January 2011
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MinuteClinic plans to double number of sites by... →
What year do you think it will be when retail clinics overtake traditional physician offices as the point of care for the majority of patients seeking primary care?
It has much to do with the experience. Tom Peters: “Retail … is performance art.”
Can Sam's Club Lead Health Care Reform? →
I don’t know if this will be successful, but I’m not betting against it. The biggest danger this presents for traditional healthcare is a downward gaze it likely will caste upon this program. Healthcare delivery is changing, much more so than just that represented by healthcare reform.
Doozers Do →
This is cool. At the risk of trying to find a connection in everything I come across, I offer this up as a narrative on innovation and the business cycle. Create, destroy. Create, destroy. It’s called progress.
heyitsnoah:
Don’t ask me why, exactly, but I was looking up Fraggle Rock on Wikipedia and came across the reason Doozers (the little green guys in the hard hats) are constantly...
Brands as media, healthcare thoughts
The brand as media is an intriguing thought. Traditional media was often needed to keep an eye on brands and now that the “brand” has risen in importance and internet proliferation allows for consumer monitoring, brand-produced media channels have serious appeal. When no media outlet is covering your day-to-day stories, whether out of disinterest or budget cuts, why not create a brand...
Adding Clarity to Health Care Reform →
Nudge author Richard Thaler offers some nudge improvements to healthcare reform.
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Foursquare for health?
Frog Design asks: “So, what if we could create a similar check-in and reward system (i.e. a game) to amplify other kinds of messaging — particularly health support messaging?”
Robert Fabricant writes:
This is not an idle question: the entire health and wellness industry has been chasing this dream for years. I can’t tell you how many meetings I have had with healthcare...
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Wal-Mart gets healthy →
Progress.
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Make Healthcare Awesome →
A new attitude for healthcare people to put patients where they belong: at the center of the healthcare world. You don’t need to wait for permission. You shouldn’t wait for a directive. You, right now, can awesomize the healthcare experience.
This seems to be a good thing.
Via San Francisco Chronicle:
The world bathroom scales market is being driven by the growing demand from health conscious consumers focused on maintaining good shape and increasing awareness that body fat percentage is a more precise and superior indicator of health in contrast to body weight.
FYI:
Globally, manufacturers of bathroom scales are in dilemma regarding the maximum weighing...
GDP, happiness, health
Marketplace asks “Should GDP Measure Happiness?”
“Britain, France and Canada all want to start measuring ‘well-being,’ if not happiness.”
Interesting. (Dr. Jay has been pushing the happiness + health message for a while.)
Here’s a question to ponder: does the 17+ percent of GDP the United States dedicates to healthcare produce a requisite amount of...
In 1931, Dr. W.J. Mayo predicted...
… the average length of an American’s life would be 70 years in 2011. Only about ten years off. More from Abnormal Use:
Contagious and infectious diseases have been largely overcome, and the average length of life of man has increased to fifty-eight years. The great causes of death in middle and later life are diseases of heart, blood vessels and kidneys, diseases of the nervous...
Did you know that Medicare paid for 2.3 million...
I didn’t.
But it is pure bliss when traditionally-archaic institutions try new things—by hook or by crook—because “that’s the way we do things around here” is no strategy for success tomorrow.
Bravo to reform getting this right. It may not work, but that’s not the point. What we have is not as effective as need be. Now, which provider organizations are...
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“Despite surging obesity numbers in the U.S., a new survey finds that just one...”
– The survey was conducted by Consumer Reports, the information courtesy of MSNBC.