By bluerasberry on 2014-07-20
On Saturday 19 July I met a physician at the HOPE conference (Hackers on Planet Earth) who does medical device research and policy. Here is his organizational website. We were talking about health records which patients keep for themselves. It seemed to me that his ideas were related to the open notes project, Consumer Reports […]
Posted in health, New York City, presentation, quantified self | Tagged conference, Hackers on Planet Earth
By bluerasberry on 2014-06-03
My mother had been sick for a long time, and especially sick for the past few weeks. About a month ago I talked to her and she told me that she was immediately going for surgery to have her gall bladder removed. She had not told me of problems previously, but upon asking about this, […]
Posted in health, Texas | Tagged conference, death, public health, surgery
By bluerasberry on 2014-05-05
Wednesday 30 April to Friday 2 May I was in DC for a Choosing Wisely meetup. Part of it was hosted by ABIM Foundation and part was hosted by Consumer Reports. When I was there I met other people who work in health communications and we talked about how we get messages to people. One […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, health, Wikipedia | Tagged advertising, Douglas Rushkoff, Kevin Kelly, social media, youth
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-17
Like everything on this blog, this post is my own personal candid thoughts. I visited an organization working in a similar space as Consumer Reports, and in this post I say some things about me, my organization, and this organization. This post is intended to be entirely positive about everything I saw, because I felt […]
Posted in Boston, clinical research, Consumer Reports, drug, health, non-profit, research, rights | Tagged electronic medical records, privacy
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-11
I had two articles recently published in BMJ. Rasberry, L. (2014). “Wikipedia: what it is and why it matters for healthcare”. BMJ 348 (apr08 3): g2478–g2478. doi:10.1136/bmj.g2478. ISSN 1756-1833. Rasberry, L. (2014). “Citing Wikipedia”. BMJ 348 (mar05 4): g1819–g1819. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1819. ISSN 1756-1833. That first paper is behind a paywall but the second one can be […]
Posted in health, research, Wikipedia | Tagged BMJ, David Menkes, license, publishing
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-07
I made a friend named Fabian and have been meeting him on weekends for a while. He is a creative person and a relaxing person with whom to spend time.
Posted in New York City | Tagged Fabian
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-05
Speakers at the conference who talked about international expansion of research said that China was the next big thing and said that India has an odd and uncertain future as it matures in its international relationships. Right now 95% of people in China are covered by at least some minimal type of health insurance policy. […]
Posted in China, China, clinical research, drug, health | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-05
I was invited to speak at the conference on Tuesday 1 April. I was on a panel called “Partnering with Patients: What do you need from each other?” The description to the talk asked, “When it comes to engagement in clinical trials, are pharmaceutical executives getting it right or are we leaving a huge amount […]
Posted in clinical research, drug, health, Las Vegas, presentation, Wikipedia
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-04
I am at the Partnerships in Clinical Trials conference in Vegas. I am attending all the talks I can about outsourcing clinical research, and especially about China. These are notes and industry gossip; no fact checking has gone into what I am typing here but obviously the people who are presenting are speaking as insiders […]
Posted in China, clinical research, research | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2014-03-28
This weekend I am attending the Partnerships in Clinical Trials conference in Vegas. I have been talking with friends about clinical trial information as I often do. Just today I was talking with Chuck in advocacy at work about supplies of drugs. He said that he had a report saying that about 80% of prescription […]
Posted in China, Consumer Reports, drug, India | Tagged industrial design, pharma
