Leveraging Technology to Transform Health Care

A new hope for living to our fullest human potentialIn recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about using technology to help manage disease and disability and to help older Americans “age in place.” But starting with the White House Conference on Aging in 2005, a new dialogue began to emerge, one that […]

Women Informal Family Caregivers

The problem of “non-real work” In the book “In Search of Excellence,” published in 1982, Tom Peters made the case that solving most business problems requires a critical look at processes, and an active, critical reshaping of those processes to allow for simplicity, ease of use, efficiency and reliability. One term he coined, which has […]

A Nobel Prize for Repositioning Health Care

Doing a “Gore�? on our health system If there was a Nobel Prize for “repositioning,” I’d give it to Al Gore — even though he’s already won the Nobel Prize for Peace. Why? Because, beyond his passion for the issue of global warming, and his dogged pursuit of the facts and unique ways of communicating […]

Ted Kennedy: A Good and Decent Man

How he described Bobby is how we might describe him The news of Ted Kennedy’s brain tumor is deeply upsetting on so many levels, running the gamut from personal to professional. For political foes and fans alike, most publicly acknowledged that he has become a great senator, capable of working both sides of the aisle […]

Being Poor and Sick in the U.S.

Health system reform for the “Two Americas” Since I started medical school nearly 40 years ago, I’ve seen a lot of changes in health care. Not all of them have been for the better. A recent study by Dr. Majid Ezzati and colleagues at Harvard, for example, lays out some sobering facts about the inequities […]

Palliative Care

Lighting the way to home-centered health careIn recent years I have frequently written about and discussed the need for a "parallel build-out" in order to achieve truly preventative care in the United States. This refers to the challenge on the one hand of better managing our current burden of chronic disease in mostly older Americans, […]

Silver Lining in High Gas Prices

Staying off the road has some protective effect Once again, across America, we’re experiencing shock at the gas pump. For those of us who are old enough, it recalls the days of Jimmy Carter’s administration, with gas lines, and calls for conservation, and a drop in the speed limit on interstate highways to 55 miles […]

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