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The Social Life of Health Information, 2011

by | May 12, 2011

Here it is: my 2010-11 yearbook! Will you sign it? That’s how I feel about this latest report from the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation: “The Social Life of Health Information, 2011.”  It contains all the insights...

Map the frontier. Bring data. (More coming soon!)

by | May 11, 2011

The Pew Internet Project and California HealthCare Foundation will released our latest report on the internet’s impact on health and health care tonight at midnight (Eastern U.S. time). It is titled, “The Social Life of Health Information, 2011” (and...

ISO: Randomized Trials

by | Apr 13, 2011

I received an email the other day containing the following question: Are you aware of any randomized trials – in progress, or published – that examined the impact of social networking web 2.0, etc. on patient-level variables (e.g., improved rates of preventive health...

PatientsLikeMe goes wide

by | Apr 11, 2011

PatientsLikeMe opened up to every condition today. From their press release: Today, PatientsLikeMe (www.patientslikeme.com) announces the expansion of its platform and invites patients with any condition to join. The five-year-old free online health data-sharing...

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