April 2010
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IBM Almaden Institute 2010: Smarter Healthcare Through Modeling and Simulation Eleven million cancer patients.  Twenty five thousand in clinical trials (less than 0.3%).  The data (and potential learning) from 10,975,000 cancer patients is lost forever.  (Skip intro by going to 6 minutes and 45 seconds)
Apr 29th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1549 members New Platform Preview at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/ Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Data-based Care and the Future Internet Design Principles: The Profound Lessons of Building Marshmallow Towers The Tale...
Apr 25th
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HBR: Disruptive Changes Are Coming to the Delivery... →
Nice trend summary analysis of the changes coming to healthcare delivery.  Care Designers needed.
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Design Principles: The Profound Lessons of Building Marshmallow Towers   Learn by doing   Work in parallel   Be first to market   Iterate   Respect resource constraints Some more lessons:   Don’t involve your CEO   If you have to involve the CEO, include the admin assistant   Convince HR to hire a few KG grads Learn more at the Marshmallow Challenge  
Apr 24th
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Apr 22nd
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1514 members New Platform Preview at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/ Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Survival Tips for Healthcare Designers Our World: Transform or Collapse Second Life Medical School is Open for Business ...
Apr 18th
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Waste: The Biggest Healthcare Design Opportunity David Cutler, Harvard economist and senior healthcare advisor to the Obama campaign, discusses the three biggest waste areas in healthcare: Workflow waste Insurance system waste (the focus of the recent policy action) Care waste Can the workflow and care waste areas be reframed as future design opportunities (or current design failures)?
Apr 17th
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Apr 15th
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Second Life Medical School is Open for Business The future of medical education?
Apr 13th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1471 members You can preview the new platform at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/ Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Survival Tips for Healthcare Designers Our World: Transform or Collapse Quote of the Week: “Do the difficult...
Apr 12th
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“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they...”
– Lao Tzu
Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 8th
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Healthcare Innovation by Design Weekly Summary...
Healthcare Innovation by Design Community Update: Linkedin group: 1414 members You can preview the new platform at http://www.healthcareinnovationbydesign.com/ Explore Connect Transform at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group Last Week in Healthcare Innovation by Design: Diabetes Mine 2010 Design Challenge A Three Minute Recipe to Starting a Movement Healthcare Innovation Moving...
Apr 4th
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Multimedia Books "Vooks" Are Here →
If you even suspected that the iPad is a transformative innovation checkout Vooks.  Hopefully the EMR equivalent isn’t far behind. For some books this will be a perk but for others it will take the content to a totally new experience space (follow the link and view the trailer).   
Apr 3rd
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Healthcare Innovation Moving into the Mainstream Maria Bartiromo talks to Arthur Caplan, Director of UPenn Center of Bioethics, Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO and Steven Nissen, Chairman of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.  A very broad spectrum of issues covered including informatics, genomics, wellness incentive programs,…
Apr 3rd
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A Three Minute Recipe to Starting a Movement The secret: don’t be afraid of appearing foolish and find similarly-minded others.
Apr 2nd
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“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing...”
– Charles Bukowski (via joeheinowski)
Apr 1st