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More goodness from the MDigitalLife study courtesy of Greg Matthews (@chimoose). I asked him (very nicely) if he would take a look at the database he’s got of 3,200 verified physicians’ 2.1 million tweets for frequencies of environmental / sustainability topics, and here’s what he found. Green docs – Analysis from MDigitalLife Data from Ted [...]
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View Visualization: Pedestrian Counts, Arlington, Virginia on Flickr.com There are so many things in just the title of this post that is new learning for me. Let’s count them: There is automated community walking data available, because Arlington, Virginia has installed electronic meters on its walking trails (see: National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project :: [...]
0commentsIs the Internet Good for Your Health? – Healthy Living Center – Everyday Health – 2013, January 16, Interviewed by Everyday Health’s Annie Hauser (@anniehauser) , on the latest report from PewInternet’s SusannahFox (@pewinternet – @susannahfox). I think this is a nice piece that reports on the data and contextualizes it for patients and physicians, [...]
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My last refresh of this data was almost a year ago (see: “…The changing penetration of social media across the generations (graphs) – 2011 Update | Ted Eytan, MD) when I was getting ready to talk about social media at the Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center (@KPGarfield). I’m going back next week…so, data refresh time. [...]
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NHS To Shut Down Personal Health Record Service | ITProPortal.com. “It is too difficult to make an account; it is too difficult to log on; it is just too difficult”, Gutteridge said at the Westminster Health Forum in London. In addition to allowing each access to care records and test results, HealthSpace was designed to [...]
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I posted previously that there are a lot of interesting correlations between health/unhealth and location as seen in maps of Washington, DC (see: Quantified Community: Visualizing the health and illness of Washington, DC through open data and art). View Washington DC race-ethnicity-SNAP retailers 12466 on Flickr.com This is a new starter map from communitycommons.org that [...]
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I got to speak to Jim Marks, MD, the Senior Vice President and Director of the Health Group for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (@JamesSMarks48) because I won the monthly RWJF Alumni Social Network profile contest (it feels good to win at these times…), and I asked him about social determinants of health. He said to me (and [...]