Health care

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»

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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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How BodyMedia Is Making Fitness Data Personal

John "Ivo" Stivoric Cofounder, CTO, and VP of New Products BodyMedia Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Making It Personal Ivo Stivoric, 38, has developed wearable fitness sensors for clinical patients for more than ...READ»

Why Walgreens Is Building Its Own Universal Health-Care System

Walgreens, the $59 billion drugstore giant, is building its own universal health-care system, with more than 700 retail and corporate clinics.READ»

Top 10 Most Creative People in Health Care

In a field ripe for disruptive innovation, creative thinkers abound.READ»

GM is a Model for... Health Care Innovation?

This past April, GM set a record for monthly sales... in China. It sold 151,084 vehicles, a 50% increase over its April 2008 results, and is planning to open a new factory within the next few years. Back in Detroit, GM is in bankruptcy and falling into a multi-billion dollar, government supported death spiral.

How can GM compete in China, but not in America? READ»

How Microsoft Is Priming the Mood of Bing Searches

There is a growing dialogue within the design community around how to drive sustainable behavior change in areas like health and energy. With it has come an increased awareness that often seemingly trivial elements of a ...READ»

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How Much Would You Pay Your Doctor to Tell You to Behave?

You are the CEO of your body, and physicians are simply your consultants. Unfortunately, doctors need for you to give up all your fun, and behave. No wonder you don't want to pay us for that advice. READ»

Is Innovation at a Crossroads?

Over the last few years the traditional thinking about innovation has been turned on its head. We used to assume that innovation was driven by access to the most advanced tools and resources. But the emphasis has shifted more ...READ»

• Robert Fabricant's Design4Impact blog

The Best National Health Care Reform Solution

The National health care crisis can be easily solved. In fact, I just provided all of the answers.READ»

Re-Kindling your Brand

It's such a relief to have a new cause celebre in the world of product design--particularly something not made by Apple. I am talking about the new Kindle, of course. I can finally take the iPhone out of every one of my presentation ...READ»

As Consumers' Demands Change, Designers Are All in the Behavior Business

Over the past few months, I've been busy riling up the design community with a theory that designers are now in the "behavior business," and I plan to explore this further in my posts in the coming weeks. Many of the ...READ»

Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Control Your Own Health Care

In the U.K. in the 1940s, Sir William Beveridge designed what became known as the welfare state. In an ambitious program, the post-war Labor government attempted to put in place a series of services designed to ensure that the ...READ»

• Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Why We Need Economic Dashboards
• Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Learning to Measure Participation
• Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Moving Beyond Consumption

All Physicians Are Not Created Equal: How to Fix Medicine's Two-Party System

Imagine there is a committee of politicians made up of 24 republicans and 5 democrats. Their job is to decide a politician's salary--for democrats and republicans--and decisions are made by majority rule. Which party do you think ...READ»

• The Doctor of the Future
• Myca and Hello Health Preview Their Facebook-like Medical Platform
• Healing Yourself Via YouTube: The Amazing and Frightening Future of Health Care

Four Ways to Reform Health Care Right Now

All this handwringing over health-care reform strikes me as wasted energy and opportunity. Policymakers need to look beyond health care to other industries as a way to restructure health care and make it more efficient. Here are ...READ»

Lessons in Health Care From Giorgio Armani

Some months ago, the International Health Tribune ran an interesting story about how some of Europe's leading luxury goods companies are shifting manufacturing from Europe to Asia. In the case of Giorgio Armani, some of their ...READ»

Myca and Hello Health Preview Their Facebook-like Medical Platform

Today in Boston, at Health 2.0, Dr. Jay Parkinson and Dr. Sean Khozin offer a glimpse of hassle-free health care. READ»

• The Doctor of the Future

Crowdsourced Healthcare: What Britain's Doctors Ordered?

"Design thinking" is all the rage, thanks to Apple, Target, you name it--it's the idea that with a little ingenuity, companies can gear their products and services to what consumers want. But one of the more intriguing ...READ»

Can Walgreens Solve the Health-Care Crisis?

Walgreen Co., like many other companies that touch the medical industry, is eagerly eyeing the outcome of President Obama's health-care reform initiative. But no matter what happens in Washington, Walgreen wins. "Whatever ...READ»

Accountabilty in the new world

As always I pay attention to what the collective is talking about and the word of the week appears to be accountability!  It begins as far as I can tell with each of us individually- what am I doing, saying, being that doesn’t ...READ»

Authentic Leadership

So I always look at what's up in my life and the conversations of the week. The topic of being authentic is what is up.  For me it shows up in the question- no matter where I am and whom I am with, can I be me?  Can I be me with my ...READ»

The subtlety of leadership

Time is quickening and many structures are folding.  The way we do business is part of what is changing rapidly. I am noticing many subtleties lately; I am aware that I have to be more and more conscious of the old thoughts and ...READ»

From Under the Knife to the Hall of Fame

While playing for the Blue Jays in October 1995, the longtime Brewer and future Hall of Famer had his right shoulder scoped by Andrews. In 1996, Paul Molitor, then 40, gave new meaning to the term Silver Slugger: He won the hitting ...READ»

The Olympics: Green or Brown?

Beijing's pollution isn't a secret. But as part of its bid to secure the Olympic contract, the world's 13th filthiest city (according to a World Bank study) embarked on a massive cleanup to improve air quality, sanitize drinking water and purify the rivers in time for the games, which began on Thursday. New sports stadiums were built with solar power and other energy-saving technologies, while new public transit systems were introduced to the streets. But can Beijing really claim this summer's games are green?READ»

• Are Beijing's Olympics Really Green?
• The Power of Green

Selling Your Innovation: Anchor and Twist

How to get your audience to understand -- and care about -- your innovationREAD»

• The Challenge of Spreading a New Idea
• The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies