Roni F. Zeiger is an American

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

and technologist. He is notable for his work as the Chief Health Strategist (2006–2012) at

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where he developed

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and

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. He is a co-founder of the Smart Patients project. In 2019, Zeiger announced he would be joining

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as the Head of Health Strategy.

Education

Zeiger received his medical degree at

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, including a master's degree in

biomedical informatics Health informatics is the field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic hea ...

and he did his

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(UCSF). He was an internist by training. He became interesting in the application of technology in healthcare during his medical training, and noticing how difficult it was to find things in the medical records and how as time went on, the records got larger and more difficult to navigate.

Work

Zeiger did

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for some time. Zeiger has been profiled for partnering tech companies to health efforts.

Google

Zeiger was Chief Health Strategist (2006–2012) at

where he worked on

, symptom, anatomy, and health search on

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, and

Smart Patients

With Gilles Frydman, founder of the Association of Cancer Online Resources, Zeiger co-founded the Smart Patients project. The project is a

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and

social media Social media are interactive media technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. While challenges to the definition of ''social medi ...

platform which connects

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participants in

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studies to each other for personal conversations.

Bibliography

This is a select list of some of Zeiger's writings. * * * *

References

External links

personal homepageSmart Patients official website
*Video
Who is the real medical expert?
''TEDMED Talks'' from

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2013 conference (April 2013) *Radio
A Chat with Roni Zeiger, MD CEO 'Smart Patients'
(April 2013) from ''This Week in Health Innovation'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Zeiger, Roni Living people American public health doctors Google people Stanford University School of Medicine alumni Year of birth missing (living people)