Author Archive
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Helen Myers and Ed Rightor won The Dow Chemical Companys Human Element Award for their involvement with Walk MS and Bike MS. Meet these leaders and learn how Dow encourages employees to do great work for their communities — and for the MS community nationwide.
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Our current private health insurance system is the most costly, wasteful, complicated and bureaucratic in the world. Today, 46 million people have no health insurance. Even more are underinsured with high deductibles and co-payments. Close to 20,000 Americans die each year because they don't have regular access to a doctor.
The time is now for our nation to address the most profound moral and economic issue we face. The time is now for our country to join the rest of the industrialized world and provide cost-effective, comprehensive quality health care to every man, woman and child in our country. The time is now to take on the powerful special interests in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and pass a single-payer national health care program.
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From the moment I took office as President, the central challenge we have confronted as a nation has been the need to lift ourselves out of the worst recession since World War II. In recent months, we have taken a series of extraordinary steps, not just to repair the immediate damage to our economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting and sustained growth. We are creating new jobs. We are unfreezing our credit markets. And we are stemming the loss of homes and the decline of home values.
But even as we have made progress, we know that the road to prosperity remains long and difficult. We also know that one essential step on our journey is to control the spiraling cost of health care in America.
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With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to debunk several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.) [...]
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Does your site contain one or more of the following?
User generated and/or user influenced content
Applications that use the Web (versus the desktop) as a health platform
Leveraging of popular trends in Health Information Technology, including blogging, social tagging, wikis, crowdsourced medical solutions, personal health records, and peer-to-peer sharing
Inclusion of emerging web technologies like RSS, AJAX, APIs [...]
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Listen closely — Marvin Minsky’s arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice.
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For years, medical alert systems have provided family caregivers with the confidence to function away from home without worrying about the safety of their loved ones. With the rapid progress in medical alert technology, these services are no incredibly quick and simple to use.
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Porter and Teisberg collaborated on a book in 2006 named Redefining Healthcare which is focused on two of my favorite topics Healthcare and Competitive Strategy. Michael Porter, the man responsible for so many frameworks in competitive strategy; the five forces, value chain, cost advantage, differentiation has brought that competitive strategy analysis to healthcare. His underlying [...]
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Are you looking for a marketing/community relations position where you can utilize your people and sales skills to build up relationships and manage accounts? Building and keeping customer relations with all of my customers is one of my strongest attributes.
You will be establishing relationships with Social Workers, Doctors, Discharge Planners and other medical professionals in [...]
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Caregiving for a loved one with Alzheimer’s is a tough journey. You must be able to survive one emotional upheaval after another and there are many paradoxes when one is attempting to stay connected with a spouse or parent who is becoming a different person. Caregivers and family members experience profound losses and relationship issues. [...]
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Like all insurance policies, Long-Term-Care insurance policies require a good deal of research before they are entered into. Often different insurance companies offer coverages that at first glance appear similar, but upon closer examination are very different.
A recent Wall Street Journal article titled, Insurer Casts Off Long-Term-Care Policies written by M.P. McQueen references seven [...]
