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Mobile, Social Health at the National Library of Medicine

Update: The NLM released new widgets on July 14, along with a redesigned MedlinePlus site. (Read @eagledawg’s take on these new tools, as well as her response to this post.) Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like...

The Decision Tree: How Better Health Can Scale

“The internet was created to connect people and groups. The first step is to share stories. The next step is to share quantitative observations.” “Health care has been locked up in regulatory amber. HIPAA was passed in 1996, almost perfectly timed to...

Health 2.0 Europe: A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway wrote that Paris is a moveable feast, not fixed in time or place. I think that describes great gatherings of any kind, including great conferences, which begin before the first speaker takes the stage and don’t end simply because the...

Chronic Disease in Data and Narrative

For the past 5 months I have been immersed in data and narrative about chronic disease. The result, “Chronic Disease and the Internet,” is a report sponsored by the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation. We find that living with a...

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