Never before has a healthcare, medical, or pharma 2.0 conference sought to include the voice of the ePatient as generously as the upcoming Stanford Summit & Medicine 2.0 Congress, September 16-18. read more Read More...
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President Barack Obama seems desperate for a compromise with Republicans over the debt ceiling. In a press conference on Monday, he once again agreed to consider cuts in Social Security and Medicare. The deal would cut benefits within Medicare and Social Security, in addition to raising the Medicare...
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I may not always agree with his platform and thoughts on everything, for one I am in California and his district is in Texas, but one thing for sure is that I do agree with the progressive moves using technology Mr. Culberson is using. I have a few posts from the past here on the Congressman and...
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Tonight I had the unexpected opportunity to listen to a Town Hall Meeting. I say unexpected as there was no public announcement, just the phone rang and I was connected like hundreds of other residents to the meeting. I missed the first portion as I was on another line finishing up a conversation...
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I saw this article and couldn’t resist having to add my 2 cents here. Some points about 40% of the tweets being garbage is probably true, but you filter those folks out and follow those who you choose, those that are valuable. If I sat here and talked about what I had for lunch, nobody would ...
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I did my share and sent my request, the process is easy and automated and included the hash marks too. BD Tweet Your Senator for Healthcare Reform Obama has sent a tweet on the exploding social network encouraging his Twitter followers to send messages urging their Congress members...
Also, see a cameo appearance from John Culberson, Congressman from Texas who has been featured around here and a few other places on the internet. In the related below there’s some additional links relative to Twitter as well. BD Video: Jon Stewart explains Twitter (or tries to...
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With all the emphasis on the economy, you can follow both the House, the Senate and Whitehouse on Twitter. The House in particular will give you a ton of updates on what is happening on the floor. The Senate doesn’t update very often. I have not tried it, but it looks like you can also send...
This is a must watch and read! Last week I posted the coverage from Robert Scoble interviewing Representative Culberson. There are a few using technology on Capitol Hill and the Congressman wants to use it to keep in touch with constituents and keeping everyone updated in real time. ...
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Anyone who has been on the Internet for any amount of time knows who he is. Recently I have talked about how far behind health care is in the government, but Robert was able to find some real technology is every day use, but as mentioned below things are a bit slow in Washington in some areas and...