Food Dyes Debate Draws On

This past week, an article was published in the New York Times entitled Artificial Dye Safe to Eat, Panel Says. In it, they argue that an expert panel has concluded that there is no proof that artificial food colorings cause hyperactivity in most children. This government panel further decided that there is no need for the foods to carry warning labels of potential to cause hyperactivity.

Curiously, 6 out of the 14 experts voted that a warning label was needed. This means that 43% of the panel found the evidence linking food coloring to ADHD alarming enough to suggest warning labels on all foods with artificial coloring.

I think it’s overwhelmingly premature to make such a bold statement as “Artificial Dye Safe to Eat” when only one expert could have tipped the balance to a 50-50 split decision.

Drchrono Presents at Y Combinator Demo Day

Today was a great day, we demo’ed what healthcare can be, Mobile + Healthcare + iPad at Y Combinators demo day.

Our First Commercial – Cloud EHR through EHR Web / EHR iPad / EHR iPhone

Checkout the first drchrono commercial when you have time!

This is part of the vision of what our company is about, creating a new type of healthcare that is on the go for physicians:

Interview / iPad EHR demo video during Health 2.0

At the health 2.0 conference we did a live demo for Essinova.com showing off how an iPad EHR works in a physicians office. Great fun!

Free iPad for doctors! DrChrono co-founders Daniel Kivatinos and Michael Nusimow show off their slick iPad App to me and Essinova audience. By the way, as you can see from their demo, Michael’s narration and Daniel’s fingers were so well-coordinated I wondered if there were wireless signals between their heads too. -BeiBei Song, Essinova Host

Health 2.0 Conference iPad Winner

We had an interactive raffle at the Health 2.0 conference this Oct 2010 in San Francisco. Lots of people entered to win the free iPad 3G. It was amazing how much a fun game can take off and get people involved.

We gave out two cards with the same number to totally random people from our booth at the conference. The people with matching numbers had to find each other and then they both got to enter the raffle. This was a hard task since there were 1000′s of people at the conference.

A few hours after, Katelyn and Zsa Zsa gave away 100′s of raffle tickets, people started to tweet out their numbers, they then started to post up numbers on the walls and believe it or not someone created a website to post up the iPad raffle numbers to get matches.

This is the wall of number postings we found:

After the whole event, the conference founders Indu and Matthew drew the winner’s ticket from a bowl to see who got the free iPad 3G.

The lucky winner was a savvy Web 2.0 user who used the power of twitter to find his number match. Craig DeLarge tweeted out his number and found the person who had the same number as him. This is Craig’s twitter and his blog.