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Healthcare Transparency In The News

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets

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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Health 2.0 Overview/Reactions (from the perspective of two people in the NYC User Experience community)

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets

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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Site of the Day: Vitals

February 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Healthcare Markets, Usability

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.
Initial [...]

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Interview: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn of Health Populi

February 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets, Interviews

The internet is awash in blogs about healthcare. Many we enjoy (many we don’t even know about, sadly), but there is one that UsableMarkets loves above all others: Health Populi. Written by healthcare economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn of THINK-Health, a strategic health consultancy, the blog manages sober (and enlightening) reflection on healthcare news and [...]

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Lazy Bloggers Blog Post: Things I’ve Read …

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Lazy Blogger Blog Post

… 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 Experience [...]

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Google Health … Google Stealth … Google Dream … ?

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets

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 news
* Find qualified doctors and [...]

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Interview with Dr. Feldman of DrScore.com

December 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Healthcare Markets, Interviews

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 [...]

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Market Definition: Secular Trend

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Financial Markets, Market Definitions

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 [...]

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Zagat: Out of The Frying Pan and Into the Waiting Room

October 23rd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Healthcare Markets

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 [...]

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Rate Me Awesome … Or Else!

September 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Auction Markets, Healthcare Markets, Information Design, Other Markets

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 [...]

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