Check Your Meds Tool

Pharmasurveyor launched a cool integration with HealthVault. Basically, you authorize Pharmasurveyor to access your meds stored in your HealthVault account and do a side effect and interaction check automatically! Pretty slick.

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Windows 7...A Very Slick OS

I just loaded Windows 7 RC1 on my home desktop and I cannot believe the difference. It is such an impressive OS! Now, I will say that I am having issues with my NVIDIA 9 series driver, but it (NVIDIA driver) is in BETA so I really can't complain.

I just had a conversation with the guys at the computer store who both thought favorably of 7 RC1 but said they read places where really there was no difference in performance. So I jumped online and started looking around. The first post I found showed it was significantly less system resource intensive than Vista or XP. I guess there are probably tons of variances but ultimately I would have to say that I noticed a HUGE difference moving from my Vista Ultimate machine over to Win 7. I guess each person will have to be their own judge.

Swine Flu Meets Web 2.0

As the Swine Flu influenza spreads, within hours GMAPs began to map out instances of the flu around the world. This is a prime example of users leveraging emerging technologies and web services to respond to a global crises.

Here is a great link with one that I have seen:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=47.100045,9.316406&spn=34.792294,79.101563&t=h&z=4

Drug Interactions

I have been researching drug interactions for some time and think they should be more on folks radar then they currently are.

That being said, I have recently had the pleasure to meet the brilliant folks at PharmaSURVEYOR who have created an application that I think can save lives. I have used PharmaSURVEYOR now on any of my family members who are taking multiple medications.

So, the site has examples of celebrities who have overdosed accidently and shows you what they took. For example, they have the regimen that Heath Ledger was on, which really drives home what can happen if your not an informed health consumer.

Here is a screenshot of the tool and link. I highly recommend folks check it out and see how cool it is and more importantly pass it on:

OpenGOO. Who needs Basecamp?

Why pay for Basecamp? I dont :)

Amazing. That is what I would call OpenGoo. This is the first, open, free project managemetn suite I have ever found that really focuses on user experience. OpenGoo is a collaborative enviroment that leverages Ajax style experiences to simply project management onlint.

I recently setup OpenGoo (30 minutes) on my server just to try it out. I was shocked how quickly it came together. In 45 minutes I was creating task lists, workspaces and contacts.

OpenGOO doesn't have all the features and refinements of Basecamp, but it does support Office documents which is cool and allows small organizations to leverage a simple resource for group collaboration.

Here is a screenshot of a test implementation:

Yet another cool resource worth watching.....

Did you know?

This is amazing.

A clinical trial widget...

An interesting clinical trial widget that does auto-population of a specific clinical trial.