Genetics and Health in Federal Computer Week
From Federal Computer Week, an article about blogging and social media in government health agencies, including the CDC.
Health care blogs are sprouting up with names such as Genetics and Health, Trusted.MD, The Health Care Blog and Diabetes Mine. They typically link to other health care blogs, forming a loose network of shared information that might or might not stand up to inspection by the American Medical Association.
“We’re entering an era where blogs have become the new credible source of health information because much of it is coming from people like yourself,” said Craig Lefebvre, a visiting professor at George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Services and a consultant to several federal health agencies. “But just like with early Web sites, we will go through a process of sorting out the quality from less quality blogs.”
So what do you think? Do I produce a “quality” blog or a “less quality” blog?
HT: Steve
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12 opinions for Genetics and Health in Federal Computer Week
GetSheila
Apr 26, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Oh, definitely quality with enough humor thrown in to keep it interesting.
Snowy
Apr 26, 2007 at 8:51 pm
My feeling is that the information you give is reliable, and not just thrown out to back up some half-baked theory that you might espouse, also I trust you to be humble enough to tell us if you gave information that turned out later to be not entirely correct.
I rate that as quality.
Kristina
Apr 26, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Need you ask? Responsible, reliable, and high quality.
Steve Murphy MD
Apr 26, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Hsien,
You’re a PhD for G-d’s sake. Of course you are reliable. I think the trouble comes when other blogs start diagnosing and treating. I love your content, always have. You meet the Sherpa’s stamp of approval…….whatever that means :)
-Steve
http://www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com
Emily DeVoto
Apr 27, 2007 at 12:01 am
Oh, you definitely measure up! He’s just covering his butt.
Anyway, thanks for this link. I may be headed back to the federal government soon, and had assumed that I’d have to give up my whole blogging life; now I’m not so sure…
Paul -V-
Apr 27, 2007 at 12:51 pm
I maintain several blogs and sites - and I think you are asking the wrong question.
The issue isn’t “quality”, it’s “credibility”.
That is to say, be upfront if you have an agenda so people can put your content into context. In the long term, your reputation will generate more traffic.
Mary Emma
Apr 29, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Knowing you, Hsien, everything you do is quality and credible.
Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD
Apr 29, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Thank you everyone for massaging my ego. :D
Paul: Nice to see you again! Quality and credibility overlap to a certain degree. You can be credible but write an utterly crap blog. ;)
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julie909
Jul 16, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Need for Politicians to recognize diabetes health crisis in minority communities
Efforts to address growing diabetes concerns among African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans suffered a major setback most recently in California when Assemblymember and Appropriations Committee Chair Mark Leno killed a diabetes bill that hoped to help alleviate this growing public health crisis. The bill was an expressed priority of the California Democrat Legislative Black Caucus. After listening to extensive information on the increasing diabetes epidemic and the disproportionate suffering from diabetes it in minority communities Leno, with the authority as Chair of the Appropriations Committee, still moved to kill the bill by placing the bill in suspense file.
In the late 1990s California experienced a 60% increase in diabetes among the adult population. In tandem with national trends, it is California’s minority populations who suffer in the highest numbers from this diabetes epidemic and obesity. The bill, which was brought forth by Mervyn M Dymally Legislative Black Caucus Chair and Assemblymember from Compton, presented to Leno and the committee the disproportionate statistics and immediate health concerns of diabetes effecting minority communities. Dymally explained that 10.3% of African American, 9.3% of Native Americans, and 6.0% of Latinos suffer from diabetes and obesity compared with 5.6% of whites and 4.7% of Asian Pacific Islander communities. For those diagnosed with diabetes health related problems can be very serious including high blood pressure, blindness, heart disease, and even fatalities. Moreover, minority communities suffer the highest number of diabetes related deaths compared with the general population of those diagnosed with diabetes.
The bill, that Leno effectively made sure would never be enacted, proposed to study the factors and causes contributing to high rates of diabetes and obesity in Latinos, African-Americans, and Native Americans in this country, starting with California. The bill would further have called for a task force to prepare a report containing recommendations on how to reduce instances of diabetes and such debilitating conditions among these ethnic groups. Dymally as Chair of the Legislative Black Caucus expressed his deep concern and dismay over Leno’s actions in the Appropriations Committee in killing the bill.
Penny
Jul 18, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Did you know that one in eight US dollars healthcare budget spend is spent on diabetes management and treatment? There’s therefore a big financial and clinical case to identify risk much earlier and manage and educate ALL patients at risk of developing Type II diabetes not only in the US but in the world. In the Middle East, development of Type II diabetes has crept over the 50% population mark for the older age groups. That’s a healthcare time bomb and scary!
I do like the look of deCode’s T2 test highlighted in Hsein’s blog on this site. There are other similar tests in development. Penny
Daniel
Jan 24, 2008 at 11:30 am
Genetics playing a vital role all over the world, in every country and on everyone and on every living organisms. This playing with genetics is not a good one So let’s provide with good, good quality
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