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Google's ex-Chief Health Strategist launches startup, Smart Patients

By Brian Dolan 04:02 am April 23, 2013

Google's former Chief Health Strategist Roni Zeiger MD and Gilles Frydman, founder of the Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR), announced the launch of Smart Patients, a new online community for cancer patients and caregivers, at the TEDMED event in Washington DC last week. "What we are primarily trying to do is help cancer patients and caregivers learn more effectively from each other...

The MobiHealthNews Podcast: Self-Diagnosis

By Brian Dolan 05:01 am February 28, 2013

Today I'm very excited to announce our latest offering: The MobiHealthNews Podcast. This month MobiHealthNews writer Jonah Comstock and I interviewed a half dozen people about trends surrounding "self-diagnosis", which is at the heart of so much of what we write about here at MobiHealthNews. The concept of self-diagnosis has existed for at least as long as the concept of the medical professional...