First Party Financing – Lets Get Real About Health Care
Financing (fə-năns’) v. To provide or raise the funds or capital for: financed a new car. To supply funds to: financing a daughter through law school. To furnish credit to. The crisis that is American health care continues to get bad news. However, in a lame duck year, everyone realizes that not much is going […]
Health 2.0: Communications Reactor Panel – Introducing Joshua Seidman, PhD
Therapy (thĕr’ə-pē) n. Treatment of illness or disability. Healing power or quality This is part 4 of a 4 part interview series (see previous here and here and here) in anticipation of the upcoming Health 2.0 Conference. This fourth and final interview is with Joshua Seidman, PhD from the Center for Information Therapy. Contact: Joshua […]
Health 2.0: Communications Reactor Panel – Introducing Matthew Zachary
Ageism (ā‘jĭz‘əm) adj. Any process or expression of ideas in which stereotyping of and/or discrimination against people occurs by virtue of their age. Often refers to such actions directed against older people, but the term may also be employed to refer to unreasonable discrimination against anyone where this occurs because of the person’
Health 2.0: Communications Reactor Panel – Introducing David Sobel, MD, MPH
Provider (prə-vī’dər) n. 1. One who supplies a means of subsistence. 2. One that makes something, such as a service, available. This is part 2 of a 4 part interview series (see previous here) in anticipation of the upcoming Health 2.0 Conference. This second interview is with David S. Sobel, MD, MPH physician extraordinaire from […]
Health 2.0: Communications Reactor Panel – Introducing Brendan Gallagher
Interactive (ĭn‘tər-ăk‘tĭv) adj. Acting or capable of acting on each other. Of or relating to a program that responds to user activity. Of, relating to, or being a form of media entertainment in which user and the medium engage in bilateral actions that influence the other. As part of my preparation for the upcoming Health […]
Tick, Tock: Time for the Annual HISsie awards
HISsified (hĭ-sə-fī’d) adj. 1. To be openly put to scorn by a withering Mr. HIStalk rant. 2. To be recognized with an annual industry award by Mr. HIStalk. Last night I was privileged to be invited to the hottest Health Care IT party at HIMSS: the first annual HISTalk Shin Dig. Mr HISTalk, while ruminating […]
Getting Giga Over Google (Again)
Giga (gĭg ‘ə) n. Metric prefix denoting multiplication by 109 or 1,000,000,000. In measuring the capacity of computer disks and RAM, equivalent to X 230 or 1,073,741,824. In California surf slang for something that is totally gnarlatious. OK . . . enough already . . . regarding Google, Micro$oft, Privacy, and for sure Deborah Peel. […]
HIMSS Kickoff: What time is it?
Kickoff (kĭk’ôf‘) n. 1. A place kick in American football that starts play. 2. A beginning for a new initiative. Well, after one of those brutal overnight flights when you are constantly uncomfortable, I rolled into Orlando at 5:13 AM EST to the annual ritual called HIMSS. For anyone in health care IT, this is […]
Practice Delusion: The Leading Farce Within Health Care
Farce (färs) n. A light dramatic work in which highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements are used for humorous effect. The branch of literature, and the broad or spirited humor characteristic of such work. A ludicrous, empty show; a mockery We are just entering the other worldy hyperbole of the HIMSS […]
Covering Your Asset: The Body Shop Insurance Company
Asset (ăs‘ĕt‘) n. A useful or valuable quality, person, or thing; an advantage or resource. A tangible or intangible item that can be applied to cover liabilities of a person or a business (cash, stock, inventory, rights, or goodwill). I have previously made the argument that our personal health status should be considered a form […]