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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
September 14, 2009
Today I am in Rochester, MN, at the world-famous Mayo Clinic, taking in part in a “collaborative symposium” on health care called Transform.
David Rosenman, a physician who runs the Mayo’s new Center for Innovation, had the idea to gather a bunch of smart, engaged people to exchange ideas on “new models of health care.” This is not just about the relative merits of Obama’s proposal for universal coverage. Rather, it’s about the role of…
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In our emerging world of web-based health offerings and Net-informed patients, it looks like the name-game is still heating up. Recently I sounded off about whether we should be referred to now as patients or consumers, and don’t forget the term “ePatients” — along with eHeath Consumers, Cybercitizens, etc., etc.
Now Manhattan Research, a highly respected pharmaceutical and healthcare market research firm, has invented a new buzz-term for consumers who use the Internet to research…
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AmyT on
February 9, 2009
I don’t know if all you fellow patients realize this, but the big companies that make the medicines and devices we rely on (those giant Pharmas that we love to hate) are struggling something fierce to come to terms with Social Media. By that I mean they see the world of blogs, social networks, YouTube and wikis exploding all around them and they’re not quite sure what to do about it.
But with the Obama…
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By
AmyT on
November 13, 2008
I just got the official heads-up about the launch of something the JDRF has been cooking up behind the scenes for some time: a new social networking site for young adults with Type 1 diabetes called Juvenation.org. Check it out, and join the beta!
The site leader and moderator is our very own Gina Capone of the DiabetesTalkFest. Wow, that girl gets around!
The site looks pretty amazing with a full forum, media area, and…
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