Had a friend forward me this article about Aetna using Mindbloom to increase health and wellness.

Aetna encourages health through online gaming

Reminds me of healthprize.com, and Kevin Volpps work at University of Pennsylvania. Behavioral economics and incentives is an amazing area of focus to apply to health and wellness. It reminds me of the books Predictably Irrational and Freakenomoics. It is interesting to ask, “why do we behave the way we do; and how can technology help us change and grow”.

Pete Gordon

Arduino does seem to be taking over the DIY and “Open source” world of embedded systems. Microchip has entered the frey with full force, and 32-bit. For more information than you probably want, then again you are reading this far; this discussion forum goes into a lot of questions about Microchip, Arduino, Open Source and licensing at dangerousprototypes.com Microchip Arduino Discussion

Todd Park defends Blue Button using plain text format, without XML or more complicated CCD/CCR structure. I tend to agree with him. Although JSON is a good format as Facebook Graph and Google Map API has proven.

http://www.meaningfulhitnews.com/2011/05/01/park-defends-plain-text-format-of-blue-button/

I am more concerned about the information reported than the format it is available in. I have seen a medicare recepient data that doesn’t seem to correlate with the medicare claims you see through the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP). This has me concerned about the quality of the data, but now, how to get to the bottom of it.

Watch this Rap on Meaningful Use. One of the best ways to learn what the government is doing this year for physicians with the HITECH ACT.

The Meaningful Yoose Rap from Ross Martin on Vimeo.

Here is a video slide show explaining the EHR Marketplace, and why combining Managed IT Services with PracticeFusion free web-based EHR makes sense for small and mid-sized health care providers.