June 2009
76 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-28) →
Wilco (36)
Willie Nelson (31)
Grizzly Bear (26)
Beirut (24)
The National (23)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll.”
– Bruce Schneier (Filed under “recently reminded that …”) (via heather-rivers) (via chicagolab)
“I hope all of you are doing something that makes your grandparents uncomfortable”
– Seth Godin
A Pound of Cure →
Andy Kessler writes:
Yet compared with other businesses, the health-care industry has been unmoved by the logic of lowering costs to increase profits. The truth is that these folks could have digitized the whole industry ages ago. The technology has been around for a long time: Wall Street began phasing out physical stock certificates over 35 years ago. Even the cash-strapped airline industry...
NPR is asking for the names of these healthcare... →
MA makes cuts to Universal Health Plan →
idlaurenn:
“Faced with lower revenues and a growing number of citizens who lost their jobs and their health insurance, the state didn’t have enough money to pay for insurance subsidies for needy residents under the current plan”
“It’s a warning for the federal government as it looks to do something similar,” he said. “I’m not saying we can’t afford any of it, but it certainly doesn’t appear...
Sallie Mae - Consolidation Department = screwed.
idlaurenn:
Ed is in his last year of Residency. I just graduated Design school. This is pretty much how the conversation went… His debt > My debt Ed: Wait. You said Sallie Mae is the one you were talking about earlier? Me: Yep. They eliminated their entire consolidation program. Ed: That sucks, because half my loans are private from Sallie Mae. Me: Well. At least I know that we will...
Doctor Innovation: Shaking up the health system →
Asked to picture healthcare in the twenty-first century, readers might imagine scientists applying the latest breakthrough in biotechnology as a radical cure for disease. But equally, they might also think of lengthy waiting lists, shabby wards and lumberingly bureaucratic administrative systems. This dichotomy is one of the biggest problems confronting policymakers and managers when they look at...
DeThinking Service, ReThinking Design →
I’ll be speaking about Hello Health at this conference in November in Oslo.
There are some amazing speakers so far that have yet to be officially announced. I’m honored to be a part of such an accomplished group. Stay tuned…
From the comments...a medical student says:
With regards to career choice, you are unfortunately right. Most of my classmates will be choosing specialties and subspecialties. In 2005, the graduating class of around 130 from my school graduated TWO (2) students heading into family medicine! TWO! This year, it was 17. In the mid 90s, the school peaked at ~30 graduates heading into family medicine. This is still a lot lower than schools north...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-21) →
Beirut (70)
Wilco (57)
Bon Iver (33)
Jim O’Rourke (32)
The National (29)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The West enables Iran →
Nokia and Siemens sold Iran advanced monitoring technology so the government can manipulate web information and gather data on individuals.
New York City Homicides Map →
The Times is nailing it with the infographics…
If It’s Too Big to Fail, Is It Too Big to Exist?
ambivalence:
[via The Nation - If It’s Too Big to Fail, Is It Too Big to Exist? - NYTimes.com by Eric Dash]
“But how big is too big to fail? And how would you measure it anyway? In the case of banks and giants like A.I.G. and Fannie Mae, policy makers argue that the interconnectedness of modern finance, as much as the size of the players, is the real issue. The collapse of one big financial...
WatchAwesome video of The High Line. I visited it for the first time today. I used to live right around the corner from it and am now kicking myself that I never went up there prior to it being developed.
22% tuition increase
marcolo:
The strong us dollar means my tuition has hiked by more than 22% over the last month. It feels like someone just kicked me in the face, stomach, and groin - all at the same time.
This is the reality of a medical student. If this student is like the other 94% of medical students this year who will choose a career in some specialty that pays double to eight times as much as a primary care...
The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign... →
Hello Health clinics would offer medical care... →
Nice article written about us in this weekend’s Boston Globe.
I need to clarify one thing though. When we launch Hello Health this summer as a platform to other doctors all over the US, we’re giving the doctors total freedom to charge whatever they want. It will be free for patients to create accounts on Hello Health. Doctors have choices in their profile settings:
How much do I...
Primary-Care Doctor Shortage May Undermine Health... →
This is actually one of the most important points to understand about healthcare reform. For those advocating for reform that “provides healthcare” to the 50 million uninsured, it’s simple economics.
Increase demand. Add 50 million new confused people who recently purchased a government plan to the demand for doctor visits.
Decrease supply. There are only so many primary care...
“For WordPress we’re trying to set up a community that will be around 10 to 30...”
– The Way I Work, annotated — Matt Mullenweg (via tedr) (via betaworks)
I will be speaking at The Guardian Activate Summit... →
Here is a little pre-interview with The Guardian:
How, in your experience, have internet technologies been employed to make the world a better place? The internet has changed what it means to be a human. We’re social creatures that thrive off communicating and connecting. And now, we can connect with anyone, anywhere in the world. Now it’s just so easy to stay on top of your...
My brand new iPhone 3GS
I tried to activate my phone and it said, “Activation could take up to 3 minutes.” Then it said “Your activation needs more time. This can take up to 48 hours. We will send you an email confirming that it’s done.”
Nice work AT&T/Apple. Didn’t learn from years past?
Should Patients Have Easy Access to Doctors’... →
HIPAA mandates that people have unfettered access to their medical records. It’s a federal law. The argument shouldn’t be “should they have easy access?” It should be “Will the quality, accuracy, and honesty of medical records suffer or improve medical records that are visible with a simple log in?” Medical records should be about good communication between patients and doctors and between...
“Therein lies the uneasy truth: In a major international crisis, one of the prime...”
– Caroline McCarthy, CNET: With Iran crisis, Twitter’s youth is over (via peterfeld) (via mikehudack)
The healthcare circus happening in Washington
I spent two days last week in the belly of the beast at a symposium for the 50 highest level employees of a large hospital system in an affluent, somewhat rural area. They asked me, along with two others, to serve as thought leaders for the direction they should take over the next 15 years. Needless to say, my summary for them was “I’m glad I’m not you.”
Like most hospital...
Because a child's life is valued much less than a... →
About 80% of our lifetime medical expenses are spent in the last two years of our life.
What does this mean?
Dying people are cash cows for hospitals and doctors.
And children, our future, are valued markedly less as reflected by the pay pediatricians make vs. old people doctors. Blows my little bitty mind…but not surprising given this culture of quantity medicine. And George Halvorson...
Awww...thank you Apple/AT&T
To Our Valued Apple Customer: On June 17, AT&T announced a change to their upgrade eligibility policy and ‘best upgrade pricing’ for qualifying iPhone 3G owners. Based on AT&T’s updated qualification criteria, we are pleased to inform you that you are eligible to receive a refund on your recent iPhone 3G S purchase. Your Order Acknowledgment and Shipment Notification emails will...
How Safeway Is Cutting Health-Care Costs →
At Safeway we believe that well-designed health-care reform, utilizing market-based solutions, can ultimately reduce our nation’s health-care bill by 40%. The key to achieving these savings is health-care plans that reward healthy behavior. As a self-insured employer, Safeway designed just such a plan in 2005 and has made continuous improvements each year. The results have been remarkable....
Find my iPhone...
Kicks ass. That’s about all I have to say about it. If I lose my iPhone, I just log on to me.com and it’ll put my iPhone on a map and I can remotely wipe all its data if I need to.
“The way to do something significant and meaningful and authentic is not to try...”
– Mark Hurst, Three lessons on what’s really important (via kareem) (via rahmin)
“I like the fact that it is the need for conversation that is driving the real...”
– prescient comment on - Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history | Video on TED.com (via rahmin)
“I only want to speak about what I have witnessed. I am a medical student. There...”
– Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising (via jgh) (via soupsoup) (via mikehudack) (via tedr) (via rahmin)
“That a new information technology could be improvised for this purpose so...”
– The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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I'll be live on FoxBusiness tomorrow at 12:40pm...
It’s a 15 minute interview with me…be sure and tune in on either tv or their site.
I’ll be answering questions like “Why is healthcare so expensive?” Should be good…
“Our fiscal future is so dominated by healthcare that if the US can slow the rate...”
– Peter Orszag: A plan to boost America’s fiscal health (via mattlehrer) (via mikehudack)
Of course. Some people forget that damn near one in every five dollars in America is spent on healthcare that costs twice as much as it should because those who profit off healthcare are paid to do and produce...
State Department to Twitter: Keep Iranian tweets... →
mikehudack:
funsize:
soupsoup:
noraleah:
… the State Department is advising social networking sites to make sure their networks stay up and running for Iranians to use them and helping them stay ahead of anyone who would try to shut them down. For example, senior officials say the State Department asked Twitter to refrain for going down for periodic scheduled maintenance at this critical...
Something lovely happened today.
It was our first Hello Health meetup (aka Hello Health University) where we met in person with doctors who are ready to be part of our inaugural team. In other words, a group of awesome docs looking to go out on their own, provide good old fashioned healthcare for their patients, and make a living…all powered by Hello Health.
It was a varied mix of local primary care doctors with a good...
Top 10 Most Creative People in Health Care | Fast... →
I’m honored to be included in a list of such great thinkers. Like Rocky Balboa said last week, revolutionizing healthcare will only come from the ground up as a coordinated effort to change how healthcare is delivered in America. If there are only a finite amount of doctor visits in America per year, how do we maximize those visits and make efficient use of them? This is the topic that...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-14) →
Wilco (16)
Willie Nelson (14)
Bon Iver (13)
Yo La Tengo (12)
The Flaming Lips (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Many in Congress Hold Stakes in Health Industry →
As President Obama and Congress intensify the push to overhaul health care in the coming week, the political and economic force of that industry is well represented in the financial holdings of many lawmakers and others with a say on the legislation, according to new disclosure forms.
Despite medical privacy being highly important,... →
In the three years since Americans gained federal protection for their private medical information, the Bush administration has received thousands of complaints alleging violations but has not imposed a single civil fine and has prosecuted just two criminal cases.
Of the 19,420 grievances lodged so far, the most common allegations have been that personal medical details were wrongly revealed,...
Breakthrough
ourhellohealth:
rbalboajr:
Modern medical breakthroughs in the last 100 years include antibiotics, vaccines, chemotherapy, surgical techniques, etc.
By far, in the next decade, the most important life-saving public health breakthrough will not be found by pharmaceutical companies or medical device manufacturers.
It will be HOW we DELIVER healthcare
“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes (via psychotherapy) (via topherchris)
