Articles in Health System
Monday, January 18, 2016
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When Apple launched its Healthkit you could see from their language they wanted to impress upon the rest of us just what an achievement it was:
'...It just might be the beginning of a health revolution'. While there is no doubt in our mind that health apps are way more valuable than most
people realize (even if they cover really basic measures, such as the number of steps per day, etc), their language reflect some doubts as well.
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Monday, December 21, 2015
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America has reached a level of insanity where we now have the fox guarding the hen coop. Honestly the hens need to rise up and guard their own coop - hens
guarding hens. Just over the past few months we have seen 100 Billion dollars of consolidation in the healthcare industry creating THREE colossal healthcare
insurance companies insuring just about every American and not a word against such move. The foxes have silenced the hens...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015
George
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There is a prevalent opinion that the current healthcare system is so malleable as to be impossible to change; it can adapt to anything and it will never change; just like water, it takes whatever shape the environment imposes. At CashDoctor.com we think the analogy is faulty.
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Monday, December 7, 2015
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Why is it that we are discussing about healthcare mostly in terms of medicine? Ok, true, since the term 'obesity pandemic' was coined we are also
talking about diet as a major contributor to population healthcare. But if diet is part of the equation isn’t is reasonable to expect that other
factors will be involved as well?
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Monday, October 19, 2015
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It is in the nature of things that sometimes small changes can start up momentous changes. In the physical world there is, perhaps, no better analogue than snow avalanches. In the healthcare world of today the smartphone will generate the same effect. In fact, we are already passed the snowball stage.
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Monday, September 14, 2015
Cooper
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Above you can see a quote we "pilfered" from one of the more recent posts by Peter Diamandis "The 3 Major Industries AI and Big Data Will Reshape
This Decade". Why we recommend the post? As usual with Diamandis, it makes for an interesting and stimulating reading.
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Monday, September 7, 2015
Cooper
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We stumbled recently on a clear sighted blog post written by Dr. Anthony Oliva for Nuance; it was a pleasure to read and a pleasure to recommend to others (see a screen capture of the title above). Why do we like it?
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Thursday, May 7, 2015
George
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Some time ago in February those of us keeping an eye on news related to healthcare got quite excited by Google’s announcement that it will start displaying relevant medical facts in the answer box we started to get familiar with or within an app on your smartphone.
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
Cooper
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Public Agenda is a non-profit organization founded in 1975 by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Over the years, Public Agenda established (not without controversy) its reputation as a provider of non-partisan research and insights into a number of critical issues such a public finances, education or healthcare.
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Monday, March 23, 2015
Cooper
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Public Agenda is a non-profit organization founded in 1975 by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Over the years, Public Agenda established (not without controversy) its reputation as a provider of non-partisan research and insights into a number of critical issues such a public finances, education or healthcare.
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