Runkeeper - A new IPhone application for runners

Runkeeper is a new IPhone application for runners.

Outside the great design it gives you the opportunity to :

1. Track your fitness activities, including distance, time, speed, pace, calories burned, elevation, and path traveled on a map by the GPS capabilities of the IPhone

2. Store all of your activities on your personal web dashboard in RunKeeper web site and monitor your progress.

3. Your results can be sent to Twitter and Facebook as soon as you finish your activity

About other features you can read here:

RunKeeper features

Txtalert- An efficient Health mobile application

Txtalert is an example of truely positive use of mobile phones in the Healthcare sector.

The concept is to help patients and physicians to handle with the obstacles concerning long term treatments in HIV positive patients.

Txtalert uses text message reminders to improve the health of HIV positive people, by reminding them when they need to go for their next visit to the clinic. Apart from notifying patients of their upcoming appointments, TxtAlert also requests that they reschedule if they are unable to attend.

Seems simple but for my opinion simple and smart . This is an example how we can use the technology that is actually in our hands for accelerating "Advanced Medicine" and empower the "Patient- Physician" connection.Thats what Health 2.0 is about, or mostly about.

Txtalerts is just an example for being simple, creative and thinking usability in the aspect of technology and Healthcare.

Possible uses in Health via the mobile

Here's a link from Alfred J. Fortin'S( PhD) blog. He gives us a long list with a variety of thoughts and ideas how to use the mobile phone and interaction in the healthcare sector. Its written shortly but I assume that these ideas can lead some of us for deeper thought and brain storming concerning this part of Health 2.0.