While visiting with friends recently, I was asked something along the lines of what the expectation for healing should be for a friend who twisted his ankle recently.

There happened to be an Apple iPod Touch on standby with a good Wi-Fi connection, so in a few seconds I dialed this up and said, “Why don’t you read through this and see if it fits what you are experiencing, and then decide what your next steps should be.”

I think the iPod Touch is going to be an underdog in Health 2.0 applications….

• Monitors urged for all with high blood pressure - Yahoo! News - American Heart Association urges patients to monitor their blood pressure - nice coincidence for the work we're doing in California. Note the concern about conflict of interest, however - it comes up multiple times in the article. People are interested in information free of bias - another nod to Information Therapy and patient and family involvement, in my opinion.

• Safari 3.1 includes hidden one-window preference - This is the holy grail of Safari as the browser of choice. That plus compatibility with blog authoring tools.
• Mac BU promises bibliography improvements to Office 2008 - Interesting discussion somewhat unrelated to the article’s title about the state of bibliographic software. I would look forward to further refinements of Zotero, and maybe a server version.
• QLPlugins - Quick Look Plugins - Great efficiency improver of one of my favorite Leopard features.
• Aetna Smartsource Demo - Aetna’s latest information tailoring system for patients. Getting closer to supporting the patient-provider relationship?
• Apple - Support - Discussions - Unresponsive Keyboard and Trackpad … - This is a real issue for MacBookPro owners - prepare yourself just in case this happens to you.
• A new snapshot of health consumerism from EBRI and The Commonwealth Fund - Nice overview from Jane Sarsohn-Kahn
• Roblog » Batch Categories - Another category management plugin, for Wordpress 2.3 and 2.5
• uwMike » WP-Cats - More preparation to migration to WP 2.5
• Disk Inventory X - Map your hard drive to avoid wasting space
• How to Fly Without ID and Skip Lines | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss - Just in case this happens to you, here is how you can fly and recover.