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…
A new initiative, launched today at HealthDataRights.org, brings together all manner of patients’ rights activists — doctors, researchers, software developers, writers, entrepreneurs, health economists, and of course, health and medical bloggers — calling for “the right to access all health data about ourselves, so we can make the most effective health decisions using the resources we feel are most appropriate.”
Here is the Manifesto we are putting forth:
In an era when technology is…
More contest entries worth featuring… these ideas stood out as incredibly creative. So creative, in fact, that the judges struggled with rating them, either due to uncertainty whether they’d be implementable any time in the foreseeable future, or the fact that the target audience may be a small slice of the D-world. Still, as we noted, lots of great ideas from some very visionary people:
Diabetic Data Cloud
- the notion that our digital…
When former “Good Morning America” anchor Joan Lunden, who is now a paid spokeswoman for PassportMD, was recently interviewed by ABC News about “the new world of online medical records, one of the first things she said was: “Ten years from now we’ll laugh that we were even having this conversation, because everybody will keep their family’s health records online.”
The way things are going — with nearly every other aspect of our lives now…
When Microsoft launched its HealthVault application last year — the first major commercial Personal Health Record (PHR) system on the open web — the Wall Street Journal reported that “Consumers are just not that excited about these services.” A year later, I’m wondering: have they given us reason to be more excited now? Last week, I grilled HealthVault’s rival Google Health about the progress they are making. Are these big players trying too hard to…
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