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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

#CISummit Mohit Kaushal and Joe Smith from WWHI

Live blogging from #CISummit.

West Wireless Health Institute - is co-sponsoring the day.
Healthcare costs are rising at rate above every other metric in the US economy.
WWHI is driven to drive down the cost of health care. They are doing this through innovation and commercialization.

WWHI has opened a policy center. Policy can drive change.

"Most smart people work somewhere else" We need to collaborate. There is so much to be done.

Let's get stuff done!

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#CISummit @tedeytan introduces his boss - Jack Cochran for the networking day @kptotalhealth

I am live blogging from the pre-summit day at the Kaiser Permanente Center For Total Health.

"Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors" - This is why we need to change HealthCare.

The USA faces tough challenges and tough choices and health care is a major part of the economy - running around 20% of GDP.

Too many families have had the fabric of their American Dream ripped apart. Health Care impacts both financially and socially.

Quality, safety, accessibility and affordability are still major issues.

The american people want fairness in health. Legislation is not the only answer. We need solutions.

"The role of patient is an involuntary act"

Small victories are not enough. We need to learn from each other. We need to leverage meaningful collaboration.

Take the enthusiasm and energy and use it as a platform to improve dramatically.

People want affordable access to safe care - when they need it.

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Preparing for the Health Care Innovations Summit, Washington DC 25-26/1/2012

Tomorrow is the Health Care Innovations Summit in Washington, DC. The event is organized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), West Wireless Health Institute and and Health Affairs. THe summit itself on January 26th is over subscribed and there is a packed agenda. Fortunately Kaiser Permanente is lending a hand and helping to make the day more productive for attendees. Today, Wednesday January 25th, Kaiser Permenanente's Center for Total Health is hosting a pre-event networking day and tomorrow the center hosts a viewing party for people that can't get to the Summit event at the Renaissance Hotel. You can still register for the viewing party here:

http://summitviewingliveatkp.eventbrite.com

Today I am working with Danielle Cass and Ted Eytan to facilitate the networking day. It is set to be both fun and informative. The objective of the day is to turbo charge the summit experience for participants, helping them to connect with others of like mind and to share innovation ideas. There are also some fascinating discussions organized throughout the day.

For those of you that watch my tweets, I know I have been lying low for a few weeks. But over the next few days I will be live tweeting and blogging from the summit - so watch out for a stream of blogs and tweets.

The reason for me lying low is that I have been working with Community Education Group (CEG) in Washington DC to help them submit a proposal for a CMS Health Innovation Award. CEG is a leader in HIV Education and Support and for 18 years has focused outreach to the disadvantaged communities in Washington DC. This has involved bringing together some amazing partners to implement an innovative community-based medical home for patients in disadvantaged communities living with life long chronic conditions. There will be more to come on this subject, including some exciting partnerships with some great organizations.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Students demonstrate innovative iPad book page flip | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

One major complaint about reading an eBook is the experience; holding an iPad is just not the same as holding a book and thumbing through the pages. This complaint may lose some of its weight if the folks at the KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence can get their patented Smart E-Book Interface Prototype out of the lab and into the wild.
The interface uses the private Apple API for the page flip and turns it upside down and inside out. Not only do you get a beautiful page flip like the one in iBooks, you also get page flipping that lets you scan 20 or 30 pages at a time, multiple page flips that are controlled by the speed of your finger swipe, and a way to hold your thumb on one page and flip through the book with your fingers. You can see it in action in the video below to marvel at how the interface mimics the way most people flip the pages of a softcover book.
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Very cool animation.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

#ReginaHolliday asked me where my Walking Gallery Jacket has been...

In May of this year Regina Holliday painted my favorite leather jacket. Since then my Jacket has been well travelled... Regina asked where it had been. So let's try to put together a list. Here goes....

May 2011: