December 2008
35 posts
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Great post from Jeff Jarvis…
At Hello Health, we actually prescribe links.
The internet is such a valuable tool for doctors to help deliver better care, if they could only communicate these links with their patients from their paper charts they’re writing in…
The profession has a long way to go, but we’re happily living in the future at Hello Health.
November 2008
37 posts
When Everyone Is A Blogger, Nothing You Say Is Off... →
Current Belgian Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem apparently stumbled into a Belgian bar in New York City on Monday evening with his entourage. Following his visit, bartender Nathalie Lubbe Bakker blogged about their visit (in Dutch), talking about how disgusted she was of how drunk De Crem was and how embarrassed she was about his behavior. Worst part, she wrote, was the fact that one of the...
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What to do if…you need a doctor, stat - Time Out... →
Hello Health is profiled in the latest issue of Time Out New York.
Free flu shots from Hello Health!!
We’re giving away free flu shots. Shoot us an rsvp at events@hellohealth.com with FREE FLU SHOT in the subject line and reserve your spot!
We’ve called this campaign Shots-n-Shots because we’re also having a Holiday Party at Teddy’s Bar and Grill next to the Williamsburg Hello Health practice. It’s happening Wednesday, December 3rd with an open bar between 7 and...
“I’m goin’ to the doctor tomorrow. We’re just going to meet in...”
– My grandpa, Winston, talking about this new house call doctor he found.
Groundswell →
This is an amazing book. Highly recommended for anyone interested in what today’s Internet means to creating a better product or service.
Stop Smoking: 9 Resources to Help You Quit →
Super interesting set of tools to help you quit smoking. Qwitter sounds like a good idea:
Qwitter lets you tweet every time you smoke along with how many you had, and at the end of each day it compiles it into a chart so you can see how you are doing. Add in the fact that it’s on Twitter and your friends can cheer you on as you try to quit.
Big Three CEOs Flew Private Jets to Plead for... →
I really hope my tax dollars don’t go to these fools who don’t have the intelligence or the know-how to run their companies as well as Toyota.
In 20 years, it seems like the federal government will be owning and running all the dinosaurs. I can’t believe the higher-ups actually think that a hand out will “bail out” these dinosaurs from a certain death. Of course, it...
Doctors Feel Gloomy, Financially Strapped →
42% said professional morale is either “poor” or “very low.”
82% said their practices would be “unsustainable” if proposed Medicare pay cuts were made.
Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave... →
The insurance companies are killing us…
They’re in the business to do as little as possible. We’re in the business to do what’s right. Unfortunately, we’re all paying for this debacle. And if it doesn’t change soon, the insurance companies are going to be bailed out by the federal government and we’re all going to be going to federal doctor’s...
Tell a friend, get free Hello Health
We all know the best way to find a good doctor is through good old fashioned word of mouth. Now you get rewarded for spreading the good news. We’re all about mixing the old with the new…so we rolled out a new feature within Hello Health. All you have to do is tell a friend about that amazing doctor you saw at Hello Health, and you get a free month if your friend signs up. So…you...
I'm speaking in Madrid on Thursday at the Spanish... →
The topic:
“How the new internet revolution will be applied in Medicine”
Should be interesting to hear about the problems that other countries are facing in their own health care systems. One of my main topics that I give in my presentations deals with the fact that doctors still use a 3,000 year old tool to deliver health care - the ‘ol doctor exam room. I happen to believe...
A healthcare system badly out of balance →
The dramatic payment gaps have emerged over the last decade as hospitals pushed, with varying levels of success, to offset federal budget cuts by boosting their income from insurance companies, health executives say. The resulting wide range of payments for the same services reflects a healthcare system in which deregulation and lax government oversight have allowed the hospitals with the most...
Your Big Brother Google cares abour your flu. →
Such a lovely use of epidemiological internet searches. See! Big Brother is only watching you because he cares about your well-being.
The New Hello Health Marketing Campaign
We’ve been working very hard building Hello Health…
These new ads were a collaboration between Peter Rentz of Ghava, Alena Cason of Son & Sons, Ben Velez (the brand strategist who built Burton Snowboards from the ground up as well as Triple Five Soul) and the team at Hello Health. You should see these all over NYC in print, online, the streets of Williamsburg, and the L line....
Seth's Blog: The sad lie of mediocrity →
Did a Bone Marrow Transplant Cure a Cancer Patient... →
We’re as wary as the next guy of inferring too much from a single case study. Maybe it was a fluke; maybe there were unknown factors at work. But this one is pretty intriguing.
Wow…very interesting stuff. It sure does make sense though.
Government-Run Healthcare “Despite” Obama? →
Thanks to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the economic meltdown that has resulted, it will be difficult if not impossible for Mr. Obama to implement any sort of organized healthcare reform, or any other reform that promises to greatly increase federal spending.
One sure thing is that health insurance companies have no hope of even maintaining their current profitability, let alone continuing...
Another One Bites the Dust: Dr. T. Leaves Primary... →
He is leaving because he can’t deal with the constant financial hardship, of fighting with insurance companies, figuring out how to make the cash go further when the payers are late, and how to break even. He takes medicare and medicaid, because in his neck of the woods, they are some of the best payers. He is leaving because he can’t keep up with the endless fighting over claims, and can’t...
“In short, this is the story of the 2008 campaign: the Hillary Clinton campaign...”
– Horse Race: Your Guide To the Endless Newsweek Story on the Endless Campaign
Tumblrette 1.2 →
david:
My favorite Tumblr iPhone app just added Audio posts! Go download it.
yep…this app is awesome. takes the blogging to a whole new convenient level.
Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic... →
Highly recommended
Obama team chose Apple on election night →
And Obama was running against a guy who couldn’t even use email…
Obama’s administration promises to be the first to include a Chief Technology Officer, and he supports net neutrality.
Yesterday, I spoke to a group of about 700 in San Francisco. Afterward, Susanah Fox and I went for lunch down under the Golden Gate Bridge. I had no idea Susannah was the person the media quoted...
The Health Care Challenge: Sailing Into a Perfect... →
In 2017, a typical family of four making $80,600 in America will spend $33,700 on health insurance prior to taxes.
Premiums have doubled in the past 8 years. They’ll more than double again in the next 8.
And the health insurance industry is more profitable than the oil industry. It’s time to demand change people. Our current broken, inefficient, and perversely incented processes are...
hello health's new ads →
We’ve just turned on the first major hello health advertising campaign. If you are a New Yorker and don’t hear about us in the next two months, you should probably get out from under that rock!
You can’t see the fact that the old school stethoscope mess is actually 3D until you see it in large and in person. Check out the subway stops on the L train for your viewing pleasure.
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The most common question about Hello Health
I’m out in San Francisco at the California Healthcare Foundation’s conference this week. I’ll be speaking tomorrow with Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, David Williams of Patients Like Me, and Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine. It should at least be interesting considering the context of being in Kaiser Country. KP is of course trying to implement as...
Change.gov →
Well…now we’ll see how Obama is going to embrace social networking and his internet people to change things there in Washington.
Can’t wait to see what happens with this.
Congratulations (again) to my brother, Mark... →
He was re-elected to the Missouri House of Representatives yesterday.
He’s a remarkably dedicated and talented man. He ran an amazing campaign and made it his mission to meet each and every person in his district personally to shake their hand and introduce himself.
Maybe we can stop the dinner table political bickering and work together on a bill in Missouri to reduce the overhead for...
Thank you Obama, for getting it.
You’ve inspired a nation of young people to, once again, be optimistic about our future and believe in the capability of our collective minds to make this world a better place.
Obama won this election, not simply because he was an inspirational man, but also because his team ran his campaign like Apple introduced the iPhone. They blanketed America with a coveted product, a brand, and a...
