Virtuate

As I have sat in meetings, speeches, read my Twitter stream (@virtuate) and loitered some blogs here and there I have been quietly putting together a list (initially mostly for my reference) on terms that come to mind when I think of advancing the service and provision of health care.   Is it 2.0?  I am [...]

There are a lot of terms out there and controversy on those terms.  But what does it all mean to you … to me?
I notice a need for my own sake and sanity to try and understand the different terms and what they mean to me as a consumer of health services (i.e. patient).
Starting my [...]

From the American Medical News:
Physicians increasingly are discovering smartphones serve a purpose beyond being a convenient communication gadget.
It is good to hear.  As you know we are big proponents of the use of mobile technology for everything  … so it is always good to read research that supports our crazy ideas.   Some of the highlights:
Physicians [...]

Paper at the Vox site entitled Ageing – saving or working more? explores the alternative (?) idea of financing healthcare of the elderly by raising the retirement age:
How will the shrinking labour force pay for the pensions and healthcare of the growing elderly? This column argues that linking retirement ages to longevity would alleviate a [...]