Judith Rodin was the first non-interim female president of an Ivy League university, serving as the seventh president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1994-2004. During that time the university tripled its endowment, doubled its research funding, and rose from 16th to 4th in the U.S. News & World Report college ranking. She was, at [...]

Back in Bellagio
This is not where I expected to be, back at Rockefeller’s Bellagio Center for the third week of the eHealth conference. I made a mistake regarding my Indian Visa (as in not having a valid one), so my flight to Delhi is now delayed for at least seven days and the conference organizers [...]

M.D. Leaves Profession to Blog
Last week one of the most emailed stories on the New York Times website was about a medical doctor who traded in his profession for a more lucrative one: blogging. No, Arnold Kim M.D. does not blog about kidney diagnosis, his specialty, but rather, rumors about future Apple products. His blog, [...]

Karl Brown, Associate Director of Applied Technology at Rockefeller and one of the main organizers of the Making the eHealth Connection conference.
In 1889 American steel baron Andrew Carnegie published an essay titled The Gospel of Wealth. The essay makes what was then a radical argument: that wealthy monopolists give the majority of their money back [...]

If not now, at some point in your life you have probably subscribed to at least one magazine. For example, in the past I’ve subscribed to Harper’s Bazaar, Cycling, The New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine. Here is how the business model works: I pay money to subscribe, the company which publishes the [...]

A Cameroon national, Fidelis Morfaw received his B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Sierra Leone, his M.A. from Penn State, a Translator’s Diploma from Georgetown University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Austin. He is now based in Brazzaville, Congo where he oversees the translation of documents at the World [...]

Health information is much more than Wikipedia and WebMD, much more than The Lancet and Gray’s Anatomy. Health information also refers to patients’ health records - both individually and in aggregation.

Incredibly, according to a report published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine, fewer than one in five of doctors in the United [...]

To appreciate just how much access to health information has changed in the past ten years, imagine that you had the same symptoms for appendicitis, but in 1995. Where would you have looked?
Well, unless you were very pro-active, you probably didn’t look anywhere. You left that up to your doctor. And where did your doctor [...]

Let’s say you wake up tomorrow with a terrible stomach ache. I’m sure it’s happened before. But this one is a little different. While the pain started in the middle of your stomach, right around the belly-button, it has since moved down to the lower right-hand side. Not only has the pain moved, but it [...]