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Needed: TripIt for Health?

By AmyT on March 8, 2011

Last week I was on the East Coast for a few days, in part for a “Healthcare Roundtable” event in Washington, DC, hosted by the Institute of Federal Healthcare. It was all about “putting the patient at the center of the system.” Yada, yada, right?
No less than 27 experts were on hand — everyone from the new director of the Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation from the Veterans Health Administration (who…

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A “Good Slide” into 2010!

By AmyT on December 31, 2009

In Germany, people wish each other a “Guten Rutsch” (or a “good slide”) into the new year. Here’s a little visual that might help with that expression
Today, from the bottom of my diabetic heart — and my family’s — wishing you all a great slide into 2010.

I did not get around to compiling a year-in-review post for the field of diabetes as I had hoped (other than my annual roundup of what happened here).…

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