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“It Can Save Your Life”: How You Can Play an Active Role in Your Cancer Care – A Book Excerpt

Society for Participatory Medicine

He has had five major abdominal surgeries, more than 50 rounds of chemotherapy and immunotherapy, and has participated in a clinical trial at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. About a year into my cancer journey, I was interested in learning about clinical trials. They weren’t being malicious.

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It’s the 10th anniversary of trying to get our health data: “I’m putting my data in Google and HealthVault”

Society for Participatory Medicine

It was about something I wrote here, not having a clue it was any kind of a big thing, but it ended up on the front page of the Boston Globe on April 13. That’s why standards are important.). As you’ll see below, I was highly skeptical because of trust about privacy. Here’s part 1. (I’ll

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Type 1 Diabetes Risk May Come Down to Gut Bacteria Counts

Insulin Nation

If you transferred a group of mice from a lab with a lower rate of diabetes to a lab with a higher rate, the transferred group would soon exhibit the same rate of diabetes found in the new surroundings. This could mean that there is an important window of time when the guts of infants can be trained to shield from Type 1 diabetes.

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Healthcare use of Blockchain thru creative use of Smart-Contracts

Healthcare Exchange Standards

keeps fidgeters occupied while not bothering others around them That is to say they are not protecting an individual's Privacy, where a failure here is permanent loss of privacy. They are not protecting an individuals health, where a failure might be pain, loss of function, or death. They are all fully committed and excited.

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Power of People. Pause and Trust. Lynne Becker

Society for Participatory Medicine

Designing clinical trials for and with people with Traumatic Brain Injury. You know the old story of the researcher looking for their lost keys under the streetlight when they lost them in the dark alley. The researcher might not know that they’ve lost their keys. I managed and designed all sorts of clinical trials.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned. If you’re in health care and don’t live under a rock, you have probably heard that United Health Group (UHG) has acquired PatientsLikeMe (PLM). By Susannah Fox, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn and Lisa Suennen. I’ve lived long enough to have learned. A sum of their data?

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Going beyond killer apps: building a better mHealth evidence base

mHealth Insight

Here, we discuss five interrelated reasons as to why mHealth has under delivered and highlight challenges and opportunities for mHealth researchers” I think this is a popular myth held by researchers. In the real world (as I wrote here in 2009) successful mHealth applications are already commonplace across the world.

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