Those of you who follow me on twitter may know that I traveled to Washington DC late last week to take part in a “roundtable event” discussing paths to better diabetes care. Now, I’m no policy-maker, and certainly no expert on the crazy mixed-up reimbursement system in this country. I was there, again, to talk about what’s wrong with the way most diabetes patients are treated now, and what’s needed to make it better.
Once…
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AmyT on
November 6, 2009
In the years since my diagnosis, I’ve often wondered why I needed a primary care physician. Since my health is all about controlling blood sugars and staving off D-complications these days, I literally have only seen our family doctor two or three times in the past six years. And then recently, we got a letter informing us that’s she’s retiring… No big deal, right? Wrong!
A couple of things happened:
Coincidentally, right around the time…
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AmyT on
October 21, 2009
Academic and medical journals — yawn, right? Not anymore. Today (at the Connected Health conference in Boston) marks the launch of a new kind of journal, which is marking a new kind of medicine, actually: the Journal of Participatory Medicine, an all-online pub that’s open and free-of-charge for all to read and enjoy.
The content, which will eventually include video clips and other multimedia stuff, is entirely dedicated to the ways in which patients are…
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Is it OK for patients to chatter away about their doctors online, while those doctors remain under oath not to disclose patient information? And yet, some doctors do blog about interactions with their patients.
Last Friday, I was a guest on a Podcast hosted by Albert Maruggi, creator of the Social Media Throwdown series, on this topic. I was there to discuss the value of patients sharing their experiences online. The counterpoint was brought by…
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AmyT on
March 25, 2009
For the this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge, we are fortunate to have a judging panel that includes some highly influential individuals in healthcare and diabetes treatment. So who are these people? And what prompted them to get involved with a diabetes design contest? I’d like to take the opportunity to introduce these folks in a series of (hopefully enlightening) interviews, that will (also hopefully) foster further creativity and motivate some of you to jump in…
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