Month: May 2005

I read this interesting article on Time.com describing the “wiki” phenomenon, titled “It’s a Wiki, Wiki World“. Could this wiki be a glimpse of the future eHealth/health care world? My personal experiences with wikis have been via wikipedia.org and from an experimental (well, I call it experimental, but “development” may be a better term) wiki…

I’ve noticed that “markets” have not been discussed as contributing to or (at the very least) affecting health care and eHealth. Perhaps this is because I am in a Canadian context where anything that remotely challenges the tenets of the Health Care Act are pooh-poohed and dismissed as being somehow “un-Canadian” or ideological. For today’s…

While we’re loathe to admit it, the digital home will likely alter the face of health care/ehealth in ways that we can only begin to imagine. The “digital home” is the technology that I will discuss in this post. In Canada, health care interactions have traditionally been conducted in either a hospital or a physician’s…

In 2004, we saw the rise of the iPod digital music player (well, at least here in North America). The iPod was the must have device. I talk about the iPod because it is just the most recent iteration of another disruptive technology: handheld or mobile devices. Handheld devices first caught on with the marketing…

In light of the recent announcements at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), I will start by profiling my first prediction for a disruptive technology: video games. The video game industry has exploded from being entertainment for children to a $11 billion industry in the United States alone! What may surprise even more is that…