The Microsoft HealthVault Fund has increased from $3 million to $4.5 million to give more substantial awards for the winners of the online health applications contest. This contest encourages the creation of solutions that address health issues such as childhood obesity, diabetes management, medication reconciliation and health management. The judges represent leaders from [...]
Do you remember the game you played when you were kids? The game wherein you had to save only 5 – 10 people (placed inside the boat) out of, say, 20 (depending on the rules of the game), and lay off the others who are “worthless”, all of which have special cases?
Doctors in Chicago are [...]
A lot of people consider “health is wealth” but David Williams of the Health Business Blog thinks otherwise: he thinks that preventing illnesses is more costly than getting sick. His points of view indeed are radical as it avoids the traditional take on health care. He deeply relied on Washington Post’s article that basically has [...]
Are you a drug store regular? If you are, then probably you’ll be more than happy to know that you don’t need to line up in your local store anymore just to buy your daily doses—you can do it online. Also, if you take legend drugs that require rigid prescriptions, then perhaps you’ll be more [...]
An earlier post was made here a month ago regarding the beta testing of Google’s Health and surely, as predicted, a test run would be available after a month or so.
Now, Google has chosen its partner in making the test run possible: the Cleveland Clinic. The said hospital, ranks as one of the best in [...]
In the race of becoming the world’s number 1 free web service provider, Google has once again made it to the headlines.
It was accidental really. Computer geeks were able to get a glimpse of a screenshot of a webpage that says, “Google Health Beta”. Perhaps Google found out about the website and they immediately removed [...]
A month ago, a brief introduction about HIPAA was made (click here to read it). After the 9/11 attacks in WTC and Pentagon, there was a sudden increase of people who want to be under the HIPAA’s roof, perhaps due to the fear the attacks imposed upon the people.
But in the past years (not more [...]
HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, has been ratified by the United States Congress 12 years ago to protect and administer the health insurance of all the residents of the United States. The first target of the said act is to protect the health insurance of those who lose and/or change their [...]
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