By Kyung M. Song, Seattle Times May 11--E-mails between doctors and patients are de rigueur at Group Health Cooperative. But there's another way the two sides keep in touch: via blogs and online forums.

By Marsha King, Seattle Times Jan. 13--At age 77, Alice Pickett of Seattle is healthy and active, but every once in a while, she temporarily forgets why she walked into a room or where she put the car keys. She worried that it might be the start of Alzheimer's.

By Brandler, Emily Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative, which has more than 120,000 members in Eastern Washington, says it plans to move its South Hill clinic later this year to the Regal Place professional building that's rising on the west side of Regal Street just north of Thurston Avenue.

Group Health Cooperative, (www.ghc.org), announced the selection of its new partner: Sedgwick Rd., a Seattle-based, full-service advertising agency who will take the lead on Group Health's multi-million dollar broadcast, print, online and non-traditional advertising components.

By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash. Dec. 4--When Valkyrie Reid didn't feel well late last month, she did something almost revolutionary by current health-care standards: She e-mailed her doctor. On the receiving end was Dr.