Low-income urban youth are high users of technology but still prefer face-to-face meetings with doctor

From This survey included urban youth (aged 14-24 years) to asses the Use of Technology with Health Care Providers.

Eight focus groups including 82 primarily low-income urban African-American adolescents and young adults were completed.

Low-income urban adolescents and young adults (mean age, 18.5 years) reported high access to and use of technology. However, they still preferred face-to-face meetings with a healthcare provider because they felt that the information provided would be better tailored to their individual needs and more credible. Many worried about the confidentiality of conversations conducted using technology.

In conclusion, although low-income urban youth are high users of technology, they still prefer face-to-face meetings with a healthcare provider.

References:

Use of Technology with Health Care Providers: Perspectives from Urban Youth. Sarah Lindstrom Johnson et al. The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 160, Issue 6 , Pages 997-1002, June 2012.

Your smartphone use predicts your social life, travel, risk of disease - even political views

The Really Smart Phone: Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of social lives, travels, risk of disease - even political views.

Read more from WSJ.

Distracted Walking Featured in the New Windows Phone Ads

Distracted driving has gained much attention lately because of the inflated crash risk posed by drivers using cellphones to talk and text. But phones aren't just distracting drivers; they make pedestrians inattentive too.

Distracted walking combines a pedestrian, an electronic device and an unseen crack in the sidewalk, the pole of a stop sign, a toy left on the living room floor or a parked (or sometimes moving) car.

There are plenty of examples of the dangers of distracted walking in the two videos embedded in this page. These are also examples of "distracted life" in general:



References:
Forget Gum. Walking and Using Phone Is Risky. NYTimes.
Video: Stop texting while driving. Terrifying. All drivers should watch this.

Distracted Walking: Using a Cell Phone and Walking Is Risky

From the NYTimes:

"Distracted driving has gained much attention lately because of the inflated crash risk posed by drivers using cellphones to talk and text.

But phones aren't just distracting drivers; they make pedestrians inattentive too.

Distracted walking combines a pedestrian, an electronic device and an unseen crack in the sidewalk, the pole of a stop sign, a toy left on the living room floor or a parked (or sometimes moving) car.

Examples include a 16-year-old boy who walked into a telephone pole while texting and suffered a concussion; a 28-year-old man who tripped and fractured a finger on the hand gripping his cellphone; and a 68-year-old man who fell off the porch while talking on a cellphone, spraining a thumb and an ankle and causing dizziness."





References:
Forget Gum. Walking and Using Phone Is Risky. NYTimes.
Video: Stop texting while driving. Terrifying. All drivers should watch this.

Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

AT&T Don't Text While Driving Documentary (video).

A Physician with a Smartphone: Endless Possibilities for Patient Care Improvement

"In this video, Ivor Ković, a physician from Croatia, talks about how he uses the iPhone in his daily medical practice. He shows how even simple technology (starting with SMS) changes work behavior of physicians and patients. He goes on to showcase some of the apps he uses and introduces us to "Little Anne". But the most interesting part of the video is possibly where Ivor shows his own innovation on how the iPhone can be used to deliver quality CPR."

There are several health-related talks from Mobile Monday Amsterdam 2010 available on YouTube at http://bit.ly/c0bMF0

Best websites for Kindle (mobile) - please add more

This is a list of some of the best websites for Kindle (mobile) - please add more to the wiki at Google Docs - it is open to anybody to edit http://j.mp/kindle33

Best Websites for Kindle - mobile
(please add more below)

NYTimes
http://m.nytimes.com

WSJ
http://m.wsj.com

USA Today
http://m.usatoday.com

CNN
http://m.cnn.com

FT
http://m.ft.com

Reuters
http://m.reuters.com

Google Mobilizer (makes websites mobile-friendly)
http://google.com/gwt/n

Gmail
http://m.gmail.com

Skweezer (makes websites mobile-friendly)
http://skweezer.com

TIME
http://mobile.time.com

Twitter
http://m.twitter.com


Video: What Can Amazon Kindle 2 Do for You?


Image source: Amazon.com.

TED Talks: David Pogue: Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone

TED Talks: David Pogue: Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone

The New York Times tech columnist David Pogue rounds up some handy cell phone tools and services that can boost your productivity and lower your bills (and your blood pressure).

How to watch video lectures on Windows Mobile phones: Skyfire

I have used Opera Mobile browser for years but a newcomer among mobile browsers called Skyfire is much better for streaming video. In fact, Skyfire is so good that you can watch almost any video you are able to see on your desktop computer -- videos from CNN, NBC Nightly News, TV episodes on Hulu.com, etc.

This is how I use Skyfire to watch immunology lectures on my Windows-based mobile phone (MotoQ 9c):

1. Download and install Skyfire.

2. Go to the Immunology Lectures from the University of South Carolina at http://media.med.sc.edu/microbiology2008/

3. Click on any of the lectures to stream the slides and the talk in Adobe Flash format.


Skyfire Mobile Browser Demo

Skyfire is a mobile web browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 v3. As of November 2008, it is available for users with American or Canadian phone numbers.

It is the first browser software for Windows Mobile which can view Adobe Flash content and streaming video.

Skyfire works similar to Opera Mini, in that the webpage is fully rendered by a server separate from the mobile device, similar to the operation of a thin client. The output is sent as images annotated with interactive items such as links and text-fields.

Features such as Adobe Flash, Silverlight and QuickTime are usable without additional plug-ins on the device, and can be easily updated server-side without the need to update the client.

References:
Audio and Video Lectures in Allergy and Immunology
How to use a Windows Mobile phone to listen to medical podcasts?
Opera Mini: Probably the Best Browser for Your Phone
Skyfire (web browser), from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How to: Upgrade Your Mobile Browsing Experience, by PCMag, 2009.

Updated: 06/22/2009