March 2010
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Mar 31st
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Network Update: Network membership is 1327 You can preview the new platform at www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: MAKING MEANING: doing what matters by Joe Heinowski Getting the Expriencing and Reflective Selves to Take Care of...
Mar 29th
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Ethnographic Study of Teen Diabetes Rachel Kerr presents an example of using ethnography to study the teen diabetic exprience.  In this second slide set, she presents some future technologies that could make easier for teens to live with diabetes. 
Mar 29th
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“A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to...”
– The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators (via hiten)
Mar 28th
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“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via quote-book) (via hiten)
Mar 28th
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The Pursuit of the Semantic Electronic Medical Record via Carlos Rizo carlosrizo: Every kid should watch this video about #open #data. Thanks to the participants for your bold vision.
Mar 26th
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Getting the Expriencing and Reflective Selves to Take Care of Themselves Daniel Kahneman (winner of Nobel prize in Economics for his pioneering work in behavioral economics) talks about our two selves: the expriencing and the remembering (reflective).  Preventive and chronic care expriences are no fun for either self for the most part.  Is it surprising that the physical self isn’t getting...
Mar 25th
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Mar 24th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Update: Group membership is 1188 New platform rollout delayed one week to 3/28/10. Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Oncology as Design: Cancer Care Through the Eyes of a Designer Clay Christensen’s Diagnosis: Healthcare Business Model Malpractice ...
Mar 22nd
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“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans;...”
– Napoleon Hill
Mar 22nd
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Priesthood Healthcare Under Siege Healthcare transformation is coming.  Epicenter: Silicon Valley (not Washington DC).  Fuel: Innovation (not legislation). 
Mar 21st
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Mar 19th
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Clay Christensen's Diagnosis: Healthcare Business...
I still believe that Christensen has the best overall analysis of what ailes healthcare and the best framework for creating a solution (although not perfect by any means).  He again expresses his views in this BusinessWeek short piece.  For a more detailed discussion refer to this earlier post.
Mar 17th
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Oncology as Design: Cancer Care Through the Eyes of a Designer Insightful.
Mar 16th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Update: Group membership is 1121 The new social learning and collaboration platform rolls out 3/21/10. Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Happiness (as Life) Is a Journey Not a Desitination Healthcare and the Power of the Human Spirit I’M STILL HERE: a shift...
Mar 14th
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Design and Research: Raising the Bar by Debra... →
“…hmm, that can’t be right,” he said, as he stared intently at the LED display. I watched as the doctor passed the wand slowly across my son’s chest. Again. And again… and again… I have seen this procedure many times before and have come to expect the multiple passes and frustration…today was no…
Mar 13th
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Mar 13th
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joeheinowski: I’M STILL HERE: a shift in living with alzheimer’s by Joe Heinowski For John Zeisel, it’s about quality of life for the people with Alzheimer’s and their families. As president and co-founder of Hearthstone Alzheimer Care, John developed the Artists for Alzheimer’s™ program, which involves art emersion for people with the disease. The shift?  People who appear to be lost to the...
Mar 12th
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Healthcare and the Power of the Human Spirit True healthcare innovation must deliberately design motivators to unleash the healing power of the human spirit in all members of the care team both providers and consumers.  Aimee Mullins is a great example of the outcomes when that can be achieved.  If you don’t know Aimee, watch this video after your what the one above.
Mar 11th
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“In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned...”
– Eric Hoffer
Mar 11th
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Happiness (as Life) Is a Journey Not a Desitination Also see Joe Heinowski’s HAPPINESS: the happiness behind your smile.
Mar 10th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Update: Group membership is 1070 The new group platform construction is complete and is now undergoing final testing.  The new functionality which includes integrated messaging, unlimited individual blogs, wikis, live chat, walls, files, links,… is all up and running.  Groups with calendars, group blogs, newsletters,… is also up and running.  I...
Mar 8th
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“A mentor is someone whose hindsight can become your foresight”
– Unknown
Mar 8th
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Instant Gratification Care Roy Schoenberg, CEO of American Well talks about their platform which is now available to anyone living in Hawai or Maine and instantaneously connects patients with physicians over the Internet.  The encouters are covered by health insurance (compared to Hello Health for which you initially have to pay out of pocket and then get reimbursed) and include both primary care...
Mar 5th
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EVOKE: Take a Ten Week Crash Course in Changing the World You’ll have to keep an open mind for this one.  Jane McGonigal of the Institute for the Future (Fast Company 2009 Most Innovative People and CNN TED2010 Ten Fascinating People) has partnered with the World Bank Institute, the learning and knowledge arm of the World Bank Group to develop EVOKE (CNN article).  Follow the title link,...
Mar 4th
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Mar 2nd
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Design and Research: Changing the Measures →
“You’re close enough, you could drive there,” she said. So nine years ago, at the suggestion of doctor that I met only once, I made the choice to repeatedly make the six hour drive to Chicago to one of the nation’s top pediatric neurologists and epileptologists. However, this is not the norm… (follow the title link to the full post.) How can we design care expriences that leverage a...
Mar 2nd