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As you can see on the left, Steve Jobs was present with us at Doctors 2.0 & You 2011, in a larger-than-life image, with an amazing caption : "Apple announces the iPad, changes the course of history." Click to enlarge the photo even more! The iPad taught us that the killer app  for physicians is in fact a killer device:...

There's an amazing conference going on in Palo Alto at the lovely Stanford Med School campus, organized by the no less amazing Larry Chu under the supportive eye of Gunther Eysenbach. The weather is sunny and crisp. We're a stone's throw of some of the US's if not the world's most amazing tech companies and medical institutions. But, I am...

 A new look at the cost of Health Care is promised at the 3rd edition of Prof. Vallancien's conference CHAM, convention on health analysis and management taking place on Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2011 in Chamonix.  Get the program here. You'll be able to attend virtually, by live streaming. It will be the occasion to meet up with a...

How would you describe the universe of online physician communities? Up until today, there were two historic categories, those  launched within the borders of one country and those, generally more recent, that were launched with a global perspective. This of course can change through acquisitions, and one such acquisition was posted today. One of the first communities to think beyond...

While internet rating sites for physicians in the US have been around for a number of years and a number of specialized sites are now part of the online health landscape (HealthGrades, RateMDs, and others), this is not the case in Europe in general, and France in particular, despite the presence of Yelp, GoogleMaps, and other US-based sites that allow...

Are e-patients, — as for example, online patient bloggers or members of an online patient community — attempting to serve as "amateur doctors" for other online patients? Those who read this blog know that that is not my perspective. I welcome the engaged, expert patient and wonder why it is taking us so long to give them their rightful place...

For today, Silber's blog presents Catherine Cerisey, a French patient advocate and author of her blog "after my breast cancer", « après mon cancer du sein ». Since we launched the health 2.0 chapter meetings, community, and blog in France, Catherine has been present  IRL and virtually via Twitter and tweet-ups #health20fr  #hcsmeufr #doctors20. This June, Catherine Cerisey participated in the French-language Doctors 2.0...

At Doctors 2.0 & You, the "& You" referred  to the fact that the health care system is (or should be) a very, if not fully, interconnected world. However, this is still a work in progress. To connect  people within their own country, as most health care is still local, is already a challenge and to go beyond national borders...

Some surprises from the latest publication of Pr Colin Pritchard in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine comparing  health system results of 19 "Northern" countries. The authors examined the reduction in mortality results between two periods of time and created a ratio taking into account health expenses as a percent of GDP.  The good news is that the study confirms the...