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Designing for Better Health

by | Mar 3, 2010

This is a banner week for people who think good design contributes to better health. On Monday, DiabetesMine and the California HealthCare Foundation launched the 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. Last year the contest garnered more than 150 entries and awarded a...

Health Sites: Some Are More Equal Than Others

by | Jan 21, 2010

Update: Roni Zeiger of Google Health emailed me and gave permission for me to post the following statement, which I think is a helpful addition to the conversation: Health information is obviously an important category of information users are looking for. For this...

Access is (almost) everything

by | Dec 22, 2009

Or: Why health geeks should pay attention to internet access geeks. The Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Project and Internet Project just released an in-depth look at internet penetration across racial and ethnic categories in the U.S.: Latinos Online, 2006-2008...

Participatory medicine and health data rights on NPR

by | Nov 16, 2009

NPR’s Morning Edition story, “Patients Turn to Online Buddies for Help Healing,” combined research and real-life examples, participatory medicine and health data rights. Much of what I said during my interview with Joseph Shapiro is based on what...

Tell the FDA the whole story, please

by | Nov 8, 2009

I scan menus for keywords (fig, parsnips, salmon…) and it turns out I scan Twitter the same way, looking for anyone who is talking about my favorite topics (data, consumers, information quality…) So when I saw Jonathan Richman’s tweet the other...

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