Personal Health
Health is not valued till sickness comes - Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
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Managing Your Health Records Should Be As Easy As Managing Your Money
If you’ve ever had to deal with a health problem more serious than a cough, you know that keeping track of your medical records is a pain. If your doctor works for a major hospital, she may have a decent website where you can log in and, say, check your latest blood-test results. But moving information from one physician to another can be a slog that requires multiple phone calls bugging office managers to fax over files, because parts of the health care industry still rely on technology that felt retro in 2002.
Thanks to Apple, some of those frustrations may become a thing of the past. This year, with uncharacteristically little fanfare, the company rolled out a feature on the iPhone’s…
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Down With My Health Record
Australia offers a cautionary tale of government tech gone really, really wrong.
Who Really Owns Your Health Data?
There are many people or entities who could claim ownership over a patient’s medical information. Does your physician own it? The medical institution? Some third party? In general, ownership of information belongs to the individual or company who created or authored that information. For example, intellectual property laws protect “original works of authorship.” Medical records represent professional medical opinions of a physician or a medical institution, and therefore may not necessarily be the patient's property. Why shouldn't individuals own their medical records? After all, these medical records contain their personal health information and were created for them. Lab work is literally a part of the patient -- why should other people own that?
DNA sequencer raises doctors' hopes for personalized medicine
Among the many stents, surgical clamps, pumps and other medical devices that have recently come before the Food and Drug Administration for clearance, none has excited the widespread hopes of physicians and researchers like a machine called the Illumina MiSeqDx. The device could accelerate the use of genetic information in everyday medical care, physicians hope, improving diagnoses and treatments.
GeoMedicine - OK, Maybe We Should Move!
GeoMedicine will probably serve as a catalyst for future human migration from one part of the globe to another in the quest for minimizing personal health risks. And, it may be sooner than you think!
How Much of Your Personal Health Information Should Be Online?
It's time to move beyond the isolated patient experience, but the social outlets we're using aren't made for sharing high-stakes information.
Patient Data-Driven Personalization Key to Fixing Today's Broken Health Assessments
ON AVERAGE, WE live 8 years longer than we did in 1970. The problem is, even though we’re living longer than we ever have before, we are not necessarily living healthier. In fact, we are living sicker in the last 10-15 years of life.
We Asked People What Health Problems They Hide From Their Partners
It's not a lie—it's just an omission of information.
Managing Your Health Records Should Be As Easy As Managing Your Money
Apple wants to make that happen. But will it succeed? Apple isn’t the first tech company to try to bring personal health records to the masses—Google gave it a brief shot, and Microsoft still technically offers its HealthVault. But those efforts were in many ways too early, coming before most Americans were carrying around miniature computers in their pockets, and their interfaces were notoriously clunky, requiring a deadly amount of manual data entry.
Personal Remedies
Personal Remedies delivers advanced technology solutions that empower patients, caregivers and providers, with instant evidence-based and individualized guidance on chronic illnesses and dietary regimens. We enable personalized nutritional care plans that can lead to remarkable outcomes for patients and the world’s growing chronic illness challenges.
Bowhead Health
Bowhead Health is an encrypted wellness tracker and personalized health app designed for individuals who want to take control of their health data and outcomes.
Future of Personal Health
From tips on improving your sleep cycle to nutritious recipes that don’t taste like cardboard, we want to help you think about health in a healthier way.
Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You
The Sherpa speaks the language of the trail, he/she knows short cuts and dangerous paths to avoid. This blog is for those wishing to take the journey and those wishing to become Gene Sherpas.
Personal Connected Health Alliance
The Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHAlliance) aims to make health and wellness an effortless part of daily life. The PCHAlliance, a non-profit organization formed by HIMSS, believes that health is personal and extends beyond healthcare.
Personalized Medicine Coalition
The Personalized Medicine Coalition is an independent, non-profit group that works to advance the understanding and adoption of personalized medicine for the ultimate benefit of patients. Our diverse members work together to educate opinion leaders and the public about the issues that will shape how personalized medicine develops and how quickly all of us can benefit from it.
Personalized Medicine.com
PersonalizedMedicine.com is a free to use portal for professionals in the field of Personalized Medicine and Molecular Diagnostics.
The Personal Genome Project
We believe individuals from the general public have a vital role to play in making personal genomes useful. We are recruiting volunteers who are willing to share their genome sequence and many types of personal information with the research community and the general public, so that together we will be better able to advance our understanding of genetic and environmental contributions to human traits and to improve our ability to diagnose, treat, and prevent illness.
CrowdMed
CrowdMed is revolutionizing healthcare by harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to help solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online. After 4 years of development and refinement, CrowdMed’s patented prediction market technology can suggest diagnoses to real-world medical cases that have stumped doctors for years.
FindZebra
The search engine for difficult medical cases.
Future Medicine
Future Medicine has developed an innovative publishing portfolio to reflect postgenomic medicine. The sequencing of the human genome was a colossal milestone in the evolution of healthcare, with repercussions for all those involved in the healthcare chain. Future Medicine provides healthcare practitioners and research professionals with a unique source of objective, cutting-edge information on exciting trends emerging in the light of these advances.
Health Coach
Health Coach excels in assisting those interested in improving human health and performance. We work with people who are facing personal health challenges and want to optimize their response and recovery and we work with organizations who are committed to developing and delivering products and services that improve lives.
Living to 100
The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator uses the most current and carefully researched medical and scientific data in order to estimate how old you will live to be.
Nutrio
We believe that every person has the power to make decisions that will allow them to take control of their life and health.
The Longevity Game
We exist to help our clients manage financial risk and achieve financial security through our insurance and investment products.
U.S. Preventive Medicine
U.S. Preventive Medicine'' has developed a suite of prevention, early detection and chronic condition management products and services that improve health outcomes while reducing health care costs. Every person at our company is working relentlessly to deliver the "ultimate prevention experience" to more people so we can one day give everyone more good years.
Introducing Stitches!
Your Path to Meaningful Connections in the World of Health and Medicine
Connect, Collaborate, and Engage!
Coming Soon - Stitches, the innovative chat app from the creators of HWN. Join meaningful conversations on health and medical topics. Share text, images, and videos seamlessly. Connect directly within HWN's topic pages and articles.
