Lot’s of neat stuff today. Our opening session featured some of the Society’s heavy hitters including Rob Mitchell, Donella Wilson, Terri Music and Molly Daniels. I only got to stay for Rob’s and Donella’s talks. They covered some great points about telling our story.
Until Rob gave his talk I never knew that the Society [...]
I attended a San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Biotechnology Forum today. It was an overflow crowd of people wanting to hear how the expansion of biotech at Mission Bay will bring business to the city. They went away assured it will. They project that during the next 10 years life science employment in the city [...]
Hey Everyone,I am in Atlanta this week at the National Marketing and Communicatioins Symposium.Apparently I already missed some cool stuff happening the first day with Dr. Seffrin and Dr. Eyre.
I am in town to help Alan Brunson give a breakout session on "The Link". If you don’t know "The Link" is our National Intranet/Extranet [...]
On Community Mobilization I talk more about the WSJ article on hiring managers, university enrollment officers, and maybe even Homeland Security people prying into the social networking sites to draw additional information about candidates for jobs, admission etc. We forget that what we put into the public space is public and can be searchable alter [...]
Here I was, predicting indefinite life extension the other day, and now a futurist newsletter has a more pessimistic view: we may be eating ourselves to death. Pigging-out may more that offset the gains in longevity from medical progress. True, people won’t live for millennia if they self-destruct. From Futurist Update:
The dramatic rise in obesity [...]
From Health-IT World:
Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher, M.D., last week
signed legislation to create a statewide electronic health information
network and establish an academic research partnership that boosters
say could become a foundation for national healthcare reform. The
signing caps a four-year effort by Sen. Daniel Mongiardo, M.D., an
otolaryngologist from the Appalachian town of Hazard, Ky., who is the
state legislature’s [...]
From TRN:
Researchers from the University of Manchester in England have devised a method
that delivers human cells unharmed to chosen locations within polymer scaffolds.
"The scaffold is… built from a material designed to degrade in the body and be
absorbed over a timescale of months," said Brian Derby, a professor of materials
science at the University of Manchester. "While [...]
Stowe Boyd, Peter Kaminski, and Peter Quintas recorded their thought about the NVHA Innovations conference. You can hear their thoughts at IT Conversatons.
I’m waiting for muscles in my back to calm down. While I’m
waiting my mind has been turning around ideas about what I think the future
will hold. The result is far-out, but I swear I’m not on anything stronger that
Advil.
Look good, feel good, live forever
I have quoted the phrase above from Leonard Schaeffer,
CEO of [...]
I had the opportunity this weekend—whilst flat on my back
with muscle spasms—to read an interesting paper about the state of the US
health care “system.” The Journal of Health and Social Behavior has a
special issue devoted to the sociology of he health care system. Its
introductory article, “A New History of the Health Care ‘System’”, recaps the
history [...]
