Tag Archives: health care

Health Digital Check-Up: Making Health Public

Community can be a very powerful force in health. It is the central notion behind the idea of public health and wellness, but it is also a little bit of a juxtaposition. Many people view their personal health as a private matter, but as the online movement drives right into the world of patient communities, this line is increasingly becoming blurred. It’s partially the same reason: community support can help make health public, and as such, more manageable.

Last week, as a part of Digital Capital Week here in Washington,

Health Digital Check-Up: Some Light Digital Health Reading

One of the best reasons to be actively following Twitter and connecting with other smart people around professional and social networks is that you often will come across lots of great links to the newest studies or fascinating blog posts.

Thanks to a great Edelman Digital team (most hat-tip worthy: a great Community Manager who loves to share), I find myself with stacks of of articles about new developments in online health and communication. So many of them are fascinating, but they may not be enough for…

Health Digital Check-Up: A Health Digital Journey

There have been many different subtopics of online health communication discussed in the last few Health Digital Check-Ups. It’s somewhat daunting to digest it all, so before going even farther down the road with more about the specifics, we thought it may be a great time to refresh and just lay out the entire landscape.

Instead of walking through alone, though, we are going to enlist some help from one of the most iconic bands of American pop culture:

Health Digital Check-Up: Health Reform Summit Goes Digital

The Health Digital Check-Up traditionally hasn’t been the place for politics, but given that a good part of the digital health team has ties to D.C., it’s hard to ignore events like last Thursday’s bipartisan summit on health reform.

Even though the summit was going on just a few blocks from Edelman’s Washington, D.C. office (