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Rock Health Creates Community Around Changing Health Care

by francine 01.23.2012

  I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Rock HealthHealth Innovation Summit onJan.20th. It was the third day of a conference that highlighteddevelopment, design, and business issues around the potential for health care transformation through technology. The room was full, and the audience stayed until the end, even on a Friday afternoon. Why? [...]

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Can Health Care Innovation Get Past the Big Players?

by francine 01.20.2012

The difficulties that health technology innovators will have breaking into the health care industry were no more clearly illustrated than by the talk given by Dr. Sam Ho, Chief Medical Officer of United Health Benefits Group, on the third day of San Francisco-based health incubator Rock Health’s  Health Innovation Summit. After two days of exciting [...]

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America’s Medical System: Better or Worse than the Developing World?

by francine 01.02.2012

Five years ago, I lost a dear friend to a situation that never should have happened. Although, if I were to ask him, he would tell me otherwise. He would say his life’s journey was over. I would say the ignorance and arrogance of his adopted country’s medical system killed him.  I am writing about [...]

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Death by Diet

by francine 12.11.2011

Until you have gone off the deep end on nutritional therapy as I have, a Western medicine aficionado has every reason to doubt its effectiveness. Thr only people who know how useful it is to tightly control the toxins, vitamins, and foods that go into their bodies are the people who MUST know: very sick [...]

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