I’ve been as vocal as anyone complaining about the lack of solid diabetes data reporting in this country, and how that hampers our cause on many levels. Now D-community leader Manny Hernandez and his wonderful crew at the non-profit Diabetes Hands Foundation are taking this problem into their own hands, so to speak. They’ve struck up a partnership to launch a remarkable new reporting application. To explain it all, I’ve asked Manny to join us…
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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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AmyT on
February 9, 2010
There is a VERY interesting discussion going on over at the e-Patients.net blog about what the heck “Health 2.0″ actually means, and whether it can really help people.
I’ve spoken and written a lot on Health 2.0 myself, and when people ask me what the term means, I usually give them this simple two-part explanation:
1) Health 2.0 is where new, interactive web technology meets a new, more patient-centered approach to healthcare. It’s giving people…
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AmyT on
November 6, 2009
In the years since my diagnosis, I’ve often wondered why I needed a primary care physician. Since my health is all about controlling blood sugars and staving off D-complications these days, I literally have only seen our family doctor two or three times in the past six years. And then recently, we got a letter informing us that’s she’s retiring… No big deal, right? Wrong!
A couple of things happened:
Coincidentally, right around the time…
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AmyT on
October 6, 2009
What’s that you say? What the heck is a “Health Account Plan?” I am pleased to announce that this week, at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, I’ll be part of the launch of a brand new kind of online platform called Keas — featured in the New York Times today (!)
As many of you know, Dr. Richard Jackson (of Joslin Diabetes Center) and I wrote a guidebook for patients in 2007 called…
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