Interview with Jon Erickson of Parlerai

Jon Erickson is the co-founder of Parlerai, the world’s first augmentative collaboration service. He has a daughter with special needs and is a longtime Internet Technologist. His technical expertise, business experience and personal responsibility for his daughter led to the vision of Parlerai. Jon has a BS in Management Information Systems from Alderson-Broaddus College, in Philippi, [...]

Interview with Rajiv Mehta of Zume Life

Rajiv has led strategy and execution in numerous technologies for more than two decades, including mobile devices, wireless technologies, laser systems, digital imaging, stereo-vision systems and natural language processing technologies. He has played key leadership roles at Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Interval Research, Regis McKenna and Symbol Technologies. Rajiv has also been a startup CEO [...]

Interview with Fred Eberlein from ReliefeInSite

Fred Eberlein is co-founder and CEO of ReliefInSite. Fred’s career spans more than 25 years in the computer industry, working both in the US and Europe. His interest in pain management started in June 2000 during a meeting he had with Dr. Mark Perloe, in Atlanta. At that time Fred, an earlier investor in the [...]

Interview with Dr Paul Wicks from PatientsLikeMe

Paul Wicks (BSc Dunelm, PhD London, CSci) is part of the research team at PatientsLikeMe. He was born in Reading, England and spent several years living in Switzerland and the United States during childhood. He developed an interest in human biology at A-Level and chose to read Psychology at Durham University. Following his undergraduate degree [...]

Interview with David Isserman from RareShare

Download interview or listen to it: RareShare was co-founded by David Isserman and Eric Steel in early 2008 on the idea that there is a better way to bring together patients, families and healthcare professionals to share knowledge and personal experiences about rare medical disorders. While rare disorders may seem to impact only a small [...]

Interview with Dr. Amir Hannan

About Dr. Amir Hannan Dr Amir Hannan is a full time General Practitioner at Haughton Thornley Medical Centres in Hyde and a founding member of the Records Access Collaborative having enabled all his patients to be able to have full access to GP held records via the internet if they wish for over three years. [...]

Interview with David Doherty from 3G Doctor

Download interview or listen to it About the interview David Doherty is the Head of Business Development at 3G Doctor, an innovative mHealth startup based in Ireland. Following studies in Medicine at University College Hospital in London, David began to research and design a remote care solution that would provide patients with a means of private [...]

Interview with Dr. Brian Fisher from PAERS

Dr Brian Fisher is a GP at Wells Park Surgery, and project executive & clinical lead at PAERS Limited (Patient Access to their Electronic Records System – www.paers.co.uk). He realised that it was important to give patients access to their record and that this would involve solving a number of issues. Brian managed to secure [...]

Interview with Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

Interview with Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, recorded by Dr. David Kibbe on 29 August 2008. David Kibbe: Welcome, this is David Kibbe, Dr. David Kibbe, and you are listening to the first of our podcasts on the InterHealth Network. My guest today is Mohammad Al-Ubaydli who is the founder of a new web portal for patients [...]

Health 2.0 Podcasts — Interviews with people of interest

It’s with great pleasure that I join the Patients Know Best project by interviewing the people and organizations of Health 2.0, here and abroad.  Over the last couple of years I have learned a lot from consumers, patients, physicians, developers, entrepreneurs, and bloggers about the ways in which the Internet and Web are being used [...]