This is my last day in Nijmegen, The Netherlands where I gave a Prezi.com at the Reshape 2009 conference organized by Lucien Engelen. I thought I would share the slideshows and Lee Aase presented.
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Bertalan Meskó. ScienceRoll, 13 October 2009
“Online database looks to provide health treatment information to patients
A new online database being developed looks to provide treatment information for patients suffering from breast cancer, depression, COPD and osteoarthritis.
The Web database, developed by Santa Fe, N.M.-based Qforma, will hold information about local physicians who are considered “Most Influential Doctors” for specific types of diseases, [...]“For planners of health information exchanges (HIEs), outlining a sound approach to privacy and security is a critical step to securing stakeholder participation. But trying to fully understand how to secure your exchange isn’t a trivial task. First, in order to tackle this issue correctly, planners need to be prepared to herd some sheep – [...]“The Medical Group Management Association’s point man in Washington, D.C., says most of the groups the MGMA represents would not be eligible for government incentives for adopting and using an electronic health record by 2011.
There are too many issues to resolve in too short a time, said Robert Tennant, the association’s senior policy adviser, who [...]“Nederland heeft een eerste tweetspreekuur, een huisartsenspreekuur op Twitter. Dit maakte huisarts Erik Jansen uit Nijmegen, één van de initiatiefnemers, dinsdag bekend. Twitteraars kunnen op @tweetspreekuur vragen stellen over hun gezondheid. Huisarts Jansen en basisarts Bart Brandenburg geven voor zover mogelijk antwoord en adviseren indien nodig mensen hun eigen huisarts te bellen of naar het [...]“I promised pointers to a solution for how to get out of the standards mire in which we find ourselves today. But first, I will intervene with a short post on missed items, pointed out to me by various (justifiably) miffed people.”
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Woland’s cat, October 13, 2009
“In a recent note, I discussed some flaws in the Canadian healthcare delivery system and how it possibly could be reformed (see: The Fundamental Flaws in the Canadian Healthcare Delivery System), quoting the work of Nadeem Esmail, an economist from the Fraser Institute. The piece has stimulated two Canadian physician readers to submit comments, which [...]“iSOFT Group Limited, one of the world’s biggest healthcare technology companies, will bring together the world’s leading thinkers and creators of change to debate, challenge and discuss ideas on the future of healthcare innovation at its inaugural Ideaworks for Healthcare symposium in London this month.
Ideaworks 09 – which will be held at The Grove hotel [...]
While working in behavioral targeting (BT), I decided to learn a bit more about online advertising (OA). I bought The Online Advertising Playbook, and it was a really good choice. This book has been written by the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) in 2007.
To break the suspense, the book is of excellent quality. It is well [...]