Magic (măj’ĭk) adj. Possessing distinctive qualities that produce unaccountable or baffling effects. Of, relating to, or invoking the supernatural The California Health Care Foundation does some really good work. I listened to their President Mark Smith give a speech at the Microsoft conference last June and came away really impressed with him and what the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Health 2.0’
August 5, 2009
Microsoft Vaults Ahead into the Personal Health Information Space
* I am out at the Eli Lilly Health 2.0 Summit and just finished a presentation by Microsoft Health Services team. It was an interesting presentation, if but for nothing else to show their worldwide commitment to health. It reminded me of the June Health Vault Summit I attended where I wrote but forgot to [...]
May 22, 2009
Death to Innovators – The Tragedy of Healthcare Innovation
Tragedy (trăj’ĭ-dē) n. A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life A tragic aspect or element. A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. [...]
April 23, 2009
Recap: Building Health 2.0 Into The Delivery System
Recap (rē-kăp) n. To replace a cap or caplike covering on: recapped the bottle. To restore (a used tire of a motor vehicle) to usable condition by bonding new rubber onto the worn tread and lateral surface. We had a busy session yesterday during my panel. Besides the irritating AV problems (in/out sound, survey probs, [...]
April 22, 2009
Building Health 2.0 Into the Delivery System
Delivery (dĭ-lĭv‘ə-rē) n. The act of conveying or delivering, the act of transferring to another. Something delivered, as a shipment or package. I am enroute to Boston for the Health 2.0 conference. I look forward to moderating a great session in the afternoon – “Great Debate #2 – Building Health 2.0 Into The Delivery System”. [...]
April 13, 2009
Media Advisory: Announcement of Initial Prize Design for Potential $10 Million Healthcare X PRIZE to Revolutionize U.S. Health System
I am in Washington DC to participate in the 6th Annual World Health Care Congress. It is a power packed meeting with tons of interesting speakers, presentations, announcements from many of the thought leaders throughout the industry. The demographics of this conference are certainly older, and the DC location gives it a very political / [...]
April 6, 2009
The Geisinger Experience: Realizing The Health Value Vision
Realization (rē‘ə-lĭ-zā’shən) The act of realizing or the condition of being realized. The result of realizing. Today, I am meeting with the X PRIZE Foundation at our 2nd Health Advisor Summit meeting in Washington, DC. We have gathered a small subset of health care thought leaders, innovators, providers, payors, patients, and employer groups to discuss [...]
April 3, 2009
Fortnight: Health 2.0 Meets Ix in Beantown!
Fortnight (fôrt’nīt) n. A period of 14 days; two weeks. Sorry to have dropped off the blogging map . . . I have been literally swamped with my X PRIZE projects. It has been an incredible rush but our impossible time lines means that the nose is to the grindstone big time. Please look out [...]
March 2, 2009
“Systemness”: Which Delivery Model is Best?
Systemness (sĭs’tə-m nes) adj. Arrange according to a system or reduce to a system The degree to which something shares the attributes of a system Last week I attended the World Health Care Congress Consumer Connectivity conference in San Diego. The Twitter stream was at near flood capacity, and several excellent speakers were present to [...]
February 20, 2009
Frindle: Settling in on a definition of “Health 2.0″
Frindle (frĭn dl) n. An alternative word to describe a writing instrument or pen Frindle is a 1996 children’s novel written by the American author, Andrew Clements As the Health 2.0 machine continues to roll on, it looks like the general public is adopting the more limited definition of the term (Web 2.0 tools and [...]
