What Food Stamps Can Teach Us about Health Care
There are about 50 million people on Medicaid in the United States and the biggest problem they have, by far, is finding a doctor who will see them. Yet this…
Does the Supreme Court Understand Health Reform?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a lengthy, complex law, which is hardly surprising given the size and scope of the health care economy it addresses. Unfortunately that also…
TEDMED Day #1, Light on Medicine, High on Inspiration
EXCLUSIVE POST - I’m attending TEDMED this week at the Kennedy Center in Washington as the guest of our sponsor, Siemens, and it is my first. These posts aren’t intended…
Digging Deeper to Answer Healthcare’s Great Challenges
About two months ago, I traveled to Las Vegas for the largest meeting in the health IT industry called the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference. I…
TedMed 2012, Day 1
TedMed 2012has begun. And how! The opening event was “ Traces-Urban Acrobats.” Urban Acrobats? It was mouth-droppingly over-the-top athleticism. One long sequence consisted of the members of the…
Crowdfunding for Academic Research: Innovocracy
Innovocracy provides crowd funding for academic research. In this interview, co-founder Mikael Totterman explains the concept and describes the first project: a promising toilet-training method for autistic children.What is Innovocracy?…
Genomics– a Revolution in Medicine – Part I
My last post was about the coming medical megatrends that will have transformative implications for medical practice. To continue the discussion, let’s begin with genomics.Little more than a decade ago,…
Favorite Quotes from TEDx Maastricht
Last week I was fortunate to attend TEDx Maastricht in person for the second year in a row. There were several great talks, all inspiring and some surprising. The beginning…
Encounter With an ‘Unexeptional’ Healthcare System
On April 3 ‘Travelling student’ posted a delightful article on her “Experience with Slovenian Socialized Madicine”. It brought back memorries of my own experience with healthcare outside the U.S. So here…
Technology, Healthcare and the Frankenstein Syndrome
Technology in life takes holdDoes Moore's Law apply to advances in the biological sciences? Will advances like artificial hips, cardiac pacemakers and spinal stimulators for pain be only the beginning of…
