Tag: HEALTH

While you can't sign up for Google Health yet unless you're one of a few thousands patients at the Cleveland Clinic, Google is beginning to discuss their new health-focused service. In a blog post today, Google shows off a new screenshot which gives us a good idea of the type of information Google Healthusers will be able to store and sort online. Users will be able to keep track of their ...

We're three weeks into the new year, and chances are many people's New Years resolutions have already fallen by the wayside, if not been completely given up on. If your New Years resolution involved eating better and being more active, then the site Wellsphere may be able to get you back on track. Wellsphere is a website designed to connect users with the desire to improve their health with other ...

Google will launch its online consumer health service early next year. We've known that both Google and Microsoft were working on health related services for a while now. But Microsoft beat Google to the punch, launching its HealthVault portal earlier this month. So what can we expect from Google Health? Google search chief Marissa Mayer says odds are if you're searching for health information ...

Microsoft has launched its new consumer health portal which is something of a cross between WebMD and Life Record. In other words, HealthVault both lets you search for general health related information and store your own personal health data online. What does a software company know about medicine? Well, Microsoft has partnered with groups ranging from the American Heart Association to the Mayo ...

Earlier this year Microsoft picked up Medstory, prompting speculation that the software maker would be coming out with some sort of health-related search engine. Now the New York Times is reporting that both Microsoft and Google have slightly more ambitious plans in the health space. Microsoft plans to launch a health service later this year that will involve some a way for patients to store ...

Once upon a time, giving someone a copy of the DSM was almost guaranteed to ensure that they would come down with the plague. Or at least they'd convince themselves that they had malaria. These days anyone with an internet connection can take advantage of self-diagnosis tools at sites like WebMD to scare themselves silly. And according to a new poll by Harris Interactive, over 160 million ...

Needles are icky, kids hate them, but the fact is they do protect against harmful diseases and sickness. A recent study showed that 90% of parents are convinced that their kid's shots are up to date, however in reality only 61% are. A new online service for Canadian residents allows parents to set up and track their child's immunization records and receive a reminder two weeks before it's due. ...

About Inc, the lonely search engine company that tends to be forgotten about, is targeting health searchers with its recent purchase of the health care ratings site, UCompareHealthCare.com. The site specializes in rating and providing information on doctors, nursing homes, hospitals, and specialty centers so that people can make more informed decisions on their healthcare. With this purchase, ...

The team at Microsoft has agreed to acquire a company which specializes in medical information. Medstory Inc, is a small company that produced an artificial intelligence software which picks up and scans medical and health information in medical journals, government documents and the internet. The Medstory team will join the Microsoft's Health Solutions Group which will manage the development ...

Want to lose weight by playing video games? Not coordinated enough to play DDR? Tim Tucker has the solution for you: Tetris Weightlifting. It's a version of Tetris that you control with a pair of handles each attached to a set of weights. You pull the right handle to move the piece right and vice versa for the left, and press a button on either handle to rotate the piece. Tucker built the Tetris ...

Tuesday on USA Today, Google search VP Marissa Mayer was on USA Today and gave some clues about what we'll be seeing next Wednesday at Google's annual Press Day. When asked about moving into other verticals like health, Mayer said, "Health is an interesting one—keep your eye out for that next week." That's all she said on the topic, but rumors about a Google Health site have been ...