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Using Aggregate Data to Help Public Health

by | Nov 13, 2008

Public health is different than our personal health. Most people take for granted the role public health agencies play in our lives, but its primary emphasis is tracking disease data across the country in order to prevent a nationwide epidemic or pandemic. Nobody...

Talk of the Nation

by | Dec 14, 2007

I had the pleasure of being a guest on NPR’s Talk of the Nation yesterday, along with Dr. Scott Haig and Dr. Ted Eytan, to talk about “Do-It-Yourself Diagnosis on the Web.” (For a substantive summary of the show, check out Josh Seidman’s...

“Good enough” technology

by | Jul 18, 2007

In doing some reading about online health, I was struck by a phrase repeated a few times: “good enough” technology. First, Google was deemed a “good enough” diagnostic tool by two Australian doctors. Then, Vince Kuraitis blogged about how...

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