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Archive for June, 2009

Know Thyself: Tracking Every Facet of Life, from Sleep to Mood to Pain

Monday, June 29th, 2009

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I got up at 6:20 this morning, after going to bed at 12:40 am. I woke up twice during the night. My heart rate was 61 beats per minute, and my blood pressure, averaged over three measurements, was 127/ 74. My mood was a 4 on a scale of 5…

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Hello Health in Boston Globe

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

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Dr. Jay Parkinson favors black jeans. He has a blog where he posts thoughts such as “I can’t wait to make a car honk using only my iPhone.”

Sitting before a laptop in a loft-style office in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, he talks about what ails the US healthcare system – skyrocketing costs, excessive use, bureaucracy – and why the cure is not the universal insurance Democrats are talking about on Capitol Hill, but rather “disruptive technology.”

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Jay Will Be on Fox News

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

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Jay will be on Fox news live at 12:40 Eastern today…

Check him out at http://interactive.foxbusiness.com/live

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Top 10 Most Creative People in Health Care

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

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3. Jay Parkinson, founder, Hello Health Mixing non-conventional payment structure (monthly subscription fee, PayPal but no insurance) and eyebrow-raising communications (e-mail, instant messaging, even house visits), Jay Parkinson’s Hello Health offers a wildly popular alternative to the current model of high insurance costs and eight-minute office visit

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Hello Health University

Monday, June 15th, 2009

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Hello Health has created an online community of professionals blogging about their modern practice model.  Dr.’s Jay Parkinson, Gordon Moore, Sean Khozin, and Rocky.

The best part about this flowing dialogue is that starting June 15, there will be a hello health university.  Open secrets to building a successful hello health practice.  All for free.

http://our.hellohealth.com/

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Medicine in The Age of Twitter

Monday, June 15th, 2009

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I blog, I tweet and I use Facebook. And as I recently told a medical colleague, social media has been an enormously useful tool in my work. “I can barely keep up with e-mail,” he snorted back. “I’m not about to open up that black box.”

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