health tools

Notes on the Future of Technology and Well-Being

By AmyT on June 18, 2010

I spent yesterday glimpsing the future of health — or at least the patchwork vision thereof compiled by the Palo Alto, CA-based think tank, the Institute for the Future. The group’s annual Health Horizons conference is actually wrapping up today.
This gathering brings together about 85 leaders from “both the private and public sector” including Kaiser Permanente, Humana, Nokia, Kraft, the American Heart Association, and the CDC, to recap the Institute’s research from the past year…

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Where Are They Now? ‘Log for Life’ Winners of the DiabetesMine Design Challenge

By AmyT on October 2, 2009

Last year, the DiabetesMine Design Challenge was just getting off the ground but we had some amazing contributions! The winner of the Grand Prize was Ethan Mullis, a 25-year-old graphic and UI designer at Gnoso Inc. who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in eighth grade. His submission was Log for Life, “an online logbook for glucose, medication, carb intake, doctor’s instructions and more, that will interface with any cell phone via instant messaging (IM)…

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New Thoughts on Health and Design

By AmyT on September 18, 2009

First off, let me say that being in Rochester, MN (aka Mayo town), was a very humbling experience.  By big city standards, it’s a tiny town made up mostly of oversized clinical buildings, but turns out to host 138 hotels and motels as well — because people fly in from all over the world to be treated here, for everything from breast cancer to rare gastrointestinal disorders.
People in royal blue scrubs with laminated clinic…

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