Saxon sounds off: Noted wireless health thought leader Dr. Leslie Saxon produced the USC Body Computing Conference last week and also found time to pen a worthwhile column for Fast Company about the need for wireless health: "We live in a global economy and we need to continue our leadership in healthcare as we enter the Healthcare Digital Age. The physician-patient model--patient comes into the doctor's office and tries to explain his or her sickness without any hard data while the physician attempts to analyze--hasn't changed since Hippocrates. It is easy to romanticize medicine, but the system is really outmoded in the Information Age. We can all be much more efficient and we can use technology, much of it already in our hands, to make the system better and less expensive. We have a responsibility to not only use our technologic might to help the weakest in our country, and others, but we need our healthcare policies to reflect the era of the Information Age, not Ancient Greece." Fast Company

FCC greenlights white spaces: For many years Google and others have eyed the "white space" wireless spectrum between television channels as frequencies they could use for connected devices and services. One use case, which we reported on last week, is healthcare. This past week the FCC approved a proposal to make unlicensed "white space" available to better enable wireless innovations. Healthcare, however, was not specifically mentioned in the FCC's release. FCC (PDF)

WSJ revisits EpiSurveyor: The Wall Street Journal takes a look at Datadyne's accomplishments with EpiSurveyor over the past year: "EpiSurveyor has more than 2,400 users collecting data in more than 120 countries. Users include the government of Canada, Unicef and Boston-based health-care consulting firm John Snow Inc. DataDyne.org co-founder and Chief Executive Joel Selanikio says he expects the program, funded in part by the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation, to be self-sufficient through paid subscriptions in two years. The group offers a premium subscription that allows unlimited data collection for $5,000 a year. Basic users, who pay nothing, are limited to 20 distinct forms, or lists of questions to be answered in the field, and 500 completed questionnaires for each form." WSJ

Quantified Life TED video: Journalist and tracker of all things Quantified Life, Gary Wolf, gave an interesting talk at TED@Cannes. Watching the video below is five minutes well-spent: