Entries Tagged as 'healthcare'
Friends of the blog suggest a couple items of interest. 1. First, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, writer of the ever popular Health Populi blog, has just published a report called The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media. The report addresses issues around the new social networking sites that focus on health issues, but also [...]
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Tags:health care services·healthcare·Jane Sarasohn-Kahn·Mona Lori·Online Social Media·OutofPocket.com·Search engine·social media·social networking sites·social networks·technology startup
A friend recently attended a Health 2.0 seminar, and afterwards asked my thoughts about the movement (my term). I responded: I haven’t followed Health 2.0 as closely as some other topics, but Health 2.0 seems to be mainly centered around the application of social networking techniques (for patients with similar illnesses), and vertical search (like [...]
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Tags:2.0 technologies·healthcare·healthcare environment·healthcare industry·healthcare information·healthcare needs·healthcare profession·healthcare responsibility·insurance·legacy systems·management software·pharmaceutical·physician rating systems·search tools·social networking techniques·social networks·Steve Case
It seems astounding, yet true, that the internet is even bigger than I can imagine. Case in point: After spending many hours reviewing and thinking about doctor rating and physician search sites, I still learned about a new doctor rating site in my interview with healthcare economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. The site, of course, is Vitals. [...]
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Tags:doctor rating site·Health insurance·health insurance information·healthcare·Jane Sarasohn-Kahn·search
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… that have been interesting. First, perhaps the most thoughtful (or at least, least shrill) recap on the New Hampshire / Clinton / Prediction Market hullabaloo: How to interpret prediction market results on elections An open (transparent) market in healthcare? Some good thoughts on the matter: Can openness transform health care? The Prism of User [...]
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Tags:healthcare·London·New Hampshire·travel times
We read in this morning’s news from TechCrunch that Google is making moves to launch Google Health. From the place-holder page over at Google we read: With Google Health, you can: * Build online health profiles that belong to you * Download medical records from doctors and pharmacies * Get personalized health guidance and relevant [...]
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Tags:Cigna·Google·Google's mission·healthcare·healthcare information·healthcare market·online health profiles·search algorithm·search engines·social networking sites
Anyone who reads UsableMarkets (an esteemed bunch, you should know by now) knows that I have an interest in doctor rating systems. As part of exploring this issue I asked Dr. Feldman, the founder of DrScore.com, to answer some questions about his site. He makes wonderful points, particularly that rating systems can be an effective [...]
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Tags:consumer-driven healthcare model·doctor rating systems·DrScore.com·healthcare·healthcare industry·insurance·Maryland·National Psoriasis Foundation·Steve Feldman·Wake Forest University School of Medicine
A friend writes: “What do traders mean when they say a ‘secular trend’? … [It's] just one of those phrases you hear in the employee gym. Thought your readers (and me) would be interested in their lingo.” Flipping to Wikipedia we see this definition: In statistics, a secular trend in a time series is the [...]
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Tags:healthcare·John Authers
Rating doctors seems to be a game that everyone wants to get into (except doctors, funnily enough). In fact, it seems to be generating so much heat that a company that’s actually in the rating’s business has finally joined the ruckus. Zagat, of restaurant rating fame, has recently announced a partnership with the insurance company [...]
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Tags:healthcare·healthcare community·insurance·meaningful consumer ratings systems·Medicare·Nina Zagat·online entry·online surveys·Wellpoint
My wife recently completed a transaction on eBay where she was none to happy with the seller. While no fraud occurred the seller was, shall we say, not polite. I won’t recount the sordid details, but suffice to say that the transaction was an extremely unpleasant experience for her. But then, as part of concluding [...]
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Tags:eBay·healthcare·Online Without Permission·serious problems rating systems
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