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BioBeats: Adaptive Media Blends Heart With Music
BioBeats has merged entertainment and healthcare into their first experimental app, Pulse. Experiment #2 is coming soon – BioMuse. While Pulse is fun – your heart beat drives the rhythm and force of...
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Japan: Healthy Eating Makes an Impact
During these past three weeks spent in Asia, I’ve noticed that the citizens of Japan are generally, as a whole, very healthy. In fact, for the past 20 years, Japan has been ranked number one in the...
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Health 2.0: How to Use Data Around You to Lead a Healthier Life
Health 2.0 once again exceeded my expectations with their 7th Annual Fall Conference, this year in Santa Clara. Needless to say, I have too much to share in just one post. Today I’ll focus on...
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Kishan Shah: 200 Pounds Lost, the President of Downsize Fitness Continues to...
I met Kishan Shah in 2007, when we both interned on the trading floor at UBS Investment Bank. While he might describe himself as heavy set back then, I remember his inquisitive personality and warm...
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Founder Interview: Matt Mattox, Co-Founder and VP of Products at Axial Exchange
I spoke with Matt Mattox, Co-Founder and VP of Products at Axial Exchange last week to learn more about Axial’s patient engagement software. They are currently working with 13 health systems,...
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Basis: Multiple Sensors Track Exercise and Sleep Accurately and Automatically
Basis is a supercharged fitness tracker. The watch uses multiple sensors to track heart rate patterns throughout the day as well as a perspiration and skin temperature changes to measure exertion...
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Athos: Smart Fabric Measures Every Breath, Heartbeat and Muscle Exertion
A smart fabric plus an accelerometer core creates the next level in quantified performance clothing. I spoke with Athos founding team members, Dhananja Jayalath, Chris Wiebe, and Joel Seligstein to...
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Omnio: Medical Knowledge at your Fingertips
Physicians Interactive is a leader in healthcare information and mobile decision support tools, and through their acquisition of Skyscape.com, they have recently launched the app Omnio. Omnio for the...
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Jawbone UP: Finally, One Fitness Platform to Sync Them All
After learning about and testing various wearable devices (including the Nike FuelBand, the Fitbit One, the Basis, etc.) I settled on the Jawbone UP band for myself. Today, Jawbone announced that it...
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Scanadu Scout: A Medical Tricorder Dr. McCoy Would Want
Scanadu is building products that enable users to monitor their health at any time, any place. The company is focused on wireless devices that sync to a smart phone app to show users health data, which...
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