Empowering Patients Through Technology
Guest Blogger: Dr. Jennifer Zelmer (Canada Health Infoway) – Senior Vice President, Clinical Adoption and Innovation, leading Infoway’s current and new initiatives in innovation and clinical adoption....
View ArticleA Shared Responsibility
“Focusing on accuracy is key when discussing electronic records. If data is missing or out-of-date, it can not only be useless, but harmful. With the ease at which data accumulates, it is important for...
View ArticleAsk the Question
How often should I update my MedicAlert medical profile? It’s a common question that members ask me every week. The simple answer is that you should update your profile whenever material changes...
View ArticleNo Known Conditions
I am a MedicAlert member and wear a bracelet that reads “No known medical condition”. This isn’t an unusual inscription, but some people find it surprising. Isn’t the MedicAlert ID and service only...
View ArticleBelieve It Or Not!
Over the past twenty years much of our world has been digitized – from music, TV and movies to newspapers, books and magazines to banking, shopping and dating. Curiously, health records are one of...
View ArticleLiving by the numbers
Recently I started a personal experiment based on a simple question – what would happen if I started to track everything I could about my health including my diet, exercise, sleep and overall state of...
View ArticleEmpowering Patients Through Technology
Guest Blogger: Dr. Jennifer Zelmer (Canada Health Infoway) – Senior Vice President, Clinical Adoption and Innovation, leading Infoway’s current and new initiatives in innovation and clinical adoption....
View ArticleA Shared Responsibility
“Focusing on accuracy is key when discussing electronic records. If data is missing or out-of-date, it can not only be useless, but harmful. With the ease at which data accumulates, it is important for...
View ArticleAsk the Question
How often should I update my MedicAlert medical profile? It’s a common question that members ask me every week. The simple answer is that you should update your profile whenever material changes occur....
View ArticleNo Known Conditions
I am a MedicAlert member and wear a bracelet that reads “No known medical condition”. This isn’t an unusual inscription, but some people find it surprising. Isn’t the MedicAlert ID and service only for...
View ArticleBelieve It Or Not!
Over the past twenty years much of our world has been digitized – from music, TV and movies to newspapers, books and magazines to banking, shopping and dating. Curiously, health records are one of the...
View ArticleThe Quest for User-Friendly Healthcare Information
Recently I signed up for online billing for our electric and water utilities. On the utility website I found a number of tools that take our historical usage data and help provide better insight into...
View ArticleInformation – is it really that powerful?
There are few things more mundane than your electricity bill. I never looked at mine in any serious way when I received it in the mail and more often than not I’d just throw it away. Eventually I caved...
View ArticlePersonal Health Monitoring 2.0
Personal health monitoring devices have been around a long time (remember the old mechanical pedometers?) but are now evolving at a breakneck pace. The popular Nike Fuelband and Fitbit are now joined...
View ArticleMy Top 4 Online Tools to Explore
One of the great things about the web is that it enables various forms of interactive technology that are both simple and compelling to use. Here are the four that made it on my favourites list: 1....
View ArticleHow your Physician and Mechanic are Alike
Most people have experienced this: you are driving along and then all of a sudden a trouble light starts to flash on your dash. Your car’s computer is telling you to take your car in for servicing....
View ArticleWhat’s #GivingTuesday Anyway?
Most people know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But have you heard of #GivingTuesday™? This year, the movement to create a national day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season has...
View ArticleOwn Your Health Information
In 1956, a 14 year old girl named Linda Collins cut her finger and sought treatment at a local hospital in Turlock, California. Before receiving a tetanus shot, Linda received a small dose to check...
View ArticleOptimal Aging
How do we remain healthy, active and engaged as we age? That is the foundational question that led to the creation of the Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative at McMaster University. There is no...
View Article‘Sod’ 70
I recently had the privilege of attending a public talk on health aging, sponsored by MedicAlert Foundation Canada at the McMaster Health Forum in Hamilton. The keynote speaker, Sir Muir Gray, a...
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