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Health Digital Check-Up: Doctor Quora

As Mashable reported last month, 90 percent of Americans who are online use the Internet to search for health resources and 61 percent of people do so instead of visiting a doctor. That said, the Internet is increasingly being seen as a source for answers to questions that can have a profound impact on one’s health.

Enter Quora, a Q&A site which seeks to build the world’s largest knowledge base. The site, while seems to spin around the digital media world, has begun to serve as landing place for health-seeking behaviors online. In a world where everyone…

Health Digital Check-Up: SXSW Gets Its Dose of Health Panels

For the past three years, the SXSW Interactive team has brought attendees the sessions they want through a process they’ve dubbed PanelPicker. The voting process allows the SXSW community to weigh-in, along with staff and Advisory Boards, on their desired panel programming and we’re pretty psyched about what they’ve selected in the first panel announcements for March’s conference. A huge thanks needs to be paid to the Social Health 2010 Conference for giving SXSW the big push it needed to include a Health track this year. Last year, Social Health brought together a var…

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