July 2011
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Live and Let Pry
MySpace is dead…long live Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.
I love it when the Industry collaborates…[i]n the same 24-hour period, Google announced a new, hugely–ambitious social networking hub and NewsCorp announced that they had finally found some poor sucker willing to take MySpace off their hands at a fraction of their asking price and a fraction of a fraction of what they originally paid...
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What's in your Augean Stable?
Waiting doom, good business move, or “agitprop” are begging the question whose stable is fuller? Reality checks:
EDs are overcrowded used to board inpatients.
Hospitals must be fiscally responsible, run like businesses.
Hospital either have no physical inpatient beds or have no staffed inpatient beds.
Where inpatient beds are not staffed,...
PHR v RHIO
MedicalQuack raise the issues of competing strategies and philosophies for health information exchange. One end of the spectrum is the PHR-movement, with Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault the front-runners. On the other end of the spectrum is the RHIO-movement, lead by insurers and governmental and non-governmental third-party providers. A fundamental question at play here is what...
MedPedia and Knol
Interesting two announcements today: MedPedia and Knol. MedPedia is reminiscent of the start of eMedicine several years ago, an invaluable resource and a commercial property. eMedicine had its academic beginnings as well. Contrast that with Knol, which appears to be a director competitor or heir to Wikipedia. What I would want from both: authoritative content with an API that allows for mashups...
May 2008
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Non-Profit Hospital, Non-Profit Medical Group, $5M... →
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Does Your Blog Have a Twitter Landing Page? →
Technorati Claim
Technorati Profile
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They don’t care how much you know, until they know...
DB’s rant:
[T]hose who champion P4P make an unfortunate assumption. They believe that you can push one button, and only impact the desired outcome. They are obsessed with measurement, and believe that measurement will improve health care. They are so dangerous.”
Brings to mind a phrase from the “Satisfaction Cult:”
they don’t care how much you know, until...
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The wreck of the good ship, EMTALA
The wreck of the good ship, EMTALA
EMTALA must always be viewed in light of its unintended consequences and unintended expectations — “just go to the ER” is not a national healthcare policy!
April 2008
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“How much will the experience with the social aspects of Web 2.0 leverage the...”
– Enterprise 2.0 To Become a $4.6 Billion Industry By 2013