By
AmyT on
November 12, 2009
The Diabetes Technology Society held its annual meeting last Thursday through Saturday, which always takes place just about a mile and a half from my house. But guess what? This was the very first year that I found myself on the inside of this exclusive event, participating in a panel (the very last panel of the 3-day event) on “technologies to drive patient adherence.”
The term “adherence” made me bristle, too, because it sounds like…
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By
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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By
AmyT on
October 27, 2009
There are so many great events around empowered patients and consumer-driven healthcare in the Fall. It also being soccer season, the kickoff of the school year, and time for nearly every existing Jewish holiday, I can’t possibly attend as many as I’d like to. This makes me especially thankful to have some good D-blogger friends, such as Allison Blass, who recently attended one of these key conferences, and reports back to DiabetesMine today:
A Guest…
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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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