February 2012
1 post
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,”...”
– The Guts of a New Machine - NYTimes.com
January 2012
1 post
WatchWellness is about making lots of good choices over time. We need to make these choices more evident, concise, and the consequences of them easier to understand.
November 2011
1 post
Politilines →
Note that none of the front runners are touching healthcare.
September 2011
2 posts
The nation's "best" hospitals aren't even in the... →
jayparkinsonmd:
In the latest advance for health care accountability, the country’s leading hospital accreditation board, the Joint Commission, released a list on Tuesday of 405 medical centers that have been the most diligent in following protocols to treat conditions like heart attack and pneumonia. Almost without exception, most highly regarded hospitals in the United States, from Johns...
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May 2011
1 post
“We were able to notify displaced patients via Twitter on where to acquire...”
– BBC News - Twitter ‘vital’ link to patients, say doctors in Japan (via bijan)
April 2011
2 posts
iPhone to dominate U.S. physician smartphone... →
According to a recent survey of U.S. physicians, 61 percent intend to own an iPhone by the end of 2011. This is up from 39 percent at the beginning of the year and compares with the iPhone’s 24.7 percent adoption among general U.S. smartphone users.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
January 2011
2 posts
Autism study fraudulent →
As if there was actually more evidence needed that vaccines don’t cause autism, the 1998 British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was recently discovered to be an elaborate fraud. Not just incorrect, a fraud.
Rudeness Is a Neurotoxin →
A disrespectful, stressful social environment is a neurotoxin for the brain and psyche, and the scars are permanent.
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
3 posts
The new IT landscape for health insurers -... →
October 2010
4 posts
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.: How We Can Save... →
1. For pneumonia, which is currently the number-one killer in developing countries, killing over 2 million children each year: immunizing children could save up to 800,000 lives.
2. For the diarrheal diseases that kill about 1.8 million people every year, we have a new rotavirus vaccine that could protect as many as/more than 300,000.
3. A meningitis A vaccine is about ready to be rolled out...
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology of... →
September 2010
7 posts
Riva Greenberg: 4 Habits That Revolutionize a... →
1) Invest in the beginning of the visit and build rapport, 2) Elicit the patient’s perspective, 3) Demonstrate empathy and 4) Involve patients at the end of the visit in designing a treatment plan. The pay off: physicians become more effective and successful in their work and patients get better health outcomes.
Stop the Internet Blacklist! | Demand Progress →
For those of you who have a Senator. Tell him(her) that you do not want a Chinese-style internet.
Whooping cough makes a comeback →
In affluent Marin County north of San Francisco, for example, about 13 percent of parents refused vaccination for their kindergartners in 2009, according to the state’s Department of Public Health. Marin has one of the highest rates of infection this year.
W.T.F?
Abbott Voluntarily Recalls Certain Similac® Brand... →
Miles, Miles, Miles, It’s f’ing 2010. Get a scalable hosting arrangement for your recall sites. I’d really like to know if the bottle I just fed my baby has bugs in it. ‘K?
Vaccines don't cause autism →
So get your kids (and yourselves) vaccinated and save them & their playmates from this whooping cough bullshit, which is actually killing actual kids and not, you know, magically infecting them with autism. Vaccination is one of the greatest human discoveries ever — yes, Kanye, OF ALL TIME — has saved countless lives, and has made countless more lives significantly better. So:...
Healthy Behavior Change: Social Is Local →
This experiment suggests that the standard assumptions about social network diffusion may not always be accurate, especially when it comes to the spread of behaviors. So, instead of targeting random, casual contact networks to promote certain behaviors—such as public health interventions—more clustered networks such as neighborhoods and school classes should be targeted instead.
- Ars
August 2010
2 posts
“So which companies need to have a hacker-centric culture? Which companies are...”
– What Happened to Yahoo
July 2010
3 posts
Dept. of Justice Considers Web For ADA →
Should Patients Read the Doctor’s Notes? →
Survey: 36% of Docs Don’t Believe in Reporting... →
June 2010
2 posts
Everything you ever wanted to know about... →
May 2010
8 posts
The Man Who Could Unsnarl Manhattan Traffic →
A comprehensive approach to using incentives to manage resources in a complex demand system.
Blog | banksimple →
Hope this works. Healthcare needs a player like this.
Health reform's next test →
Center for Health Care Delivery Science
Will Gen X Lead the Way to Health Care Change? -... →
You can follow the link above for more stats and figures, but when we chatted with Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, we were intrigued by one theme he brought up: members of Generation X, or those born between 1965 and 1981, may be the group of consumers who actually do prod the system into changing its ways. “If there’s an epicenter of change, it’s that...
Free Text4baby Service for Moms and Moms-to-Be is... →
5 Myths on Our Sick Health Care System |... →
3. We would save a lot if we could cut the administrative waste of private insurance.
“Are your [healthcare] services as easy as buying a book on Amazon or as...”
– The Future Well
April 2010
11 posts
“Patients are an unused part of the health care... →
2074 pages --> 13 pages →
What We Learned From H1N1’s First Year →
We cannot continue to be surprised every time a new virus emerges. Instead, we must use the lessons we’ve learned during the year since H1N1 arrived to develop more effective public health responses.
Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful... →
Very few consumer health web apps follow these.
Wireless health care: When your carpet calls your... →
The coming convergence of wireless communications, social networking and medicine will transform health care
Scale sends weight to Google health, healthvault,... →
After taking the scale out of the box, you connect it to your USB port (only used during setup) and launch the scale configuration website. You specify the wireless access point and security settings to use and link the scale to a web-based account. You set up users in your account and provide basic height/age/preferred method for body mass index calculation. Technologies used - WiFi with WEP or...
The iPad goes live at BIDMC →
“If these mavericks are able to interface with the networked economy without...”
– Kevin Kelly — KK* Lifestream