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HealthConnect 2012 Report
November 7th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | karim | Comments Off
Our HealthConnect 2012 Report is ready for download.
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HealthConnect – Final Thoughts
October 29th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | Alex Conde | 1 Comment
HealthConnect, the final XConnect panel event of the year was held at the ING Direct Cafe October 25th, 2012. Over the course of the panel discussion, a number of different challenges being faced by the healthcare system were brought up. It would have been far too easy to end on a discouraging note, but Cassie [...]
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HealthConnect #HCTO Panel Event Review
October 26th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | Alex Conde | 2 Comments
Building on previous successful events such as SportsConnect, MusicConnect, FashionConnect, FilmConnect, BankConnect, EduConnect and GameConnect, the final XConnect event of the year was held at the ING Direct Cafe October 25th, 2012: This time the topic was the intersection of technology and social media with the world of healthcare. The conversation was moderated by Cassie [...]
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The Present and the Future of Online Health Communities
October 19th, 2012 | Blog, healthconnect | Alex Conde | Comments Off
On Monday, we discussed some of the demographic factors that logically led to the development of online communities based on specific health conditions. Rising to that challenge are some incredible communities, such as the twitter account for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (@endstigma). However, numbers alone don’t tell the full story of these [...]
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Social Media and Chronic Disease
October 15th, 2012 | Blog, healthconnect | Alex Conde | 2 Comments
From the early days of its existence, the Internet has always been a place to go for information about chronic diseases. Information alone however, doesn’t usually alleviate the isolation that often comes with an uncommon chronic illness. Even if an individual has a well-meaning and supportive network of friends and family, these relationships often can’t [...]
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Can Healthcare Afford to NOT be on Social Media?
October 12th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | Alex Conde | 1 Comment
Facebook recently hit an impressive milestone. They announced that they have now reached 1 billion active users. Given that approximately 1 out of every 6 or 7 people on the planet are now using Facebook (and this doesn’t take into consideration other social networks), can the medical community ignore social media as a means to [...]
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iHorse Technologies supports HealthConnect
October 11th, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | carolyn | Comments Off
Great news: iHorse Technologies has signed on as an official sponsor for our HealthConnect series! Startup Founders, if you are looking to effectively and efficiently build your minimal viable product – you’ll want to connect with these folks. iHorse was started by a group of young entrepreneurs in 2007, with the vision of becoming a global [...]
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The Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media in Healthcare #HCTO
October 5th, 2012 | Blog, healthconnect | Alex Conde | Comments Off
Technology in general, and social media in particular, are amazing tools for connecting people, however, do the tools of making friendships and connections translate well to the world of more complex medicine? What opportunities and challenges does social media pose to the idea of providing medical care at a distance? To answer this question, I [...]
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HealthAware.ca (#HCTO) [VIDEO]
October 3rd, 2012 | health, healthconnect, Show | karim | Comments Off
Nikolai Bratkovski is an entrepreneur with a track record in healthcare Internet ventures. Most recently, Niolai founded HealthAware. HealthAware is free online service that takes the pain out of health appointments. Their goal is to help patients find health practitioners around them, see their availabilities in real-time, and book appointments online instantly. He also co-founded [...]
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Small opportunities to use mobile technology in medicine
October 2nd, 2012 | Blog, health, healthconnect | karim | Comments Off
The following post was first published on March 30th 2012 at kevinmd.com. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. As citizens of the 21st century, we seem to have adapted personal technology for every conceivable use — Siri, the iPhone’s newest darling, can literally remind us to call a proctologist. But as physicians, [...]
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