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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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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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Everything that can be transparent ….

December 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets

That dang thought arises again upon reading this interview over at Crossover Health (which, truth be told, sounds more like an athletic activity than a blog about Health 2.0).
Anyway, I left this thought (or comment, I suppose you could call it), over there, and I repeat here for your benefit. It’s in response to [...]

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Rating Docs … In the NY Times

December 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Healthcare Markets, Lazy Blogger Blog Post

The NY Times had a nice little update this Saturday (in the op-ed section, of all places) about where Andrew Cuomo is going with the issue of insurance companies rating doctors.
They end with an idea (certainly not a new idea, by a long shot), that if achieved would be a wonderful first step for improving [...]

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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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Interview with Mona Lori, Principle, OutOfPocket.com

August 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Healthcare Markets, Interviews

In the healthcare services market change comes slowly. An incredible amount of innovative thinking, and technical blood, sweat and tears, have been put into improving our healthcare experience over the past two decades, yet in many ways very little has changed. Still, after all these years, getting accurate prices for basic procedures is [...]

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Market-Based Healthcare Plans: Unusable!

May 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Healthcare Markets

In last week’s FT there was an interesting article about the lack of success of market-based healthcare plans in the US. The article – Republican healthcare plan ‘in jeopardy’ – reports on a survey that documents consumer rejection of these types of plans.
As the survey states: “Any consumer product that scored as low [as [...]

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