Americans are spending a lot of time talking about health care reform and how it will affect the doctor-patient relationship. But one of the biggest factors that could transform that relationship has gotten little attention. In the second of our series of discussions on health care, we'll discuss new technologies and explain how they could bring in a new era of "participatory medicine."
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Digital Health and Participatory Medicine
Listen Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009 at 1:06 p.m. in Economy, Health, TechnologyGuest host: Rebecca Roberts
Guests
Darrell West
Author, "Digital Medicine: Health Care in the Internet Era" (Brookings Institution Press); Vice President and Director, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
David Kibbe, M.D.
Senior Advisor, American Academy of Family Physicians; Chair, ASTM International E31Technical Committee on Healthcare Informatics
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