A new initiative, launched today at HealthDataRights.org, brings together all manner of patients’ rights activists — doctors, researchers, software developers, writers, entrepreneurs, health economists, and of course, health and medical bloggers — calling for “the right to access all health data about ourselves, so we can make the most effective health decisions using the resources we feel are most appropriate.”
Here is the Manifesto we are putting forth:
In an era when technology is…
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I think I mentioned that I had an endo appointment earlier this month. I was excited to tout my latest A1c (5.9!) and show her my newest diabetes toy, the OmniPod’s new color PDM. As usual, I left work and the kids in a huge rush and drove to the clinic all concerned about keeping good time. So you can imagine how irritated I was when I realized at some point that I’d been sitting…
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I’ve been asked by my friend (smart Health 2.0 guy) Scott Shreeve to participate in a blog rally today for a very big innovation campaign called the Healthcare X PRIZE. Its lofty goal is to improve and reform the American healthcare system. I’m all for that. So please take a moment to read today’s guest post:
“Giving Health Reform a Rocket Boost” by Scott Shreeve, MD
We are entering an unprecedented season of change…
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We switched health insurance providers again a few months ago, because of a new position my husband took on. I braced myself for the fallout. Despite the fact that I got an early start on informing our various physicians and pharmacies that we’d be switching, it’s once again been an extremely bumpy road — er, more of ridiculous time-suck, if you want to get particular about it.
1) Various doctor’s offices insisted that were “still…
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(To be fair, Diabetes Health magazine beat me to this topic with some good tips last week. Below is my 2 cents)
Everywhere we turn at the moment, we see breaking news about the swine flu that has infected thousands in Mexico and has made its way into the United States and Europe. As of April 29, the World Health Organization raised the worldwide pandemic alert level to Phase 5, which means “strong signal that…
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