Last night I attended a Social Media Week NY event at the NYU Stern School of Business called “Navigating Social Media Technology in Healthcare.” Moderated by Augustine Fou, the group chief digital officer of Healthcare Consultancy Group, the panel included Dr. Jay Parkinson, partner of design company The Future Well; DJ Edgerton, CEO of interactive agency Zemoga; Ned Russell, MD of Saatchi Wellness; and Dr. Oliver Kharraz, COO and cofounder of online patient-doctor site ZocDoc…

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You may have experienced some dilemmas with your health care in the last few years, but whether to friend your doctor on Facebook probably hasn’t been one of them.

Still, medicine is ripe for the transformative qualities of web 2.0 — with or without health-care reform on a national level. The web has already been shaking up the relationships that doctors and patients have taken for granted for most of the 20th century. From innovative models for clinics, to patients having their medical records available as part of their Google accounts, to iPhone apps that remind you when to take your pills, technology is giving us more control over our health…

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hello health has just given their website a complete overhaul. this is the fifth version of it’s website and it gets better every time.

the new site is more informative and easily flows between topics. it answers all your doubts and concerns about their solution. it lays out the steps of how they’ll help you begin your hello health hub and what they’ll do once you join…

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In the heart of Hipsterville, New York (that’s Williamsburg, Brooklyn) you’d expect to find microbreweries like the Brooklyn Brewery and trendy children’s clothing stores like Smoochie Baby. Within walking distance of both, however, you can also find Hello Health, a cutting-edge medical practice that doesn’t accept insurance but does offer instant messaging, email, video conferencing, and secure electronic medical records to its members…

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I was thinking about the days when we had 3 phones at myca. This week we changed the phone system..

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According to MobiHealthNews’ year-end report, there were 15 venture capital investments announced during 2009 and 11 of them were for wireless remote patient monitoring start-ups. The remainder included a start-up working on a converged platform for physicians-patient communications, a smartphone app developer focused on fitness games, a call-in physician consultation service, and a tablet-based patient check-in device for physician offices. While there were few, this year’s investments cover the gamut of wireless health business models and offerings…

Read the complete article – The 15 Wireless Health VC Deals Of 2009

Dr. Ilene Klein – Medical Director of the Qualcomm Medical Clinic ran the Santa Barbara Marathon this weekend. Congrats Ilene for inspiring all of us!

Software being developed by American and Australian scientists will hopefully allow patients simply to cough into their phone, and it will tell them whether they have cold, flu, pneumonia or other respiratory diseases.

Whether a cough is dry or wet, or “productive” or “non-productive” (referring to the presence of mucus on the lungs), can give a doctor information about what is causing that cough, for example whether it is caused by a bacterial or a viral infection.

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