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Celebration of Web 2.0 Trends & Culture
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As the ”Dog Days” of summer comes to an end and Labor Day is weekend ahead, I will be moderating a Web 2.0 event Celebration of Web 2.0 Trends & Culture in Silicon Valley with folks from Google, Yahoo! , RockYou.com and UShow.com. I’ll share details in the future.
Take care,
Michael
www.execimpactgroup.com
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Health 2.0 Accelerator
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Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya, MD are up to it again. They recently launched a wiki “Health Accelerator 2.0“ which was inspired by Dr. Marty Tenenbaum’s and his comments during 2007 Health 2.0 conference held in San Francisco (and San Diego Health 2.0)which I watched & listen too last September. Here are some details about their latest innovation:
“For several months there […]
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Medical Mentors: Maneuvering My Medical Maze
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As the 77 million Baby Boomers age and need for expertise for theirs and their parents medical decision making, there is a growing need for “medical mentoring”. The term “medical mentoring” has been around for some time and is part of several medical schools formal academic program to assist pre-med and medical students eager to get additional […]
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Health Social Networks
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As many who know me, I have been building connections in social networks both “off line” and online for 40+ years. The old networks are from my childhood friends who I continue to be in contact usually on a daily basis (via e-mail) and in person a few times a year. I have developed at […]
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Jack Ryan: Father, Healthcare Innovator & Medical Design Visionary….from Georgia to China
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In a few days is Father’s Day and I thought I would take some time to honor my Dad, John L. “Jack” Ryan. He is a recognized pioneer in many aspects of the modern healthcare industry. His accomplishments included numerous hospitals designs, healthcare innovations and cutting edge medical technology decades ahead of their times. He lead the healthcare […]
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Healthcare Reform: Back to the Future
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During this past Memorial Day week, I embarked on a “road trip” with my eldest children to Washington, DC covering six states and 1,200 miles as my daughter begins an internship in the United States Senate this week.
It brought back memories of when I was a White House internback in 1980 and it seems alot […]
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Memorial Day Salute
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Memorial Day seems to have taken on a “commercialize” meaning during the past few decades as a time for new cars, furniture and BBQ “SALES” as well as the “Official” beginning of the Summer versus the actual reason the holiday was established 140 years ago. It is a holiday dedicated to the “memory” of all the […]
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Physician Search: Seeking the “Holy Grail”
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How do consumers find, research, evaluate and determine the best doctor for them? I am NOT talking about the one we see on televison for the past 40 years… I did a quick www.google.com search and typed in “Best Doctors” and 640,000 search results came up in 0.09 seconds ; and at www.yahoo.com received 4,040,000 in 0.25 seconds […]
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Ted Kennedy: Healthcare Hero
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Today it was announced Senator Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Our thoughts and prayers go to him and his family as they tackle this in the weeks, months and years ahead. Like almost every American, we all have someone in our family or close friends who has battled some type of […]
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“Governator” to the EMR Privacy Rescue? Who Protects Patient Privacy in Electronic Medical Records
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Wow! Two years have nearly flew by when I first posted this in Summer 2006; and 16 years since an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) was mandated by the Feds. Issues of access, adoption, adaption (A3) continues as well as with the V.I.P.’s privacy making headlines with Gov. Schwarzenegger’s medical records being breached. http://topics.latimes.com/politics/people/arnold-schwarzenegger
According the the […]
