Information Universality

In the future patients will come to us; they now come only if they absolutely must Life’s crazy – between the economy, Iraq, race relations, gender relations, “made in China” – well, we have a lot on our minds, and not much extra time, and even less extra cash. Multiply that up to the national […]

Thanks, Warren!

Notes on caregiving from a colleague in Louisiana Warren Hebert, a home-health executive in Louisiana who is also a registered nurse, attended the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) meeting last year when I spoke there. He contacted me recently by email to let me know that he was distributing a summary of my speech […]

Brother Austin David Embraces Technology: Circa 1977

Techmanity before the invention of the termI recently came across a paper written in 1977 titled "A Not So Modest Proposal: Technology and Tomorrow’s School" from the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Volume 7(2), 1977. It’s author was a Christian Brother named Austin David Carroll, who had served as a Technology Consultant and Futurist […]

Mayo Clinic Health Policy Symposium

All-star group debates future of health care Mayo Clinic is running a 2-day symposium on Health Policy, with an all star group including representatives of the various campaigns. If you’d like an inside view of what’s going on, try Lee Aase’s Health Policy blog from Mayo Clinic.

A Medical “Peace Corps�? Comes to New York State

Is Gov. Spitzer’s program the solution for New York’s looming physician-supply crisis?New York state has been in a medical crisis and Albany is just becoming aware of the issues. Despite years of warnings about looming physician shortages coming from county and state medical societies, New York legislators turned a blind eye. In their defense, constituents […]

Bloomberg Runs Out of Patience on Medical Records

City hospitals will go electronic on their own It was over a year ago, in Washington, that Michael Bloomberg went public with his own vision for a national health care system. I was there that day, and had the impression that the NYC mayor was just galled by the lack of national leadership on a […]

Health Care and The Gathering Storm

The economy appears to be floundering. What’s the meaning for health care? Here are two very interesting and frightening charts that my good friend Warren Brennan, the CEO of SMA Informatics in Richmond, passed along this AM, with this question, aimed at the CFOs of hospitals and other health care organizations: What do these mean […]

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