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The Decision Tree: How Better Health Can Scale

May 1, 2010 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

“The internet was created to connect people and groups. The first step is to share stories. The next step is to share quantitative observations.” “Health care has been locked up in regulatory amber. HIPAA was passed in 1996, almost perfectly timed to cut off health care from the internet. But there is a loophole: to […]

Filed Under: health data, patient networks, policy issues, positive patterns Tagged With: 23andme, chronic disease, CureTogether, Decision Tree, digital divide, Genetics, getupandmove, Health Data, Hipaa, patientslikeme, Pew Research Center, susannah fox, Thomas Goetz

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