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President’s Cancer Panel: Input, Please

by | Nov 30, 2010

What evidence would you bring to convince cancer researchers and policy makers to pay attention to how the internet is changing health and health care? That’s my challenge for the Dec. 14 meeting of the President’s Cancer Panel, “The Future of Cancer...

Patient Communities: Which Way Forward?

by | Aug 9, 2010

If you were designing a disease treatment system from scratch, bringing together clinicians, patients, researchers, and advocates, what platform would you use to take advantage of the community created by this umbrella group? This isn’t just some health geek...

Patient Communities… at Walgreens?

by | Jun 17, 2010

In May, I spoke at the Chronic Care and Prevention Congress about my most recent report, “Chronic Disease and the Internet.” I talked about the social life of health information and the internet’s power to connect people with information and with...

A New Conversation About Health Privacy: Who’s In?

by | May 21, 2010

Facebook has sparked a new debate about privacy and I think it’s time to bring it to health care. What does it mean when millions of people flock to share/overshare information, even as Facebook’s default privacy settings have slowly become openness...

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