Talk about your really cool mashups of Web 2.0 technology being employed in clever ways to help improve people’s health! The non-profit Diabetes Hands Foundation has teamed up with Joslin Diabetes Center and pharma sponsor Boehringer Ingelheim to introduce a new interactive, Facebook-based game with social networking features that teaches you about healthy eating and diabetes management, and encourages you to take actions. The game is called HealthSeeker, and it goes live today!
Designed by…
Read more »
By
AmyT on
October 19, 2009
Some people were surprised recently to hear me say that tools for logging glucose are “not the Holy Grail of online diabetes tools.” I stand by that assertion, and I’m going to tell you why.
There are an ever-increasing number of PC and phone-based programs that allow diabetics to log and share their BG data. While this can be useful for some, there are several shortcomings for the general PWD population, the way I see…
Read more »
You think the economy is bad? Maybe, but the tsunami of new companies creating health/medical tools on the web continues unhampered. A few to highlight today:
* HealthyDirectorymoz.com — a comprehensive directory of health and medical websites. It currently lists 907 active websites that you can look up under a variety of categories. Note that diabetes is buried under “Diseases and Conditions/Endocrine Disorders.” Ugh. But the directory’s quite impressive on the whole. It’s creator Nicole…
Read more »
Welcome to the newly refreshed and updated DiabetesMine.com. These changes have been a long time coming, and I’m very excited and hope that the new look accomplishes all its goals while still providing you that warm fuzzy feeling you love. (Ahem.)
What we were shooting for was: better use of space, nice tabs up there to highlight stuff — instead of just a stacked list of “categories,” more useful sidebar links, and most of all,…
Read more »
