Conferences
Thoughts From the NEHI Employee Health Promotion Conference
Sitting at the NEHI conference today, a couple of quick thoughts:
First, Dr. Ron Goetzel notes that one of the largest sources of the escalating cost of health care is innovation itself – new prescription drugs and new technology. This backwards incentive is fueled by a complete lack of top down pressure for cost reduction. [...]
Sharing Clinical Data, the First Step in Health Provider Collaboration
HealthCampBoston was an engaging one-day meeting of ideas and vision around overcoming the major challenges and false starts on the initiatives to improve healthcare. People with a wide variety of backgrounds were a part of the unconference, in which the attendees drove the agenda and discussions. These unconferences are now international, from London to Azerbaijan, and the next one is in May and promises to be no less stimulating than this one on Tuesday in Cambridge was.
Personal Health: My Genome
To better understand the make up for the human species, scientists have been looking deeper into our DNA since 1990. There are approximately 20,000 to 30,000 genes in human DNA. The human genome contains about 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA. Amazingly enough, 99.9% of the base pairs are exactly [...]
What will come from this period of HITECH ambiguity?
Of the interesting topics discussed during Thursday night’s Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009, I found a few simple words to be the most intriguing – “certified” and “meaningful use”. These are of course the terms used in the recently signed Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, to determine if a provider’s EMR implementation enables them to collect their share of the $19.2 Billion stimulus.
Medullan sponsors the Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009
Medullan was honored to be able to be a sponsor to the Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009 that was held at the Boston Seaport Hotel on February 26, 2009. We joined with organizer HIL Forum and other healthcare IT companies and organizations from both the public and private sector.
One Take on the Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009
The Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009 was a well attended event where many ideas were heard and explored. It was well moderated by Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe, with input from Peter Mueller, Valerie Fleishman, and Anne Marie Biernacki. The summit was a successful exchange of ideas about problems and possibilities for solutions.
LiveBlog from tonight’s Transforming Healthcare Summit
We’ll be updating regularly from the Transforming Healthcare Summit, co-sponsored by Medullan at the Seaport Hotel in Boston tonight. Start checking for updates around 5:30PM.
