The institution in question is Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, a large paediatric hospital in Spain linked to a network of medical charity centres in the developing world. Its new name was created in a stream of consciousness: H for hospital, with Web 2.0, led to H2.0, then H2O - hence liquid hospital.
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Lately, there has been a renewed interest in harnessing creativity in business. Last year, in “Spark: How Creativity Works,” Julie Burstein and Kurt Andersen recounted interviews with various personalities who broke through barriers in unexpected ways, often by looking outside their immediate lives. This year, in his excellent book “Imagine: How Creativity Works,” Jonah Lehrer explains how creative companies purposefully create environments that connect teams from different corners of the organization in order to create more ideas and solutions.
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Wellness plans that encourage workers to live healthier, medical procedure price transparency and value-based models are among the moves that could help control the country's health care costs, the boss of one of California's largest insurers said in a talk Tuesday.
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Leonard Schaeffer, founding CEO and former chairman of WellPoint insurance company, gave a sobering opinion on the ability of the federal reform legislation to bend the health care cost curve at The 8th Annual American Health Care Congress and Exhibition.
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Robert Pearl, MD, has a story about a follow-up conversation with his adult daughter after encouraging her to consult a physician about a seemingly minor problem she had been experiencing with one of her fingers. “She said she had taken my advice,” notes Pearl, who serves as CEO of The Permanente Medical Group. “I answered that I was happy to hear that, and asked her which doctor she had seen. She told me that she hadn’t actually made a visit, but instead had had a consultation via computer and that everything was fine.”
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If Richard Afable, MD, MPH, president and CEO of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, California, told you he was closing down the largest orthopedics programs in California and entering into an orthopedics specialty hospital joint venture with his physicians, you might think about sending him job leads.
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In the effort to make workers healthier, employers and insurers have dangled carrots. They've threatened with sticks. Now, they are trying games.
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In the effort to make workers healthier, employers and insurers have dangled carrots. They've threatened with sticks. Now, they are trying games.
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VIRTUOUS. Boring. Hard work. This is how most people view managing their health. But if Americans are to truly thrive, they must be convinced that health-promoting behavior can be fun, says Adam Bosworth ’76. He has built a company around doing just that.
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"The big change in the world is that patients are taking control." The remarks from TEDMED's Jay Walker at last week's World Health Care Congress captured the prevailing sentiment of the conference for medical and healthcare executives.
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April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Adam Bosworth, co-founder of Keas Inc., talks about the company's employee wellness programs which use social games. Bosworth spoke yesterday with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." Bloomberg's Emily Chang also speaks. (Source: Bloomberg)
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This three-part interview from World Health Care Congress with Markus Fromherz, chief innovation officer of Xerox Healthcare, covers some of the most exciting healthcare research and development going on at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. Part one includes Markus’ thoughts on moving paper data to digital and describes the process in three layers – gaining access, drawing insight and taking action from what was learned.
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Last week, I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Hawk right after his presentation at the World Health Care Congress (WHCC). Dr. Hawk is the Vice-President and Division Head for Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He’s been there since late 2007 when he came from the National Cancer Institute.
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Matthew Holt sat down with McKesson at the World Health Care Congress 2012. Medical Director of McKesson Health Solutions Douglas Moeller, MD and McKesson VP of Enterprise Architecture and Technology Bob Franceschini explained what they’re doing to keep up with evolving payment methods.
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Cultivation of new delivery models - not just technologies - should be a priority as medtech firms seek to provide to Medtronic Inc. CEO Omar Ishrank.
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