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Participatory Medicine: Blending Traditional Medicine with “Health 2.0″

Charlie Smith | June 16, 2009

Tom Davenport, in a Harvard Business Publishing Blog post, does a nice job of discussing the merging of “Health 2.0″, the aggregate of online communities, wiki’s, bloggers, and tweets, with the role of traditional medical providers. He asks whether, if you get seriously ill, you will rely solely on colleagues online or whether you’ll seek out a [...]

Will The Great Recession Create Millions of e-Patients?

Gilles Frydman | May 19, 2009

Another post about healthcare “creepware” from Opaque, Inc. While reading the Wall Street Journal health blog, I saw this disturbing piece of information: In a new survey conducted by Mercer, the employee benefits consulting shop, nearly half of the 428 employers polled said they plan to shift more health costs to employees in 2010. Further, [...]