Archive for the ‘Personal Health’ Category

The California Senate is expected to vote this week on Senate Bill 1395 that would create the first living donor registry in the country. Sponsored by Senate Health Committee Chair Elaine Alquist (D-Santa Clara), the bill would create the not-for-profit Altruistic Living Donor Registry to allow California state residents to identity themselves as potential kidney [...]

A very interesting smartphone and heath care report was just released by Jane Sarasoh-Kahn of the California Healthcare Foundation. The focus of her report is the recent adoption of and use of smartphones by consumers and health care providers. Approximately 2/3 of doctors and 42% of the public used smartphones as of late 2009. The number of smartphone applications related [...]