The American Cancer Society’s Futuring and Innovation (FI) Center is pleased to announced its third funded innovation–Team ACS. Submitted by Lisa Meyers Brown, vice president for marketing in the Eastern Division, Team ACS allows participants of non-Society events such as fun runs, marathons, triathlons, and bike races that are not produced or affiliated exclusively with [...]
Fast Company | The Liberator
Article about organizational and personal change.
Ultimately, says Yamashita, (who the article’s about) it’s all about getting unstuck as an individual or an organization. He believes that 85% of all companies and more than half of all people are stuck, a condition that isn’t defined by declining market share, falling productivity, [...]
Mobile users top 1.5 billion
That’s right the amount of people using Mobile Phone’s worldwide has reached 1.5 billion people. Research firm EMC also predicts that the industry will pass the 2 billion mark as early as 2006. So….I call all
ACS Spring board projects involving cell phones! No, really. In fact Smoking Cessation over SMS is [...]
Nano Killers Aim at Mini Tumors
And you though nano-technology was the stuff of science fiction. A company called Kereos is developing a pair of nanotechnologies to identify tumors that measure just 1 mm in diameter, then kill them with a tiny but precise amount of a chemotherapy drug. Even our own
Robert Smith, the director of [...]
Suspicions confirmed!
A new study (about CRM), commissioned by Amdocs, shows that 63 percent of customers believe that customer service has not gotten better over the past five to 10 years–and most of those customers think it has gotten worse.
Even more sobering, 85 percent of respondents said that even a single bad experience with a customer [...]
Dragging Doctors to the Info Age
Wired has a great story on “dragging doctors into the info age”. This article takes a look at how medical errors can be reduced using electronic forms. U.S. hospitals are hardly as computerized as, say, the Department of Motor Vehicles or the Internal Revenue Service. Physicians can spend entire days [...]
(This article was provided to me by Lou Hoyos, VP- IT and Facilities, Eastern Division)
In one of his first public speeches since being appointed last month by President Bush to increase the use of IT in health care, Dr. David Brailer said:
he will have a strategic plan by July 21 for guiding the health-care industry [...]
I’m just getting back to BIO 2004. There were two things that struck me about this particular meeting:
I suppose you could write-off this statement by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, as Microsoft hype, but I think it’s probably right. He said: “More change and innovation is coming to information technology in the next ten years than in the past decade.” The technology that’s given us PCs/Internet/cell phones/telecommunications/digital media, etc., is by no means [...]
Cancer Drugs Aim at More Targets
Good article from Wired on the new cancer drugs coming to market soon. “These drugs represent the next generation of anti-angiogenesis drugs beyond Avastin,” said William Li, president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation, a non-profit institution based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “If chemotherapy is like a dirty bomb and [...]
