The Digital Life: Apple, Google,and the State of mHealth

03.Jul.14
by Emily Twaddell

Podcast 63 on The Digital Life features Digital Life and Involution Studios founder Dirk Knemeyer with host Jon Follett talking about the state of mobile healthcare or mHealth. As you'll know from following this blog, Dirk isn't afraid to share his honest opinion on the giants who "have this desire to be the godfather of your mobile health data." Tune in for a lively conversation about the positives and negatives of each player and how they are likely to face off against each other.

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Topics: Blog

What We’re Reading—Friday Links

13.Jun.14
by Emily Twaddell

Like many of you, we don’t differentiate that much among work, learning, and play when we’re surfing the interwebs. Whether it’s TweetDeck, RSS feeds, Facebook, or another of the innumerable info-streams we monitor, we come across intriguing content that inspires, informs, amuses, and even appalls us. So, now that we’ve got your attention, here’s what made the rounds at Involution Studios this week:

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Topics: Blog

On The Digital Life: Health Axioms and Designing for Behavior Change

11.Jun.14
by Emily Twaddell

Recently on The Digital Life podcast, Involution's Jon Follett sat down with Creative Director Juhan Sonin to discuss the Health Axioms card deck and designing for behavior change.

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Topics: Healthcare, Ideas, Blog, Podcast

Apple’s Healthbook is visionary—and parochial

17.Apr.14
by Emily Twaddell

Dirk Knemeyer has a few questions about Apple's ideas for a mobile medical solution.

This coming June, Apple is expected to announce their “Healthbook” app. In a bold expansion on the concepts of Involution’s hGraph app, Apple is attempting not only to federate all of a user’s important, top-level health and wellness data but also to synchronize with hardware devices that do everything from analyze blood to count steps to monitor heart rate.

Mockup of Healthbook screen published to Behance this past February.

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Topics: Design, apple, hGraph, Healthcare, infovis, software design, Blog, Healthbook, mobile