Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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OHA Health Achieve 2009 – Day 2 Keynote: Michael Moore
Today’s keynote was Michael Moore the infamous director Sicko, Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Farenheit 9/11, and most recently Capitalism: A Love Story. Here’s a running summary of the topics. The session started off with a short clip from Sicko about his relatives purchasing health insurance at Sears for a short trip (couple of…
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Health Achieve 2009 – day 1
I was fortunate to get a pass to attend this year’s Ontario Hospital Association’s Health Achieve 2009. Wasn’t able to stay for the entire day due to other commitments, but I did enjoy the morning’s opening session. Before I summarize the opening session, I just want to say that I’m always impressed with the incremental…
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Quebec is using Disney’s approach to addressing line-ups for H1N1 vaccinations
I don’t know about you, but I find these types of articles absolutely fascinating. First, there’s an article from the Globe and Mail titled "Quebec’s Disney-inspired solution to flu-shot chaos" and a related post from Boing Boing. Why is it that someone (or some people) in Quebec decided to try something to address what was…
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Lessons from my father…
My father’s most recent health experience and his visit to the ER has highlighted a few things about health and managing one’s care. Here are some things to take from my dad’s experience: eHealth Can Improve Coordination of Care: In this case, having a single care record could have prevented this mis-hap. Our family doc…
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A new definition of health?
There was an interesting editorial published this past week in the BMJ titled "How should health be defined?" by Jadad and O’Grady. The basic idea of the article is that while health was defined in 1948 by a panel of experts that changed our notions of health and illness, is it time for a new…
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Another experience at the ER
Unfortunately, I had another experience with the health care system recently – well, not me, specifically, but my dad. He was taken to the ER and so I spent a few hours waiting with him. The interesting thing was to see Credit Valley Hospital’s new ER. As always, they had the mobile computer stations, but…
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OHA Health Achieve 2008 – thoughts from day 1
I had the privilege of attending the opening session of this year’s OHA Health Achieve, one of the world’s "premier health care events". As always, the event was packed and the speakers didn’t disappoint. Here is a quick recap with some comments. Opening SessionAfter some opening remarks from the OHA Board Chair, the convention was…
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Unlearning by Alejandro Jadad
For those interested in an insightful read about life and what-not, Alejandro (Alex) Jadad, my PhD supervisor, just published a non-medical book, entitled "Unlearning". The book explores the impact of combining online publishing, social networking and the notion of "Freeconomics". The book can be downloaded for free or purchased at: http://www.lulu.com/content/4132419 Powered by Qumana
Got any book recommendations?