Posts tagged Health
“Chlamydia” Most Frequently Searched Health Term On Mobile Devices
Dec 28th
You’re more likely to use your smart phone to search for information about sexually transmitted diseases and mental health issues, but searches on serious conditions like diabetes and cancer are still coming from desktop and laptop computers.
Those were among the findings in a study released by Healthline Networks for the top searches on its health information site in 2011. Chlamydia was the number one query for mobile device users, while cancer was the top search from desktops and laptops.
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Other health terms in the top 10 for mobile include other potential, stigmal concerns, such as bipolar disorder, depression, quitting smoking, herpes, gout, scabies and pregnancy.
The top 10 desktop and laptop searches are more straightforward and include such terms as pain, weight, diet and sleep.
The searches were conducted on the company’s Healthline HealthWeb, a healthcare-specific site that links consumers to 50 destination sites including health information publishers, insurers, employers and traditional search engines.
“Personal phones are individually owned whereas desktop computers are usually shared (e.g. among families, co-workers) so people will opt for the search method that gives them the greatest sense of privacy,” said Dr. Ash Nadkarni, resident physician in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center and founder of Appguppy Mobile, an application creation service.
Among the other findings:
- People were five times more likely to search for diseases than symptoms.
- More mobile traffic andd searches were recorded in March than in any other month, which Healthline was a result of heightened concerns about radiation sickness following the Japanese earthquake.
- Most mobile health searches are made on Wednesday; very few health-related searches are made on weekends.
- The biggest spike in desktop and laptop searches was between Feb. 12 and Feb. 15 when the FDA pulled the breast cancer treatment Avastin and President Barack Obama was discussing the 2012 healthcare budget.
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Healthline and Wolfram Alpha Expand Health and Treatment Research Tools
Dec 16th
Healthline and Wolfram Alpha have both announced new features specifically related to comsumer health information. Healthline now offers a social search feature that taps into crowd sourced information on drug experiences while Wolfram Alpha taps …
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Pfizer Takes First in Covario Study on SEO Health of Pharmaceutical Industry – MarketWatch (press release)
Dec 8th
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Pfizer Takes First in Covario Study on SEO Health of Pharmaceutical Industry
MarketWatch (press release) Using the patented Covario SEO Audit Score(TM), 16 of the world's largest pharmaceutical advertisers were measured from 0 to 100 (with 100 being "excellent" and 0 being "poor") on how well their websites are optimized for the highest volume keywords … |
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Hip New iPhone Health App The Eatery Leaves Me Hungry for Info
Nov 2nd
The Eatery is a beautifully designed new iPhone app that helps you report what you’re eating and have its healthfulness rated by other users of the system. Built by former Firefox UX guru Aza Raskin as the first release from his new company Massive Health, the app promises to make your eating habits easy to track and thus to change. The service captures data about when and where you ate well or poorly and serves that up in visualizations. Massive was co-founded by Raskin and CEO Sutha Kamal.
Not everything in the world may be suitable to crowdsourcing, though. I ate a container of soy yogurt this morning and while nine people have said it was healthy, three said it was not. Why? I have no idea. Do I care about their nutritional assessments of my meals? If they are making the same stabs in the dark as I am to rate other peoples’ food on a scale of one to ten – I’m not sure I do care about other peoples’ uninformed opinions. So far I don’t think this app is as good as a number of alternatives.
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Give me the bar-code scanning data of Fooducate or the calorie tracking goal-based social network LoseIt – those are effective quantifications of health inside a social context if you ask me. Tracking the gut-level judgement on a scale of one to ten, from own and the ignorant opinions of others? That might be interesting in theory, but in practice I’m not convinced.
I don’t think processed grains, diet soda or most meat is very healthy. You might think my black coffee is less healthy than tea. Are they? I honestly don’t know, but I just clicked to rate 50 peoples’ habits this morning on the Eatery app.
The company says that it will be able to discover other additional and more useful information in aggregate. That sounds promising and it wouldn’t be the first instance in which a particular data point has far less value than loads of them together.
A “veggie sandwich with blue doritos and water” – how healthy is that? On a scale of one to ten? I guess that depends on what kind of bread it is, how many condiments were put on it and why not lose the Doritos if you’re worried about it?
“While straight-forward crowdsourcing may not seem like the best source of healthiness of a meal, here’s the true power of what’s possible: We’re already doing interesting things behind the scenes; and as we accumulate more data, our algorithms get smarter,” Raskin says. “We crowdsource with people who have similar eating goals, which quickly increases accuracy. We also know whether any one person rates well or poorly. That means, if I rate erratically or poorly, your vote counts much more than me, since you’re good at rating. When big data meets crowdsourcing you get something much more powerful than simple votes.”
The Eatery strives to make food tracking easy and simple, but I think too much is lost along the way. Hopefully that will change over time, though.
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Google Unveils Site Health Feature in Webmaster Tools
Sep 30th
Users logging into Google Webmaster Tools may be surprised to see a new feature right away. The new multi-site feature, named, “Site Health” was announced by Google yesterday on the Webmaster Central Blog.
The central idea of the …
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iOS Health & Fitness Apps Will Grow to 13K by 2012
Sep 22nd
The iTunes app store will contain just over 13,000 healthcare-related apps by 2012, a sign that the caring and treatment for the sick – or even those fearing they are sick – is moving to the mobile device.
Analysts also say that these apps are increasing in price during a period of rising healthcare costs and a significant rise in the number of professional-aged people without health insurance.
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The average cost of a health app has risen from $2.77 this February to $3.21 in June, about the same price as a gallon of gasoline in some places. There are also significantly fewer health apps than are listed as such in Apple’s Health and Fitness category. Of the 9,000 apps available now, say analysts, many are novelties.
These are items that are billed as being for the health and wellbeing of the sick and suffering but are really no more than gimmicks that play into fears about our health and our bodies.
We reported a few weeks ago about the FTC levying fines against two app makers that claimed users could erase their acne using colored lights from the iPHone.
This predication comes on the day of the F8 conference in San Francisco, where many Facebook developers are being encouraged to make “meaningful” apps for the rollout of Timeline on September 29.
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SEO Consult® begin Search Engine Optimisation affiliation with Phoenix Health … – Release-news.com (press release)
Aug 24th
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SEO Consult® begin Search Engine Optimisation affiliation with Phoenix Health …
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SEO Consult® begin Search Engine Optimisation affiliation with Phoenix Health … – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Aug 19th
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SEO Consult® begin Search Engine Optimisation affiliation with Phoenix Health …
DigitalJournal.com (press release) SEO Consult®, a Cheshire-based agency specialising in search engine optimisation, have embarked on a new business partnership with Phoenix Health & Safety, the UK's premier provider of health and safety training courses. SEO Consult® are experts in … |
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