Michael Klusek June 19th, 2006

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Envision Solutions, LLC Releases First-Ever Comprehensive Report on Blogs and Healthcare.

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 6, 2006 -– Envision Solutions, LLC, a full-service healthcare marketing communications consultancy, today announced the release of the first comprehensive report on healthcare blogs. This 110-page report is titled, "The Healthcare Blogosphere: What Is It & Why Does It Matter?" It focuses on how blogs have influenced major players in the healthcare industry, including patients, medical professionals, pharmaceutical companies and non-profit organizations.

The report also features commentary on healthcare blogs from seven prominent Weblog experts, educators and patients, including Steve Rubel and B.L. Ochman. Rubel is author of the well-regarded blog, Micro Persuasion (www.micropersuasion.com). Ochman writes the popular What’s Next Blog (www.whatsnextblog.com).

Readers of this report will learn:

-    Who is blogging about healthcare and why they are doing it.

-    Who the most prominent and prolific healthcare bloggers are.

-    How healthcare blogs may impact the physician-patient relationship, treatment practices, consumer-driven healthcare, communications and more.

-    Why pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, medical device manufacturers and hospitals have been slow to embrace blogs and why their fears may be misplaced.

-    The pros and cons of blogs for healthcare non-profit organizations.

-    How to learn about and track the healthcare blogosphere.

-    How to start and maintain a successful organizational or individual blog.

The report is available for purchase and download at Envision Solutions’ Web site: www.envisionsolutionsnow.com/spotlight.

Prominent Healthcare Bloggers Endorse Report

Shahid Shah, chief executive officer of healthcare information technology firm Netspective (www.netspective.com), and author of the well-regarded blog, The Healthcare IT Guy (www.healthcareguy.com), praised the report. “In preparing this report, Envision Solutions has taken on an important and timely task,” said Shah. “Instead of speculating about the potential impact of the emerging healthcare blogosphere, the consultancy has conducted thorough primary and secondary research and created a work of great significance. Healthcare companies are already being talked about in blogs, but are not taking control of their own messages. I hope that Envision Solutions’ report will change that.”

Dmitriy Kruglyak, publisher of The Medical Blog Network (www.healthvoices.com), an online healthcare blog community and hosting service, also endorsed the report.

He said: “The publication of this first-of-its-kind report is an important milestone that validates the growing importance of medical blogging. Blogs have already changed the rules of the game in technology, politics and news. Envision Solutions’ comprehensive report provides valuable insights on how this communications medium will ultimately impact healthcare.”

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Michael Klusek July 12th, 2005

DrRubin.Com - Endocrinologist and Author of Dummies(tm) Medical Series |.

"Introduction to the Thyroid" will tell you what you need to know about this important but rarely appreciated gland: How to locate it, what it looks like and how large it is How your body controls its function What it does generally and in every organ of your body Length: 11 minutes

Dr. Rubin is the author of Diabetes For Dummies, Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, Thyroid For Dummies and High Blood Pressure For Dummies. Dr. Rubin is an internationally recognized authority on diabetes and thyroid disease, and is a frequent guest on local and national radio and television news programs.

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Michael Klusek May 8th, 2005

Daily Dose of DrGreene - DrGreene.blogs.com.

Dr. Greene is the Chief Medical Officer of A.D.A.M., the Founder & CEO of DrGreene.com, and the Pediatric Expert for AmericanBaby.com. He is on the Clinical Faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine where he sees patients and teaches Residents.

On his Web site, Dr. Greene answers pediatric questions submitted by readers from all over the world. DrGreene.com now receives over 14 million hits per month from parents, students, and medical professionals.

He is the author of The Parent’s Complete Guide to Ear Infections (People’s Medical Society, 1997). He is the medical expert for three additional books, The Parent’s Soup A-to-Z Guide to Your New Baby, (Contemporary Books, 1998) The Parent’s Soup A-to-Z Guide to Your Toddler, (Contemporary Books, 1999), The Mother of All Baby Books, (Hungry Minds, Inc., 2002).

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Michael Klusek April 19th, 2005

Sanoviv Medical Institute: Alternative Health Care Therapies.

Sanoviv Medical Institute is a fully accredited, leading edge medical facility, that blends state of the art 21st century medicine with an upscale luxury atmosphere. At the core of the Sanoviv philosophy is the belief that the body has the power to heal itself when provided with the proper environment and is relieved of its accumulated toxic burden. It’s a remarkable haven that challenges conventional medicine, all the while respecting science and the wisdom of the human body.

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Michael Klusek April 4th, 2005

Eide Neurolearning Blog and Learning Styles

Seminal concept in my opinion. Please don’t miss reading the full article.

During the past five years, blogging has exploded from virtual non-existence into an important and influential sociocultural force. Recent survey data indicate that there are now nearly 10 million bloggers, 90% of whom are between the ages of 13 and 29 years old. This incredible upsurge in activity has caused us to wonder: What effect is all this blogging having on the brains of bloggers? Why ask this question? The primary reason can be found in one of the central tenets of modern neuroscience: "The neurons that fire together, wire together." What this basically means is that our mental activities actually cause changes in the structures of our brains–not only what we think, but how we think as well.

After surveying the general range of materials that the blogosphere has to offer, we believe the following basic largely supportive conclusions are warranted:

1. Blogs can promote critical and analytical thinking.

2. Blogging can be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking.

5. Blogging combines the best of solitary reflection and social interaction.

In conclusion, it looks as if blogging will be very good for our brains. It holds enormous potential in education, and it could take societal communication and creative exchange onto a whole new level.

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Michael Klusek March 11th, 2005

CAMLAW : Complementary And Alternative Medicine Law Blog: Medical Doctors vs. Chiropractors: History Repeats Itself.

Reviews of Michael’s Book, Future Medicine

"Cohen does for medicine what Kuhn did for science in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." Rosemarie Tong, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor in Health Care Ethics at the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Michael Klusek March 11th, 2005

DB’s Medical Rants.

Even though internist Bob Centor’s two-year-old blog is titled DB’s [Dr. Bob's] Medical Rants (www.medrants.com), his comments on clinical issues and the state of medicine aren’t red-faced diatribes. Rather, they’re short, reasoned, educational snippets of commentary on article excerpts he posts about his great passion—medicine.

For instance, in response to a recent JAMA article on the possibility that lipid-lowering therapy may reduce mortality after major surgery, Centor posts the comment: “We have interesting data founded in solid theory. But, as the investigator cautions, we still need a prospective study prior to widespread adoption of this new strategy.” To a story in The Washington Post on rethinking cardiac risk factors, he simply adds: “I recommend this article as a nice summary of an important topic.”

Centor is associate dean of continuing medical education at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham. Students who regularly peruse his blog receive CME credit. Centor had followed a number of blogs before starting his own. “I thought, ‘Boy, that would be fun to do,’ ” he recalls. Blogging has disciplined him to keep abreast of medical news. It has also improved his writing. “I communicate better orally than with the written word,” he says. “This was a way to become a better writer.”

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Michael Klusek March 11th, 2005

mercola.com blog.

The World’s Number One Natural Health Site

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Michael Klusek March 11th, 2005

Medical Economics - Doctors and "blogs".  Physicians are beginning to take advantage of this new-age alternative to journaling, and getting lots more mileage from it.

Enoch Choi:
the physician as diarist

Pennie Marchetti:
the physician as pundit

Robert M. Centor:
the physician as educator

Joseph Mercola:
the physician as entrepreneur

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Michael Klusek March 11th, 2005

Blogging offers doctors outlet for opinions

Kevin Pho, M.D., is an internist in a five-physician Harvard Pilgrim primary care practice in Nashua, N.H. Allen Roberts, M.D., is an emergency room physician in Fort Worth. The two physicians share a profession and a hobby. Both run weblogs.

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