What

Wow this blog looks like a mess.
This woman is some sort of health speaker or something--
that's a job you can have, incidentally--
and I guess we're going to be educated about healthy living or something.

One of the fastest-growing segments at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week is digital health. And within that segment, there’s a battle brewing for what technology companies seem to think is the most valuable part of real estate on the human body: the wrist.

It is the most valuable place to put something that you need quick and easy access to that also isn't a major pain in the ass to have something strapped to it.

I counted at least fifty products as I cruised aisles 26000-27000 in the South Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center that had wristbands, usually black, plastic or rubbery, and often able to click in and out of the band for use in-hand, in pocket, or in a few cases, on a lanyard or pendant device.

Pendant device reminds me of the early 90s when everyone was trying to copyright every computer term imaginable and Microsoft tried to claim they owned the concept of the mouse so on a lot of games in the early 90s the phrase "mouse or Microsoft compatible pointing device" would appear.
Microsoft compatible pointing device.

But it’s the wrist that is the body-part favorite for the category. And this trend falls into the category of a herd mentality that Michael Yang of Comcast Ventures spoke about in a session on Tuesday when he discussed the investment climate for digital health. 

Oh.
Good.
Comcast is watching my back when it comes to health.
That reminds me of that Exon commercial where they said they were looking out for teachers.
Comcast watching out for my health, Exon watching out for my job and OJ trying to find the real killer.
I feel so safe.
This woman has no point outside of "things you can attach to your wrist exist!"
Thanks for wasting my fucking time.
DID YOU KNOW I TURNED DOWN A HALF DAY AT THE SCHOOL I INTERNED AT TO UPDATE THIS BLOG TODAY!?
No I would have turned that job down anyway I'm just kidding.

Over one-third of U.S. consumers plan to buy a new fitness technology in the next year, especially women. They’ll buy these at mass merchants (females in particular, shopping at Target and Walmart), sporting goods retailers (more male buyers here), online and at electronics stores like Best Buy.

Women buy treadmills.
Men buy weights.
Let's just cut the bullshit.
And 90% won't do shit with them.

What Americans Want in 2013: Money, Health, and Family Time, in that order

Wow what a fucking surprise.
Someone spent money to find this out?
I could have told you that for nothing.
Man this blog is really fucking stupid. She's just linking news stories.
Imagine if this blog were just me linking other blogs and then telling you to read it and make your own jokes.
That's now how this works.

One in two doctors is burned out. Physicians are seeing more patients in a day and spend less time with each of them. This leads to job burnout, and greater probability for medical errors and eventual liability challenges, along with feeling pushed toward early retirement.

I don't see a problem with pushing highly trained people into early retirement.
Is there a solitary thing this country does in 2013 that isn't stupid?

While a severe personal problem for each of these physicians, the bird’s eye view over this finding reveals a problem with and for the U.S. health system. Greater administrative burdens, higher proportions of patient bad-debt, health plan scrutiny over clinical decisions, and more demanding patients challenging physician hegemony converge to drive doctors toward exhaustion.

Fucking
all right.
Monday while I'm teaching a subject I'm not qualified to teach I'll fix this issue, too.
Christ all mighty, people. Can't you solve your own problems for once?

Reducing health care costs far outranks improving quality and safety, improving the public’s health, and upping the customer experience as Americans’ top priority for President Obama’s health care agenda, according to a post-election poll conducted by PwC’s Health Research Institute. 

>Obama
>reducing cost
yeah not gonna happen.
You know I have my own problems in life now.
I can't solve everyone's problems, too.
I just noticed this is this woman's bio:

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is a health economist and management consultant that serves clients at the intersection of health and technology. 

Maybe part of the problem is you can make money as a health economist and management consultant.

The patent cliff represents about $290 billion worth of sales losses to the pharmaceutical industry between 2012 and 2018. 

Oh no.
Pharmaceutical companies losing money.
This is terrible.
Holy shit this blog is boring as fuck.
Why did I pick this one?
It's about nothing but how much money people don't have to spend on healthcare.
Here's what'll happen: slowly doctors will go out of business because they can't afford how much money the government takes in taxes and how much insurance companies rob from them (not to mention their own greed) and they'll go under and then medicine will be cheap because it'll be back to "goat piss is the cure for everything".

Kraft Foods is reinventing itself as a health brand,

Do I have to trot out that image that demonstrates that all of the food you eat and all of your healthcare products are made by like 5 companies?
Am I the only person that sees the problem with that?

These retail food entities are an integral and growing part of the retail health segment and larger health ecosystem.

Trusting Kraft to keep you healthy seems like a misstep of logic to me but what the fuck can you do?
 It's either Kraft or Nestle so pick your poison, idiots.

Americans find health insurance decisions the second most difficult major life decision only behind saving for retirement (36%) and slightly more difficult than purchasing a car (23%), via Aetna’s Empowered Health Index Survey. 

I TRUST A COMPANY NAMED AFTER AN ACTIVE VOLCANO.
Also where Zeus had his lightning bolts made in mythology.

“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch,” wrote Robert Heinlein, science fiction writer of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, in 1966.

Ah yes.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Definitely the first writing one thinks of when the name "Robert Heinlein" is thrown around.
Starship Troopers?
Nah.
Stephen King author of THE RUNNING MAN.
Isaac Asimov, author of THE CAVES OF STEEL.
Jesus Christ this blog. I'm really sorry about this.
I just saw the bitchy picture and figured this'd be some bitch whining about granola. Not like a serious survey on the state of medicine in the US.
Fucking
all right I'm padding this with shit that's unrelated.
Started playing TERA since that shit is going free to play and FFXIV is in limbo until summer or some shit.
Fucking
goddamn it.
Gotta get my PVP on.
GOTTA GET
MY PVP ON
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