Health care

Is the Health of Your Employees Your Business?

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Google's Data Show Tennessee, Florida Most Troubled Over Health Care

Google's philanthropic Flu Trends site has been able to track swine flu about as well as health care surveillance, according to Bloomberg. What else can trending searches tell us about the state of health in the United ...READ»

reCareered: Who’s Hiring in Health Care - November 2009

Hospitals, Federal Government, Nursing Homes, Home Health, Clinics, and Outsourced Health Services top Health Care hiring during November 2009, based on job advertisements open for 30 days from the top job boards.READ»

Rite Aid's "Free" $500 Health Screening

Pharmacy chain Rite Aid is testing a new customer rewards program called Wellness+ in four markets and promises to roll it out nationwide soon, according to its web site. The card offers standard benefits—it's free to sign up, ...READ»

OpenTable for Docs Expands to D.C., Other Cities

In 2007, businessman Cyrus Massoumi and physician Oliver Kharraz teamed up to found ZocDoc.com, a Web service that matches patients with available appointments at doctors' and dentists' offices. It's OpenTable for health care. ...READ»

Infographic of the Day: Who, Exactly, Supports a Public Option?

As it turns out, lots of people. But the results vary widely by income: The rich are nonplussed, but middle-income and poorer families are in strong support.READ»

GE Demos the Vscan, a Pocket-Sized Ultrasound Device, at its Healthymagination Showcase

The Vscan is part of GE's health care and technology showcase in Manhattan, which will be open to the public on Saturday.READ»

Live From PopTech: Designing for Impact

The second report from this year's PopTech conference, American Reimagined, by its fellows program adviser Robert Fabricant.READ»

• Robert Fabricant's Design4Impact blog

Live From PopTech: Bringing Design to Social Innovators

Robert Fabricant talks about his role as an adviser in the conference's fellowship program.READ»

• Robert Fabricant's Design4Impact blog

Body Computing Is a Glimmer of Hope in the Health-Care Chasm

A Los Angeles conference shows how advancing technology aided by designers can help both doctors and patients.READ»

• Gadi Amit's blog: The New Deal

The Future of Health Care Is Social [slideshow]

Read the feature article: The Future of Health Care is Social Join in the conversation this Thursday October 8 at noon eastern, when frog design holds a discussion about the future of health care on Twitter (follow @frogdesign ...READ»

The Future of Health Care Is Social

Too many of us are too busy to be healthy--not because we lack awareness. It's finding the time to do it that's the problem. In an age of 24/7 connectivity, time feels more pressed than ever. Yet, it may be that the very technology allowing us this around-the-clock connection can transform how we manage our health.READ»

The 11th Annual UBS Global Life Sciences Conference

While Washington spends yet another day failing to reform health care, New York is hosting 250 companies that are actively pushing the envelope in the pharmaceutical, medical, and biotech fields. The UBS Global Life Sciences ...READ»

A Better Way to Health Care Reform: We Need an Information Design S.W.A.T. Team

Long before the current debate, an op-ed piece appeared in the Washington Post positing that the U.S. health care system was critically ill. The diagnosis? Terminal Information Design.READ»

• Ken Carbone's Yes to Less blog

US Heath care reform: “Freedom to innovate”

It's a good time for the yeasayers to speak up!READ»

Six Viral Articles to Make You a Health Care Expert

Whether you think public-option health care is a panacea or a slippery slope, you can't deny that the issue has prompted plenty of dialogue (and, okay, invective.) Rather than keeping up on all the bloviating, here are six viral ...READ»

Innovating Toward Health Care Reform, the Whole Foods Way

With the health-care debate bogged down in mindless town hall confrontations and the President reassuring us his plan for health care reform will work--just as soon as he creates it--where can Americans turn for innovative ideas in ...READ»

MDR-TB: Is Innovation Within Reach?

As a participant in the recent Pacific Health Summit, I was struck by the bold talk of innovative approaches to addressing the global threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). And yet few of the projects that were ...READ»

• Robert Fabricant's Design4Impact blog

Diagrammed: The Real Issue Behind Health Care

We just want what Congress gets.READ»

MDR-TB: The Galapagos Effect in Health Care

I hope I got your attention with my last post about the Pacific Health Summit and the acute global threat of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). All of the issues around innovation in public health that I are covered in this ...READ»

MDR-TB: A Healthcare Crisis of Our Own Design

What happens when innovation meets with the messy reality of domains like public health?READ»

Innovations in Health Care as Simple as Picking Up the Phone

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has created a program that allows patients or their families to call in a rapid-response team when they need emergency attention. It's saving lives--and probably money.READ»

What President Obama Will Learn at Cleveland Clinic About Health Care

President Obama may have taken some heat for his interest in judicial empathy, but a smart take on empathy might just be the Rx for health care. The Cleveland Clinic, where Obama is spending time today, hopes to lead the way.READ»

The Web Becomes the New Health-Care Battleground

Competing Websites from Barack Obama's Organizing for America and the Republican Party duke it out over the future of American health care.READ»

Feedback

Changes Thirty-six months, predicts Terminator director McG: By then, any content you want will be available on your choice of screens, from the one in your pocket to the 100-foot-long version at your local multiplex. That was one ...READ»

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