Web 3.0 and Mental Illness: Personalization

Web 3.0 and Mental Illness: Personalization Finally, all this would be so much more manageable with a serious dose of personalization that offers both a virtual and a physical case manager. Based on the illness, location, insurance plan, family situation, patient demographics, and so on, custom solutions need to be researched and designed. A virtual

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Web 3.0 and Mental Illness: Content, Community And Commerce

Web 3.0 and Mental Illness: Content The content needs of the domain are immense and range all the way from content related to various illnesses, their symptoms, medications, prognosis, and state of research, to the vast spectrum of discussions and insights on coping mechanisms and support resources for family and friends.

Web 3.0 and Mental Illness: Context

First, we explore context. What brings users to the web? It could be that a family member is in the middle of a first psychosis. However, the family has no experience of the phenomenon, and hence, they do not know what the symptoms mean. They come to the web for research.

Web 3.0 and Mental Illness: Introduction

This holiday season, as we play with fun topic like music, food, and dance, I also want to tackle one heavy topic: mental illness. There has always been a stigma around mental illness. Yet, 10 percent of the U.S. population is mentally ill. And if you extrapolate from that number, it is conceivable that worldwide,

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Vision India 2020: Care

I have written a series of columns on healthcare over the last several weeks. Most of them were focused on healthcare for the rural and under-served population. This column addresses a business opportunity for the growing affluent class in India in the healthcare sector.

Web 3.0 & Online Health (Part 3)

Business Model Online health sites earn majority of their revenues from advertising and sponsorship programs. They also earn revenues by licensing and retailing products through their site. WebMD (Nasdaq: WBMD), the leading portal for online health, for example, saw its advertisement and sponsorship revenues grow by 45% to $52.4 million and licensing revenues increase by

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The Virginia Tech Massacre

All news channels are focused on the Virginia Tech massacre. Few, however, drill down to the key big picture issue : what is wrong with the US Mental Health Legal System? For those of my international readers, if you are not familiar with the incident, a short description from Wikipedia follows: “The Virginia Tech massacre

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