Joe Kvedar asks an excellent question in his post, The Next Phase of Connected Health: Connected Personalized Health: What are the best variables to consider when taking connected health programs from pilot to scale? He imagines a matrix with three axes: severity of chronic illness, patient readiness, and technology readiness. That makes sense to me, […]
Mobile, Social Health at the National Library of Medicine–Susannah Fox
Update: The NLM released new widgets on July 14, along with a redesigned MedlinePlus site. (Read @eagledawg‘s take on these new tools, as well as her response to this post.) Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like going before the best kind of murder board. Picture it: […]
Patient Communities… at Walgreens?
UPDATE: On Feb. 18, 2015, PatientsLikeMe and Walgreens announced a partnership: “Now, anyone researching a medication or filling a prescription on Walgreens.com can access a simple snapshot that shows how their prescribed medication has impacted other patients on the therapy, including medication side effects, as reported by PatientsLikeMe members.” One more step away from “crazy” and toward “obvious” […]
Health Geek Tip: Abstracts are ads. Read full studies when you can.–Susannah Fox
Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, provided excellent evidence yesterday regarding the need to look past abstracts of journal articles if accuracy matters to you:
Health 2.0 DC: Passion and Execution at Scale
I think conferences are deeply affected by the spirit of their host city. San Francisco has its hackers and dreamers, Boston has its entrepreneurs and ivy, Paris has its pomp and worldliness. At Health 2.0 DC yesterday, my city showed that it has passion and execution — at scale. Leave it to others to point […]
Making Health Data Sing (Even If It’s A Familiar Song)
Todd Park is determined to make health data hot. He is leading the U.S. Department of Health & Human Service’s effort to make more of their data sets publicly available, from nursing home quality ratings to the food environmental atlas (view the full list of available downloads). As he says, HHS doesn’t want to choreograph […]
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