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The Social Health Record

June 24th

There isn’t much in my wife’s Personal Health Record that hasn’t been shared on the Internet. When she became pregnant two years ago she decided to use the web  to learn as much as possible about the wonderful and terrifying uncertainties of pregancy. She participated in the WebMD message boards with other women, candidly sharing […]

Vroom goes the sound of Quality

June 3rd

Note: I wrote and originally posted this at Webiscope. I posted it here too for relevance to my readers.
I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance when I was in college. I ran across it in an old used bookstore and thought the title sounded cool. I remember standing there debating whether to buy […]

Quality post for Webiscope

May 29th

The good folks over at Webiscope have posted a blog entry I wrote about hospital quality sites. I have decided to add them to my blogroll. For anyone who cares about healthcare web development this is a great community. We keep it somewhat gated to keep the vendors out. Once a year they have a […]

Google Health test drive

May 27th

I finally got around to trying out Google Health today. Part of my tardiness to jump out there and test yet another PHR product has to do with the absolute boredom of entering my own health information over and over again into an instrument that should be able to do most of the heavy lifting […]

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May 23rd

I’ve been following Friendfeed this week and I’m proud to say that I’m not an addict yet. I suspect it won’t take long though. Dana sent me an invitation to another interesting service called LibraryThing which allows users to catalogue and review their own books. It’s sort of like a “book-wiki” but with the features […]

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