Comments on: More Incentive to Innovate: the Healthcare X PRIZE http://www.diabetesmine.com/2009/05/more-incentive-to-innovate-the-healthcare-x-prize.html A gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:28:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: affiliate http://www.diabetesmine.com/2009/05/more-incentive-to-innovate-the-healthcare-x-prize.html/comment-page-1#comment-496538 affiliate Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:27:46 +0000 http://www.diabetesmine.com/?p=7608#comment-496538 Many of these ideas will be prescriptive Many of these ideas will be prescriptive

]]> By: Carl L http://www.diabetesmine.com/2009/05/more-incentive-to-innovate-the-healthcare-x-prize.html/comment-page-1#comment-431032 Carl L Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:05:26 +0000 http://www.diabetesmine.com/?p=7608#comment-431032 It always amazes me how much money is thrown about in the US. The money made out of peoples health is in my opinion wrong. It always amazes me how much money is thrown about in the US. The money made out of peoples health is in my opinion wrong.

]]> By: Remi http://www.diabetesmine.com/2009/05/more-incentive-to-innovate-the-healthcare-x-prize.html/comment-page-1#comment-336216 Remi Wed, 27 May 2009 10:31:08 +0000 http://www.diabetesmine.com/?p=7608#comment-336216 Great site! Its really encouraging everyone at every opportunity, to engage in this effort to help design a system of care that can produce dramatic breakthroughs at both an individual vitality and community health level. Great site!
Its really encouraging everyone at every opportunity, to engage in this effort to help design a system of care that can produce dramatic breakthroughs at both an individual vitality and community health level.

]]> By: Lauren http://www.diabetesmine.com/2009/05/more-incentive-to-innovate-the-healthcare-x-prize.html/comment-page-1#comment-336085 Lauren Tue, 26 May 2009 18:16:00 +0000 http://www.diabetesmine.com/?p=7608#comment-336085 Yay. Once again Obama has come through for us diabetics and named SOTOMAYOR as a Supreme Court nominee. I've been telling all of you now for a while that Obama is going to cure us and this is confirmation. The only downside is that she went to Catholic school. Maybe she is over that Catholic nonsense. Obama is da man!! Yay. Once again Obama has come through for us diabetics and named SOTOMAYOR as a Supreme Court nominee. I’ve been telling all of you now for a while that Obama is going to cure us and this is confirmation. The only downside is that she went to Catholic school. Maybe she is over that Catholic nonsense. Obama is da man!!

]]> By: David Spero RN http://www.diabetesmine.com/2009/05/more-incentive-to-innovate-the-healthcare-x-prize.html/comment-page-1#comment-336075 David Spero RN Tue, 26 May 2009 16:48:29 +0000 http://www.diabetesmine.com/?p=7608#comment-336075 I've been looking at this X Prize design for a week now, and there are major problems with it. The goal is to increase "health value" by 50% in three years. They don't define exactly what "health value" is, but it's some combination of health outcomes and costs. To win, you have to improve health and reduce costs. The problem is that health care costs have very little to do with people's actual health. So lowering costs and improving health are two very different issues, only slightly related. We know that the social environment causes most illness, and health care can't do much about that. We need social approaches that affect the economic, political , and environmental causes of illness: stress, bad food, inactivity, inequality, and isolation. I’ve been looking at this X Prize design for a week now, and there are major problems with it. The goal is to increase “health value” by 50% in three years. They don’t define exactly what “health value” is, but it’s some combination of health outcomes and costs. To win, you have to improve health and reduce costs.

The problem is that health care costs have very little to do with people’s actual health. So lowering costs and improving health are two very different issues, only slightly related. We know that the social environment causes most illness, and health care can’t do much about that. We need social approaches that affect the economic, political , and environmental causes of illness: stress, bad food, inactivity, inequality, and isolation.

]]> By: Blog Rally: Raising Awareness for Public Participation in Healthcare X PRIZE Development « Crossover Healthcare http://www.diabetesmine.com/2009/05/more-incentive-to-innovate-the-healthcare-x-prize.html/comment-page-1#comment-336064 Blog Rally: Raising Awareness for Public Participation in Healthcare X PRIZE Development « Crossover Healthcare Tue, 26 May 2009 14:57:32 +0000 http://www.diabetesmine.com/?p=7608#comment-336064 [...] Amy Tenderich, Diabetes Mine Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Healthcare XPrizeWhat’s on the web? (20 April 2009)Health Access WeBlog: Health Wonk Review, Yogi Berra edition…Why Obama Won’t Get Harry and Louise’d [...] [...] Amy Tenderich, Diabetes Mine Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Healthcare XPrizeWhat’s on the web? (20 April 2009)Health Access WeBlog: Health Wonk Review, Yogi Berra edition…Why Obama Won’t Get Harry and Louise’d [...]

]]> By: Lyn Fenton http://www.diabetesmine.com/2009/05/more-incentive-to-innovate-the-healthcare-x-prize.html/comment-page-1#comment-336058 Lyn Fenton Tue, 26 May 2009 14:26:10 +0000 http://www.diabetesmine.com/?p=7608#comment-336058 Ray,, Obama! Let's hope Sotomayor gets confirmed. Ray,, Obama! Let’s hope Sotomayor gets confirmed.

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