The great folks at the Birmingham Weekly sure know how to treat women right. The Women’s Issue came out today, with an article about me, and lots of other interesting and smart women, including my friend Sarah Parcak who has a Ph.D in Egyptology, a Wikipedia page, played professional soccer, and makes the best blueberry cream cheese roll this side of Maine.
We had a great time doing the photo shoot and celebrated the issue with a party last night at the Icon Bar in the newly renovated Tutwiler Hotel.
This is a very interesting PR effort that Microsoft has launched around its HealthCare initiatives. Obviously, you have to take this with a grain of salt; but, personally, I got chills when I first watched this video. The main reason it had this effect on me is that a lot of what we are working on at PointClear and Gazoont made me say ‘hey, we do that!’ as I watched the video. This is also true of some other companies with whom we have worked (Halo and CapMed, for example): ‘hey, they do that!’ Consider the following:
0:17 - ‘Secure Data Sharing’ - that is a plug for HealthVault (PointClear is currently one of three vendors approved by Microsoft as HealthVault integrators)
0:26-0:30 - when the Care Manager notifies a particular set of patients of some information - this is precisely on of the things Gazoont does!
~0:50 - interaction between the jogger’s personal tracking device (personal monitoring devices are a specialty of Halo) and the application on the ‘big screen’ - looks like a next generation PHR (CapMed) + secure message delivery - uploading data from a personal fitness device to a PHR is also a classic HealthVault use case
~1:45 - I just have to say the medication reminder ‘table’ is extremely cool. The whole doctor/hospital workflow reminds me of a next-generation Awarix product
~1:55 - side note: what’s up with the Doctor’s X-ray vision device finder thingamagig? That’s a super-power; not a technology, right?
3:29 - Digital Wallet card - the great-great-grandchild of a PHR running on a personal USB key
And of course, Lee Farabaugh and our superior Usability team should love the very cool ‘Minority Report’-esque User Interfaces.
Here is the video called ‘Office Labs: Future of personal health concept’:
That giant intake of breath was what you just heard when I saw Jing, a new project by TechSmith that is basically SnagIt on steriods. You can capture images and create videos, annotate them, and then share what you just created. It is wonderful, especially for this girl who was really missing her SnagIt when she went totally Mac a few weeks ago.
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