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Health 2.0 and AccessDNA

Each year at Health 2.0, we present Launch!, a debut of new products and services to the Health 2.0 community. This year we were able to hear from many great companies, including AccessDNA, a new site that generates personalized genetics...
November 3, 2009 in Health 2.0, Personalized Medicine | Permalink | Comments (0)

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Continuity of Care Record Gains Ground As A Standard

By BRIAN KLEPPER We live in a time of such great progress in so many arenas that, too often and without a second thought, we take significant advances for granted. But, now and then, we should catalog the steps forward,...
April 10, 2009 in Brian Klepper, Consumers, David Kibbe, Electronic Medical Records, Google, Health 2.0, Personalized Medicine, Policy, Policy/Politics, Technology, The Industry, Transparency, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (21)

Technology should promote patient involvement not replace it

By THCB Reader SR This post came as a comment by SR to Dr. Kibbe's piece on electronic medical records. It's a great consumer perspective and worth reprinting in full. -- THCB Staff Health Care consumers and patients have a...
December 4, 2008 in Electronic Medical Records, PBMs, Personalized Medicine, Technology | Permalink | Comments (1)

Entering the era of participatory medicine

By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn I've returned from a week of Health 2.0 immersion on the west coast. The top-line finding: we've entered the period we can call Participatory Medicine. For some, like the pioneering Gilles Friedman of ACOR, this is nothing...
October 28, 2008 in Conferences, Health 2.0, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Personalized Medicine | Permalink | Comments (2)

MRIS: The good, the bad and the useless

By Christine Gray Note: This post first appeared at e-patients.net Gina Kolata's must-read article in last week's Science Times points out vast differences in the quality of MRI's as well as vast differences in the expertise of the radiologists who...
October 20, 2008 in Consumers, Patient Safety, Personalized Medicine | Permalink | Comments (4)

Moving forward on genetic testing

By Scott Shreve Three months ago, there was a huge hubbub about genetic testing in California. In a dramatic effort, albeit totally misguided, the California Department of Health sent “cease and desist” letters to multiple vendors who were offering genetic...
October 10, 2008 in Personalized Medicine, Scott Shreeve, Technology | Permalink | Comments (8)

Health 2.0 for cancer trials

By Greg Pawelski Greg is well known to THCB readers as a long term commentator on the oncology scene with a keen interest in chemotherapy assay testing. Here he writes about a new type of clinical trial -- Matthew Holt...
August 14, 2008 in Health 2.0, Online Communities, Personalized Medicine | Permalink | Comments (7)

Using professional societies to advance participatory medicine

By Daniel Hoch Dan Hoch is a neurologist based at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. An early developer of online resources for patients, Dan helped found Braintalk. Professional medical societies are not quite like...
July 22, 2008 in Consumers, e-patients, Personalized Medicine, Physicians | Permalink | Comments (6)

Whose DNA is it anyway?

By Sarah Arnquist News of the California Health Department's mailing of cease and desist letters to 13 direct-to-consumer genetic testing firms, such as 23andMe, Navigenics and DeCodeMe, has sparked intense debate over balancing regulations to guarantee quality and individual rights...
June 23, 2008 in Consumers, Health 2.0, Personalized Medicine | Permalink | Comments (3)

The Talking Cure: moving patients to the center of care

By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn The relationship between patients and doctors is fundamentally changing. Transparency in medical records, patients' accessibility to health information online, and online social media driving patient-to-patient conversations are some forces at the base of the future of health...
June 17, 2008 in International, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Personalized Medicine | Permalink | Comments (5)

Podcast with Marston Alfred, founder and architect of SugarStats

By Jen McCabe Gorman Marston Alfred, founder and chief architect of SugarStats.com chatted recently with me about his relatively new, Web-based program that allows diabetics to track their health statistics online. Alfred described SugarStats as a portable PHR specifically for...
June 10, 2008 in e-patients, Health 2.0, Online Communities, Personalized Medicine, Podcasts | Permalink | Comments (0)

E-patients can and will revolutionize health care

By Susannah Fox By taking advantage of new online health tools, e-patients and health professionals now have the ability to create equal partnerships that enable individuals to be equipped, enabled, empowered and engaged in their health and health care decisions....
May 30, 2008 in e-patients, Health 2.0, Online Communities, Personalized Medicine, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (18)

Going off the Grid - The Rise of 'Direct Practice' Medicine

By Scott Shreeve Grid (grĭd) n. 1. Something resembling a framework of crisscrossed parallel bars, as in rigidity or organization 2. An interconnected system for the distribution of electricity or electromagnetic signals over a wide area, especially a network of...
May 19, 2008 in Personalized Medicine, Physicians, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (3)

New demands of 'Millennial patients'

By THCB Staff "Millennial patients are the first generation of Americans to grow up with the Internet as a pervasive part of their lives. ... They are amazed, bewildered, and ultimately angry with the inability to access their health care...
May 15, 2008 in Health 2.0, Personalized Medicine, Physicians, Scott Shreeve, Technology | Permalink | Comments (1)

Mind your manners

By Paul Levy Dr. Michael Kahn, from Beth Israel Deaconess' Department of Pyschiatry, has published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that suggests that doctors enhance their relationship with patients when they deal with patients in a...
May 14, 2008 in Hospitals, Personalized Medicine | Permalink | Comments (0)

Personalized Medicine: Back to the Future

By Scott Shreeve Personalized Medicine The type of sing molecular analysis to achieve optimum medical outcomes in the management of a patient’s disease or disease predisposition, Right treatment for the right patient at the right time. As I have mentioned...
April 23, 2008 in Personalized Medicine, Scott Shreeve | Permalink | Comments (5)