The Ethicon PVP app is a course about umbilical hernia repair using a partially absorbable mesh patch. It has been designed for end users (physicians) and sales representatives to provide them with the necessary information, including anatomy and procedural steps, they need to understand how the mesh product is used……
Source : Macuser Magazine (Vol 26 Issue 13, p12)
There will no doubt be a slew of articles about this investigation which casts doubt over the benefits of Nintendo’s Brain Training range…but thankfully we can read the academic article rather than having to sit through an hour of BBC1′s poor replacement for Tomorrow’s World tonight. It’s also interesting to note that the results suggest that further research into brain trainers aged 60 and over is required.
As mentioned in my 2008 report to JISC there was potential to use the DS (and by implication other mobile devices) in other areas – e.g. how mobile gaming devices could be used positively within the health care system for patients – so I don’t think that we should be binning Brain Training cartridges just yet….
Interesting interview about Lifescan which was amongst the features demonstrated at the iPhone 3.0 update announcement. The announcement was important for developers because applications can be more effective as the user no longer has to remember to click on the app to get reminders – they can now be “pushed” to the phone like a text message.
In the interview Dave Detmers discusses the company’s demo at Apple’s event and fleshes out the background story on its Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose monitor that synchs up with the iPhone 3.0 OS. LifeScan is a Johnson & Johnson company focused primarily on diabetes monitoring devices and software.
Runkeeper is a great little application (free or paid for) that allows you to log the time and length of how far you have run, walk, or ridden. Utilising the GPS feature of the iPhone it allows you to easily track your speed, pace, and elevation, record and map routes (using GPS) and even share your fitness activities and progress with friends.
Easy to use and contrary to some reviews it hasn’t eaten into my iPhone battery too much so far. Great stuff !
A Consolarium project involving Professor Layton and the Curious Village on Nintendo DS supporting learning in a school in the Orkney Islands (lets hope they’re doing better on it than I am at the moment !) …..
Take a walk on the fun side with Nintendo’s latest lifestyle game, which comes with two very special Activity Meter pedometers! Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine? helps you work out if your activity rhythm is up to scratch and provides valuable insight on how to set up a regular routine – the healthiest way to live!
Release date: 20/02/2009
Recently seen out and about in the shops….
My Health Coach: Stop Smoking brings Allen Carr’s method to Nintendo DS. Developed in conjunction with Allen Carr’s experts, the game hopes to make users understand all the illusions about smoking that prevent them from quitting through powerful facts brought by experts and fun games……
Time to coin a catchy title for these sorts of developments – what I am now going to call M-Learning For Health (ML4H)
Various links about the use of twitter with diabetes sufferers. First off, in 2007 to increase awareness of Diabetes and raise money for the ADA Scott Hanselman twittered his diabetes…..
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Tu Diabetes has Success with Twitter
Epocrates, a free database of pharmaceuticals — with extras like CME credits and medical news — for physicians, the most used healthcare application on the iPhone….
Source : Tech Medicine
