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The Business of Survival

by | Sep 24, 2007

The Boston Globe today has a great article that, to me anyway, really illustrates the amazing resiliency and imagination of the human spirit when faced with the unthinkable. It describes Avi Kremer’s story, a man diagnosed with ALS who decided to fight back,...

This just in from Health 2.0

by | Sep 21, 2007

Yesterday was the landmark Health 2.0 conference (user-generated Healthcare) held in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Matthew Holt and Indu Subalya, MD. Originally envisioned as about a hundred folks getting together for a day to push the movement forward, this...

Health 2.0 in The Economist

by | Sep 11, 2007

Health 2.0. It’s all that people can talk about some days in the online health world. It has no definition, though, it’s not much more than the nebulous “Web 2.0,” except topic-specific. The September 6, 2007 edition of The Economist takes a...

Google Forms Advisory Council Heavy on Bigwigs

by | Jun 30, 2007

Well, at least Google tries. We have to give them credit for that, and for this very first step — which I honestly hope is just that (as others have suggested giving Google the benefit of the doubt) — it’s a doosey. They’ve gone and created an...

Reading Behind the Scenes: CafePharma and Others

by | Jun 12, 2007

The New York Times today featured an article about growing online communities for the drug and medical device makers employees and sales reps (via bookofjoe), such as CafePharma. How does this intersect with e-patients and helping them learn more about treatment...

Dr. Tom and the E Patient Revolution

by | May 17, 2007

In this first post, I’d like to address the “e Patient world” and what you may expect to see develop in this area in the future. E Patients are those patients who are discovering ways to use the incredibly powerful tools and information available on...

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