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A Facebook for Diabetes Health Data?

Insulin Nation

But one website, PatientsLikeMe , encourages people with diabetes and other conditions to share their day-to-day health records with other users. Rather than keep health data private, the website’s founders believe crowdsourcing health data is a great way to help patients to feel empowered about their health.

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ESO Acquires Occam Technologies, Leading Provider of Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) Solution

Healthcare IT Today

is dedicated to improving community health and safety through the power of data. Since its founding in 2004, the company continues to pioneer innovative, user-friendly software to meet the changing needs of today’s EMS agencies, fire departments, hospitals, and state EMS offices. ESO (ESO Solutions, Inc.)

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Health informatics pioneer Larry Weed dies at 93

Meaningful HIT News

. “The unaided mind does not know what data to collect, and does not see many of the significant relationships buried in whatever data are collected,” Weed said in a 2004 story I wrote for Health-IT World, a former spinoff of Bio-IT World. “Dad died with more optimism than he had had in a long time.”

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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

First, some of the backstory: PLM was way ahead of its time, recognizing the power of peer-to-peer connections and the importance of data as currency long before many others in health care figured that out. The Internet cloud was not yet in the sky; data as a service was a business model barely in diapers. Probably not so great.

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Open Source Software in HealthTech: Hype today or Hope for the future?

Lloyd Price

One of the early pioneers of open source software in healthtech was the World Health Organization (WHO). In 1996, the WHO released the first version of the DHIS (District Health Information System) software, which is an open source platform for collecting and managing health data. 2004: The HL7 FHIR standard is released.

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The Chronic Care Model and its Key Elements

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

In a 2004 study by the Health Disparities Collaborative to improve diabetes care in Midwest community health centers, 19 health centers initiated a diabetes quality improvement effort based on a model that included rapid Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles from the continuous quality improvement field.