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The Life of @WhyMommy: Online Health Advocacy Is Powerful

by francine 02.07.2012

Don’t ever tell me online relationships can’t be strong. On Sunday, I had a premonition that drove me to “catch up” with a blogger whose site I hadn’t been to for a while. When I got there, the last post began this way: – A conversation with my husband, shortly after arriving home this afternoon [...]

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Susan G Komen v. Planned Parenthood: Women Weigh In

by francine 02.03.2012

Today the Susan G. Komen Foundation succumbed to the will of the women it purportedly exists to help and agreed to continue funding Planned Parenthood. Everyone will see this issue somewhat differently, but I see it as another hopeful sign of the power of social media to affect large organizations of all kinds, from government to [...]

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Rock Health Creates Community Around Changing Health Care

by francine 01.23.2012

  I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Rock HealthHealth Innovation Summit onJan.20th. It was the third day of a conference that highlighteddevelopment, design, and business issues around the potential for health care transformation through technology. The room was full, and the audience stayed until the end, even on a Friday afternoon. Why? [...]

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Can Health Care Innovation Get Past the Big Players?

by francine 01.20.2012

The difficulties that health technology innovators will have breaking into the health care industry were no more clearly illustrated than by the talk given by Dr. Sam Ho, Chief Medical Officer of United Health Benefits Group, on the third day of San Francisco-based health incubator Rock Health’s  Health Innovation Summit. After two days of exciting [...]

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