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AmyT on
October 14, 2008
When Microsoft launched its HealthVault application last year — the first major commercial Personal Health Record (PHR) system on the open web — the Wall Street Journal reported that “Consumers are just not that excited about these services.” A year later, I’m wondering: have they given us reason to be more excited now? Last week, I grilled HealthVault’s rival Google Health about the progress they are making. Are these big players trying too hard to…
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AmyT on
October 13, 2008
A collection of miscellaneous D-news items today. Not to be missed:
♦ If you haven’t already heard about the diabetes community’s push to get Google.com to feature a special Diabetes Doodle on World Diabetes Day (Nov. 14), please read about it right now. The idea is that Google displays special doodles for all sorts of holidays, like Halloween and Christmas. So why shouldn’t they use their incredible worldwide visibility to call attention to this killer…
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AmyT on
October 10, 2008
Actually I don’t know the first thing about manipulating SEO. Sure wish I did. But I thought it would be fun to go Kerri’s route (and David’s) today and take a look at the top 10 ways people have found their way to DiabetesMine recently. According to my stats tracker, the most common search terms of late are:
Januvia (the smackdown!)
Abbott Navigator (it’s new)
numbed fingers and diabetes (you too?)
girlfriends true amazing stories…
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AmyT on
October 9, 2008
Every endo visit is an adventure, in my book. Last week when I went in, proudly displaying my latest A1c result of 6.2 (!), the whole session turned out to be about my fiber intake and (nonexistent) vitamin regime. Aaargh! Can’t a PWD rest on their laurels for just a day or two?
First off, we decided I needed more fiber in my diet (don’t ask). So how much fruit do I eat? Um, next…
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AmyT on
October 8, 2008
Why is it that some of life’s biggest “no-brainers” are often not obvious to the people they effect most? In this case I’m thinking of professionals in the healthcare industry, who talk about “patients” with a strange kind of distance, as if they themselves didn’t have health issues and need to see doctors sometimes — as if we folks with chronic illness were fundamentally of one single, stubborn mind. We’re just people like you, for…
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