Archive for October, 2008:

Change of Shift is up at This Crazy Miracle Called Life

Friday 31 October 2008

Check out the latest version of Change of Shift, the nursing blog carnival. It’s hosted this week at This Crazy Miracle Called Life.

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Where are the Health 2.0 millionaires?

Friday 31 October 2008

Trusted.MD Network CEO Dmitriy Kruglyak shines a harsh light on Health 2.0 in a letter to Modern Healthcare (Buzz surrounding Health 2.0 ‘way overblown’):

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Health Wonk Review is up at HealthBlawg

Thursday 30 October 2008

Check out the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at HealthBlawg.

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Disruptive innovation in Health Affairs

Thursday 30 October 2008

The first time I heard Clayton Christensen describe his disruptive innovation concept more than 10 years ago I was impressed. By the fiftieth or so time I heard it a year ago –complete with the same old anecdote about the Kaypro computer not being able to keep up with his typing– I was mainly impressed that he was able to be so successful using the same material for so long. He’s been talking about disruptive innovation in health care for a while, too. I first heard him apply disruptive innovation to in-store diagnostics at a conference in 2001. But now he’s really turning his focus to health care with an upcoming book and a section in the current edition of Health Affairs.

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Virginia Drugstore Refusing to Sell Contraceptives

Wednesday 29 October 2008

CNN says a new drug store in a Virginia strip mall is refusing to sell any contraceptives of any kind. They are doing this because of religious beliefs. You can also read an A HREF=”http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,442785,00.html”here/A about the Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy (DMC Pharmacy) in Virginia.
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