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” at an early Health 2.0 Medecision published my blog about health citizenship this week on the company’s Liberate.Health site. The emergence of health citizens in the U.S. — people re-claiming their health, health care, and control of data — is part of liberating health in America.
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” Since 1993 – only 25 years – Cochrane has spread across the globe, with centers on every populated continent: Cochrane UK (and their Evidently Cochrane blog , which is terrific). For now, the best we’ve got is the Cochrane US West Center at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon.
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