Jared Hill

Jared Hill is a Chicago-based blogger who writes about fitness, health and wellness, and entertainment. Follow Jared on Twitter: @JaredHill341.

Articles by Jared Hill

• How technology can help contain an outbreak

  Wednesday, November 05, 2014

  Hollywood has trained most of us to envision what happens during an epidemic. We see the first case of a disease, which seems innocuous to the people in the film. Then it spreads with increasing velocity, until it almost outpaces or completely overwhelms the systems in place to prevent it.

• Medical cybersecurity in the aftermath of Heartbleed

  Tuesday, September 30, 2014

  From telem​edicine to ​mobile health to electronic medical records, we see the tech world merging with the medical world more and more. However, for every advantage offered by technology, there are several risks — especially when it comes to patients' rights to privacy.