Monthly Archives: December 2010

The Cardiocam: Physiological Monitoring via Webcam

Today’s New York Times Magazine The Year in Ideas: 10th Anniversary Special features the MIT Cardiocam: Cardiocam is a low-cost, non-contact technology for measurement of physiological signals using a basic digital imaging device such as a Webcam. The ability to perform … Continue reading

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Hacking Your Own Health Data

The MassDevice article Doctors to patients: Track your own health data has an interesting take on the  personally controlled healthcare record (PCHR). Keely Wray advocates that PCHR data should be “Hackable” (my highlight): I mean “hackable” in the sense of … Continue reading

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