Thanks, MedCity News, for including the patient perspective in an article on Outcome Health!

Happy New Year! It seems I'm taking my own sweet time getting "back to work." I know it's a new year. And I'm happy with 2018 so far. But it's taken me the entire month of January to gear up to tackle the year ahead.  How about you? I hope you're off and running!

I'm happy to share last year's article from MedCity News, highlighting healthcare company Outcome Health, and including a patient perspective from little old me! (I don't think I've shared before - if so, chalk it up to the New Year slow mode!)

I've blogged about Outcome Health before, the healthcare company using technology to improve the patient experience in the doctor's office. So when MedCity News asked to interview me for an article highlighting the company, I was happy to participate. Love that they included the patient perspective in the first place!

You can read the entire article here - but my snippet is below. And keep an eye out for Outcome Health's technology in your doctor's office. Their tablets are popping up everywhere!

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One patient that has been pleasantly surprised by the company’s products is Sara Gorman, who was diagnosed with systemic lupus in 2001 at the age of 26. After a few years of attempting to push past the illness, she rethought her strategy. Instead of fighting against lupus, she chose to live her best life in spite of the disease. One big challenge was feeling alone. 

“There wasn’t anything on the Internet that spoke to me,” she said in a phone interview. “I thought, ‘I’m never going to be able to find a community of people that know what I’m going through.'”

But in the summer of 2015, she came across the startup’s products. While at an appointment with her rheumatologist, she was surprised to see a standalone tablet and began exploring the different tabs. Gorman was happy to find a section on lupus.

“I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, somebody cares about lupus!'” she recalled, adding that she went on to write about the experience on her blog, Despite Lupus.

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http://medcitynews.com/2017/07/healthcare-unicorn/