Last Wednesday, my friend Joe Wheeler and I threw Louisville’s inaugural Quantified Self Meetup, sponsored by HealthCentral and igNew. We had 50% participation from our fledgling group’s total membership, which was an awesome way to kick off the movement in the Derby City. There is definitely an interest for all things quantified and self in [...]

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend the 2011 Health Data Initiative Forum at the National Institutes of Health’s Natcher Conference Center. In case you weren’t able to make it, the hashtag was #healthapps, and here are 5 things that caught my attention at this year’s forum: Ozioma – Ozioma is a site, currently finishing [...]

I want to add my South by Southwest (SXSW) recap to the countless blog posts already out there with five things that captured my imagination at this year’s conference. Needless to say, these are things that I’m already very interested in, so we sort of found each other this year. In no particular order: data [...]

Last week I became curious about how sites like Travelocity and Orbitz get their information. When I think about all of the different flights, times, locations and prices that I can access in real time with a few clicks of a mouse, it makes me wonder why something equivalent doesn’t exist between Doctors and Insurance [...]

Dr. Deborah Estrin is the Jon Postal Chair in Computer Networks at UCLA, and is leading the Open mHealth Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) Project. I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Estrin this morning, and it was great to talk with somebody who is passionate about the “plumbing” that is necessary for [...]

I’ve been “into” the concept of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for a few years now, because I think that in general they have pretty big implications in health. If research is based on data, then what better data sets exist than the ones we voluntarily fill out about ourselves on the regular? Programmable Web is [...]

We entered Mood 24/7 into the Practice Fusion Patient Driven Data Challenge, because data portability is where health is headed. Especially as bio-sensors become more a part of our daily lives. It just makes sense for people who have decided to engage in their health by recording activity data to be able to have all [...]

After reading and reading, it seems that the mHealth phenomenon can really be broken down into two parts: data collection and data distribution. Put plainly, any value derived from mHealth lies in the data being collected from patients and distributed throughout the health care system. You may not believe me, but let’s suppose that we [...]

Yesterday, we put a great DCWeek session together entitled “The Data We’ve All Left Behind: Uncovering The Social Media Data Trail”. Nevermind the genius of holding the session at James Hobans authentic Irish Pub during the exciting World Cup. The session was designed to present a very broad canvass of all the many types of [...]