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Archive for August, 2009

An Outside Perspective On The American Health Care System

Friday, August 28th, 2009

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Healthy people are not very profitable, this fact defines the corporate health care system we have in America today. When companies are allowed, even encouraged, to profit off the unhealthiness of the people, why would they have any interest in keeping us healthy?

Socialized Medicine, those two scary words that the health care reform opposition throws around like it will mean the end of the world, is a term that was actually invented as part of a strategy devised by a Public Relations firm under contract by the American Medical Association to campaign against President Truman’s proposed health care plan during the cold war…

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Docs Say Goodbye to Bureaucracy, Hello Health

Friday, August 21st, 2009

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With the debate over President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform bill raging on Capitol Hill, some physicians are carving out their own path to reform that involves eliminating barriers to care and improving the doctor-patient relationship through the use of technology…

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Podcast Interview with Hello Health co-Founder Dr. Jay Parkinson: Part II

Friday, August 14th, 2009

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In Part I of my interview with Dr. Jay Parkinson, co-founder of Hello Health and Chief Concept Officer at Myca, we spoke about how his experience in starting an e-practice with general Internet tools like Google Calendar and Gmail led him to the conclusion that a purpose-built platform was needed…

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