An Open Letter to the Obama Health Team
It seems likely that the Obama administration and Congress will spend a significant amount on health IT by attaching it as a first-order priority to the fiscal stimulus package … The easy solution would be to spend most of the health IT funds on EHRs. The EHR industry has made it easy by establishing a mechanism to “certify” EHR products if they incorporate certain features and functions. But the easy solution would not be the right one. EHRs still are notoriously expensive. Often, practicing physicians do not consider many of the features and functions to be useful or important.
Clark Reed, Environmental Protection Agency
Video: Energy efficiency investments are becoming more and more cost effective. The return on investment is one of the safest returns any organization can expect. Traditionally, energy has accounted for around 2% of a healthcare facilities operating costs. That has been increasing over the past few years in an industry that typically earns slim profit margins to begin with. Money that used to go towards utilities can now be re-invested to provide better patient care.
Esther Dyson on Health
Video: Esther Dyson, Internet mover and shaker and board member of 23andMe, a consumer-facing genetic testing company, discusses the future of the Internet and the challenges and opportunities associated with the genomics movement.
The User Experience with Health 2.0: Doctors and Patients
Video: Over the past six weeks we’ve interviewed doctors and patients about how they use Web 2.0 technologies to manage disease and conditions. We traveled from San Francisco to Brooklyn, with a pit stop in Second Life.
The American Alpine Club
Video: As climbing becomes more and more popular, and people are running farther into the mountains and scaling harder and harder cliffs, the presence of a strong organization - a not-for-profit organization, by climbers and for climbers - becomes even more important.
A Brief History of Medicine.
VIDEO: How to tell the history of medicine in under four minutes, thirty seconds.
Déme La Vaca
Article: My sister and I just arrived in Buenos Aires, the starting point to our adventures in Argentina. Next stop, Las Lenas, where we’ll be skiing for the next seven days. My phrase of the day so far has been “déme la vaca”, which i will use frequently in the restaurants. This is all part of my research into Argentinian beef versus American beef.
Alzheimers and RFID: Safety First or Privacy Violation?
ARTICLE: Radio Frequency Identification Devices are not new. They’ve just never been used this way in humans.
The Living Brain - An Interview with Norman Doidge
AUDIO: Did you that your brain can grow new cells, reorganize its networks, and improve with time? This is not the immutable organ you learned about in high school biology class. The human brain is in fact a living, changing structure with immense potential for development.
ACT UP Turns 20: The Voice of AIDS in America
“Could anyone have imagined six million Jews would be exterminated during World War II,” says Andrew Velez, Chair of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power Action Committee during the recent taping of our web TV series Reporting AIDS. “Nor did I think AIDS would become a world-wide epidemic killing millions of people.â€
In 1981, recognized as […]
