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The WELL

Join the e-Patient Scholars for a conversation on The WELL. Here’s a great quote: “When the Internet industry is booming and investors are interested, we start focusing too much on the technology, because there are so many new technologies hoping to attract users and...

Markle Foundation Policy Meeting 2007

The Markle Foundation has a health program that is dedicated to accelerating the rate at which information technology enables consumers and the health system that supports them to improve health and healthcare. That’s a mouthful. Well, anyway, they held a...

Health 2.0 and Privacy Lost

In all the hype surrounding the latest Internet bubble, we’re faced with user-generated content and meaningless marketing terms like “Health 2.0” which are used to suggest everything and nothing all at once. Whatever definition of Health 2.0 you can...

The Business of Survival

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,...

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