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Medicine That Talks to Your Phone

by Admin 01.31.2011

My friend Robert Scoble just came back from Davos and spoke to Andrew Thompson of Proteus Biomedical, a company that keeps track of your medications and sends information about your health condition to your phone. If you are a provider, or an insurer, please adopt this as soon as it gets FDA-approved (going through the [...]

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Mark Twain’s Healthy Cynicism About Health Care

by Admin 01.17.2011

Image via Wikipedia I have been listening to the latest edition of “The Autobiography of Mark Twain,” and I’ve decided Twain has much to tell us. Especially about health care. We think we have come so far, and yet we keep coming up against the limits of medical science and the failure of the health care [...]

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Patient Medical Homes, Continuity of Care, and Social Customers

by Admin 10.30.2010

Expensive and broken, our health care system serves no one well–not the patient, not the provider, not the payer.  And because it is fragmented by specialists, insurance companies, hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and primary care providers, no one must really take responsibility for an adverse user experience. This week, I had an endoscopy. I had [...]

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Health Care Reform: The Hospital View

by Admin 10.04.2010

My perspective is shifting slightly on the issue of health care reform, and what’s possible and not possible, perhaps because a few weeks ago the Urban Land Institute held an event I attended at which Peter Fine, the CEO of Banner Health, was the featured speaker. While I was familiar with some of the things [...]

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