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Health 2.010: New Year, New Era
This is a guest post by Lucien Engelen (Dutch Twitter friend @Zorg20), who was featured in October’s The internet is changing healthcare – video from Reshape09. Here, he takes it to the next step, moving from health 2.0 to “health 2.010”. I love it! – Dave
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Will The Great Recession Create Millions of e-Patients?
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, [...]
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Health 2.0 meets Ix: The Rise of the Patient Voices
I have been following with real interest the notes and discussions about the Health 2.0/Ix conference that took place in Boston last week.
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When is “Information Therapy” Simply Learning?
I sometimes wonder whether we complicate things that are pretty simple, by assigning more labels and new terms to things that have perfectly good labels already. For instance, I once thought I knew what “information therapy” meant. It meant a doctor or other healthcare professional “prescribed” certain information for you to read, so you could [...]
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