When Google announced the phasing out of Google Health this summer, SEW columnist Dean Stephens offered a few potential reasons for the closure. Though the official line was that consumers just hadn’t adopted the service as expected, Stephens...
Recently, Google announced that it will close Google Health to new consumers on January 1, 2012 and that the service will be retired a year later. Google Health was much different than Google as a search engine; it required that consumers use their...
Do you remember the film “Fantastic Voyage” with Raquel Welch? She and her companions were miniaturized and inserted into a scientist’s comatose body to remove a deadly brain clot. An arteriovenous fistula forces them to detour through the heart...
You don't have to look far to know that mobile usage is huge and continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Of the more than 300 million people in the United States, 96 percent have mobile phones. This is staggering to think of when just 15 years ago...
Healthy Local Search by Dean Stephens Search Engine Optimization The Slippery Slope of SEO by Josh McCoy Recent algorithmic updates didn't just hurt the bad guys and clean up the SERPs. Many other sites felt the wrath of Google's tweaks.
The buzz in social media has been local for quite some time. From the hottest local deal, to finding a review of a local restaurant or contractor, and even checking into a favorite place, local is embodied in social media.
A study last year from Harvard with Brigham and Women's Hospital deemed social networks the "Wild West" when it comes to health information. The study looked at diabetes communities on Facebook, with the main concern being promotional activity of...
"Should I see a doctor for my cough? What could this rash be from? Who treats 'GERD? And what's the best treatment path? Who's the best doctor to be my OB/GYN? We continue to ask our friends and family these questions, but now we increasingly turn...
The health care reform bill has provided a new opportunity for all kinds of health organizations to improve communication and outreach to patients. While 2010 was just the starting point, the legislation will impact all facets of the industry, with...
With social media and health, it's imperative that the consumer, especially the newly insured consumer, has tools to access healthcare services," said Dean Stephens, President, Healthline Networks. Last week, Insider Pages (owned by CitySearch...
A few weeks ago, I got a chance to speak to Dean Stephens, President so too, a trained physician percieves any symptom as sitting within a complex matrix of cases and furthermore each symptom sits within a graded heirarchy of severity.
