By
AmyT on
October 11, 2010
One of the funner things that came out of last week’s Health 2.0 developer’s conference in San Francisco was also one of the most unexpected: a new approach to making health stuff “sexy”…
Roni Zeiger is Chief Health Strategist at Google, where he helps lead the Google Health PHR application and all sorts of health search efforts; Alexandra Drane is President and Co-Founder of Eliza Corporation, which develops interactive communications programs for healthcare companies. Who…
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Today, first in a three-part series of guest posts addressing a duo near and dear to my heart: Technology & Diabetes.
Silja Chouquet is CEO of the Switzerland-based social media consultancy Whydot and author of the leading blog WhydotPharma, which is all about “creating patient-focus through social media.” She believes that social media has the power to “profoundly change the way healthcare is delivered.” When I asked Silja to comment on what’s happening in particular…
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Ginger Vieira kind of blows me away. She has lived with Type 1 diabetes and Celiac disease for over 11 years. And she holds 14 national, drug-tested powerlifting records and the Vermont state record for the female bench press. She’s recently established herself as a cognitive Health & Chronic Illness Life Coach at her new company, Living In Progress.
There Ginger works with people (individuals and families) on how their thinking impacts the way they…
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Karen over at Bitter-Sweet blog has proclaimed this “Diabetes Blog Week.” For those who haven’t run into it yet, the idea is that the hundreds of us now blogging about diabetes participate in sort of an online rally. With seven pre-defined topics to post about, we all “get a variety of unique insights on a single topic each day.”
Looks like nearly 100 of us are participating so far, and if you have a diabetes…
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Actually, we have Veenu Aulakh to thank for putting the DiabetesMine Design Challenge on the map. She heard me give a keynote speech at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Project HealthDesign event a few years ago, calling for more patient involved in medical device design, and it seems that a light bulb went on: the California HealthCare Foundation strives to foster better tools for patient self-management of chronic illnesses, so why not support a Crowdsourcing…
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