Who needs bank branches when we have ATMs — and who needs pharmacies when we have “Automated Medication Dispensers”?
Watch it and weep.
Entries Tagged as 'Healthcare solutions'
Who needs pharmacies when you can have a drug ATM at your doctor’s office?
April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Healthcare solutions · Prescription drugs
Personal finance writer Scott Burns offers some good healthcare advice, too
March 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Scott Burns is one of the best-read personal finance writers in the United States. I recently came across some thoughts on healthcare Scott shared at AssetBuilder.com, an investment site. Scott is chief investment strategist for AssetBuilder, a Registered Investment Advisor.
Scott received the following opinion/query from one of his readers:
I believe we should have […]
Tags: Healthcare solutions
Health 2.0 links for 3-10-08
March 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Health 2.0 - Apps & Trends to Watch (RWW)
‘Local’ Surprisingly Prominent at Health 2.0 (The Local Onliner)
Spring View of Health 2.0, with a Diabetes Twist (Diabetes Mine)
Six Health 2.0 firms reinvent doctor-patient ties (Healthcare Economist)
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Tags: Health 2.0 · Healthcare solutions
Why Health 2.0 will do what government can’t — bring true and lasting reform to our broken healthcare system
March 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I’m just back from San Diego, where Matthew Holt’s second Health 2.0 conference finished up on Tuesday evening. Some of the things I found interesting about the conference:
There weren’t many doctors there. There were a few — some of them, like a brilliant young visionary named Dr. Jay Parkinson, doing remarkable things. […]
Tags: Health 2.0 · Healthcare solutions
Newt Gingrich wants to overhaul healthcare
February 20th, 2008 · No Comments
And he says the key is transparency in pricing and quality — exactly the message of the Health 2.0 movement.
Tags: Health 2.0 · Healthcare solutions · eDrugSearch.com
Want pharma reform? Good luck — they’ve already bought off both parties
February 10th, 2008 · No Comments
From CNBC (with some noisy accompaniment by Ben Harper):
Tags: Big Pharma · Healthcare solutions · Pharmaceutical companies
How prescription medications killed Heath Ledger — and how to prevent it from happening to you
February 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The report from the medical examiner is in: Heath Ledger died from the “the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine.” The brand names for the drugs that were in Ledger’s system are OxyContin, Valium, Xanax, Restoril, Unisom and Hydrocodone.
To be clear, Ledger didn’t die from an overdose of prescription […]
Tags: Health 2.0 · Healthcare solutions · Prescription drug abuse · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions
When it comes to healthcare policy, the more things change, the more they stay the same
February 1st, 2008 · No Comments
This ad was used in 1994 to kill Hillary Clinton’s universal healthcare plan through scare tactics and misinformation:
As Ezra Klein points out, Obama is taking a similar approach in bashing Hillary’s much watered-down plan of 2007 — just from the other direction:
The only thing that’s changed in healthcare politics over the past 13 years, it […]
Tags: Healthcare solutions · eDrugSearch.com
HEALTH 2.0 INTERVIEW SERIES — Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya discuss the companies to watch in 2008
January 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya are the chief organizers of the Health 2.0 Connecting Consumers and Providers conference, which will take place March 3-4 in San Diego. Matthew is a healthcare strategist and author of perhaps the industry’s most influential blog, The Health Care Blog. Indu is an MD and founder of […]
Tags: Health 2.0 · Healthcare blogs · Healthcare solutions
Why the U.S. healthcare system will NEVER collapse
January 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Hint: It’s not because it’s a great system. Read this.
Tags: Healthcare solutions · eDrugSearch.com

