Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Statistical modeling enables prediction of health outcomes for patients with sparse histories

http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/new-statistical-model-lets-patients-past-forecast-future-ailments

This technology can serve as an interim bridge between today's sparse manual medical history paradigm and tomorrow's rich medical history paradigm..the rich model enabled by the introduction of EMR technology that enables documentation of current medical conditions and procedures and encourages the development of more detailed histories.

Future medical paradigms probably will join detailed individual histories with statistical models of disease based on multiple histories combined tp preduct health futures with a significant degree of accuracy.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

New Medical Diagnostics offer lower cost tests

http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanotube-technology-leading-to-fast-lower-cost-medical-diagnostics?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d1ecbb9720-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email

Friday, August 12, 2011

Do-it-yourself Health Care using a Smartphone

The establishment of appropriate measures of good health for each individual based on genetics and history of levels over long periods during periods of good health should permit 24 hour day monitoring and intervention to maintain optimum levels. Read about this here.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Social Innovation: India Connecting And Vaccinating

This initiative appears to embody an idea..using cellphones as a means of tracking vaccinations of newborns in India...that could be applied in disasters also..adding the element of free 'topping up' of the cellphone account as an incentive to respond to the initiative.