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Nancy Finn: Smartphone Health Care Apps Storm the Market
Guest blogger Nancy Finn reports on the popularity of health apps. She is the author of e-Patients Live Longer. The Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted a national telephone survey of 2,277 adults in May 2011 and found that 83% own some kind of cell phone. One-third of these cell phone users (35%) own [...]
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Bye Bye Google Health
Like so many attempts before it — drkoop.com and RevolutionHealth.com to name just two — Google has found that implementing personal health records in a meaningful way is really, really hard. So hard, in fact, that it has given up and is shuttering its Google Health service, after just 3 years being open to the [...]
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“No political power center for regular people”
in health reform
Aliya Sternstein writes for NextGov, a site devoted to “technology and the business of government.” We spoke last week for her piece about the White House’s use of social media. There are some people who, when you speak with them, the conversation goes to new places. This was one of those times.
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