March 2009
49 posts
WatchThis little girl has to be the cutest little person I’ve ever seen or heard…
I'm speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in SF on... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-29) →
Grizzly Bear (103)
Beirut (76)
The National (58)
Yo La Tengo (14)
Angelo Badalamenti (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
We need your help...can you please answer this...
WatchMy talk at Pecha Kucha NY this evening. It was like speed dating, but for good ideas.
Also, for those interested, there are screenshots of our soon-to-launch app inside the deck. There is also a screenshot of how we’re using Twitter to find patients who need us. You can expect to see this feed embedded into the doctor’s dashboard in Hello Health in the near future.
The guys at Ghava...
“The Swedish state is not prepared to own car factories.”
– Sweden Says No to Saving Saab
We need to take some lessons from Sweden. Our government-corporation is bogging us down making too many decisions to put the dinosaurs on life support.
Don't forget...Pecha Kucha New York is tonight.... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-22) →
Grizzly Bear (26)
The National (24)
The Flaming Lips (24)
Beirut (19)
The Strokes (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“In the present U.S. political context, a bottom-up strategy for spreading HIT...”
– David Blumenthal, Obama’s choice as Health IT guru
“With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial...”
– Clay Shirky (via betaworks) (via mikehudack)
Pecha Kucha New York →
Come hear all kinds of awesome speakers at Pecha Kucha NY on Monday…including me!
What is Pecha Kucha?
The idea of Pecha Kucha is simple: Invite a dozen creative professionals working across a variety of fields to present 20 slides for 20 seconds each on whatever topic the speaker pleases. This format keeps presentations concise, interest levels up, and gives more people the chance to...
“Middlemen add value when they bring taste or judgment or trust to bear on a...”
– Seth’s Blog: Where have all the agents gone?
Free Knowledge: Which Drugs Aren't Overpriced And... →
Using the power of unbiased science to see which meds are the most cost-effective, Consumer Reports launched a new publication Best Drugs for Less this week. It’s amazing what you can come up with when you’re not in anyone’s pockets except your readers’.
The AIG bonuses are the government's fault
In the rush to put the bird-brained dinosaur on life support, were there no rational stipulations to these handouts?
Here is $700 billion dollars, go crazy and, attaboy, continue doing what you’re doing?
No, they simply handed them money without putting reasonable stipulations on that money.
For example:
No bonuses. Renegotiate the contracts if you want the money. Sorry, deal with it.
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WatchTony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, gave this presentation at SXSW…anyone who has anything to building a consumer focusing company should hear this.
“The revolutionary forefathers were opposed to the form of government of their...”
– Eugene V. Debs as he represented himself in his own trial for opposing World War 1.
IBM Signs $500 Million IT Deal With Kaiser... →
Haha…$500 million dollars! How much did it cost to build Facebook? Or mint.com? Or flickr? Or hulu? Or Hello Health?
Hint…nah, nevermind…you get the point. The titanic is turning! Get out of the way!
PSFK Conference New York Speaker: Dr. Jay... →
Can’t wait for this! Should be a super interesting discussion because, as always, the folks at PSFK have their finger on the pulse of all things awesome!
Nielsen: Social Nets Overtake E-mail →
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay... →
This is the very discussion we’ll be having when the completely unsustainable health care industry implodes on itself in a few years. The only difference is that health care is a $2.5 trillion industry - one in every 5 dollars in America is spent on health care.
And the current health care business models have failed. And they’ll fail even more miserably in the next few years.
You...
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At Least 3 Percent of D.C. Residents Have HIV or... →
“Our rates are higher than West Africa,” said Shannon L. Hader, director of the District’s HIV/AIDS Administration, who once led the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s work in Zimbabwe. “They’re on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya.”
Sorry to be such a downer on a Sunday morning, but this is absurd. For many, our health care system...
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Health Affairs=> Take Two Aspirin And Tweet Me In... →
So now the academics are taking note of Hello Health (Health Affairs is the most respected academic journal of the global view of health care in America):
If you want a glimpse of what health care could look like a few years from now, consider “Hello Health,” the Brooklyn-based primary care practice that is fast becoming an emblem of modern medicine.
Very happy. It’s not just...
“Re: Hillary Clinton…good people who reside in a world of skepticism, even...”
– Lawrence Lessig
“I think the way to navigate the digital world is to remember that the consumer...”
– David Pakman - Netflix Got It Right (via betaworks)
“Today’s definition of health insurance really means very, very poorly...”
– Me
New Study Shows Health Care Costs Put U.S. Workers... →
Here is the problem with our health care system:
Doctors and hospitals get paid to do as much as they can - not what is needed, but as much as they can. Supply creates demand. And it is estimated that over 50% of health care costs stems from supply, not demand. So, the value of our health care system is deflated because, for the money we pay docs to do as much as they can, we get very little...
Unify the Phone Numbers and All Else Follows -... →
Google and Apple…solving life’s problems one revolution at a time.
williamsburg community blood drive →
Everyone please give blood. There is a blood drive in Williamsburg this weekend. If you are in the neighborhood and want to save a life, please do so. Doctor’s orders.
The poster was designed by a good friend of mine, Dailey Crafton. If any of you need any design services, please check out his site, livefrombklyn.com. One of the best designers I’ve ever seen.
Pizzeria Employees Wear T-Shirts With Quotes From... →
Maybe this is how this doctor should respond?
“One respondent likened implementing a computer system to ordering a sleek...”
– A physician respondent from a questionnaire about current Health Information Technology.
And this is what Obama wants to invest $20 billion in.
your.flowingdata →
Keep track of your health…easily.
I spent all morning at Seth Godin's.
Seth invited me to speak to his group of 10 “apprenticeship/not-internship/graduate school/charm school track-changing opportunity” people who are working with him for six months to foster their creativity. He wanted me to talk about “the business of health care.”
He did an amazing job gathering a remarkable group of people with great ideas and strong ambition. The one...
GM auditors raise the specter of bankruptcy -... →
mikehudack:
I’m convinced that it’s time to let General Motors die. We will never have an opportunity like this. Let them go bankrupt. It’s the best thing for them. The best thing for the country.
Sometimes you have to do the hard thing. Face the consequences. So that tomorrow will be better.
Now is one of those times.
Yep…I agree. The business model needs to die and our...
“I am the CEO of my body and the physician is my consultant.”
– Barbara Bronson Gray, RN, MN…Health Blog : Do Doctors and Nurses Really Want Patients to Speak Up?
Do Doctors and Nurses Really Want Patients to... →
Interesting post at the WSJ Health Blog today….my comments:
When our patients are not our customers (insurance companies are our customers in the current setup), doctors don’t treat patients as customers. As a matter of fact, doctors provide amazing customer service…to insurance companies. Hence, the reason why we hire 4.6 staff members for each one of us - to deal with our customers and...
My take on the economy...
We’re witnessing the death of old business models.
Monolithic, centralized, non-transparent, boomer-based, last century, industrialized, inefficient, pre-internet, business processes.
Something new and better will replace them. I’m super excited to be alive and able to witness this.
“When a new medium arises that’s powerful enough to make incumbents nervous, then...”
– Paul Graham, Why TV Lost (via factoryjoe) (via mikehudack)
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The Penn Stater - Inventive Medicine = Hello...
I went to medical school at Penn State College of Medicine. They decided to do a lovely story on Hello Health. They first contacted me only about two months after I started my own private practice…back in November 2007. They held off on the story for a bit when I told them I’d joined the Myca team. And then we built Hello Health and they got interested again…it’s a damn...
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