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,...
Karl Brown of the Rockefeller Foundation: Philanthropy's Role in Global Health
Karl Brown, Associate Director of Applied Technology at Rockefeller and one of the main organizers of the Making the eHealth Connection conference. In 1889 American steel baron Andrew Carnegie published an essay titled The Gospel of Wealth. The essay makes what was...
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: 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...
Bellagio eHealth, Day 1
One of my main talking points when it comes to participatory media is that we need to create bridges between policy making institutions and online conversations. It is a point I have been making since early 2004 when I was sitting in a downtown office building in San...Latest Photos
