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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Slowly but surely, using the Internet for your health needs is becoming as mainstream as shopping on the web: no longer futuristic, but is it for everyone? And perhaps more importantly, are mainstream commercial health platforms from companies like Google and Microsoft really useful for people with specific chronic illnesses? I thought it would be interesting to hear their side of the story.
So please welcome today at DiabetesMine: Missy Krasner, Product Marketing Manager for…
Per Friday’s post, last week I attended the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s big event on health design in Washington, DC. The day-long conference was a forum for nine design teams to showcase new technology-based health tools they’ve developed over the last two years under a special grant program called Project HealthDesign.
Among those sitting on discussion panels at this event were the Senior User Experience Designer from Google, Senior Program Manager of Microsoft’s HealthVault, and…
I’m just blown away to witness the continued growth of the diabetes online community. Many of us who’ve been intensely plugged in for a while are stretching ourselves beyond blogging these days, exploring new ways to share and help each other out. For example, Scott J has been revealing his emotions, Allison is working on publishing people’s stories, Kerri’s filming her vlog, and Manny’s building his foundation.
For my part, I’ve been pretty wrapped up…
You think the economy is bad? Maybe, but the tsunami of new companies creating health/medical tools on the web continues unhampered. A few to highlight today:
* HealthyDirectorymoz.com — a comprehensive directory of health and medical websites. It currently lists 907 active websites that you can look up under a variety of categories. Note that diabetes is buried under “Diseases and Conditions/Endocrine Disorders.” Ugh. But the directory’s quite impressive on the whole. It’s creator Nicole…