Rep. Jason Chaffetz's recent remarks suggesting that some Americans should invest in their health instead of in a new iPhone reminded me of nothing so much of the old Jack Benny bit, where Benny is accosted by a robber who threatens "your money or your life." When Benny doesn't immediately respond, the robber prompts him, and the supposedly miserly Benny snaps back, "I'm thinking it over." I suspect that, like Mr. Benny, many of us would have a tough choice between our smartphones (and our other devices) and our health. It may be not so that we're miserly as it is that we're addicted.
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Syrup-Makers Go High-Tech With Wireless Monitoring
Lisa Rathke & Holly Ramer | AP | April 1, 2014
Maple syrup production has come a long way from metal buckets hung on trees, but even high-tech operations have had to rely on old-fashioned foot patrols to fix a common problem — leaks. The tubes that draw sap from trees straight to sugar houses often get pulled down or bent by falling limbs or chewed by critters, meaning sugar-makers spend hours and sometimes days stomping through snowy woods to find and fix problems — a big time-waster in a sugaring season that lasts just a few weeks.
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Tech Fast Forward Families Are Ripe For Health Care Self-Care
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Health Populi | October 21, 2011
...I’ve dug into the demographic of the tech fast forward segment, and am interested to find a bifurcation within the income segment: while the most affluent households with over $150K annual income over-index by 2-fold for tech fast forwards, I note that the population with less than $49K a year also over-indexes (at 113) – higher than people $50-99.9K (indexed at 84) and families with $100-$1 Read More »
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The “Apple Doesn’t Get The Cloud” Era Is Officially Over
Dan Frommer | Quartz | June 6, 2014
...Many of the most interesting and potentially useful features unveiled this week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference rely on the company’s iCloud service or otherwise involve network-connected devices talking to each other. The masses will be able to take advantage of these additions on their Macs, iPads, and iPhones later this year...
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Timeline: How Apple Is Piecing Together its Secret Healthcare Plan
Bill Siwicki | Healthcare IT News | June 23, 2017
Rumors are at a fever pitch that Apple has big plans for healthcare, including putting a medical record on the iPhone, possibly acquiring its way into the EHR market. From its leap into healthcare in 2014 with its HealthKit application programming interface in September 2014 to the June 19 revelation of Apple’s work with the tiny start-up Health Gorilla, Apple has made a series of moves in healthcare that clearly indicate the company has plans for the space that will somehow manifest on its mega-popular iPhone and iPad products. Here’s a look at how Apple got to where it is today in healthcare...
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Two Drug Firms Experiment With Use of Apple's ResearchKit
Todd R. Weiss | eWeek | July 13, 2015
Two major pharmaceutical companies are using Apple's ResearchKit open-source project in experiments aimed at helping medical researchers gain more data and fresh insights as they seek ways to battle human diseases and illnesses. Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline confirmed its work in a July 10 tweet, saying the company is "looking @ Apple's #ResearchKit for clinical trials," while Purdue Pharma also said it is exploring early possible uses of ResearchKit in its own drug research, according to a July 12 story by Buzzfeed. Read More »
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VA CIO Trades in Laptop for iPad
Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 2, 2011
Roger Baker, CIO of the Veterans Affairs Department, has traded in his laptop and is testing the iPad with up to about 200 other VA employees, mostly physicians at its medical facilities. VA will permit employees on Oct. 1 to use Apple’s iPhone and iPad to connect to the department’s network in the course of their jobs. Read More »
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VA Plans Government's Largest Tablet Computer Deployment
Bob Brewin and Joseph Marks | NextGov | October 24, 2011
The Veterans Affairs Department plans to field up to 100,000 tablet computers, the largest such deployment in the government, VA disclosed last week in a request to industry for technical help. The department has developed a work around for federal wireless security standards that supports the devices' management in a vendor-operated cloud computing environment, according to the request. Read More »
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VA's Plan for Mobile Device Security
Howard Anderson | Government Information Security | October 20, 2011
Roger Baker, CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, outlines the department's mobile device security strategy, providing details on the rollout of iPhones and iPads. The VA expects to accommodate the use of as many as 100,000 iPads and iPhones within 18 months, including a mix of government-owned and personal mobile devices, Baker says. Read More »
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What a Classroom Will Look Like in 10 Years
Sarah Fudin | OpenSource.com | November 15, 2011
Technology is rapidly evolving. This evolution is occurring because people are sharing ideas, resources and themselves online 24/7. Read More »
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Why Apple Removing The Audio Jack From The iPhone Would Be A Very, Very, Very, Bad Move
Mike Masnick | TechDirt | August 15, 2016
It's been rumored for months now that the next iPhone will be removing the standard analog headphone jack -- the same jack that's existed on portable audio devices for ages. It would immediately make a whole bunch of headphone and microphone products obsolete overnight for those who use iPhones. And while some have compared it to when Apple surprised everyone nearly two decades ago in removing the floppy drive from the iMac, this is quite different...
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Why iOS vs. Android No Longer Matters
Luke Westaway | CNET | May 7, 2014
It's supposed to be the greatest rivalry in modern technology, but when I switched from Apple to Android, I noticed a distinct lack of drama.
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Will An Anti-Innovation Culture In The NHS Kill Off Technological Progress?
Dick Vinegar | Data Management Hub | June 10, 2014
Hackday system has best chance of overcoming bureaucratic regulatory process that stops apps getting traction they need...
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With Apple consulting Argonaut Project on health records, interoperability could get the push it needs
Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | June 27, 2017
Apple is said to be working with the Argonaut Project to integrate more electronic health data with the iPhone, a move experts say could go a long way towards advancing medical record interoperability. Participants in the Argonaut Project – an HL7-led initiative focused on expanding the use of open standards for health data exchange, notably HL7's FHIR specification – are some of the industry’s most notable vendors and providers: Accenture, athenahealth, Cerner, Epic, McKesson, Meditech, Surescripts, The Advisory Board Company, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Intermountain Healthcare, Mayo Clinic, Partners HealthCare...
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Your Phone Really Wants You To Be Healthier
Polly Mosendz | The Wire | May 2, 2014
Mobile giants Apple and Samsung are both pushing fitness in their upcoming phone releases, because you clearly don't have enough guilt about not working out as it is. The Wire put down the chips and soda long enough to investigate how exactly your phone is going to start tracking your health...
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Your Smartphone or Your Life...or, the Dangers of Addictive Technology
By Kim Bellard | March 7, 2017
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