BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE Issue Date: September 2009, Online Exclusive Late-summer phantoms are just mirages Let’s put to rest the fears stoked by our nation’s very hot health reform debate by Ron Manderscheid, PhD, Editorial Board Member One need only see a few moments of the sharply differing partisan reactions to President Obama’s healthcare address to CongressRead… Read more »
Cross-posted from The Design State. A first draft of a paper I worked on as a member of the W3C eGovernment Interest Group has just been published. It’s called Publishing Open Government Data (OGD), and is meant to help governments get into the right headspace and head in the right direction in the publishing ofRead… Read more »
If the ‘Elastic Cloud’ is for real – as the proponents Amazon, IBM and Sun among many other vendors will want us to believe, how will the transparency and the regulatory constraints be handled and managed. Certification and authorization – how will that be defined in the cloud ? I hope to spark some thought-provokingRead… Read more »
The Crib Note Cram on Health care Reform In our current world, political realities require a simple, 3-second sound bite solution for even the most complex problems. I consistently talk of the need for an 8th Grade solution to a graduate school problem if a solution is to be politically viable. If it were notRead… Read more »
Single Payer. Public Option. Private insurance and free markets. It’s pretty hard to make sense of the health care debate sometimes. Especially when the public “discussion” doesn’t even deal with facts. (Don’t worry, I’m not going to get into a debate on all that here). Those of you who’ve read my past blogs know myRead… Read more »
What do successful startups have in common? According to Eric Reiss, it’s not necessarily the great ideas of their founders. Rather, it is their “pivot”, or their ability to change direction in response to feedback on the initial idea. The pivot is a systematic way to keep one foot rooted in what was learned, butRead… Read more »
I’m listening to Booz Allen Hamilton consultants Grant McLaughlin and Walton Smith discuss social media case studies. One fascinating example is called Health.mil, a one-stop social media portal where military health care groups, including Tricare, drive into it. America’s Military Health System is a unique partnership of medical educators, medical researchers, and health care providersRead… Read more »
Employers Targeting U.S. Veterans for Hiring, New CareerBuilder Survey Finds –New Site MissionGetHired.com Launches to Help U.S. Service Men and Women Find Jobs– CHICAGO, September 10, 2009 – Re-entering the workforce in today’s job market can be a daunting task, especially for those returning from military service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Earlier this year, theRead… Read more »
The September 7th issue of Federal Computer Week has an interesting article titled Gov 3.0: The Future Revealed in 7 Lists on page 10. The 7 lists are: 7 federal IT bloggers worth bookmarking 10 blogs on the government IT beat Top 10 agencies on Twitter (by number of followers) Top 10 most prolific agenciesRead… Read more »
The Unicef innovations team came up with an incredible idea to leverage the increased rate of cell phone use in Africa (65% now have access to a cell phone!) to help malnourished children: they built an open source framework for SMS-based systems. In partnership with graduate students at Columbia University’s SIPA school, Unicef designed anRead… Read more »