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With less than 3 weeks to go until this groundbreaking event, we are happy to announce 2 NEW special sessions! Patients 2.0: Join Gilles Frydman, ACOR, as he hosts a panel of 7 vocal ePatients who will share their personal…
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Health 2.0 Goes to Washington conference – DC, June 7th!
A hospital can maintain a 24-7 hotline. They can be on Google Talk, they can do videoconferencing if the patient supports it. Just have a front-end where the caller can input some identification number that brings up the record.
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Communication is the low-hanging fruit in health reform
I first noticed this Associated Press article, 1 in 4 households with cell phone, no landline , on KurzweilAI.net . Interesting enough, but I got to wondering why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (aka CDC) did research on landline use. It would seem that the FCC or some other agency associated with telecommunications might be more likely to do such.
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Wireless living
I am amplifying a post by Roy Poses entitled ” Why Pretend An Advertising Executive and Chamber of Commerce Leader Are Public Health Experts? “.
The Kansas City Council is expected today to make official some significant cuts in city funding for a variety of health care providers.
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KC Council expected to make cuts in funding to health care providers
As part of National Nurses Week, the family says they share a passion for the health care profession.
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Health care profession all in the family for an area couple and their daughter
A health care finance bill that trims Minnesota’s current budget deficit by as much as $114 million, preserves MinnesotaCare, and covers more of the state’s uninsured gained Senate approval Wednesday night despite the threat of a governor’s veto.
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Senate approves health care finance bill despite governor’s veto threat
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen has written a book about his proposal to improve the American health care system.
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Bredesen Pens Book On Health Care Overhaul
Democratic lawmakers in California have squashed a bill that would have required voter approval before any state or federal health care legislation could take effect.
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Plan For Health Care Reform Vote Nixed
The recently passed federal health care reform legislation was the topic of the day at a town hall meeting and a question-and-answer session with the AAFPs elected leaders during the Annual Leadership Forum/National Conference of Special Constituencies, here on April 30.
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AAFP Leaders Answer Member Questions on the AAFP and Health Care Reform Legislation
The Kansas City Council is expected to make official Thursday some significant cuts in city funding for a variety of health care providers.
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KC to cut money for health care providers
WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Four Brooklyn, N.Y.-area residents have been charged in connection with a health care fraud scheme operated out of the Solstice Wellness Center, a Brooklyn-area clinic that purported to specialize in providing physical therapy and various diagnostic tests, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Brooklyn Physical Therapy Clinic Executive and Three Employees Charged in Health Care Fraud Scheme
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of some top health care equipment companies are mixed at noon: Becton Dickinson fell $.37 or .5 percent, to $75.07. Covidien fell $.43 or .9 percent, to $46.32. Millipore fell $.01 or percent, to $106.06
Have “design thinking” and “social innovation” become permanently intertwined? You’d have to think so based on Tim Brown’s book and the prevailing discourse at any major design/innovation conference (SXSW, PICNIC, GEL, GAIN, LIFT)
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8 Lessons for Creating Social Impact
First off, I want to say that this is quite long, but it has some really interesting stuff in it. I’ve read posts from a lot of people who work for transcription companies, who work for customer services companies who have had some real problems with the HR people and unlike the real world you can’t just reach out and smack them
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Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Cognizant, Infosys, Wipro, Health Care REIT and Forest City Enterprises Inc.
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Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Cognizant, Infosys, Wipro, Health Care REIT and Forest City Enterprises Inc.
(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future . The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria , Rakesh Khurana , and Scott Snook .) Earlier this year, at the Economist summit on Sustainability , Paul Polman , the CEO of the ~€40m consumer products giant Unilever, announced that “We have set out a new vision for the company – the challenge of doubling our size whilst reducing our environmental footprint. ..
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Leadership in the Age of Climate Change
By David C. Kibbe I’ve been spending a lot of time involved in several Work Groups of the NHIN Direct Project, being run by ONC/HHS. The Project is aimed at developing secure, affordable, health data exchange over the Internet so…
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NHIN Direct: Getting to the Health Internet, Finally!
Major change in the United States always bring global reverberations and the recent passage of health care reform in that country will no doubt have many repercussions for the global health industry, driving change that will impact all pharmaceutical companies and their marketing efforts. We have seen many changes in the marketing landscape in most
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Several Amazing Ideas On The Global Evolution Of Pharma Marketing
I recently attended a large meeting of business executives where the presenter was using PowerPoint and a projector. As he prepared, and the gathered crowd waited, he realized that he was unable to display his presentation. After a few moments of nervously fidgeting with the connection and configurations, he quietly …
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Who are your Healthcare “Rock Stars”?