January 18th, 2010 by Dr. Val Jones in Audio, Expert Interviews
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Thanks to my friends at #HCSM (a Twitter group created to spark discussion about healthcare and social media) for inviting me as a guest speaker on their 1 year anniversary. We had a special Blog Talk Radio event, moderated by Lee Aase (Mayo Clinic’s social media guru) and Dana Lewis. Tom Stitt and Meredith Gould were also critical in coordinating programming and technical arrangements.
The goal of the show was to discuss how social media and healthcare intersect – with a diverse group of 8 speakers (from patients, to physicians, to industry and insurance stakeholders). I’ve edited my clip for your listening pleasure (please excuse the technical glitch near the end – you’ll know it when you hear it). The full 2 hour show may be downloaded from Blog Talk Radio.
[Audio:https://getbetterhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/leeaasedrval.mp3]
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January 18th, 2010 by Nancy Brown, Ph.D. in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Health Tips
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The National Initiative for Children’s HealthCare Quality (NICHQ) has a website where you can find fact sheets about the state of children’s health in each state. The State Fact Sheets provide the most recent national and state-based data regarding health in addition to childhood overweight and obesity prevalence from data collected in 2007 by the National Survey of Children’s Health.
For overall health in California the (2007) fact sheet suggests that compared to national averages, children in CA are:
- less likely to be in excellent or good health; Read more »
This post, Children’s Health Fact Sheets: Californian Kids Not Doing Well, was originally published on
Healthine.com by Nancy Brown, Ph.D..
January 18th, 2010 by RyanDuBosar in Better Health Network, Research
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Students exposed to songs with a positive message were more likely to help others after listening. A British study randomized students into groups who listened to socially conscious songs or those with negative or nonsense meanings. Then, a researcher pretended to knock pencils off the table by accident. Those who’d listened to positive songs helped more quickly and picked up almost five times as many pencils. Other subjects were asked to help with another research project, and three times as many volunteered.
Help! by the Beatles and Michael Jackson’s Heal the World were cited in the study, which is in press at the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Let us know your favorite “help” songs that get you through the day.
*This blog post was originally published at ACP Internist*
January 18th, 2010 by EvanFalchukJD in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Opinion
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“We can no longer afford an overall health care system in which the thought is more is always better, because it’s not.” – Peter Orszag
Could anyone disagree? Not really. Which ought to be the first clue that it’s a meaningless truism. I mean, of course more isn’t always better.
But this hasn’t stopped this truism from becoming one of the most popular refrains in health care reform. Most of the time this is directed at one area: end-of-life care. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at See First Blog*
January 18th, 2010 by Edwin Leap, M.D. in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Opinion
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‘Let’s get us some of that REform!’
I must admit I’m a little weary of the entire debate on health-care reform. But something still haunts me. And that something is accountability. Of course, over the almost twenty years that I have borne the title ‘MD,’ I’ve learned a few things about accountability.
I understand that, almost without fail, the buck stops with me. The nursing home director knows the elderly lady wasn’t seriously hurt in that fall, but he sends her to the ER ‘just to check things out.’ That is, just to make sure that if a problem does crop up, someone else is accountable for finding it. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at edwinleap.com*
