Increasingly, my life is about finding signal. Noise grows by the day. So who I listen to has become important. Tuning for value has become a new preoccupation. So I thought I'd share a few of the people who do a brilliant job creating a clean, valuable signal for me. This is not a 'best of' list, but rather a sampling of individuals who do a great job of ... Continue Reading about 6 Digital Health Power Curators
Google’s Evolution as a Health Knowledge Engine
Google announced yesterday that they're breathing new life into health search. In an effort to move from an information engine to a knowledge engine, Google will soon be offering information specially curated by physicians from within The Knowledge Graph. For a company that’s declared itself less-than-invested in health care, this is a fascinating step. Here are ... Continue Reading about Google’s Evolution as a Health Knowledge Engine
Repurposing Content | What’s Old is New Again
Those of us who write things for public consumption all face the same challenge: what do we do with it after it’s published? Once something hits the information stream it passes along from public view never to be seen again. Thus the importance of repurposing content. But it can be repurposed. Today at The Mayo Clinc Center for Social Media Residency, Meredith ... Continue Reading about Repurposing Content | What’s Old is New Again
Announcing edX Medicine in the Digital Age
In 2012, the Medical Futures Lab offered Medicine in the Age of Networked Intelligence, a powerful 50,000 foot view of medicine and its radical disruption. The course was huge success and drew the attention of the social health community well beyond the confines of Rice University and the Texas Medical Center. I was thrilled to co-teach and co-create this course ... Continue Reading about Announcing edX Medicine in the Digital Age
Is it a reader’s responsibility to understand?
Not long ago I read a blog post and subsequently posted a comment on Twitter. It seems that I read one thing but the writer of the post had suggested something else. It lead to a brief back and forth. Nothing ugly but the publisher was unnerved. I had simply responded to something that was clearly unclear. It made me think about the reader's responsibility. Who's ... Continue Reading about Is it a reader’s responsibility to understand?
Doctor Google, the Quack
For years we believed that Doctor Google would bring us the information we need. Tom Krazit at Gigom suggests that the party may be over. Search has become so algorithmically corrupt that its hard to understand or believe what we’re getting. The thing that gets me is that we’ve become such informed consumers in so many other areas of our lives. We buy organic ... Continue Reading about Doctor Google, the Quack