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AmyT on
April 12, 2012
As many of you may know, my husband/consulting partner and I were approached by Roche Diabetes’ Accu-Chek team a few years back with a challenging project request: how could we help them best “embrace” the burgeoning online diabetes patient community (what is now known lovingly as the DOC)? Our suggestion was hosting an in-person summit, to offer us cyber-advocates a rare chance to meet each other, as well as an unprecedented “peek behind the curtain”…
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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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