You can still use HealthTap to ask doctors your questions and get push notifications of their responses, but you can also reach out to a live doctor to ask personal, private health questions that you may not want to schedule an appointment for.
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Levin has been a board chairman and investor in one startup in the consumer health space, OrganizedWisdom.com that aims to be WebMD 2.o or a site where patients, doctors, and advisors can convene with questions and answers about specific health problems.
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Startup HealthTap is going after this problem with a free question-and-answer service in which consumers anonymously ask questions and doctors answer the questions.
The company originally launched as a way for people to anonymously ask health questions of doctors and get answers online or on a mobile phone.
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He joined as an executive assistant to the chairman and started a program called TimJ2 (as in "This is my job, too"), designed to get doctors and senior executives to answer simple questions from patients and visitors.
The World Health Organization said in a written statement Sunday that doctors still have a lot of questions and concerns about the virus.
The standard of care shifted for many doctors after the Women's Health Initiative trial was halted, but updated recommendations from the task force are important because many patients still have questions, and many doctors are reluctant to let go of old prescribing habits, Crandall said.
Doctors can build up reputation through answering questions and ultimately drive patients to their offline real-world practices.
HealthTap, which has mobile apps for consumers and doctors, routes the questions to the appropriate doctors who have expertise on the particular subjects of the questions.
By taking ownership of their own medical care, asking the right questions and making sure their doctors have the information they need to make the correct decisions.
As an alternative, Dr. Gigerenzer and his colleagues came up with a "fast-and-frugal" tree that asked the doctors just three sequential yes-no questions about each patient's electrocardiographs and other data.
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The colossal failure cast a pall over the good cholesterol field and raised questions over whether doctors understand how good cholesterol works.
But at the JJ Hospital in Mumbai, the 13-year-old has questions for his brother and his doctors -- where is the rest of his family?
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If a fistful of pills prevents heart attacks and deaths as well as a stent, it may mean that fewer angioplasty procedures are done as doctors back off and insurance companies ask tougher questions.
Instead patients, doctors and investors are again left with more questions than answers about the blockbuster drug.
And HealthTap only directs questions to doctors that are relevant to their specialties.
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Gutman says doctors are willing to jump in and answer a few questions when they have a few minutes.
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Those doctors will give you their own credentials, answer your questions, and then refer you to an in-person appointment if necessary.
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Earlier today, a study in Science Translational Medicine proposed that DNA sequencing could become a standard first-choice test for infants in neonatal intensive care units, because a combination of new software and hardware could allow doctors to get results in just 50 hours, answering questions about what is making a baby sick far faster when time is of the essence.
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Those valuable but expensive trials, where doctors design a careful experiment and then give patients either Vioxx or a comparator drug, could answer questions about Vioxx's safety.
Questions of when voluntary euthanasia can be permitted, the nature of consent and the role of doctors and families are regularly explored in both the popular media and professional journals.
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