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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Searching for a Doctor Online … Arrrrgh!
January 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Healthcare Markets, Usability
Finding a good doctor is one of those things. Everyone, at one time or another, needs a doctor. So, given this most basic of needs, why is it that finding a good doctor online seems to be such a problem? Some enterprising young entrepreneur must be trying to solve this problem … right? Let me [...]
To Hot-or-Not Doc, Or Not To Hot-or-Not Doc
August 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Healthcare Markets, Usability
One of the things that the internet does very well (one of its super hero powers, you might say), is to quickly gather together the opinions of many people. There are a variety of ways to do this – polling, prediction markets, tracking usage patterns, and so on – but nothing quite beats the immediacy [...]
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