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Shared Kismet: Wikipedia and the NIH

The National Institutes of Health hosted a Wikipedia Academy today to train scientists, communications staff, and other NIH staffers in how to contribute to what has become a top source for health information in the U.S. (For more details, please see the NIH press...

E-patients in U.S. News

U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals guide features 3 articles of particular interest to e-patients: Getting Medical Advice on the Web from Other Patients Would You Share Your Health Information Online? Great Medicine Needs Committed Patients...

Participatory Medicine at PdF09: Can we get a do-over?

The poli-tech tribe gathered in New York last week for the Personal Democracy Forum and, as Craig Newmark put it, welcomed “our new nerd overlords.” Esther Dyson, Jamie Heywood, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), and I were asked to take on a breakout panel...

The Social Life of Health Information

The Pew Internet/California HealthCare Foundation report, The Social Life of Health Information, is packed with new findings from a survey of 2,253 adults, including 502 cell-phone interviews, conducted in either English or Spanish. We spent a bundle of money on...

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