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Five New Technologies for Aging in Place

14 February 2013
Some of these were threaded into the announcements from CES collections, but here is a recap from the companies' recent incoming missives, these five bring this site up to date. All information, is, minus a drop or two of hyperbole, from the vendor websites and releases: Ambio Remote Health Monitoring System announced.  Announced at CES, the system monitors weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels, and was built from the ground up to meet the needs of patients, their families, and ...

Health IT for You

12 February 2013

From HealthIT.gov: Health Information Technology, or Health IT for short, is upgrading our healthcare system for the 21st Century. Today's technology is converting the information in our paper records into an electronic format which allows you and your doctors to have access to your health information when and where it's needed. Learn more about the benefits of health IT and how online, secure access to your health record can help make sure you get the best care.

We the people are losing the user interface design war

10 February 2013
The car -- the pointer doesn’t point. I have ranted for a long time that because something can be designed, it probably will. Do we need it? Do we want it? Not necessarily. The Wall Street Journal’s Dan Neil describes the new man-machine interface in the Lexus RX 350 F Sport -- the MMI (how cute), a car’s User Interface (UI, or UX/user experience design). His beef is with what sounds like a design-because-it-can-be Remote Touch Controller. He finds it difficult to aim the ‘cursor’ (no back ...

Advance Medical Directives

28 January 2013

rTracker

6 April 2012
rTracker is a generic, customizable tracker application for iOS devices. Its focus is on lifelogging rather than goal setting, and rTracker is designed to flexibly support multiple trackers and multiple values within each. Individual values may be numbers, sliders, text, yes/no booleans, multiple choice radiobuttons, and functions on combinations of these including entry timestamps (and more as development continues). Configurable graphs display collected data for each tracker, and data ...
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