At CommunicateHealth, we believe that digital health communication is an important piece of the health communication puzzle. So we’re excited to bring you a few highlights from sessions at the Digital Health Communication Extravaganza, where we’ve been soaking up some of the very latest innovations on the topic. It’s only Day One, and we’ve already [...]
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By Sarah | February 18, 2012Plain Language Comes to Health Insurance Summaries – Finally!
By Christine Parizo | February 14, 2012It’s a fact: shopping around for health insurance plans is a challenge — even for the most health-savvy consumer. If you’ve ever read a health insurance plan’s “explanation” of benefits and finished feeling as though nothing was actually explained, you’re not alone. Fortunately, that’s going to change. Last week, HHS unveiled an additional requirement for [...]
Paula Deen Announces She Has Type 2 Diabetes
By Perrie Briskin | January 19, 2012Food Network star Paula Deen took to the airwaves this week to announce that she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes three years ago. What got more press, however, was her second revelation that she is now the new face of diabetes drug company Novo Nordisk. Diabetes is a serious disease that affects an estimated [...]
Data vs. Doctors
By Perrie Briskin | January 13, 2012This week in TechCrunch, Silicon Valley mogul and Sun Micosystems founder Vinod Khosla wrote “Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms?,” a compelling piece about healthcare and data. More specifically, as our ability to collect and analyze data improves with technology, can algorithms, or as he calls it, “Dr. A,” replace doctors? Having computers armed with data taking [...]
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