Technology Review recently caught wind of IBM’s expansion of the Mobile Health Tool Kit. The set up uses a patient’s mobile phone to collect data from devices that constantly monitor heart rate, activity, and even how much medication the patient is taking. The phone keeps records of the data and sends off reports to doctors at regular intervals. Researchers at ...

If you haven’t already I encourage readers of FISpace to take a look at the NVHAInnovations blog. If you’re involved with big voluntary health associations like the ACS,  I think you’ll be amazed at what the key people of several large agencies were told and how they thought about it as expressed in the breakout session transcripts. But if you ...

Despite a nagging cold, I decided I had to get out because it’s a beautiful spring day. Life’s too short to stay in on days like this. But I wanted to work on FISpace, so I googled wi-fi hotspots in my area. Besides the usual Starbucks, a Walnut Creek coffee house named Lusa’s Coffee came up. It’s a Portuguese place ...

I’ve started doing a "blog roll" for FISpace. Over on the right you’ll see a list beginning under LINKS. Those are links to some of the web sites and blogs of presenters at the NVHA Innovations conference.  There’s more to go, but I have learned that in TypePad–the platform for FISpace–it’s easy to add links. You click on a link, ...