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Stallin’ for time
History is a despotic teacher.
Can you see de spot in your eyes?
Little birdy
Thx to Penny, Rainy, Ferdie, and Rich at Thai Garden — Rainy, we’ll show up to play badminton with you soon!
Thx to the crew who keep the Big Cove greenway cleaned of debris; Wiregrass Construction Company; people who post tunes to YouTube.
Thx to the USPS office on Governor’s Drive; Jennifer of UAH Alumni Association.
13 Sept 2013 Dr Emil Jovanov. UAH alumni lunch n learn
13 Sept 2013 Dr Emil Jovanov. UAH alumni lunch n learn. Opening by David Kingsbury, UAH Alumni president
BIO: Dr. Emil Jovanov, received bachelor and doctorate from Univ of Belgrade. http://www.ece.uah.edu/~jovanov; emil.jovanov@.edu
Dr. Jovanov teaches and supports realtime and embedded systems, wearable and ubiquitous monitoring, senior student design: education and playground, technology commercialization, new products and businesses such as SmartBottle…AdhereTech (www.adheretech.com)
Ubiquitous Health Monitoring – wireless body area network [WBAN] (2005) Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
WBAN via Zigbee connects to personal server (smartphone) integrates via GPRS/Bluetooth/WLAN with Internet for access to/by weather forecast, emergency, caregiver, medical server and physician
diabetics monitor blood sugar level, doctor can see if you walked as much as you said, when you ate, etc.; ECG
mHealth – http://portal.mhealth.uah.edu/public/index.php
— stress monitoring for nurses, etc.
WBAN includes SmartBottle approach:
in 1994, est. that $100B cost to economy for taking medicine incorrectly; $300B increased costs, $100B lost revenue
MDs/pharmacists need accurate monitoring method; patients need secure system.
— typical use: pill boxes don’t account for “Take on full/empty stomach”
— automated pill boxes based on time
— RFIDs — acid in stomach will activate chip in pill; smartphone will record info; expensive approach, good for specialised drugs
Great potential for smart pill bottle
— Robert Gold, R. Ph, MBA, Newburgh, Indiana
— Prototype development, senior design team:
=> Sreca Jovanov -HW and Sensor Dev
=> Charles Acker – Embedded and PC SW
=> Michael King – Embedded SW
UAH Patent; MBA Graduate project at Wharton School of Business
Completely wireless system; communication between SmartBottle, Reminder Unit, Home Server, and Remote Server; automated reminders and monitoring of medication
Approaches: initial idea – weight measurement but mechanical issues were potentially problematic; breakthrough – capacitive measurement of pills in bottle C=A*e/d (conductive plates (A) sandwiching dielectric medium (d)); measuring capacitive response of empty bottle; smart bottle prototype in spring 2007, connected CVS bottle with unit including wireless module — proof of concept worked – good linear plot of data with 2-3% error (e.g., 2 to 3 pills out of 100); US Patent issued in 2011; SmartBottle Development 2012 update: Test system, AD7745 capacitance to digital converter, accuracy: +/- 4 fF (femtofarads (10 to minus 15th power)); evaluation of patterns and designs – have to compromise total capacitance against accuracy of pill measurement
AdhereTech – winner of 2013 Healthcare Innovation World Cup
Reader’s Digest, September 2013, one of 20 MindBlowing Medical Breakthroughs, technology should be available by September of 2014
Wireless in the bottle (Verizon); measures and send open/close of bottle; 45 day battery = no charge
Nontech savvy – use bottle as regular bottle
Tech savvy – text/email reminder, etc.
Helps monitor: Forgetfulness; purposely omitted pill taking; low priority conduct
Pharma: captures percentage of increased revenues, especially for clinical trials of extremely-expensive medication
Hospitals: used to make money on readmissions but no more — want to reduce readmissions; hospitals penalised 1% CMS payments for readmissions (`$14000/year) with higher penalties in following years; poor adherence to drug plan is most common reason patients are readmitted. CHF: 25% readmission rate; heart attack: 20% readmission rate; pneumonia:18% readmission rate; more diseased states penalized every year
Provides aggregate adherence data for healthcare pros; personal data for patients
Examples of Secured deals: Walter Reed Natl Military Med Ctr; Weill Cornell Medical College; Univ of Michigan
Competitors: Vitality GlowCaps; Proteus Digital Health; plain/automated Pill boxes; Adherence smartphone/tablet apps
Pilot clinical trials start in 2014
Benefits include passive intrusion, no change to current pill users’ behaviour.
Strong IP, team, business models and traction in media!
==> info@AdhereTech.com: Featured in WSJ, TIME, WIRED, TEDMED, Fast Company, TechCrunch, MEDCITY, the Atlantic, StartUpHealth, Blueprint Health, GIGAOM, Xconomy
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Glass spherical atmospherical at most fear a gull
I don’t know what it is about the objects in this room but some of them have a life of their own.
The crystal ball, which is not really crystal but a thin layer of glass, hummed when I walked into the study this morning.
A 60-Hz hum, as if some unseen creature — a gnome, fairy, elf, dwarf or gremlin? — snuck in and plugged in the crystal ball’s AC power source.
Ah, yes. The crystal ball has electronic junk in its trunk.
For centuries, the crystal ball had relied on the magnetic alignment of layers of rock deposited for millions of years onto Earth’s crust as the planet’s magnetic poles flip-flopped.
But I wanted more power.
I wanted to make the future a reality, not just some foggy image forming out of the inside of a ether-filled dome.
Sing it! “Ee-thur, eye-thur, nee-thur, neye-thur,” ether-aether, “let’s call the whole thing off”-kilter.
Anyway, the crystal ball’s powered profundity projects onto the book covers, picture frames, walls, ceiling, overhead light fixture and my eyeballs a future where we ask ourselves why income inequality has become a buzzword domestically, imagined internationally but not universally.
A spinoff of Virgin Galactic, under a new shell corporation not directly tied to Sir Richard Branson in order to avoid confusion about mission statements, offers a higher boost into suborbital space for the terminally ill, taking their money but not promising them a flight in time before they die, that gives the passengers a longer time in the weightlessness of space and then an incendiary cremation upon reentry, the painlessness of sedatives a personal option, their ashes spread into the upper atmosphere of the only planet they got to know, sparking a new travel industry nicknamed “Your Final Exit” after a book written in the 20th century.
Discovering energy conversion that has nothing to do with atomic structures opened up planetary exploration and galactic travel, completely and forever changing our image and opinions of ourselves as the center of the universe — it’s not the energy level that counts, it’s how you use the paradigm shift to reinvent the way we model our sets of states of energy in the cosmos.
Spending more time nurturing our species’ children during their formative years offset our longterm investment in the spook business that tried to compensate for the messed-up mindsets of adults turned against society, which changed the way we perceived ourselves as [un]fairly-treated cogs in the wheels of the politicoeconomic conditions we used to define our place in society, including the reformation of the public/private education system that used to depend on a mix of caring/sadistic [un]tenured teaching staff and [non]motivated students.
Mapping the new global culture on top of centuries-old subcultures was as fluid as the ocean tidal currents, tide charts predictable but local tidal basins fluctuating minute-by-minute. Protesting the advent of global branding missed the natural evolution of a species in transition from multilocal to a global set of traits. Embracing the concept of optimising profits made the antiglobal movement an effective tool in strengthening our longterm economic sustainability — every person was encouraged to realise we are individually a laboratory of new ideas, making conformity, normality and mimicry as quaint as synergistic symmetry.
The crystal ball hummed louder and louder until I realised that the wallwart was overheating. Time to get a new transformer before the house burns down!
Found in my father’s papers
My father was an adjunct professor for over two decades and enjoyed learning from his students as much as he enjoyed teaching them. One of his students shared his cultural/religious/scientific view with my father via a report — interesting to think about as we debate military action in and around Syria:
I hate Edward Snowden
I’ll say it again, I hate Edward Snowden. His whistleblowing has ruined my fantasies of leading the hidden, covert life of a doublecrossing secret agent. I wish him a miserable existence as a man without a country, forever on the run from haters like me, worse off than Salman Rushdie with a bounty on his head.
“When the only tool you have is a hammer” department
It’s from me it’s for you. It’s from you, it’s for me. It’s a worldwide symphony
The U.S. president stood at the podium and looked at the camera.
“Earlier today I authorised a large-scale mobilisation of our naval and air forces to converge on Syria.
“I have not made this decision lightly. In fact, I consulted with historians as well as your elected representatives on both sides of the aisle.
“Based on the advice I graciously received, I instructed our armed forces to take the following action.
“One, we have a brotherly and sisterly love for the Syrian people. Our first order of business is to flood the cities and neighbourhoods of Syria with leaflets warning of our plans we are declaring in full disclosure to every country that wants to interfere with our humanitarian mission to prevent more senseless bloodshed, offering a peaceful solution backed by our military might to restore order.
“Two, a massive airlift is now underway. We will soon drop air cargo loads filled with blocks of pure, nutritious American cheese from our country’s heartland to feed the Syrian people in dire need of real food.
“Three, to address the rumours of starvation driven by despair and depression and to prevent any chance of malaria or other tropical disease, we will spray the people of Syria and their beloved geography with a special formulated mix of pest-deterring organic cannabinoids and low-concentration psilocybin, which I have been assured by both scientific and medical experts will restore the appetites and happiness of war-weary inhabitants of the City of Jasmine and other metropolitan areas ravaged by over two years of civil war.
“Four, we will offer a trade-in program for citizens on all sides of the Syrian conflict. Every gun, tank, missile, ammunition or other weapon not authorised for the strict use of American military to protect global citizens in Syria is eligible for this program. If you turn in a weapon, we will provide you with enough food and clothing to last you a year. In addition, we will send you to a nearby training centre to provide you the trade skills and business acumen to start your own business to compete in the world economy.
“My fifth and final announcement on this important issue. We ask not only the Syrians but all the people of the Middle East to open their stores and shops to people of any race, creed, national origin, political or religious difference. If you do so, your family will prosper. At the end of the day, isn’t that what we want for ourselves and our children?
“That’s all that the United States of America is trying to do here, provide Syrians with a peaceful path toward prosperity, cementing a healthy relationship with the rest of the world. No other country can offer or is offering you such a solution.
“My administration will keep our phones and doors open for Syrians. Talk to us after you read our leaflets.
Thank you. No questions.”
The president walked off the platform and turned to his closest advisor. “Okay, now that that’s over, do you have the latest update on Tiger’s golf score?”
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