Once again, this Thanksgiving we are grateful to all the people who keep this mission alive day after day: to ensure that each and every one of us understands, communicates, and has honored their end of life wishes.
Seems almost more fitting than usual this year – the year of making change happen. 2011 gave us [...]

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Most of our feel-good moments around the office happen when we hear that our outreach helped someone get early detection and treatment for a medical condition, or connected them with support just when they were feeling their most desperate.
But then are there moments like this: a couple dozen middle-school aged boys on stage, singing their [...]

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Clear a couple hours on your calendars — many of the videos from last October’s TEDMED conference are now posted and there are so many worth watching.
Check out this wonderfully on-point commentary from advocate ePatientDave on two talks (one by occasional Eliza/SeduceHealth collaborators Sekou and Steve; one by our own Alexandra Drane) that will make [...]

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[Blog post courtesy of SeduceHealth]

Every now and again the opportunity comes along to use what is happening in the world around us to really inspire.
Take the miners situation, for example. 33 men, trapped a half mile underground for 69 days. Experts from around the world tapping every bit of innovation and creativity they can to [...]

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One of Eliza’s main tenets is that even small actions can make a big difference.
That’s true when it comes to our health, to our relationships, and even to saving crustaceans (the really ancient ones, which probably don’t even taste good) from ending up on a platter with a side of drawn butter.
Read on for the story [...]

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Thanks to Emmi Solutions for inviting us to contribute our take on how to “Connect with Soul” to their blog, Engaging the Patient.

Check out some of our top tenets for engaging people in their health – then add your own!

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I have written in past blogs about cultivating an exciting environment at Eliza and how we as a company are always striving to innovate and improving upon what we know and do.
As an HR professional, I don’t claim to know it all, and one way we try to keep our edge is to check out what other [...]

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John Kroeker didn’t know it at the time, but a hitchhiking nun in 1978 changed the course of his life.
This doctoral student in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell made an impulsive decision to drive the nun upstate to her ashram instead of going back to campus, and the conversation they had about meditation during that [...]

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Let me start off by saying that I LOVE my job.  I am one of those people who knew at an early age what I wanted to do in life and have been lucky enough to get paid for doing what I am passionate about.
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Dawn, setting up an impromptu omelette breakfast
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Recruiting is a true art form - although [...]

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It’s the end of a long day packed with presentations and commentary, and there’s just one more thing standing between you and a cocktail.
Award-winning spoken word artist Sekou takes the stage at the Health 2.0 meets Ix Therapy conference  to demonstrate the power of healthcare communication that skips past the superficial questions to connect on a [...]

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Puma City opened in Boston today.
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It’s a retail story/nightclub that follows the Puma boat in the Volvo Ocean Race around from Rio, to Boston, to Ireland and Russia — setting up shop and welcoming folks.
Oh yeah, it’s also made from recycled shipping containers and written up by design folks like Apartment Therapy and 2Modern.
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Lots of great [...]

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Alex lost a bet to Lucas and had to dress up as his alma mater’s mascot (MIT’s beaver).
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Alex as Mascot from Eliza Blog on Vimeo.
(This is a Flash video, so if you can’t see it just make sure you have the latest Flash version by downloading it here.)
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Part of being and staying well, especially in [...]

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Aloft is a rockin hotel.
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They designed the whole eperience around what individuals staying there need.
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In a nutshell, it’s about designing an experience around your users.
Kind of hard to explain by typing in a blog.
Let’s let Alex narrate:
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There, now doesn’t that make sense — and don’t you want to stay there next time you have a [...]

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Blogging is dead.
Wired Magazine said so.
They make the point that if you start a blog you’re almost guaranteed not to have it seriously adopted or indexed up to the top of a search engine.  There’s too much noise.  And now the professionals have caught on.  Most new blogs are corporate.  And corporate blogs are bad. [...]

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My wife Amy and I went to a Chinese New Year party recently. Our friends had requested our birth date before we got there and when we arrived we were given a name tag with our zodiac sign.
What I learned at this party (held by friends who studied acupuncture in China) is that the Chinese [...]

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