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AmyT on
September 6, 2012
We don’t talk about it all that much in the heart of the diabetes online community (DOC), but there’s actually an incredibly vibrant and growing larger community of online patient advocates out there who are banding together to do great things. No matter if you have prostate cancer, fibromyalgia, chronic migranes, or… diabetes.
I’m a member of a group called the Society for Participatory Medicine and on their email list, so I get to see…
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Last Friday, I had the opportunity to attend the first-of-its kind e-Patient Bootcamp program held at the offices of Edelman PR in New York City. The event was hosted by the venerable leader of the e-Patient movement, Dave deBronkart. e-Patient Dave, as he’s more commonly known, has an incredibly moving story: after being diagnosed with “terminal” metastasized kidney cancer, he managed to beat the odds by using the internet and his own stubborn persistence to…
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AmyT on
October 11, 2010
One of the funner things that came out of last week’s Health 2.0 developer’s conference in San Francisco was also one of the most unexpected: a new approach to making health stuff “sexy”…
Roni Zeiger is Chief Health Strategist at Google, where he helps lead the Google Health PHR application and all sorts of health search efforts; Alexandra Drane is President and Co-Founder of Eliza Corporation, which develops interactive communications programs for healthcare companies. Who…
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AmyT on
February 23, 2010
To what degree is the state of our health really in our own hands? According to author Thomas Goetz, it very largely is. In his new book The Decision Tree, published last week, Thomas argues that since we live in a world where data on anything, including personal health, is abundant, all we need to do is feed this data into a personal flow chart that will aid us in making the right decisions.
He…
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