Media Coverage

39. Patient monitoring, connectivity key to improving healthcare (April 21 2010 - HealthcareIT News)

A new wireless technology is being touted as the missing link needed to join patients, providers and the health IT that promises to transform healthcare across the globe. Last week, in a session at the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress in Washington D.C., Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., included Toronto-based Ideal Life's solutions for managing chronic disease as part of the "full response medical bag" that he sees as the solution to today's fragmented, expensive health care delivery system. more»

40. More on the Full Cost of the Health Care Bill (April 20 2010 - The American Spectator)

Menzie Chinn has provided a follow-up graph to the one that I mentioned on Friday in a post about the total cost to the public of the health care reform bill. more»

41. NCI will offer cancer e-care record for providers (April 19 2010 - Government Health IT)

The National Cancer Institute plans to release a lightweight electronic health record designed to capture data specific to a cancer patient’s office visit. more»

42. Medicaid HMO AmeriHealth wants to link extension centers with small practices (April 19 2010 - FierceHealthIT)

Here's a new strategy to help health plans build relationships with small physician practices for their provider networks: connect the practices with regional health IT extension centers. more»

43. Health focus is good for business (April 19 2010 - LiveMint.com)

If going green has helped companies win a lot of public support and beef up profits, then health can be an equally effective consumer engagement tool. This is the finding of a new global survey by public relations firm Edelman, which was released on 13 April at the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress in Washington, DC. more»

44. News from the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress (April 19 2010 - Case In Point Magazine)

Last week I attended the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress in Washington, D.C. The World Health Care Congress convenes global thought leaders and key decision-makers to discuss trends and best practices in an influential networking forum resulting in an exchange of valuable strategies to improve quality and cost-effectiveness. more»

45. Microcredit Comes From Bangladesh To The US (April 16 2010 - NPR)

Grameen Bank pioneered the idea of microcredit in Bangladesh, giving small loans to very poor people to help them start businesses. It’s now a world-wide movement with over 150 million borrowers. And Grameen has recently started operations in three U.S. cities, with plans to expand. So how will it work here? We speak with economist and Grameen Bank founder Mohammed Yunus. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for putting the idea of microcredit into practice and is now expanding the model to issues like health care. more»

46. Low-cost, innovative tools for health care (April 15 2010 - Medill)

There’s a straw that purifies water when you drink from it, an ultrasound that links to your cell phone and a hearing aid powered by batteries you can charge in the sun. They are innovative, low cost medical devices on display at the 7th Annual Global Health Congress this week. The event was a three-day conference held at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. more»

47. Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank at the 2010 World Health Care Congress (April 14 2010 - Bloomberg TV)

48. 'Health' Joins 'Green' As Business Strategy According To Global Study (April 14 2010 - Medical News Today)

The general public expects businesses outside the health industry - such as retail, entertainment and consumer technology - to be involved in health in ways that go well beyond the health of their employees, according to the Edelman Health Engagement Barometer 2010. more»

49. HMSA plans doc-to-doc online consulting (April 14 2010 - Honolulu Advertiser)

The Hawaii Medical Service Association will expand its online care offering with a doctor-to-doctor feature that will help primary care physicians consult with specialists. more»

50. Cigna CEO: Move Beyond Obamacare (April 14 2010 - Forbes.com)

David Cordani, who became Cigna's chief executive in January, says quite enough time and effort was been spent on the recently signed health legislation, even if he doesn't like the results. "It took a year of the country's energy. It's now time to move on," he said in an interview more»

51. Kaiser Permanente Pushes For A Health-Care "Farmer's Market" (April 14 2010 - Forbes.com)

George Halvorson, the longtime chief of Oakland, Calif.,-based Kaiser Permanente, is not your average HMO executive. He's written a half-dozen books on how to improve health care delivery. One was called "Health Care Reform Now!"--and came out three years ago. more»

52. Ameridial Ranked Top 50 Teleservices Agency (April 13 2010 - Ameridial)

Ameridial, Inc. announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®), a global integrated media company, has ranked Ameridial on its Silver Anniversary Top 50 Teleservices Agencies by its publication Customer Interaction Solutions®. For 2010, Ameridial ranked #17 in the Outbound category and #21 in the Inbound category. more»

53. Utah House speaker pushes feds for health reform flexibility (April 13 2010 - The Salt Lake Tribune)

While he's no fan of federal health reform, Utah House Speaker Dave Clark is urging states to work with D.C. officials as they start to turn the complicated law into workable rules that will govern a new health care system. more»

54. Health Care Passed: Now What? (April 13 2010 - Fox Business)

Less than 10 miles south of Capitol Hill, hundreds of health-care executives gathered at an annual conference facing an overhauled industry and a new health-care law that will take more than a decade to fully implement. more»

55. Improving Health through Prevention (April 12 2010 - William C. Weldon, Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson )

Although I’ve been a reader of JNJBTW since it was launched, I’ve yet to be a contributor. Today, though, I gave a talk on prevention and why we should pay as much attention to keeping people healthy as we do to treating them when they’re sick – and I thought it was something readers of this blog may find of interest. more»

56. The Health Care Budget's Philosopher King (April 12 2010 - Forbes.com)

Douglas Elmendorf, the bespectacled economist who runs the Congressional Budget Office, might seem more like an actuary than a crowd-rouser. His reports typically traffic in dollars and cents analysis, estimating the costs of legislation. But here at the World Health Care Congress, he kept 1,000 of the most prominent people in health care on the edge of their seats. more»

57. The $940B Health Care Question (April 12 2010 - CNBC)

Dr. Dennis Cortese talks to CNBC from the World Health Care Congress in Washington, where leaders across the medical industry have gathered to ask: What Comes Next? more»