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Back in Bellagio This is not where I expected to be, back at Rockefeller’s Bellagio Center for the third week of the eHealth conference. I made a mistake regarding my Indian Visa (as in not having a valid one), so my flight to Delhi is now delayed for at least...Should Doctors Blog? Can Bloggers Shape Health Care Policy?
M.D. Leaves Profession to Blog Last week one of the most emailed stories on the New York Times website was about a medical doctor who traded in his profession for a more lucrative one: blogging. No, Arnold Kim M.D. does not blog about kidney diagnosis, his specialty,...
Barbara Aronson: HINARI and the Open Access Publishing Debate in the Developing World
If not now, at some point in your life you have probably subscribed to at least one magazine. For example, in the past I’ve subscribed to Harper’s Bazaar, Cycling, The New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine. Here is how the business model works: I pay...Lincoln Moura: La Tecnologia No es el Problema
Los organizadores de la conferencia “Haciendo la Conexión de eSalud” han estado haciendo un trabajo asombroso de actualizar el sitio web de la conferencia, el blog, y el wiki para compartir las conversaciones ocurriendo aquí con el resto del...Lincoln Moura: Technology is Not the Problem
The organizers of the Making the eHealth Conenction conference have been doing an amazing job updating the conference website, blog, and wiki to share the conversations happening here with the wider world. One of the most valuable sections of the website contains a...
Fidelis Morfaw of the WHO: Translating Health Information
A Cameroon national, Fidelis Morfaw received his B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Sierra Leone, his M.A. from Penn State, a Translator’s Diploma from Georgetown University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Austin. He is now based in...
Should Patients Control Their Own Medical Records? Will Google Health Save Lives?
Health information is much more than Wikipedia and WebMD, much more than The Lancet and Gray’s Anatomy. Health information also refers to patients’ health records – both individually and in aggregation. Incredibly, according to a report published...
Brian Nairn of Elsevier: Medical Training from Text Book to Internet to iPhone
To appreciate just how much access to health information has changed in the past ten years, imagine that you had the same symptoms for appendicitis, but in 1995. Where would you have looked? Well, unless you were very pro-active, you probably didn’t look...
Open Global Access to Health Information
Let’s say you wake up tomorrow with a terrible stomach ache. I’m sure it’s happened before. But this one is a little different. While the pain started in the middle of your stomach, right around the belly-button, it has since moved down to the lower...Latest Photos
