Letting go — two very simple words that shouldn’t require much effort. Except for someone like me, who considers control one of my five daily food groups.
It started this weekend while back-to-school shopping with my daughter. We were looking at backpacks and I pointed out a Justin Bieber and really cute [...]

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By Kaitlyn Beauregard, Eliza summer intern
Nutritious food. Exercise. A focus on health. From the moment I was born, I was surrounded by an emphasis on health and well-being. My mom bought—and still buys—only organic food. My dad took me on bike rides and had me hooked on running by the time I was seven. Our [...]

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Eliza at Health Data Initiative of Institute of Medicine and Department of Health and Human Services

To see Eliza’s presentation at the HDI Forum, click the above picture

The Atlantic thinks that Todd Park, CTO of Health and Human Services can save health care, or at least revolutionize it. Well maybe not just him, but along [...]

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Most people would agree that there are parts of our country where it’s just no easy to find fresh, affordable food. According to the US Department of Agriculture’s “Food Desert Locator,” about 10% of the country is now a “food desert.”

A food desert isolates residents from healthy foods

But a recent article in the [...]

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People at Eliza tend to be a humble, down-to-earth crowd. It might be the company culture, or it might be self-selection on the part of the poor crazed souls who choose to work here. For whatever reason, it’s pretty rare to see a team or individual engaged in some (well-deserved) outward [...]

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Renowned health futurist Jeff Goldsmith, PhD again joined our own Alexandra Drane to share takeaways from the first year of health reform — and what health care organizations can do to set themselves up for success going forward.
Request access to the full discussion here.

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My family and I just returned from four days in Las Vegas - my husband and I were renewing our wedding vows with Elvis. Too much partying and when I got home I could have slept for a week. On Sunday morning I realized that I haven’t been the picture of health for [...]

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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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Check out an interesting set of responses from bloggers, entrepreneurs, clinicians, and other healthcare leaders to this provocative question posed by Emmi Solutions:
“Is Patient-Centered Care a Buzzword or a Revolution?”
Here’s our response. We’d love to hear your take on the question, too.

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Great video footage of sessions from the Economist’s Ideas Economy event is now available – including a lively panel titled “Move Fast and Break Stuff,” featuring our own Alexandra Drane as well as folks from NASA, Facebook, and Boxee.

(Contact us if you have trouble accessing the video.)
The panel focused on what you might [...]

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As we’ve discovered through our work with Engage With Grace, almost everyone has (or knows someone who has) an end-of-life story that didn’t align with the individual’s or their family’s values. To help ensure we all better understand, communicate, and have honored our end-of-life wishes, this year we are once again participating in  National Healthcare Decisions Day — which [...]

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We grow up hearing about not judging a book by its cover. But recently an article was written in the Boston Globe about perceptions of an organization that is near to my heart, the Junior League of Boston.
Some people give me a blank stare when I mention the Junior League. Those who grew up down [...]

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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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“The lesson that you learn from this is that earthquakes don’t come with a warning. And that’s why being prepared is so critical.”
It’s an obvious yet instructive comment from FEMA, as reported in the New York Times.
Of course, there is still a lot of uncertainty about what’s going to happen next in Japan and beyond. And [...]

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