The Benefits of Sharing Your Family Medical History with Your Doctor
Greg Pelton

Greg Pelton

Dr. Pelton was a professor and research scientist at Columbia University and is now dedicating his time to helping people stay healthy and care for their loved ones, during this new digital health era. In addition to his private medical practice, he currently serves as the chief medical officer for ICmed, a healthcare technology company.

November 6, 2018

The Benefits of Sharing Your Family Medical History with Your Doctor

  Family Medical History Is More Informative than Genome Mapping While there is understandable excitement about genome mapping, there is still much discovery and testing to be done to determine its efficacy in healthcare today. At-home DNA kits may be entertaining and perhaps revealing, but time and energy are better spent gathering and recording thorough […]

Caregivers

Don’t Just Take the Doctor’s Orders. Understand it!
Jerry Elprin

Jerry Elprin
ICmed,LLC

Jerry was born into what Time magazine once dubbed the “Silent Generation,” sandwiched between the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers. From that perspective, he brings his thoughts and observations on living “healthy” in today’s fast-changing, hyper-connected, often “disruptive” digitized world. After college and a hitch in the Army, he’s worked as a reporter, editor, and marketing executive while raising three now-grown children. He says "So much of what’s considered 'healthy' has changed and is often contradicting what I learned growing up."

July 29, 2017

Don’t Just Take the Doctor’s Orders. Understand it!

Dr. Google vs. Med SchoolAfter each visit with my primary care doctor, I get a one-page letter in the mail saying my blood counts, liver and kidney functions, blood sugar, cholesterol and remainder of my lab work were “all within normal limits.” I, then, get an email with a multi-page PDF “Summary of Visit” that […]

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