Tag: healthcare
Dr. Koop’s Digital Korner
How famed U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, at the age of 82, became an internet entrepreneur, and why his namesake website burned out, fast.
Drip And Drive
Have you donated blood lately? Maybe you'll get inspired by reading the history of how we got modern blood donation, including (of course) the bloodmobile.
Building a responsible online community for pulmonary fibrosis: real names won't cut it here
In my spare time, I'm building an independent community for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) researchers, doctors, sufferers and their families. IPF is a degenerative lung disease which builds up scar tissue over time, restricting the patient's ability to breathe. It's generally fatal and has no cure. My idea is to promote the discussion of the facts behind the illness, and approaches that have worked for different people. (Even things like, what's the best oxygen generator?) My aim is to re
Public IT project hell: let’s make government work for us
Why does it cost $235 million to integrate a few IT systems? Johannes Ernst contrasts the Yahoo/Facebook deep integration announcement with the US government’s announcement that they will spend $235 million on integrating incompatible healthcare IT systems, and asks some pertinent questions: I assume we all agree that an environment in which leading-edge companies innovate on their own to the benefit of their customers is better than one in which the government has to spend large amounts of mo