The internet is changing healthcare – video from Reshape09

October 28, 2009 · Filed Under e-pts resources, positive patterns, trends & principles · 12 Comments 

I wish I could have been at the Reshape2009 conference this month in the Netherlands. The Twitter buzz was stimulating, and the 6 minute opening video caused a lot of buzz. I didn’t get it all because it was in Dutch. Now, thanks to producer Lucien Engelen (@Zorg20, “Health 2.0″), here it is in English.

A lot of the statistics are from the mega-viral “Socialnomics” video, which emphatically answers the question “Is Social Media a Fad?” That’s worth a mind-blowing few minutes, too, if you haven’t seen it.

Florence Nightingale, passionate statistician

November 30, 2008 · Filed Under found on the net, general · Comment 

A tip of the twitter-hat to @TimOReilly for this, from Science News:

When Florence Nightingale arrived at a British hospital in Turkey during the Crimean War, she found a nightmare of misery and chaos. Men lay crowded next to each other in endless corridors. The air reeked from the cesspool that lay just beneath the hospital floor. There was little food and fewer basic supplies…

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