What if you could call a Doctor anytime?

At the Health 2.0 conference I met and interviewed two people starting a new service called RingADoc. The interview is below and the service is just starting up in California.

What do you think? Ready to sign up and give a doctor a call? Share your take in the comments section. Are you a […]

More from Haiti

More from Haiti, arrival in Gonaives and two days of care, clinics and life.

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Passed a leprechaun-green field, full of donkeys with a handful of goats tiptoeing among them, Caribbean blue ocean all around 10 Oct

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We’re here! In 2008, 48,000 people in Gonaives lost their homes to 10 vertical ft of hurricane […]

Last week at the Health 2.0 conference I got the chance to talk with Sean Nolan of Microsoft about the work the company is doing in information technology for healthcare and electronic medical records and other related fields. Microsoft has created a technology called HealthVault and you can find more about it here: http://healthvault.blob.core.windows.net/docs/BlueButton_Final.wmv.

And […]

Haiti: Arriving in Gonaives

Pulling into Gonaives on our bone-rattling Pumpkin- bus was like entering a maze. We turned down dirt roads walled by concrete, single lanes where we could see a home rising block by block just above the wall. All I could think was whether this home, one day, would collapse on someone.

The single-lane dirt road […]

In Haiti – En Route to Gonaives

I’m en route to Haiti at the moment.

Here are a sample of tweets (twitter posts) from the bus between Port-Au-Prince and Gonaives where we will be providing medical care in a remote mountain location that is housing refugees from the earthquake but that hasn’t had medical care at all yet.

Just drove past tiny, […]

Health 2.0: Can you have a doctor visit on Facebook?

The world of online health communities is morphing and evolving even as we sit here at our keyboards and google "flu symptoms" then tweet that we’ve got a cold. So what IS emerging from the cutting edge of online health communities? How do they differ and what do they have in common? The Health 2.0 […]