Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
With health care reform being the talk of the week – a top priority for President Obama and for the AMA, who wants to be sure that America’s physicians are not just talked about in the reform process but included [...]
With Swine Flu, Influenza H1N1, now at pandemic levels world wide, gathering data and information about the virus is important to keep us all healthy. Believe it or not, part of the information hunt involves how you get your information [...]
At Health 2.0, Ted Eytan, MD, and I talked for a bit about why Kaiser Permanente’s “virtual health care system” has had such great success. According to his bio, Ted is a family doc from DC with a background in [...]
UpToDate has been a long-trusted resources for physicians that relies on evidence-based medicine to create a thorough picture of a topic. In addition, each article is peer-reviewed by experts in that field to add credibility to the information. This has [...]
At the recent Health 2.0 meets Ix conference in Boston, MA, I had the chance to sit down with American Well CEO, Roy Schoenberg, MD, on April 25, 2009, to talk about his company’s very innovative system of “virtual doctoring”. [...]
Last week I spent 1 ½ days attending the Health 2.0 Conference in Boston. Having heard the buzz for a while but not having attended before, I was very much looking forward to experiencing this for myself. What made the [...]
Wikipedia defines health 2.0 as “the participatory healthcare characterized by the ability to rapidly share, classify and summarize individual health information with the goals of improving health care systems, experiences and outcomes via integration of patients and stakeholder.” Health 2.0 [...]
I saw the headline yesterday and heard the reports all over the news today but had to check it out with my own eyes: Google claims to be able to track the flu 10 days earlier than the CDC flu [...]
We can shop online. We can chat online. We can browse online. So, it should be much of a leap to learn that some states are advocating exercise on-line. According to the AP report, With obesity worsening across the nation, [...]
This is pretend. This is real. Not sure if I should laugh, cry or scratch my head. But clearly we are enter ring a new age of medicine and time will tell whether we are better or worse off. Email [...]
