By Virginia Gurley | Oct 06, 2010
The Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco begins tomorrow, and AuraViva will be contributing to this exciting event as part of the Wellness 2.0 panel on Friday at 3:45. I will be talking about our soon-to-be-launched AuraViva web service, and Derek with be driving the computer to demonstrate the application in action. If you are going to the conference, please come check out our demo.
Health 2.0 features the latest and the greatest in new technology and services that hold the potential to transform health and medical care. We are honored to be participating in this showcase event and look forward to sharing and learning from fellow health innovators.
When we get back from San Francisco, we will be moving into the final stages of prepping for our beta launch. If you notified us that you want to be a beta tester, you’ll be hearing from us in about 3 weeks. If you’d like to be a beta tester, let us know via the contact form, and please tell us which health goals you are most interested in.
By Virginia Gurley | Jul 22, 2010
With passage of the Healthcare Reform Act, figuring out how to reduce the cost of healthcare is of greater importance than ever before. Meaningful progress toward this challenge will be achieved through healthcare IT, medical effectiveness research and better access to care for the under and un-insured. However, to achieve universal coverage that doesn't consume our economy, we need to find new strategies for creating and restoring health that are based on principles of sustainability and renewable resources.
I think circadian research could provide the basis for sustainability strategies that would make health promotion and healthcare more affordable and more sustainable. Circadian research is showing us that cyclical variation in environmental signals like light, temperature, food and water are critical to health. Contemporary lifestyles and our built environment have removed or dampened most of the variation in these environmental signals that synchronize and optimize our physiology.
The built environment being what it is means we have the tools to restore cyclical variations of temperature and light. Better yet, we could find ways to bring the outdoors in, or spend more time outside. Light, temperature and activity variations are key to health, they are renewed by the natural world each day, and they are accessible to all. Perhaps there's a place for sustainability strategies not just in renewable energy but also in renewable healthcare.
By LeAnna J. Carey | Jun 20, 2012
Lifestyle Competencies LLC, a healthcare company focused on building competency in the area of lifestyle will announce their official launch during the Innovation Workshop at the Ninth Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference in San Francisco, July 19-20, 2012.
“Dr. Shurney said that, the Healthcare Unbound conference workshop is an ideal setting to introduce Lifestyle Competencies because we will be addressing both disruptive and incremental healthcare innovation as a way to transform our industry. Lifestyle Competencies is the first company that will address choice from a new and innovative perspective.”
Online PR News – 19-June-2012 –Lifestyle Competencies LLC, a healthcare company focused on building competency in the area of lifestyle and changing the way individuals think about their health will announce their official launch during the Innovation Workshop at the Ninth Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference in San Francisco, July 19-20, 2012.
Dr. Dexter Shurney is the founder of Lifestyle Competencies and a key
note speaker at the conference. "The Healthcare Unbound conference workshop is an ideal setting to introduce Lifestyle Competencies because we will be addressing both disruptive and incremental healthcare innovation as a way to transform our industry. Lifestyle Competencies is the first company that will address choice from a new and innovative perspective."
The workshop is Innovation Excellence Comes To Healthcare Unbound: How Innovation Leads To Seeing "What Is Next" In Healthcare, and will be led by Author and Chief Innovation Officer of Maga Design, Julie Anixter, Auraviva founder, Virginia Gurley, M.D., LeAnna J. Carey, Principal of TheHealthMaven, and Dexter Shurney, M.D., founder of Lifestyle Competencies. "Our goal," said Julie Anixter, "is to provide attendees with a blueprint of how to take an idea from the pre innovation stage to a successful market launch."
About Healthcare Unbound
The Ninth Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference & Exhibition focuses on networks, platforms and applications for consumer engagement and behavior change. Key topics to be covered include innovative applications of remote monitoring, home telehealth, mhealth, ehealth, social media and gaming to help manage diseases, promote wellness and facilitate accountable care. For more information, please visit www.tcbi.org
About Innovation Excellence
Innovation Excellence is the online home of the global innovation community, building upon a rapidly-growing network with thousands of members from over 170 countries – thought leaders, practitioners, consultants, vendors, and academia. The Innovation Excellence mission is to provide a forum for connection and conversation across this community – assembling an ever-growing arsenal of resources, best practices and proven answers for achieving innovation excellence. For more information, visit InnovationExcellence.com
About AuraViva
AuraViva is creating a new approach to wellness and healthcare based on circadian physiology and body clock synchrony using mobile applications and wireless biosensors. This new paradigm provides real-time actionable coaching for a broad array of wellness goals and disease prevention needs. For more information, visit AuraViva.com
About Lifestyle Competencies
Lifestyle Competencies LLC, was founded in June 2012 in Nashville, Tennessee. Lifestyle Competencies is focused on building competency in the area of lifestyle and changing the way individuals think about their health which is the first step toward lasting behavior change. Lifestyle Competencies ensures that individuals know how to take care of themselves to stay healthy, and actively participate in their own health. For more information, visit LifestyleCompetencies.com