05/09/2012
NIH Director Francis Collins, Atul Butte of the Stanford School of Medicine, David Patterson of the University of California-Berkeley and Taylor Sittler of UC-San Francisco discussed new efforts to mine "big data" for health care and scientific research.
12/14/2011
Kathleen Gallagher of CDC, Kathryn Turner of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and Sara Cody of the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health spoke with iHealthBeat about states' progress in electronic disease tracking and the remaining obstacles.
12/08/2010
Earl Ferguson, director of the Southern Sierra Telehealth Network, spoke with iHealthBeat about how telemedicine tools can help people in rural areas obtain access to primary care providers and specialists.
12/23/2009
Anita Barry, Margaux Joffe and Ann Scales of the Boston Public Health Commission spoke with iHealthBeat about using social media to disseminate health care information.
08/26/2009
Julia Gunn of the Boston Public Health Commission, Bob Hart of Veratect, Jeff Levi of Trust for America's Health and Henry Niman of Recombinomics spoke with iHealthBeat about current gaps in pandemic tracking systems.
03/27/2009
Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund, Lynn Etheredge director of the Rapid Learning Project, and Margaret O’Kane, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, talked about the proposed network with iHealthBeat.
11/19/2008
Lillie Coney of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Deborah Peel of Patient Privacy Rights and Lisa Winston of the University of California-San Francisco discuss the privacy implications of Google's Flu Trends tool.
09/05/2008
Jeff Johnson, an epidemiologist; Dean Lampman, a surveillance coordinator; Leslie Lenert, a health informatics expert; and Bill Stephens, a public health expert, discussed the national effort with iHealthBeat.
08/04/2008
Katrina Bramstedt, a clinical ethicist at California Pacific Medical Center, and Bryan Stewart, president of Donate Life California, discussed the effort to boost the number of organ donors nationwide through online registration.
07/01/2008
Ken Buetow of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Bioinformatics, Eliot Siegel of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Peter Traber of Baylor College of Medicine discuss NCI's caBIG project.