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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Waiting for first lift up to the backside @libertymtn
Monday, December 21, 2009
Breaktime in CLC @skilibertymtn drinks and Teddy Grahams - yay!
Mark Scrimshire
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Fresh tracks on the backside @skilibertymtn - glorious and simply heavenly
Mark Scrimshire
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Off to the backside for a 1at run @skilibertymtn
Mark Scrimshire
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Conditions look great @skilibertymtn
It is 8:30am and the lifts are starting up. I am grabbing a coffee before heading to the backside to warm up. The conditions look perfect. Clear skies and groomed pistes. This lunch time I am in the CLC (children's Learnjng Center) for a 2 hour session.
Mark Scrimshire
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Great to be back on snow @skiliberty
Skiliberty opened last weekend and this weekend got a great boost with a snow storm dropping a couple if feet of powder on the resort. Today is my return instructor training day. One of the great things about Liberty Mountain is the quality of the ski instructors. The resort invests a lot of time and effort to improve the skills of their instructors. It is one of the perks if the job that the instructors get to be coached by some of the best if their peers. Today I was lucky enough to be in a group led by Tom, one of the most senior instructors. Tom always taps in to his vast reservoir of experience developed over about 30 years of teaching and finds something to improve in your skiing. After a morning skiing in powder- a pretty rare occurence in thus part of the east coast- and working on teaching skills, it is now time for a short break before heading back out in to the falling snow for more honing of our teaching skills. See you on the slopes at Liberty Mountain. Come and say hi! We can take pictures and post on Twitter and make others jealous because they aren't up here at @skiliberty.
Mark Scrimshire
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Give Me My Health Data
Today I have been reading a couple of great blog posts that nicely complement each other. The first was from Gilles Frydman (@gfry) over on e-patients.net "2010: The year of Open Streams and Fax Machines" Gilles makes a number of great points and pulls some fascinating quotes from Adam Bosworth at Keas. Go and read the article - Now!
The second article was from one of my favorite firestarters - Jen McCabe (@jensmcCabe)at ContagionHealth: "Why Programming Microchoice and Microcontrol in the Healthcare system Will Lead to the Equivalent of the Microprocessing Revolution." The title may be a mouthful but the article is a "must read." There is so much packed in to Jen's post. The bottom line is that we (each of us) already exercises control in our own lives through the microchoices we make every day, many times a day. In the healthcare system today our primary mechanism to exercise control over our own destiny is the "null decision." We can choose not to take medication, or refuse a surgery. All very negative, but still a form of control we can exercise.
The revolution coming in healthcare will be when we each choose to engage in our own health.
In Gilles' article he refers to the Declaration of Health Data Rights. If you haven't signed this go and do it right now. It is a simple thing to do and can take less than a minute. It is an example of a positive microchoice you can make in taking control of your own health.
I have recently had to find a new doctor and dentist. Always a fun process that reaffirms the primitive tools available to healthcare consumers. It also confirms Gilles' point that the Healthcare system is wedded to paper. However, there is an opportunity here:
When you sign up at a healthcare provider you typically receive a "Notice of Privacy Practices" document that tells you how they are going to use your health information. There is often a section like this one:
Your Authorization: In addition to our use of your health information for treatment, payment or healthcare operations, you may give us written authorization to use your health information or to disclose it to anyone for any purpose. If you give us a authorization, you may revoke it in writing at any time. Your revocation will not affect any use or disclosures permitted by your authorization while it was in effect. Unless you give us a written authorization, we cannot use or disclose your health information for any reason except those described in this notice.
Let's use this clause to free our health data! To this end, I have drafted a crude counter document. After all, if a HealthCare provider is going to bombard us with documents to sign let's give them something back in return!
Here is the Google Doc - Authorization to Disclose Health Information - does one of our Health Privacy Lawyers want to come up with a better document? I am open to improvements. Think of this as Health Data Rights in practice.
Let's make it clear that we expect the information from our Doctor visits and lab results to be uploaded to our Personal Health Record. So when you go to the Doctor's office take along two copies of the Authorization document. Get them to complete the form and provide you with a copy. You can then use a platform like nomoreclipboard.com or Google Health to grant the Doctor's office access to update your Health Record.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Text v Voice caught from @stoweboyd /Message
December 09, 2009
Text messages now outnumber mobile voice calls three to one, according to the Nielsen Company.
via www.nytimes.com
07:53 AM | Permalink
Fascinating Stat that @stoweboyd picked up on.
Monday, November 30, 2009
#SecretDCHC - just a few hours away
Tuesday 1st December sees #SecretDCHealthCamp happen in Washington DC. This is not your usual HealthCamp.The event is a planning day.
I have two objectives in mind for this camp, but as ever, the outcome will be driven by the participants.
1. Health 2.0 Goes to Washington
Put the planning and organization in to effect to create a June 2010 event that brings HealthCamp, The Health2.0 Accelerator and the Health 2.0 Conference to the Nation's Capital. The discussions around this effort are scheduled for 11:00am (Eastern time) and a Conference Call will be opened up so people can join in the discussion.
The Call in details are:
Phone: +1.410.880.4287 or +1.877.232.4287
Conference ID: 81127
Passcode: Passcode is not required.
2. HealthCamp 2010 Calendar
There are a number of HealthCamps already pencilled in for 2010. There are also a number of HealthCamps we would like to see happen - in places like Paris and Berlin. For these to happen HealthCamp needs sponsors and local organizers. We therefore want to construct a calendar of HealthCamp events and look at what other Health related conferences are taking place that Camps might be able to run alongside.
There are also a number of regional gaps in HealthCamp coverage we would therefore like to see how we can get HealthCamps to happen in places like Seattle, Chicago, Ohio and Texas.
If you can help we would love you to get involved. As a first step we are encouraging people to tweet potential dates for the calendar. To do this publish a tweet that includes "HealthCamp Calendar" together with a projected date and location.
For example: HealthCamp Calendar Jan/Feb 2010 San Diego
We will use these tweets to compile the HealthCamp 2010 Calendar.
Can you keep a secret? Then come and light the fuse for 2010 at #SecretDcHealthCamp. There is still space available.
Newspapers - the slow death continues
Stowe Boyd's /Message blog always has some fascinating commentary. Today he picked up a great quote from an Editor of a well known Newspaper. As Stowe says - Telling Words indeed!
"We are not a national news organization of record serving a general audience."
This came from Marcus Brauchli, executive editor at The Washington Post. If the leading paper in the Nation's Capital is not a National News Organization then what hope is there for 99% of the rest of the Newspaper industry?
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving! The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
via youtube.com
The Muppets are looking pretty good in HD on YouTube!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Report: Microsoft may help News Corp. delist sites | Digital Media - CNET News
Maybe Rupert Murdoch was serious about wanting to go without Google.
Murdoch's News Corp. has initiated discussions with Microsoft over a plan to have the media company's content essentially delisted from the world's largest search engine, according to a report Sunday in the Financial Times that cited a person familiar with the situation. Microsoft, which owns rival search engine Bing, has also reportedly approached media giants about having their content removed from Google search results as well.
Microsoft representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The two companies have been linked discussing a Web-search partnership in the past. During Microsoft's failed bid for Yahoo in 2008, the tech giant was reportedly in "serious" talks with News Corp. to make a joint bid for Yahoo.
Murdoch, the chairman of a newspaper, TV, and Internet empire that includes The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, 20th Century Fox, Fox News, and Hulu, warned earlier this month that his sites may soon disappear from the search engine's listings. Murdoch accused search giants of "stealing" his company's content during an interview with Sky News Australia. When he was asked why he just doesn't pull his Web sites from Google's search results, he said: "I think we will. But that's when we start charging."
Murdoch and other News Corp. execs have said that they intend to charge readers and viewers for access to the company's content, forsaking the ad revenue model.
For several months, executives at some of the nation's most influential newspapers and periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press, have been blaming Google and similar Web services for at least some of their deepening financial troubles.
Google sells ads tied to the news blurbs it "scrapes" from news sites. It links back to the Web sites from which it acquired the content but doesn't share ad revenue with them.
"Publishers put their content on the Web because they want it to be found," Google said in a statement earlier this month. "Very few choose not to include their material in Google News and Web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don't."
Critics of the media companies' bashing of Google point out that if media companies were serious about not being indexed by search engines, they could accomplish the feat on their own by inserting a single line of code into their URLs. For example, if the Wall Street Journal added a line such as online.wsj.com/robots.txt, content from the site would be rendered invisible to Google.
via news.cnet.com
Microsoft is playing a dangerous game if this report is true. It is one thing to win audiences by being a better search engine. It is an entirely different situation if you are incentivizing content producers to hide content from competitors.
This could backfire on Microsoft if they are not careful.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
EFF Tackles Bogus Podcasting Patent - And We Need Your Help | Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF Tackles Bogus Podcasting Patent - And We Need Your Help
News Update by Rebecca Jeschke
Patenting podcasting? You've got to be kidding. Yet a company called Volomedia just got the Patent Office to grant them such exclusive rights.
EFF and the law firm of Howrey, LLP aren’t willing to just sit by and watch. This patent could threaten the vibrant community of podcasters and millions of podcast listeners. We want to put a stop to it, but we need your help.
The Volomedia patent covers "a method for providing episodic media." It's a ridiculously broad patent, covering something that many folks have been doing for many years. Worse, it could create a whole new layer of ongoing costs for podcasters and their listeners. Right now, just about anyone can create their own on-demand talk radio program, earning an audience on the strength of their ideas. But more costs and hassle means that podcasting could go the way of mainstream radio -- with only the big guys able to afford an audience. And we'd have a bogus patent to blame.
In order to bust this patent, we are looking for additional "prior art" -- or evidence that the podcasting methods described in the patent were already in use before November 19, 2003. In particular, we're looking for written descriptions of methods that allow a user to download pre-programmed episodic media like audio files or video files from a remote publisher, with the download occurring after the user subscribes to the episodes, and with the user continuing to automatically receive new episodes. You can read the entire prior art request here, and if you have something that could help, please send it to podcasting_priorart@eff.org or fill out the form on our Volomedia page.
EFF's Patent-Busting Project has taken on ten of the worst free-speech and innovation crushing software patents approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Eight of the ten have had a bite taken out of them so far, with two busted entirely, one narrowed, four reexams granted by the Patent office, and another one invalidated by the courts. We weren't looking to add to our list of the "worst of the worst," but this one was so bad we had to add it as a special bonus offender, and we can't wait to shoot it down. As Renee DuBord Brown of Howrey said, "Overbroad patents deter innovation. Congress specifically authorized the reexamination process to correct such errors, and we are looking forward to working with EFF on this reexam."
Related Issues: Patents
via eff.org
EFF looking for Prior Art to November 2003. They obviously need to look at material used at BloggerCon I which took place in October 2003.
Who, other than Dave Winer were at BloggerCon I and still have notes and copies of presentations?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Upcoming Webinars
http://globalmediadynamics.com/webinars/upcoming-webinars#
Event Information: Achieving Vitality & Wellness in a Web 2.0 and Health 2.0 Environment - Participatory Healthcare in a Consumer-Driven Era
Registration is required to join this event. Event status: Not started (Register)
Date and time: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:00 pm
Eastern Standard Time (GMT -05:00, New York)
Panelist(s) Info: Mark Scrimshire
Director, Internet Channel Strategy
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Description: About the Webinar: The HealthCare market is changing. The emergence of High Deductible Health Plans and other changes in the Employer market are ushering in an era where more consumers are more engaged in their own health care than ever before. Transformation is coming to HealthCare driven by consumers and supported by a new generation of Web 2.0 and Health 2.0 tools and services that empower consumers to take ownership of their Health. The challenge for the industry is to embrace and support this transformation to achieve wellness and vitality for the population it serves. To tackle these challenges, Global Media Dynamics' webinar on "Achieving Vitality and Wellness in The Era of Participatory HealthCare" offers a comprehensive review of emerging Social Tools for health, and targeted approaches to engage consumers in managing their own health, wellness and vitality. During this session, Mark Scrimshire, Director of Internet Channel Strategy at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Chief Instigator for HealthCamps, will also address approaches that use the new breed of socially oriented tools to simplify consumer interactions and improve customer satisfaction. Learning Objectives:
- Understand the structural forces impacting new products in health plans today - Learn how simplification and integration can lead to improved adoption of tools and services by consumers - Recognize the emergence of two-conversational marketing and the power of customer service as a marketing power house - Understand how transparency is moving out of the hands of the industry and in to the hands of the consumer - Prepare for adaptive engagement and the emergence of hyper-customization. One size no longer fits all. About the Speaker: Mark Scrimshire is the Director of Internet Channel Strategy at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, an independent licensee of BlueCross BlueShield operating in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia. His role is to guide the transformation of CareFirst's Internet-based systems to meet the needs of a new era in Health Care. Outside of CareFirst Mark is a blogger and is active in Social Media (@ekivemark on Twitter) and is best known as the Chief Instigator and Troublemaker for the HealthCa.mp movement which is driving the conversation around the reinvention of health care on a participatory model using social networking, open standards and the latest Internet technologies to deliver more effective care of our health. In the past 18 months 1,000 people have taken part in HealthCamps around the world. Mark has been delivering strategic technology and business process solutions to major organizations for more than 20 years. A veteran of international business and the global consulting industry, he has undertaken many challenging assignments. Who Should Attend:
From Health Plans, Employer Plans, Commercial Plans, and Retail Plans:
- Vice Presidents, Directors, Managers, and Executives of:
Marketing & Sales
Web Design
e-Solution
Benefits
Wellness Health Promotion Health Management Human Resources Corporate Health Occupational Health Medical Affairs Consumer Engagement & Education Product Development Product Innovation Public Policy Regulatory Affairs Product Management Information Technology e-Business Health Reimbursement Accounts Transparency Business Development Communications Consumer Markets Consumer Directed Health Plans (CDHPs) Health Savings Accounts
Event Information: Achieving Vitality & Wellness in a Web 2.0 and Health 2.0 Environment - Participatory Healthcare in a Consumer-Driven Era
Registration is required to join this event. Event status: Not started (Register)
Date and time: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:00 pm
Eastern Standard Time (GMT -05:00, New York)
Panelist(s) Info: Mark Scrimshire
Director, Internet Channel Strategy
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Description: About the Webinar: The HealthCare market is changing. The emergence of High Deductible Health Plans and other changes in the Employer market are ushering in an era where more consumers are more engaged in their own health care than ever before. Transformation is coming to HealthCare driven by consumers and supported by a new generation of Web 2.0 and Health 2.0 tools and services that empower consumers to take ownership of their Health. The challenge for the industry is to embrace and support this transformation to achieve wellness and vitality for the population it serves. To tackle these challenges, Global Media Dynamics' webinar on "Achieving Vitality and Wellness in The Era of Participatory HealthCare" offers a comprehensive review of emerging Social Tools for health, and targeted approaches to engage consumers in managing their own health, wellness and vitality. During this session, Mark Scrimshire, Director of Internet Channel Strategy at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Chief Instigator for HealthCamps, will also address approaches that use the new breed of socially oriented tools to simplify consumer interactions and improve customer satisfaction. Learning Objectives:
- Understand the structural forces impacting new products in health plans today - Learn how simplification and integration can lead to improved adoption of tools and services by consumers - Recognize the emergence of two-conversational marketing and the power of customer service as a marketing power house - Understand how transparency is moving out of the hands of the industry and in to the hands of the consumer - Prepare for adaptive engagement and the emergence of hyper-customization. One size no longer fits all. About the Speaker: Mark Scrimshire is the Director of Internet Channel Strategy at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, an independent licensee of BlueCross BlueShield operating in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia. His role is to guide the transformation of CareFirst's Internet-based systems to meet the needs of a new era in Health Care. Outside of CareFirst Mark is a blogger and is active in Social Media (@ekivemark on Twitter) and is best known as the Chief Instigator and Troublemaker for the HealthCa.mp movement which is driving the conversation around the reinvention of health care on a participatory model using social networking, open standards and the latest Internet technologies to deliver more effective care of our health. In the past 18 months 1,000 people have taken part in HealthCamps around the world. Mark has been delivering strategic technology and business process solutions to major organizations for more than 20 years. A veteran of international business and the global consulting industry, he has undertaken many challenging assignments. Who Should Attend:
From Health Plans, Employer Plans, Commercial Plans, and Retail Plans:
- Vice Presidents, Directors, Managers, and Executives of:
Marketing & Sales
Web Design
e-Solution
Benefits
Wellness Health Promotion Health Management Human Resources Corporate Health Occupational Health Medical Affairs Consumer Engagement & Education Product Development Product Innovation Public Policy Regulatory Affairs Product Management Information Technology e-Business Health Reimbursement Accounts Transparency Business Development Communications Consumer Markets Consumer Directed Health Plans (CDHPs) Health Savings Accounts
I am presenting a Webinar on Vitality in a Web 2.0 and Health 2.0 World. I keep promoting the concept of the engaged patient and Participatory HealthCare.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Steve Jobs (@FSJ) achieves total reality distortion before a product is even released
Old habits die hard. Rupert Murdoch believes that the future of the newspaper business is subscriptions—electronic subscriptions. He’s done with giving away his news for free on the Web and to search engines like Google. Instead thinks that Kindle-like tablet computers can save the media industry. It’s a notion that’s been floated before: an entire newsstand in a color tablet
which delivers electronic versions of any newspaper or magazine you want for a monthly subscription of $15 to $19 a month.
It’s got to work, otherwise, he warns from his soapbox, “Newspapers will go out of business. All newspapers.” In an interview on his own Fox Business
(embedded below), he explains his thinking:
ALEXIS GLICK: ARE YOU CONVINCED IT IS GOING TO WORK?
RUPERT MURDOCH: SURE.
ALEXIS GLICK: WHY?
RUPERT MURDOCH: WE TEST MARKETED IT AND PEOPLE I THINK UNDERSTAND THAT IT’S PERFECTLY FAIR THAT THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT. IF IT DOESN’T, THE NEWSPAPERS WILL GO OUT OF BUSINESS. ALL NEWSPAPERS. THERE IS JUST NOT ENOUGH ADVERTISING TO GO AROUND FOR ALL THE SITES ON THE INTERNET. THE NUMBER OF SITES AND AVAILABILITY OF ADVERTISING ON THE INTERNET, THE AVAILABILITY DOUBLES AND TRIPLES EVERY YEAR BUT THE AMOUNT OF REAL MONEY GOES UP 10 OR 15% A YEAR. THE PRICE OF IT KEEPS COMING DOWN.
Forget for a moment that news websites will be perfectly readable on these newfangled tablets everyone keeps talking about. So Murdoch still has the problem of “>”leading” all of his media competitors into the promised land of subscription tablets by walling off their websites from readers. And also set aside the fact that newspapers and magazines are already available for paid download on Amazon’s Kindle, and that those subscription revenues are still miniscule. A full-color tablet with access to an entire newsstand’s worth of magazines and newspapers for a single bundled price would be a better deal and better experience than buying subscriptions a la carté from the Kindle.
But in the face of free content readable via a browser, the subscription model will be challenged. Even setting aside competition from newer media sites and blogs with lower cost structures and lean staffs, there is no way to completely wall off news from every traditional news organization. At the very least, the weakest newspapers and magazines with the lowest readership and share of attention will find that they are better off remaining free and selling Web ads than taking crumbs from the new electronic subscrtiption pie. (Presumably the subscription revenue will be divvied up based on demand, with the most popular titles getting the largest portion).
Apparently, Murdoch also has no interest in simply playing Bing off of Google and making the search engines pay for the right to index his news either. Asked whether he was “moving towards an exclusive deal” with the “aggregators and the Googles of the world” to make them “pay for News Corp. content,” Murdoch replied:
NO, NO, NO. I DON’T KNOW THAT THEY CAN AFFORD TO DO THAT. IF THEY WERE TO PAY EVERYBODY FOR EVERYTHING THEY TOOK FROM EVERY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD, AND EVERY MAGAZINE, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE ANY PROFITS LEFT.
You got that? Even if he were to sell his news to Google, which he is not, Google doesn’t have enough money to buy it. Either that, or Murdoch is negotiating in public as Google’s search deal with MySpace comes up for renewal.
Video and partial transcript below:
Transcript excerpt via Fox Business News
ALEXIS GLICK: YOU HAVE MADE A LOT OF NEWS ABOUT AGGREGATORS AND GOOGLES OF THE WORLD AND WHETHER THEY SHOULD PAY FOR NEWS CORP. CONTENT. ARE YOU MOVING TOWARD EXCLUSIVE DEAL WITH THEM?
RUPERT MURDOCH: NO, NO, NO. I DON’T KNOW THAT THEY CAN AFFORD TO DO THAT. IF THEY WERE TO PAY EVERYBODY FOR EVERYTHING THEY TOOK FROM EVERY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD, AND EVERY MAGAZINE, THEY WOULDN’T HAVE ANY PROFITS LEFT. THEY HAVE DEVISED A BRILLIANT SEARCH ENGINE THAT SCRAPES ALL OF THE MATERIAL PUBLISHED IN THE WORLD, AND ON THE BACK OF THAT THEY SELL SEARCH, BUT THEY DON’T PAY FOR THE RAW MATERIAL. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. WE CAN PUBLISH OUR PAPERS ELECTRONICALLY, AND OTHERS CAN TOO, AND PEOPLE CAN STILL GO TO A SEARCH ENGINE IF THEY WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING, NOT NEWS PERHAPS, BUT THEY SEE TERMS THAT NEWS REFERS TO IN NEWSPAPER STORIES AND MAGAZINES THEY CAN EITHER GO TO GOOGLE OR MICROSOFT OR WHOEVER. THEY’LL STILL HAVE A VERY GOOD BUSINESS.
ALEXIS GLICK: YOU ENVISION A WORLD THEN WITH A TABLET, A HANDHELD DEVICE OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE WHERE YOU CAN OFFER A FINANCIAL MARKETPLACE OR A SUPERMARKET FULL OF MEDIA CONTENT AND DATA ON A MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM?
RUPERT MURDOCH: YES.
ALEXIS GLICK: HOW DOES THAT WORK?
RUPERT MURDOCH: WELL, YOU’D BE ABLE TO GET ON IT, AS WOULD BE TRANSMITTED TO IT, A TABLET. TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE AIR OR OVER WI-FI. A REASONABLE SIZE, ATTRACTIVE TABLET IN FULL COLOR AND YOU COULD READ A NEWSPAPER ON IT. YOU PRESS A BUTTON WHEN YOU WANT IT OR IF YOU WANT TO PLAY EXTRA, MORE THAN THAT, BUT IF IT COSTS $15 OR $19 A MONTH, IF YOU WANTED TRAVEL MAGAZINES OR SOMETHING YOU CAN ORDER THEM UP AND HAVE THEM.
ALEXIS GLICK: ON THE TABLET, IF I PAY THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT I CAN HAVE ANYTHING I WANT?
RUPERT MURDOCH: ANY CONTENT. BOOKS, ANYTHING AT ALL. YOU JUST HAVE TO PAY. THAT’S THE FUTURE. IT COSTS A FORTUNE. THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY – THE NEWS INDUSTRY, PUT IT THAT WAY. LET’S NOT TALK ABOUT PAPER. THE NEWS INDUSTRY SPENDS A FORTUNE IN COLLECTING THE NEWS. IT NEEDS TO BE PAID FOR IT. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH ADVERTISING TO GO AROUND. IT’S ALRIGHT ON CABLE TELEVISION BECAUSE IT GETS PAID BY THE CABLE SUPPLIERS, MONEY, WHICH, OF COURSE, GETS PASSED ON TO THE PUBLIC. AS WELL AS SUPPLEMENTED BY SOME ADVERTISING AND IT HAS TO BE THE SAME WITH OTHER FORMS OF NEWS.
ALEXIS GLICK: ARE YOU CONVINCED IT IS GOING TO WORK?
RUPERT MURDOCH: SURE.
ALEXIS GLICK: WHY?
RUPERT MURDOCH: WE TEST MARKETED IT AND PEOPLE I THINK UNDERSTAND THAT IT’S PERFECTLY FAIR THAT THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT. IF IT DOESN’T, THE NEWSPAPERS WILL GO OUT OF BUSINESS. ALL NEWSPAPERS. THERE IS JUST NOT ENOUGH ADVERTISING TO GO AROUND FOR ALL THE SITES ON THE INTERNET. THE NUMBER OF SITES AND AVAILABILITY OF ADVERTISING ON THE INTERNET, THE AVAILABILITY DOUBLES AND TRIPLES EVERY YEAR BUT THE AMOUNT OF REAL MONEY GOES UP 10 OR 15% A YEAR. THE PRICE OF IT KEEPS COMING DOWN.
Website: newscorp.com Location: New York, New York, United States Founded: 1980 News Corp is the world’s largest media conglomerate company.
News Corporation is a diversified global media company with operations in eight industry segments: filmed entertainment; television; cable network programming; direct broadcast satellite… Learn More
Website: google.com Location: Mountain View, California, United States Founded: September 7, 1998 IPO: August 19, 2004 Google primarily provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of tools and platforms including its more popular… Learn More
Company: Amazon Website: amazon.com/kindle Launch Date: February 24, 2009 Amazon’s Kindle 2 is a mobile eBook reader. It was announced on February 9, 2009. An update on the original Amazon Kindle, Kindle 2 weighs 10.2 oz, has 7 times the storage space of… Learn More
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via techcrunch.com
As the Newspaper industry struggles to find a viable business model it appears that the legend of Steve Jobs reaches new heights.
He appears to have Google and Microsoft playing off against each other while convincing the Newspaper industry (okay - may be just Rupert Murdoch) that the Tablet is their only savior.
This is amazing since Apple haven't even released their much rumored tablet yet.
From Ted Eytan’s blog: “Now Reading: Patients actually want their entire medical record” | e
From Ted Eytan’s blog: “Now Reading: Patients actually want their entire medical record”
by e-Patient Dave on November 15, 2009An important study just got my attention. Patients and clinicians in different cities were asked questions about concerns and preferences. Titled “Insights for Internists: ‘I Want the Computer to Know Who I Am’,” the study reports: (emphasis added)
- Patients do keep their own medical records
- They want access to everything in their record
- Privacy worries “appeared to fade rapidly in the face of the desire to have records fully available in emergency settings and with multiple and new providers”
“health professionals professed far more concern about maintaining privacy than patients.”
- They understand that their clinicians are busy/stressed, they want the information to supplement and make their (clinicians) work more efficient, not less
Boy do I wish we’d all known about this during the debates about meaningful use and medical records this summer! There was so much talk about “Well what do people want?” and “Won’t patients be overwhelmed? They won’t be able to understand it.”
And here’s the thing: it was published back in May, and the research was done THREE YEARS AGO, Nov. 2006 to Jan. 2007.
How’s that for a great example of the “lethal lag time” we talk about in the e-patient white paper? That’s the delay between when new knowledge comes into existence and when it’s made its way through the publication system, for use by decision-makers. Three years, in this case.
Thanks to the always magnificent, e-patient-minded Ted Eytan, MD for highlighting this study on his blog Friday.
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4 Responses to “From Ted Eytan’s blog: “Now Reading: Patients actually want their entire medical record””
[...] The reason for this development is that there are few places that keep track of what is published in the field. A good example is the remark by e-patient Dave this Sunday: Boy do I wish we’d all known about this during the debates about meaningful use and medical records this summer! There was so much talk about “Well what do people want?” and “Won’t patients be overwhelmed? They won’t be able to understand it.” From Ted Eytan’s blog: “Now Reading: Patients actually want their entire medical record” [...]
I’m stunned (in a good way) – as the above comment says, that article was posted on their site the same day.
Here’s where you can subscribe to updates from their site.
Dave,
I’m wondering if the same issues around privacy exist for controversial diagnoses. For example, psychiatric patients may not want their records to be made fully electronic, for good reason. To this day, discrimination exists even within the medical community against psychiatric patients who have physical illnesses. Which is why they tend to have higher rates of morbidity and mortality than others.
It can literally kill you if a Doctor finds out you are on antidepressants.
And employers? Automatically fire anyone with a psychiatric diagnosis. Child welfare authorities are more than happy to seize children from parents on a precautionary basis, with no evidence of harm. Even though patients who take their medication are better workers, and better parents.
Same for women who have had abortions, or even prenatal diagnosis. In the old days, they would have been recorded correctly in paper files but only billed as D&Cs, which could be post-miscarriage D&Cs, to protect the lives of Doctors and the identity of patients. Pro-lifers have stated quite clearly that they will kill women. Do you think they can’t hire a hacker? I bet they can.
I appreciate that security exists for people concerned about privacy, but the problem is that even one slip can destroy a life, or destroy a career. And the penalties so far are a joke. They need to be jailable offenses.
A leg x-ray is not the same thing as a depression diagnosis.
So I am quite happy to sit back and wait a nice long time for E-Records. I like staying alive.
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@TedEytan highlights an older study. Great info! Patients want to share - it might save our lives.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Saturday, November 07, 2009
#hcnyc09 - Health Care Law Blog: Visualizing HR 3962: Affordable Health Care for America Act
http://healthcarebloglaw.blogspot.com/2009/11/visualizing-hr-3962-affordable-health.html
Bob Coffield @bobcoffield has drawn up a great heat map of the Affordable Health Care Act.
Very topical for some discussions at HealthCampNYC.
#hcnyc09 - Health Care Law Blog: Visualizing HR 3962: Affordable Health Care for America Act
http://healthcarebloglaw.blogspot.com/2009/11/visualizing-hr-3962-affordable-health.html
Bob Coffield @bobcoffield has drawn up a great heat map of the Affordable Health Care Act.
Very topical for some discussions at HealthCampNYC.
Friday, November 06, 2009
Apple's App Store hits 100,000, displays ultimate irony - Computerworld Blogs
Apple's iPhone App Store, as long expected, passed the 100,000 app mark today. Apple has been counting down the milestones since the store opened, last mentioning 85,000 in a conference call last month. There are some interesting trends developing, however, that put that number into perspective.
First of all, most apps aren't the wild successes that you've heard stories about. In fact, according to a recent study, if you are not in the top 1000 (or 1%) apps, you aren't going to be installed on more than 1.67% of iPhones and iPods. That same study said that only 20% of all apps ever get more than a few downloads.
Another recent phenomenon has been running up the App Store count. Books are turning into Apps. This isn't like the Kindle App which can read many books in the one reader app or purchase books in-app. Companies like Scrollmotion have engines that turn a lot of recent book releases into seperate, individual apps with little effort.
It isn't just first run books, however. Companies are taking books in the open domain and building apps around them. There are probably 10 $.99 War and Peace apps in the store.
Same goes for most classics. How about Sun Tzu's Art of War? Over 30 apps for one book title.
This free book to cheap app model probably accounts for thousands of "apps".
Finally, all of this belies the ultimate irony for Apple. For decades, they've been struggling with their Mac platform because most app(lication)s are written for PC first. Then, sometimes they are written for Mac, sometimes they aren't (and they are also crippled like Microsoft Office). This has traditionally been the major barrier to entry for prospective Mac customers who've gone to Windows.
Apple would try to convince people that it wsn't the quanity of applications but the quality, and that native Mac Applications were better.
Over the past five years, the Web and a host of other factors have tempered that trend, but it still exists -especially in the corporate world.
Now, Apple is king of the apps in the smartphone realm and spouts their total at every opportunity. Perhaps they are making up for years of app-envy?
So there are 100,000 apps in the App Store. According to AppShopper (http://Appshopper.com) there are 106,794 apps approved but only 97,435 actually available in the Apps Store.
I don't browse around the App Store much. Instead I tend to listen to the Apps that are being suggested by friends on Twitter. I did take a quick look today and came away wondering if there was an App to count the number of Apps in the App Store?
Thursday, November 05, 2009
#hcnyc Countdown to HealthCampNYC - 1 day to go!
Once again HealthCamp hits the big apple! Last year HealthCamp took place under the umbrella of the Web 2.0 Expo in the un-conference track. This year, thanks to the the tireless efforts of Eugene Borukhovich (@healthEugene) HealthCampNYC (#hcnyc) stands on its own. Saturday morning at 8:30 sees HealthCampNYc kick off at the Teacher's college in Columbia.
We have worked out an arrangement with the college to allow last minute participants to join in. So head over to http://healthcampnyc.eventbrite.com and grab a ticket and join in.
If you can't make the event in person please check out the Twitter Stream. The CoverItLive feed should be available (See Below) or over on the HealthCa.mp network's wiki at http://bit.ly/hcnyc_w. The CoverItLive feed is on the Discussion page.
Okay, I am off to pack ready for the trip up on Friday. If you make it to HealthCampNYC come and say hello. If you can't make the event but will be near Washington DC on Tuesday December 1st then you could come along to the #SecretDCHealthCamp ....whoops. I was supposed to be keeping that a secret. So please, don't tell anyone you don't know!
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Social Learning Camp has a fascinating Pin Board from PinDax. (http://www.pindax.com/showSubscribe.asp?bid=3866)
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Open Mobile Health Exchange: A Microsyntax.org Project - /Message
November 03, 2009
Open Mobile Health Exchange: A Microsyntax.org Project
I am happy to announce that Alan Viars will be heading up a new project for Microsyntax.org, called Open Mobile Health Exchange:
via www.microsyntax.orgOMHE (Open Mobile Health Exchange), pronounced “ooommm” is an open-source microsyntax for medical devices, and other “short text capable” systems. OMHE is used for sending blood pressure, blood glucose, weight, step-per-day, pain levels, and other common information often sent between people and their health care provider. It’s designed to be easily typed on a mobile phone, while at the same time, easy for machines (i.e. computer, applications) to understand. Although OMHE is simple enough for manual human entry, its not always necessarily typed directly by humans. For example, many applications may present the user (human) with a graphical user interface (GUI), but still use OMHE as the underlying data format. OMHE can also be used for “machine-to-machine” communication. For example, OMHE is an output message format suited for medical devices such as pedometers, blood glucose meters, and blood pressure meters, weight scales, and other hardware.
I think OMHE is a good indicator of how machines in the future will be communicating with us, and each other, via microsyntax.
For more information, please refer to the OHME project.
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For those of you at HealthCampMd in June you will remember that Alan Viars announced OMHE as one of our Lightning Talks. It is great to see this project being picked up under Stowe's Microsyntax initiative.
Monday, November 02, 2009
HealthCamp on Blog Talk Radio On November 3rd at 12pm EDT
HealthCamp
HealthCamp is an "un-conference" event with interest in the transformational potential afforded by emerging Social Networks, Open Standards and the latest web and mobile technologies to facilitate needed change in the healthcare financing and delivery space. The HealthCamp series is a growing, grassroots phenomenon, emerging from the ad hoc gathering known as "Barcamp". Events are being held, or planned, across the country as well as internationally, as part of the "Health 2.0" movement towards participatory (i.e, consumer driven) healthcare - where patients, members or consumers, take an active and informed role in their care in conjunction with their physician, hospital, ancillary or allied health practitioner, etc.
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HealthCamp - What's It All About?
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Date / Time: 11/3/2009 12:00 PM
Category: Health
Call-in Number: (718) 506-1723
Join Mark Scrimshire, aka @ekivemark, and Gregg Masters, aka @2healthguru, for a conversation on the emerging 'HealthCamp phenom', and plans underway for un-conferences scheduled in the US and beyond. HealthCamp is about putting social media, open source and the best of the Internet, Mobile web and process innovation to work for better health care and health technology. HealthCamp is a user-organized "un--conference" movement that brings consumers, health providers, health industry experts and technology professionals together for a one day event to exchange ideas informally, locally, openly. Participants themselves provide the content, with break-out sessions they develop themselves and plug into a schedule grid on the day of the event. Anyone can present and host a session in nearly any format. For more information: http://www.socialtext.net/healthcamp/index.cgi?healthca_mp
Tomorrow I am chatting with Gregg Masters on HealthCamp Radio on the BlogTalk Radio network. We will be talking about the HealthCamp Phenomenon in the run up to HealthCampNYC this Saturday (11/07), SecretDCHealthCamp on December 1st and HealthCampSanDiego which is being planned for January/February 2010.
Take 30 minutes and listen in!
If you can't make it you can go to http://healthcampnyc.eventbrite.com to sign up for this weekend's HealthCamp in New York City.
Green slopes @skiliberty - but not for long
The green will soon disappear as soon as temperatures drop and the snow guns startup!
Mark Scrimshire
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....Sent from my iPhone
Green slopes @skiliberty
The green will soon disappear as soon as temperatures drop and the snow guns startup!
Mark Scrimshire
B: http://ekive.blogspot.com
....Sent from my iPhone
Back @skiliberty for returning ski instructors day
Lots of improvements to make a better experience for new skiiers. It is all green at the moment but the snow guns start as soon as the temperatures drop.
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