I’ve just returned from 11 days of traveling through Hong Kong and China, as part of a personal quest to try to understand China’s role on the global stage in various industries. One thing that I was told repeatedly during my time there is that one of the biggest problems facing China today is the [...]
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Healthcare in China: Ripe for innovation?
Posted on 10 May 2011.
Posted in culture, health information, hospital quality, physicians1 Comment
How Interactive Is Your Interactive?
Posted on 21 April 2011.
Are you using your interactive tools effectively? Here are a few ideas we have been working on. 1) Developing widgets to dynamically distribute your content to other sites. 2) Dynamically update your Facebook pages with data feeds. A project we recently launched for Suburban Health presents their Featured Jobs right on their Facebook without [...]
Posted in e-health, Facebook, health information, Interactive, mobile, technology, websites0 Comments
Website Design Principles for Boomers – How to Reach Your Audience
Posted on 07 April 2011.
Continued from Part 1 on Top generational healthcare marketing tips. This advice generally applies to everyone- not just boomers. Keep in mind that design principles also depend on what you’re selling. For example, if your health plans are largely Medicaid and Medicare, you’re probably looking at an audience made of boomers, but if your organization [...]
Posted in Facebook, health information, Marketing, mobile, navigation, web best practices, webinars, websites1 Comment
Add unemployment to the impact of Facebook in healthcare: nurse is fired in Detroit
Posted on 03 August 2010.
Hospital fires a nurse over Facebook comments Oakwood Hospital let a nurse go for posting remarks about a suspected cop-killer in her care. Per the dismissal: “As healthcare providers, we have a legal and ethical responsibility to protect patient privacy and we are bound by HIPAA rules and regulations to ensure that we do so. [...]
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WWDD — What Will Tom Daschle Do?
Posted on 24 November 2008.
The former Senator Tom Daschle has been picked for the HHS top spot, and there’s been some excellent speculation — I mean, coverage about what Daschle might do once in office. I think we often miss the forest for the trees when we talk in these grand policy terms. Sure, the healthcare system is broken. [...]
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Prove Me Wrong, Medpedia? Free Health Information Coming Soon.
Posted on 28 July 2008.
A few days after my post regarding the confusion of the wiki editorial system, comes this news: The Medpedia Project today announced the formation of the world’s largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine called Medpedia. Physicians, medical schools, hospitals, health organizations and public health professionals are now volunteering to collaboratively build the most comprehensive medical [...]
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