Blogger's Note: Please. Talk with your family, friends, advocates, and caregivers about end of life choices. Do you have an advanced directive? A living will? This is *not* the kind of thing you...Continue Reading

"A common theme that emerged was the desire to better integrate their health and healthcare into "real life." As a seasoned nurse reported, one of the most common patient questions is “<sp...Continue Reading

Let's finish up this tweetsourced series on a positive note, with Chris Hogg's 7 hopes for healthcare (verbatim):great question. i dont know if these are really surprises, but things i th...Continue Reading

In part three of our series on ways healthcare will take us by surprise in 2009, we get a view from health publisher and family doc James Hubbard, MD, MPH (@DrHubbard).Dr. Hubbard's input ...Continue Reading

Part deux in our series of crowdsourced "ways healthcare will surprise you next year" provided by Scott Kozicki, founder of stealth startup Tru...Continue Reading

President-elect Obama's campaign used social media and online networking sites/applications to crowdsource support. But community is good for more than spreading a relatively watered down mantra like ...Continue Reading

President Obama - congratulations.If y...Continue Reading

Sometimes being prescient really sucks. Forget yesterday's iceberg ahead warning.You don't ha...Continue Reading

I'm breaking this review into two parts - the larger, more symbolic and conceptual overview (which will follow this post) and my list of companies (and teams) to watch (posted here)....Continue Reading

Over the past 2 months, I've worked with 70 speakers presenting during Breakout Panels at this week's Health 2.0 Conference.The goal was to schedule 3 rounds of calls and onl...Continue Reading