The ‘Health Care Idea Generator” — an interesting new concept from American Public MediaI recently received a nice note from Brad Robideau at American Public Media, producer and distributor of public radio programs, including Marketplace. He was alerting me to a great participatory platform they’ve created called the Health Care Idea Generator. According to Brad, […]
Author: Mike Magee
Can our system transform fast enough to catch up to our science?The people, and the people caring for the people, in the United States and around the world, are just beginning to absorb what the term “preventive health care” really means. Until recently, it was enough to simply think of it as something different from […]
HHS says that it wants transparency, but its actions speak differently A few months ago, the two of us (Brian Klepper, top photo, Michael Millenson, bottom photo) – both long-time advocates for transparency and accountability – posted separate comments on Secretary Mike Leavitt’s blog. Brian asked Secretary Leavitt to square his support of "Chartered Value Exchanges” with […]
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‘Mountains Beyond Mountains’
Tracy Kidder book helps explain motivations of doctors who practice international ‘relief’ medicine With my busy schedule, I don’t have much time to sit down and read, so when I am able to do that, it is precious for me. I’ve just finished Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, subtitled "The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, […]
Boston’s Ken Mandl and Issac Kohane in an NEJM “must-read” Doctors Ken Mandl and Issac Kohane of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Children’s Hospital Boston; and the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School — both in Boston, have written a "must-read" article […]
Protecting your family and the environmentIt’s hard to know these days just what to do with the old medicines in your medicine cabinet. It seems one way or another, they’re a threat to other human beings. Recently we learned that if you throw them out, and especially if you flush them down the toilet, they […]
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Access Excellence
Nurturing as an anecdote to bullying This week’s program on bullying in our nation’s schools has touched a vein and drawn an immediate response from young and old alike. The damage done by bullying extends into the future. The messages I received reinforced that disconnection and anger and despair are predictable byproducts of lives absent […]
