A physician-friend of mine is raving about The Innovator’s Prescription by Clay Christensen and team. My friend tells me it’s the best book ever written on health care, and has even sent me a copy via Amazon.com as an early birthday present (thank you!)
Indeed, the author himself claims it’s “the first book ever that actually presents a plausible roadmap to make health care affordable in this country,” and the New York Times seems to…
This week’s Diabetes Forum 2009 conference was two full days of presentations on policy and reform — a dizzying array of statistics and political jargon and acronyms like “four-tier formularies,” “SNPs” and “VBID” and “double-digit Medicare margin.” Surely all very important stuff in the netherworlds of managed care and reimbursement administration. But what the heck?! I gladly reminded this crowd that these terms mean little if nothing to the average patient.
So what DOES concern…
In our emerging world of web-based health offerings and Net-informed patients, it looks like the name-game is still heating up. Recently I sounded off about whether we should be referred to now as patients or consumers, and don’t forget the term “ePatients” — along with eHeath Consumers, Cybercitizens, etc., etc.
Now Manhattan Research, a highly respected pharmaceutical and healthcare market research firm, has invented a new buzz-term for consumers who use the Internet to research…
Guess where I am today? That’s right. If the headline didn’t tip you off: I’m in Washington DC, elated to be rubbing elbows with some of our nation’s most prominent diabetes advocacy groups, at the high-level Diabetes Forum 2009 Conference, this year titled “Broaden Your View.”
I say “high-level” because this truly is the most influential diabetes event I’ve ever been invited to participate in. It’s put together by a group called Avalere Health that…
Lately it seems like every tech company is getting into the mobile game. With mobile applications that do everything from calculating your tip to identifying the song blaring from the next car over, it’s no wonder diabetes companies are getting involved with mobile programs designed to help manage your diabetes.
For most people, the cell phone is one of the only gadgets everyone understands and uses every day. There are several companies that have utilized…