People
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.
Socializing Healthcare
Over the last five years it has become an accepted practice to “hang out” with your friends and family asynchronously using the internet. Initially, the available networking sites were fairly generic. Facebook.com served no purpose other than to connect anyone, anywhere, to share anything. LinkedIn.com narrowed their scope slightly by targeting professionals to connect and [...]
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.
