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AmyT on
February 2, 2009
Over at DiabetesDaily, there’s been a series of discussions going on about How the Internet is Changing Diabetes Care — a topic about which I have many opinions (surprise, surprise). I was particularly intrigued to see Manny Hernandez’s piece about the implications of referring to us all as “consumers” rather than “patients.” He doesn’t much like it. I have a different take.
Manny’s concern is that viewing us as “consumers” puts a “bigger emphasis on how…
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AmyT on
October 8, 2008
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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AmyT on
September 22, 2008
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…
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