Welcome to the new CareTALK blog, CareTALK Today!!

You may be familiar with our first blog on Yahoo! Health Aging and Caregiving: Healthy Living for a Lifetime written by Dr. Brent Ridge, shareholder and board member of CareTALK and current VP of Healthy Living at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (and if you’re not familiar with it, check it out! It’s very interesting.) : )

However, this blog will be nothing like it--- this will be written by the CareTALK Gals (for those of you who know us, you knew it was only a matter of time…). CareTALK Today will be a collection of our thoughts on anything & everything in the healthcare space that is fun & fascinating (Yes, you read right…).

Healthcare deserves a sophisticated forum of discussion – more than what is being held out there today. Here you will read articles about influencers in the space— a coalescence of brain trust of passionate and influential people for healthcare. We consider ourselves a forum for innovative ideas and we want to point the way to new trends. How will new technology empower us? All those health related/technology articles in the NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, etc.--- what does all of this mean for us? Whether its health records or embedding chips in humans for monitoring diseases and tests---what does this all mean to us as human beings--and as a society at large?

We don’t profess to be experts and we are not guided by any special interest or point of view. We’re just like you—mothers, daughters, sisters, families and friends. However, after years of living and breathing this space, we know who’s who and what’s what. CareTALK Today aims to create a forum for thought leaders/conveners for the healthcare (and anything related to it) space. Politics, policy, legal, financial, and products, goods and services purveyors will all be participants in our CareTALK Today community. Healthcare in the 21st century has broader considerations. Let’s have a real discourse.

As the tagline reads this is “The real marketplace for ideas, thoughts, and trends in the healthcare space”.

We only know what we know--- and we have opinions on everything. And no… we will not mince words. We will tell it how it is (there are already enough sites out there catering to the system).

PS. One of the top VCs had asked the CareTALK Gals a while ago to put him on the distribution list we usually send out only to our partners to keep them informed on what’s happening in the space. This is after not returning our calls for two years and trying to get proprietary information from us regarding one of our partners (don’t worry, he wasn’t successful).

Perhaps we’ll send him an invitation to read our blog. ;- )