MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'controls'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:23:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893409&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FHSX6Xx0svkY%2F By Michael F. CannonIndiana learns just how much flexibility states have when administering federal health care programs. A Medicare pilot program bearing a striking resemblance to ObamaCare‘s “accountable care organization” program turns out to be a flop. Newsflash: Medicare’s Soviet-style price controls get the prices wrong. From This Morning’s Health Care News is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893409 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:59:41 +0100 4893409 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4862548&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhow-to-take-back-control-of-your-google-searches%2F2011.05.24 Eli Pariser talks at TED about how we’re losing the internet to algorithmic gatekeepers at Google, Yahoo, Facebook and even our news sites, which tailor search results to what they think we want to see. Which is why I often start exploring my search results on page 10 instead of page 1. But what if some search results don’t even make it onto my queue? The side by side comparison of two different users’ internet search on the term “Egypt” during the crisis there is a stunning example of how computerized gatekeepers choose for us what we see (and don’t see) when we log on. You can’t have a functioning democracy if citizens don’t have a free flow of information. I encourage you to watch the entire video, and hope the big mahoffs of the internet sitting in the TED audience hea... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4862548 Tue, 24 May 2011 21:00:16 +0100 4862548 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4459943&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FNc9YdlUADS8%2F By Michael F. CannonWashington Post blogger Ezra Klein asks of Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) Medicare voucher proposal (co-authored with former Congressional Budget Office director Alice Rivlin): Why are the cost savings in his bill possible, while the cost savings in the Affordable Care Act aren't?...when it comes to the ACA, Ryan firmly believes that seniors will quickly and successfully force Congress to reverse any reforms that degrade their Medicare experience. That's a fair enough concern, of course. What's confusing is why it isn't doubly devastating when applied to Ryan-Rivlin. Set aside that Klein violates Cannon's First Rule of Economic Literacy: Never say costs when you mean spending.  And that he uses the word "affordable" to describe ObamaCare. There are two reasons why the M... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4459943 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:21:21 +0100 4459943 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4424219&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUEK_Vp45QKM%2F By Michael F. CannonAccording to the Denver Business Journal: A spokeswoman for Aetna confirmed Monday that the insurer will no longer sell new individual-market health insurance policies in Colorado and will terminate current policies held by state residents no later than July 31, 2012. Aetna had already announced that it will no longer sell child-only coverage or small-group coverage in the state.   Colorado is one of 34 states where insurers fled the market for child-only coverage as a result of ObamaCare.  Colorado took steps to try to stabilize its child-only market, and is considering requiring insurers to sell child-only coverage as a condition of selling coverage directly to adults. Aetna isn’t commenting on whether ObamaCare played a role in its decision.   Aetna customer... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4424219 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:43:59 +0100 4424219 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419111&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F0fpYN8orlOk%2F By Michael F. CannonAn article at HealthPolicySolutions.org (“a project of the Buechner Institute for Governance at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver”), about how ObamaCare is causing Colorado’s child-only health insurance market to implode, contains this startling admission by the top lobbyist for Colorado’s health insurance companies: “Requiring all the carriers to sell this sort of plan creates a level playing field,’’ said Ben Price, executive director of the Colorado Association of Health Plans. “This is one of those unusual situations where we’re asking for more competition. If everyone else is in the market, the risk is spread across the entire market. Each company can afford to take on more risk.” Catch that?  A ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419111 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:40:09 +0100 4419111 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4382752&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FFVYrMmB5sPk%2F By Michael F. CannonNow that a bipartisan coalition in the House has voted to repeal ObamaCare, an even larger bipartisan coalition has approved a Republican resolution directing four House committees to “replace” that ill-fated law.  House Resolution 9 instructs the committees to “propos[e] changes to existing law” with the following goals: Foster economic growth and private sector job creation by eliminating job-killing policies and regulations. Lower health care premiums through increased competition and choice. Preserve a patient’s ability to keep his or her health plan if he or she likes it. Provide people with pre-existing conditions access to affordable health coverage. Reform the medical liability system to reduce unnecessary and wasteful health care... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4382752 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:42:32 +0100 4382752 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4360959&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FYkHhh22Dzkw%2F By Michael F. CannonOn the eve of a House vote to repeal ObamaCare, the Department of Health and Human Services has released a report claiming that if repeal succeeds, “1 in 2 non-elderly Americans could be denied coverage or charged more due to a pre-existing condition.”  A few problems with that claim: An HHS survey found that in 2001, only 1 percent of Americans had ever been denied health insurance. Economists Mark Pauly and Len Nichols write, “the fraction of nonelderly uninsured persons…who would be rated as actuarially uninsurable is generally estimated to be very small, less than 1 percent of the population.” RAND health economist Susan Marquis and her colleagues find that in markets that do not impose ObamaCare-style government price controls on he... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4360959 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:54:23 +0100 4360959 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4322492&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FhUVgTnkdu6g%2F By Michael F. CannonOne could argue that exempting ObamaCare from the PAYGO requirement is appropriate given the defects in current budget rules. By law, the CBO must follow certain rules when doing cost estimates of legislation and projecting federal spending under current law. Under those rules, CBO projects ObamaCare will reduce the deficit. No question. But Congress often defeats those budget rules by passing legislation with “pay fors” (i.e., spending cuts) that make the budget look better, yet are highly unlikely to be sustained because they are politically implausible. A good example of this is the “sustainable growth rate” formula, where Congress promises to ratchet down the government price controls that Medicare uses to pay physicians in future years. Cong... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4322492 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:06:27 +0100 4322492 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4258846&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FcqJi_9XNSCc%2F By Michael F. CannonObamaCare has always hung by an absurdity.  ObamaCare supporters claim that the Constitution’s words “Congress shall have the Power…To regulate Commerce…among the several States” somehow give Congress the power to compel Americans to engage in commerce.  This ruling exposes that absurdity, and exposes as desperate political spin the Obama administration’s claims that these lawsuits are frivolous. This ruling’s shortcoming is that it did not overturn the entire law.  Anyone familiar with ObamaCare knows that Congress would not have approved any of its major provisions absent the individual mandate.  The compulsion contained in the individual mandate was the main reason that most Democrats voted in favor of the law.  Yet the law still passed Congres... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4258846 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:16:45 +0100 4258846 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4159219&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FujSpzFqXP-E%2F By Michael F. CannonFollowing up on what Dan and Chris have said … If the co-chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission were serious about reducing federal spending and deficits, they would have proposed eliminating the federal deficit, rather than “reduc[ing] it to 2.2 percent of GDP by 2015.”  Yawn. They would have proposed cutting federal spending (currently, 24 percent of GDP and rising) to match federal tax revenue (currently at 15 percent of GDP).  But the co-chairs proposed only to “bring spending down to 22 percent and eventually 21 percent of GDP.”  Not only does that elicit another yawn, but since the co-chairs only asked for half a loaf, they won’t even get that much. If the co-chairs were serious about reducing federal spending ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4159219 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:55:59 +0100 4159219 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4139214&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F3nvUMBUeJXg%2F By Daniel GriswoldDuring his visit to India, President Obama should bury once and for all his divisive rhetoric about American companies shipping jobs overseas. Our growing commercial ties with India are a great opportunity, not a problem. U.S. exports to India have doubled in the past four years. American companies that have set up shop in India have helped to fuel demand in that country for U.S. products and services. The president should be celebrating rather than demonizing our deeper economic ties with India. Commercial Ties with India Are An Opportunity, Mr. President–Not A Problem is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4139214 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:00:53 +0100 4139214 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4133664&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FHv3bLt3_CDY%2F By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria AiyarTo make his coming visit to India meaningful, President Obama needs to combat the impression that India fares better with Republican presidents than Democratic ones, because the latter are instinctively more protectionist. In his quest for economic recovery, he has bashed US corporations that outsource jobs to places like India, forbidden companies getting government rescue funds from outsourcing work, and has now enacted higher visa fees for visiting IT professionals which seem designed to hit Indian companies quite specifically. This may be designed to win votes in the Congressional elections, but will not win hearts and minds in India. President Obama needs to state categorically that he will not follow the Great Depression formula of trying to combat u... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4133664 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:00:44 +0100 4133664 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4082062&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F0L1HfBXgumw%2F By Michael F. CannonObamaCare has touched off a battle between Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield and Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler. From the commissioner’s press release: Kreidler orders Regence BlueShield to cover children OLYMPIA, Wash. – Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler ordered Regence BlueShield this morning to stop illegally denying insurance to children, effective immediately. “Regence is in clear violation of state law that prohibits insurers from denying insurance to people on the basis of age,” said Kreidler. “I was shocked and deeply disappointed when Regence announced its decision last week to stop selling insurance to kids.” The Affordable Care Act requires all health plans to cover kids with pre-existing conditions&#8230... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4082062 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:11:59 +0100 4082062 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4031224&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F-Cl7vkjQ51Y%2F By Michael F. CannonIn the latest Cato Policy Report, Cato adjunct scholar Arnold Kling‘s essay on the (mis)rule of experts explains why ObamaCare will fail: Despite the many pages contained in the health care legislation that Congress enacted, the health care system that will result is for the most part to be determined. The design and implementation of health care reform was delegated to unelected bureaucrats, as was done in Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, the promises of proponents have proven false, and the predictions of skeptics have been borne out. Costs have not been contained; they have shot up. Emergency room visits have not been curtailed; they have increased. The mandate to purchase health insurance has not removed the problem of adverse selection and moral hazard; inst... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4031224 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:57:39 +0100 4031224 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4025619&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwheelchair-control-via-iphone%2F2010.10.02 Dynamic Controls out of Christchurch, New Zealand, has developed a system by which wheelchair users can control their iPhone using the chair’s own joystick. Additionally, the iPhone can display important information about the wheelchair, such as the battery charge state, speed, seat adjustment, and heading direction. All this is communicated via Bluetooth between the iPhone and the wheelchair. The new version of the iPortal system will be unveiled at Rehacare 2010 in Dusseldorf, Germany, next month. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Medgadget* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4025619 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:00:18 +0100 4025619 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4022900&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FqCYT1eaGZXs%2F By Michael F. CannonFirst, a dozen insurers said they would stop writing child-only health insurance policies.  Now, according to the Wall Street Journal: By forcing the exit of Principal Financial Group — which ran a profitable, $1.6 billion health insurance business — ObamaCare has now left 840,000 Americans to find another source of coverage. According to The New York Times, other insurers may soon follow: More insurers are likely to follow Principal’s lead, especially as they try to meet the new rules that require plans to spend at least 80 cents of every dollar they collect in premiums on the welfare of their customers… “It’s just going to drive the little guys out,” said Robert Laszewski, a health policy consultant in Alexandria, Va. Smaller players like ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4022900 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:09:44 +0100 4022900 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3714162&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJrToVIiLFjE%2F By Michael F. CannonThe Massachusetts health care law that Gov. Mitt Romney signed in 2006, and the nearly identical federal law that President Obama signed this year, create perverse incentives that are causing health insurance costs to rise and could eventually cause health insurance markets to collapse. A report released yesterday by the Massachusetts Division of Insurance shows that process is well underway. Massachusetts requires health insurance companies to sell to all applicants, and imposes price controls that require insurers to charge all applicants the same premium, regardless of their health status.  ObamaCare would do the same. Those price controls have two principal effects on healthy people.  First, they increase the premiums that insurers charge healthy people (the addit... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3714162 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:15:27 +0100 3714162 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3690821&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FfuFUy1LGCdU%2F By Michael F. CannonRaymond Raad, physician and coauthor of the Cato study, “Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation,” has an oped at the Daily Caller arguing that the United States could save thousands of lives per year by allowing individuals (or insurance companies, or the government) to pay people who agree to give their organs to patients who need them. Raad cites the experience of Iran, which has eliminated its waiting list for transplantable organs. (The United States has 83,000 people waiting for kidneys alone. Forty percent will die waiting, and those who do receive a kidney die sooner because their health deteriorates while waiting.) He also cites the three main criticisms of compensating donors/sellers — “One, the pro... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3690821 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:12:27 +0100 3690821 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3687083&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F4bBx9_gb1Ug%2F By Michael F. CannonIn the upside-down world of ObamaCare, politicians can force health-insurance companies to spend more yet blame them when premiums increase. Today, President Obama extolled new “protections” included in the sweeping legislation he signed into law on March 23. One category of “protections” requires consumers to purchase coverage for more and more expensive medical services (e.g., limitless coverage, requiring insurers to recognize ob-gyns as primary care physicians, coverage for “children” up to age 26).  If consumers valued such “protections,” they would have already bought them — and if they’re not in a position to select their own coverage, Congress should have fixed that problem.  Instead, Congress and Pre... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3687083 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:07:24 +0100 3687083 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3595894&cid=t_177162_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FOQTzwXd50pc%2F The UK’s new Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition has proposed moving to a so-called ‘value-based pricing’ model for medicines, which means drugmakers would no longer be free to set prices. At the same time, a reform of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which evaluates cost effectiveness, is also being considered, although details have not yet emerged. The plan comes as other European governments raise drug prices in the face of huge deficits. The UK’s National Health Service, for instance, is predicted to face a shortfall of more than $28 billion, suggesting the willingness to set price controls will add significant pressure on the pharmaceutical industry sooner than later. The notion, however, isn’t news. Back in 2007, the UK Offi... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3595894 Tue, 25 May 2010 12:07:28 +0100 3595894 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3568087&cid=t_177162_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2FXS5QIZAK3h4%2F Any person with true maturity has humility and wisdom and - Accepts criticism gratefully. Being honestly glad for an opportunity to improve Does not indulge in self-pity. Has begun to feel the laws of compensation operating in all life. Does not expect special consideration from anyone. Controls temper. Meets emergencies with poise. feelings are not easily hurt. Accepts the responsibility of own acts without trying to "alibi’. Has outgrown the ‘all or nothing’ stage. Recognizes that no person or situation is wholly good or wholly bad. And begins to appreciate the golden rule. Is not impatient at reasonable delays Have learned they are not the arbiter of the universe and that must often adjust to other people and their convenience Is a good loser can endure defeat and disappoint... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3568087 Sun, 16 May 2010 05:14:30 +0100 3568087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3563952&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FIYrgWkD2khU%2F By Michael F. CannonIn this week’s New England Journal of Medicine, MIT health economist and Obama administration consultant Jonathan Gruber responds to claims that ObamaCare will increase health care costs.  Gruber acknowledges the Obama administration’s estimates that ObamaCare will increase health care spending, but compares that to the administration’s estimate that 34 million otherwise uninsured U.S. residents will obtain coverage under the law: [B]y 2019, the United States will be spending $46 billion more on medical care than we do today. In 2010 dollars, this amounts to only $800 per newly insured person — quite a low cost as compared (for example) with the $5,000 average single premium for employer-sponsored insurance. What a bargain!  Of course, Gruber is b... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3563952 Thu, 13 May 2010 16:25:57 +0100 3563952 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3542577&cid=t_177162_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FsszwWtaGPKk%2F By Michael F. CannonA correspondent for The Economist, whose initials are M.S., posts this on the Democracy in America blog: [T]he new health-care-reform law passed in March is an entirely private-insurer, free-market-based reform. If someone were to refer to it as a “government takeover of the health-care sector”, that person would hold a factually incorrect ideological belief. I wonder what convinced M.S. that the new health care law is an entirely free-market-based reform.  Was it the expansion of the government’s Medicaid program to another 16 million Americans?  Was it the 19-million-plus other Americans who will receive government subsidies to purchase private health insurance? Was it the new price controls that the law imposes on health insurance?  Or the price ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3542577 Fri, 07 May 2010 01:06:29 +0100 3542577 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3228014&cid=t_177162_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fcharacteristics-of-true-maturity%2F An person with true maturity - Accepts criticism gratefully. Being honestly glad for an opportunity to improve Does not indulge in self-pity. Has begun to feel the laws of compensation operating in all life. Does not expect special consideration from anyone. Controls temper. Meets emergencies with poise. Feelings are not easily hurt. Accepts the responsibility of own acts without trying to “alibi’. Has outgrown the ‘all or nothing’ stage. Recognizes that no person or situation is wholly good or wholly bad. And begins to appreciate the golden rule. Is not impatient at reasonable delays Have learned they are not the arbiter of the universe and that must often adjust to other people and their convenience Is a good loser can endure defeat and disappointment without whining or comp... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3228014 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:42:45 +0100 3228014 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2258164&cid=t_177162_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F03%2F12%2Fdo-users-understand-facebook-privacy-settings%2F Over a decade ago, the chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems said that consumer privacy issues are a “red herring.” Scott McNealy, Sun’s CEO at the time, was famously quoted as saying in January 1999, “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” That was long before social networks became popular, and long before the rise of Facebook and Twitter. As we noted earlier this week, 2008 was the year of social networking, as social networks surpassed email usage for the first time ever. Facebook is the social networking website that allows you to share as much of your life as you’d like with the world, or just a few select others. Although many people assume that Facebook is an “all or nothing” proposition when it comes to sharing informatio... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2258164 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:00:23 +0100 2258164 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1356080&cid=t_177162_113_f&fid=34831&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDocinthemachine%2F%7E3%2F266110665%2F I have written many times on the concept of what I call “gesture control”. This is the idea of waving your arm or hand in a movement that is picked up by sensors (optical or other tracking) and which is then translated into the movement of a robotic surgical device, OR room or equipment control, or energy delivery system. You can see all these posts by clicking gesture control on the category drop down on the sidebar. Some faves are here here and here. Lily Chaos has reviewed a bizzare interactive Russian art display that employs gesture control concepts. She writes A new video art installation by Russian media artist Sergey Kotsun invites the viewer to become the author and main character of an interactive audio-visual performance. The viewer’s image is captured via a we... docinthemachine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1356080 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:00:56 +0100 1356080