- Fingerprinting Cameras Through Sensor Noise — using the pattern of noise consistent between images taken from the same camera to uniquely identify the device. (via Pete Warden)
- Stopping Bots with Hashes and Honeypots (Ned Batchelder) — solid techniques for preventing spambots. (via Andy Baio)
- Most Popular Infographics Generalized (Flowing Data) — it’s only funny because it’s true.
- London Hospital to Deploy Open Source Record System — hot on the heels of the NHS canning a failed expensive development of electronic health records. (via Glyn Moody)
ENTRIES TAGGED "Health 2.0"
How to start a successful business in health care at Health 2.0 conference
Great piles of cash are descending on entrepreneurs who develop health care apps, but that doesn't make it any easier to create a useful one that your audience will adopt. About the Spring Fling conference, enterpreneurship, and open data.
Epatients: The hackers of the healthcare world
A quick reference for becoming an empowered patient.
The epatient community uses digital tools and the connective power of the Internet to empower patients. Here, Fred Trotter offers epatient resources and first steps.
Why developers should enter health IT contests
Developers can make money writing code that makes patients safer.
Working on software that addresses patient safety issues is one of the few ways that a software developer can impact quality of life rather than convenience of life. Health contests are fun enough that you might even forget that you're changing the world.
Four short links: 30 September 2011
Fingerprinting Cameras, Stopping Spambots, Generic Infographics, and Open Source Healthcare Records
Putting innovation and tech to work against breast cancer
A new health challenge is taking on breast cancer.
A $100-million challenge will pursue new approaches to fighting breast cancer through data, technology and innovation.
How a Health 2.0 code-a-thon works
Report of a day spent with people developing a health-care related app in eight hours.
Parsing a new Pew report: 3 ways the Internet is shaping healthcare
Key trends from the Pew Internet and Life Project's health information survey.
New research from the Pew Internet and Life Project sheds light on how online users are gathering and sharing health data. Here's a look at three important trends revealed in the survey.
Four short links: 23 March 2011
Health Prediction, Fake Ads, Bogus Patents, and Realtime Graphing
- The Heritage Health Competition — Netflix-like contest to analyze insurance-claims data to develop a model that predicts the number of days a patient will spend in hospital in the coming year. $3M prize. (via Aza Raskin)
- Historically Hardcore — fantastic fake Smithsonian ads that manage to make the institution sexy. Naturally they’ve been asked to take them down.
- Another Plato Innovation Ignored — turns out the above-the-fold doodle has a long and glorious history, culminating in a fantastic demonstration of our broken patent system.
- Graphite — Enterprise scalable realtime graphing. Apache 2.0-licensed, written in Python. (via John Nunemaker)
Health 2.0 / MAKE Developer Challenge happening this weekend in Boston
The Health 2.0 / MAKE Developer Challenge is happening this weekend, Feb 19th, in Boston. If you haven’t signed up already, register now, because it’s filling up fast.
A new challenge looks for a smarter algorithm to improve healthcare
The Heritage Healthcare Prize puts up $3 million dollars for a predictive algorithm to identify at-risk patients.
The Heritage Health Prize will ask the world's scientists to submit an algorithm that will help identify patients at risk of hospitalization before they need to go to the emergency room.
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