Public Health

 

policy issues, reforming hc

Healthcare Associated Infections: What’s an Infographic Got To Do With It?

David Harlow | July 10, 2011

The good people at GE and JESS3 have come up with an HAI infographic.  It’s pretty, and it conveys the horrible information that many of us already know — healthcare associated infections kill about 100,000 people a year, and add $35 billion a year to our collective health care bill (here in the US of [...]

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patient networks, trends & principles

Alpha Geeks in Health Care

Susannah Fox | July 6, 2011

Here’s how tech guru Tim O’Reilly describes his work: So often, signs of the future are all around us, but it isn’t until much later that most of the world realizes their significance. Meanwhile, the innovators who are busy inventing that future live in a world of their own. They see and act on premises [...]

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e-patient stories, hc's problem list, news & gossip, policy issues, reforming hc

“No political power center for regular people”
in health reform

e-Patient Dave | June 23, 2009

Aliya Sternstein writes for NextGov, a site devoted to “technology and the business of government.” We spoke last week for her piece about the White House’s use of social media. There are some people who, when you speak with them, the conversation goes to new places. This was one of those times.

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