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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 2014-02-10
Elsewhere I talk about clinical research. Suppose that a research participant wants information about a clinical trial. What types of information would this person want? I was thinking to model information types as follows: Logistical information Research participant rights Health information Information about the particular clinical trial Logistical information refers to all the metadata about […]
Posted in clinical research, drug, education, health, rights | Tagged pharma
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-25
For traditional educational organizations, it is easy to create high quality information content but difficult to disseminate them to the right audience. For Wikipedia, it is easy to disseminate information to the right audience, but difficult to create high quality information content. Which ability is more useful?
Posted in health, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged text
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-17
The Preventing Overdiagnosis was held at Dartmouth from 10-12 September. Consumer Reports was a sponsor of the event, as was Australia’s Bond University and BMJ. I was scheduled to speak about Wikipedia and health. There is a concept in medical literature called “overutilization” which refers to overuse of medical resources. This includes overtreatment, which is […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, rights, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Choosing Wisely, public health
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-17
There are two ways that media outreach can go. One way is that people can oppose the public’s natural behavior and run advertising campaigns and make infrastructure interventions to get everyone to do something unnatural. Definitely Wikipedia has problems, but it would take a lot of effort, advertising, and interventions to get people to use […]
Posted in health, Wikipedia
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-23
I went to Boston to present on Friday 19 July at Lisa Gualtieri’s health communications class at Tufts University. It was called “5th Tufts Summer Institute on Digital Strategies for Health Communication“. I gave an overview of the health content on Wikipedia and suggested that anyone with a health message to share could share it […]
Posted in Boston, education, health, non-profit, presentation | Tagged classes, public health
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-29
Someone at Eli Lilly and Company was contacting Wikipedians about a partnership between Lilly and Wikipedia. Some people may not know that Wikipedia is a nonprofit project stewarded by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, and that since its founding it has taken a strong stance against hosting external advertising and against entities with a conflict of […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, Wikipedia | Tagged Eli Lilly and Company, global health, Wikidata
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-07
The NYSHealth Foundation (New York State) today hosted Alan Weil of the National Academy for State Health Policy to talk about health care reform strategies in the United States. I attended in the place of Chuck Bell, my colleague at Consumer Reports, because he was otherwise busy today. I hardly knew what to expect. I […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, health, New York City, presentation | Tagged reform
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-20
I had and passed a kidney stone last Saturday night. It was a trippy experience characterized by feelings of extreme pain, panic, urgency, defeat, restlessness, helplessness, and dependency. I know that I did not like the experience but once it was over I felt as if I could remember it objectively without any traumatic memory, […]
Posted in health, New York City, service industry | Tagged hospital, kidney stone, Marcus