In my last column, I discussed the need for a better way of connecting the discrete healthcare-related problems identified by patients and physicians with solvers who might be able to develop a solution – perhaps an immediate fix, perhaps a longer-term effort. I’m grateful for the volume of feedback...
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An interesting article in today’s WSJ discusses how patients with an exceptionally rare disease – in this case, spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) – used social networks to find each other, to organize, and ultimately to drive research efforts into this otherwise obscure condition. This story...
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