By
AmyT on
September 25, 2012
I hate to be Debbie Downer here, but despite our community’s best efforts, it seems doubtful that Google will ever consent to run a diabetes-related Doodle on World Diabetes Day, Nov. 14.
WTF? You may ask… But diabetes affects millions of Americans! By some estimates, diabetes will hit HALF OF AMERICA by 2020 and is costing the country more than $174 billion per year!!
How could Google possibly ignore such a pressing and widespread topic?!…
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{Note: this is second in a two-part series aimed not only at patients, but those in the Pharma industry as well.}
I was interviewed the other day for an upcoming story about Sanofi-Aventis’ new strategy to not just offer individual diabetes products, but become a “full diabetes management vendor.” They are not alone. Medtronic, Roche, Bayer, Abbott and others are among the big industry players talking about more of a “systems approach” to diabetes as…
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By
AmyT on
October 8, 2009
I know many of you are not keen on being overloaded with a bunch of “Health 2.0″ news. You just want to hear about things that effect your day-to-day existence with diabetes. Gotcha. Nevertheless, it’s useful to know what’s happening in the “health revolution” outside our D-community. You might be surprised.
I spent a significant amount of time on the topic this week, at the Health 2.0 Conference here in SF. (Here’s a nice new…
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By
AmyT on
April 28, 2009
Traditionally, a “prescription” meant a piece of paper that got you a vial of pills or other medication you were meant to take until your next meeting with your doctor. Today, health professionals increasingly recognize that LEARNING is part of the prescription -– if you want people to thrive with their condition, that is.
The Health 2.0 conference I attended last week was all about different approaches to this topic: how do patients best learn…
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By
AmyT on
December 18, 2008
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…
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