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Online Medicine – The Doctor is IN

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Technology has changed our lives drastically over the past 20 years. Just about everything can be done online these days from shopping, dating and working to even consulting a doctor thousands of miles away.

One of the fastest growing online medical Internet platforms is Myca which allows doctor-patient consultation remotely, by phone, email, instant messaging or even videoconferencing. It also enables patients to schedule doctor’s appointments online. Myca is barely two years old but has gained quite a following. In the US, the Myca Platform goes under the Hello Health trademark. Welcome to today’s e-practice. The doctors call themselves “your friendly 21st doctors in the neighbourhood”…

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Silicon Stethoscopes

Monday, September 21st, 2009

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“If we can virtually connect doctors to patients who need it most, wirelessly monitor our aging population and keep patients healthier at home,” says Tandy Trower, Microsoft’s ( MSFT -news - people ) robotics group’s director. “We can dramatically reduce our nation’s health care costs.” …

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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

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

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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Myca in The Top 20

Friday, July 24th, 2009

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The second annual PICK 20 roundup of Canada’s leading Web 2.0 pioneers has been announced over at Backbone Magazine. To compile the top 20 we assembled a crack panel of judges and asked them and the public to nominate worthy companies or projects. This year we received more than twice as many nominations as last year, generating an even broader picture of Web 2.0 in Canada…

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Online Medicine – The Doctor is IN

Friday, July 17th, 2009

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

Monday, June 29th, 2009

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

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

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

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

Nat

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