A wide variety of topics exist under the umbrella of “healthcare,” including law, various healthcare professions, preventative medicine and nutrition. All these topics and more are covered in this list of the 50 best healthcare blogs established since January 2009. The list includes blogs created in 2009 and 2010, listed by month of creation.
Healthcare Blogs Created in 2009
- Health IT Law Blog: Healthcare IT Lawyer & Attorney of Post & Schell Law Firm, offering services related to HIT, health care systems, HIPAA compliance and more (January).
- Healthy Hearts & Bodies with Heartstrong: Nationally recognized experts Carolyn Strimike, RN, MSN, APN-C and Margaret Latrella, RN, MSN, APN-C form this new blog, discussing heart disease and prevention (January).
- Hospital Life: Marty Bonick is President & CEO of Jewish Hospital Medical Campus, ranked as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report (January).
- EMR Straight Talk: This is a blog maintained by SRSsoft, makers of EMR software (February).
- Get Skinny Be Happy: A 30-something creative professional from Austin, TX started this blog as a place to write about an ongoing adventure of losing weight with Medifast (March).
- Health Reform Blog: Ken Thorpe, Ph.D. begins to provide insight into various components of the health reform package (March).
- Health Reform Talk: This blog is maintained by Wolters Kluwer Law & Business and focuses on health reform (March).
- Healthcare IT Consultant Blog: Informative news, videos, and specialty topics relevant to the healthcare IT professional (March).
- HL7 Standards Blog: Corepoint Health offers this conversation on healthcare and technology (March).
Obese Like Me: ObeseLikeMe.com is a resource of various information for obese people (March).- Clarifying Health: Everything you need to know about health insurance from Zane Benefits (April).
- Emergency Management & Continuity Planning: Emergency Management & Safety Solutions (EMS Solutions) is an internationally recognized firm in the field of emergency management, pandemic and continuity planning (April).
- Health Care Law Reform: McDermott Will & Emery’s health care law reform blog provides timely updates on U.S. health care law developments (April).
- The Gluten Free Food Blog: This is a place where those who suffer from celiac disease and gluten intolerance can come to get helpful up-to-date information on all things gluten-free (April).
- EMR Daily News: News of the day in the world of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Health Information Technology (HIT) (May).
- Leading the Way to Medical Excellence: This is the official blog for McLeod Health, a regional medical center located in Florence, SC. This blog contains notes from the president of this nonprofit facility (June).
- Dr. Shook’s Blog: Dr. Brad Shook is a licensed Chiropractor in North Carolina (July).
- St. Joseph Medical Center: This is one of a handful of medical centers that entered the blogosphere in 2009, this one written by the chief executive officer, Scott Kashman (July).
- WakeMed Voices: This is the official voice for WakeMed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, NC (July).
Diabetes Signs Symptoms: A diabetic shares information he picked up on the road to recovery (August).- Nursing Notes: An overall view of nursing nationwide covering significant issues (August).
- Change the Outcome: This is the official Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center blog (October).
- Be Active Your Way Blog: The Healthy People 2020 initiative aims to unify the national dialogue about health, motivate actions, and encourage new directions in health promotion (November).
- Bright on Your Health: Mary Brighton, a registered dietitian living in the South of France, discusses observations on European lifestyle in relation to mental and physical health (November).
- Health IT Buzz: The official blog for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services office of the national coordinator for health information technology (November).
- Healthy Heart Guy Blog: On October 16, 2009, Michael survived sudden cardiac arrest while riding on a NYC subway train. He was clinically dead for about 25 minutes. This event triggered Michael’s new ambition to live a more healthy life (November).
- A Helping of Helga: Helga is part of the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba, Canada, and she imparts news and information about once per month on her blog (December).
Healthcare Blogs Created in 2010
- Childhood Obesity News: Dr. Robert A. Pretlow is a pediatrician and childhood obesity specialist. He has been researching and spreading awareness on the childhood obesity epidemic in the US for more than a decade (February).
- Olivejooice: An RN student, newly diagnosed with diabetes, reaches out (February).
Wild About Health: The Wild Blueberry Association of North America created the Wild About Health blog to broaden the conversation about nutrition, wellness, healthy aging and disease prevention (February).- Anti-Inflammatory Remarks: Straight talk on health and wellness — a life-long interest which is now this blogger’s career (March).
- Christina’s Considerations: Christina Thielst is a skilled and capable hospital and healthcare administrator and entrepreneur with a deep desire for continually improving the health of the community being served (March).
- Dr. Ken Battles Kidney Cancer Blog: This blog is the effort of a person who is battling kidney cancer, and who also now is part of the steering committee for the new International Kidney Cancer Coalition (IKCC) (March).
- Love Those Shoes — Kids: A focus on kids’ health and wellness footwear (March).
- Project Health Design: Rethinking the power and potential of personal health records (March).
- The cHealth Blog: A division of Partners HealthCare, the Center for Connected Health works with Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals (March).
- Women’s Health Blog: A focus on women and diet, health, nutrition and relationships (March).
- Bob New Heart: This blog is about Bob Reid’s Heart Transplant from the day of his operation December 18, 2009 at UCSF Med Center in San Francisco to the present (April).
- Typical Type 1: Jacquie Paul Wojcik, PWD, NBD, wants to know if there’s anything new to write about diabetes. She’s noted for her great writing (April).
Group Health Connects: This blog is an online staff to staff, member to member meeting place to create posts about events, for recruitment and promotion (May).- Mental Healthcare Reform: This educational blog is maintained by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (May).
- Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media: This blog updates users on how the Mayo Clinic is using social media for the health care revolution (July).
- Harvard Health Blog: Harvard medical School offers a blog filled with advice for a healthier life (August).
- Health Reform in Action: This White House blog shows how the new health care reform is working (September).
- Health Sciences Connect: We’re a bit confused…this blog may have launched in 2009, but it appears it may really launch in 2011. This blog is intended to bridge idea exchange between leaders of the Oracle Health Sciences team and the life sciences & healthcare community (October).
- ShareCare Blog: Jeff Arnold is just one blog among several in this new resource that helps answer questions about various illnesses and diseases. The site is much like a FaceBook for health (October).
- Darin’s Naturals: This blog focuses on “super foods,” insights, information and global views on optimum health, nutrition, sustainable practices, herbs and more (November).
- Innate Response Formulas: This blog focuses on preventative health, supported by their products that are crafted and sourced from fresh raw foods (November).
- Saraya Health: This online shop carries a blog that focuses on diabetes diets and weight management solutions through natural foods (November).
- Weight Loss: Three thirty-something parents fed up with being overweight and out of work decided to develop a blog that focuses on healthy lifestyles (November).
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