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HealthConnect 2012 Report
November 7th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | karim | Comments Off
Our HealthConnect 2012 Report is ready for download.
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[VIDEO] HealthConnect Panel Event #HCTO
November 5th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | karim | 1 Comment
Thanks to Mike from RenderMedia for helping us out with our HealthConnect Panel video review. Keep your eyes peeled here as we will be publishing our HealthConnect Report. Subscribe and watch all our interviews on our YouTube channel. Keep the conversation going on Twitter and follow us at @XConnectTO. Also, “Like” us at Facebook.com/XConnectTO.
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HealthConnect – Final Thoughts
October 29th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | Alex Conde | 1 Comment
HealthConnect, the final XConnect panel event of the year was held at the ING Direct Cafe October 25th, 2012. Over the course of the panel discussion, a number of different challenges being faced by the healthcare system were brought up. It would have been far too easy to end on a discouraging note, but Cassie [...]
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HealthConnect #HCTO Panel Event Review
October 26th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | Alex Conde | 2 Comments
Building on previous successful events such as SportsConnect, MusicConnect, FashionConnect, FilmConnect, BankConnect, EduConnect and GameConnect, the final XConnect event of the year was held at the ING Direct Cafe October 25th, 2012: This time the topic was the intersection of technology and social media with the world of healthcare. The conversation was moderated by Cassie [...]
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Big Data in Healthcare
October 22nd, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | Alex Conde | 1 Comment
Smartphones and other mobile personal technologies have led to a revolution in big data collection. We now have the ability to track and monitor all the factors that might impact our health on a real-time basis. Whether it’s the calorie content of your food, the exercise you’re getting, the weather at your location or any [...]
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The Present and the Future of Online Health Communities
October 19th, 2012 | Blog, healthconnect | Alex Conde | Comments Off
On Monday, we discussed some of the demographic factors that logically led to the development of online communities based on specific health conditions. Rising to that challenge are some incredible communities, such as the twitter account for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (@endstigma). However, numbers alone don’t tell the full story of these [...]
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Social Media and Chronic Disease
October 15th, 2012 | Blog, healthconnect | Alex Conde | 2 Comments
From the early days of its existence, the Internet has always been a place to go for information about chronic diseases. Information alone however, doesn’t usually alleviate the isolation that often comes with an uncommon chronic illness. Even if an individual has a well-meaning and supportive network of friends and family, these relationships often can’t [...]
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Can Healthcare Afford to NOT be on Social Media?
October 12th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | Alex Conde | 1 Comment
Facebook recently hit an impressive milestone. They announced that they have now reached 1 billion active users. Given that approximately 1 out of every 6 or 7 people on the planet are now using Facebook (and this doesn’t take into consideration other social networks), can the medical community ignore social media as a means to [...]
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iHorse Technologies supports HealthConnect
October 11th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | carolyn | Comments Off
Great news: iHorse Technologies has signed on as an official sponsor for our HealthConnect series! Startup Founders, if you are looking to effectively and efficiently build your minimal viable product – you’ll want to connect with these folks. iHorse was started by a group of young entrepreneurs in 2007, with the vision of becoming a global [...]
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Thiago Caires on Biomedical Technology & Robot Evolution.
October 9th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | karim | Comments Off
Bionik Laboratories is a Toronto-based medical engineering research and development corporation with a focus on brain controlled prosthetics and rehabilitation devices. Incubated in Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone, Bionik has products in development that include artificial lungs and assistive walking tools for paraplegics. Its mission is to create innovative and affordable medical technologies. A sample project [...]
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