Super Smart Health

Welcome to the SuperSmartHealth Blog!

by Daniel Friedland | Oct 21, 2008 05:47:00 PM

We’re delighted you’ve found your way to our site, especially since we’ve just flipped the switch on October 22nd to put SuperSmartHealth online. We welcome any feedback you may have how we can improve any aspect of the site (feedback@supersmarthealth.com).

Our website provides gateways to knowledge, support and inspiration through which healthcare providers and consumers can harness tools and resources to navigate scientific information, the healthcare system and stress and uncertainty. 

The primary purpose of this blog is to explore “SuperSmart” concepts and resources within each of these gateways, with a goal of becoming a clearinghouse for the many smart initiatives in healthcare. In addition to commentary I will be interviewing leaders in the healthcare industry and look forward to your comments. I hope this blog will be of interest and usefulness to both healthcare providers and consumers in supporting your partnership to better health.

To give you a brief background about me (my bio is available in the About Us section), I’m Daniel Friedland, an internal medicine physician and author of one of the early textbooks on Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM, the framework laid out for you in the gateway for navigating health information). Over the last decade I’ve taught thousands of health care providers and allied professionals throughout the U.S. how to practice EBM. I am excited with the launch of this website to begin teaching EBM to consumers. My passion for doing this is to support doctors and patients with this common framework to strengthen a shared-decision making bond.

As much as I understand the tremendous value that EBM offers to navigate scientific knowledge, I also recognize that it is not enough to cultivate an experience of health in the broadest sense of the word (captured more fully by wholeness, the root from which the word is derived). A large purpose of this website is to incorporate EBM within a holistic vision of health and to balance the important roles that both science and spirituality play in health and healing. I’ll share more about this and what’s driven my interest and perspective in future blogs.

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I’ll be traveling this week to San Francisco to the Health 2.0 Conference, and look forward to reporting back when I return…

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