Comments on: Six Health 2.0 firms reinvent doctor-patient ties

By: edhardy622

edhardy622 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:33:17 +0000

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By: barkod

barkod — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:35:32 +0000

thanks

By: alex

alex — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:48:08 +0000

Fred Eberlein – can you reupload the video? I would really like to see it again. Thanks, Alex Doore

By: Levon

Levon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:29:07 +0000

It is pleasing to know that pieces of advice just like this are readily available for everyone to read and hopefully be able to apply these ideas in order to improve their relationship with doctors.

By: infomedMD

infomedMD — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:53:23 +0000

As the web has evolved into 2.0 we have come to expect more personalization from our online services. Where else is the personal touch more important then in health care? With that health 2.0 has recently (thanks to Web 2.0) started to emerge in earnest. We at infoMedMD are building an intelligent health care application which integrates computer logic with medical symptoms to arm patients with personal medical information before visiting a doctor.

By: Combining the best of web-based medicine « The Sciphu Weblog

Combining the best of web-based medicine « The Sciphu Weblog — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:39:50 +0000

[...] this article on PatientsLikeMe, ScienceRoll’s post on PharmaSurveyor and VentureBeat’s post on health 2.0, that combining patient experiences like PatientsLikeMe with online doctors like [...]

By: The Next Twenty Years » Blog Archive » Six Health 2.0 firms reinvent doctor-patient ties

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:32:09 +0000

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By: John, Industry Analyst, Chilmark Research

John, Industry Analyst, Chilmark Research — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:50:04 +0000

Hello David,
Nice write-up on the Health2.0 conference, which unfortunately I was not able to attend – maybe next time. Actually, sounds like the conference would have been an interesting contrast to the previous week’s healthcare IT conference, HIMSS.

The whole Health2.0 thing is buzzing (as much as I dislike the tag) – Mat & Indu have done an excellent job. But what I really want to see and have seen very little to date – is some real business successes, i.e., Health2.0 businesses that have a viable business model that is scaling along with strong adoption. Such examples are far and few today and I’m really getting tired of all the hype. I want to see some results!

By: Healthline drags an insurer into Health 2.0 » VentureBeat

Healthline drags an insurer into Health 2.0 » VentureBeat — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:19:27 +0000

[...] week I noted American Well, which plans to offer Web-based video chats with doctors via insurers, although it doesn’t appear to have struck any such partnerships yet. So one of the first [...]

By: Fred Eberlein

Fred Eberlein — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:43:54 +0000

Hi David,

Sorry that you were not able to cover ReliefInsite (secure online pain management services, made easy) in this article. Maybe next time when we meet in October.

For those interested in the patient video shown at the conference here’s the link:

http://www.icyou.com/topics/pain/shiri-sandler-rsd-patient-uses-relief-insite.

Take care,

Fred

By: Jay Parkinson

Jay Parkinson — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:16:57 +0000

David…my earlier comments from the WSJ post was more of a global philosophy that contributed toward my decision to do two residencies — one in pediatrics and the other in preventive medicine. I believe that a healthy lifestyle and care for acute conditions should be the main focus in healthcare. As you see in the pharmaceutical industry, they are spinning their wheels investing a significant amount of money in developing drugs to treat chronic conditions but they are failing miserably. This is the reason why the entire US pharmaceutical industry only got the FDA to approve 6 new drugs in 2006 (there were actually 17, the other 9 were “me-too” drugs that were simply slight variations of drugs that were going off patent but with no new function or better efficacy). We are in a state of huge investments in chronic care for very little return — similar to the manufacturing industry when they spend very little to remove 90% of toxic emissions but significant investment in new technologies to eliminate the last 10%. Meanwhile, we are ignoring the opportunities to invest in changing behavior — and unhealthy behavior is the most important threat to our nation’s health. Unfortunately, a drug for changing unhealthy behavior cannot be bottled up and sold to the masses.
Chronic care is important, but preventive care and healthy living to prevent the need for chronic care is most important.

By: unitedBIT’s RoundUp » Blog Archive » Some health-related sites or health 2.0

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:14:53 +0000

[...] VentureBeat on March 6, 2008 introduces “six startups with some big, and very different, ideas for reinventing the doctor-patient [...]

By: David P. Hamilton

David P. Hamilton — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:46:48 +0000

@peter — Thanks for the link. I’ve thrown it into the post in order to give people a sense of the Myca interface.

By: peter

peter — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:32:14 +0000

here are some of the video documentaries of doctors and patients using web technologies to diagnose, manage and treat diseases and conditions that were featured at the conference:

http://health.scribemedia.org/2008/03/07/doctors-patients-diseases-conditions/

By: David P. Hamilton

David P. Hamilton — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:07:21 +0000

@Roy Schoenberg: Thanks also for your comment, which clarifies a great many things about American Well, since I unfortunately missed the “deep dive” on Monday. I guess I do find it odd that the company’s site barely mentions that users will actually be contacting doctors through their insurers, at least outside the “health plans” tab — well, this PDF brochure mentions the fact in passing, but not so the site’s interminable consumer animation. So, thanks for bringing me up to date.

Is it safe to assume that you haven’t yet struck any arrangements with healthcare plans? I sort of assumed you’d probably have announced those if so.

And apologies for the prescription error — I’ve corrected the post.