at iHealthBeat. Echoing a...

As we've noted before, competition between nations with territory around the North Pole-- the United States, Canada, Norway, Denmark, and Russia--...

Slate reports on some fairly serious rumors that scientists working using the Fermilab Tevatron have found the Higgs boson, right where the standard...

Following on the work we did in the 2007 Ten Year Forecast on the end of science: this week's New Scientist has an article on evolutionary algorithms...

One of the distinctive features of Web 2.0, I've felt, is an understanding that humans are very good at certain things, computers are really good at...