Missed connection(s) at Four Seasons Total Landscaping?

The tear gas I traveled to Santiago, Chile recently. My timing was auspicious, since my news-puke bingo card still had an open slot preventing me from screaming BINGO at the top of my lungs. That open square was “get tear gassed” — it got filled at around 11am Atlantic Time on Monday, October…

by Dave deBronkart & Casey Quinlan — When trusted voices weigh in on a topic you care about, you listen. Yesterday, in “A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty,” Susannah Fox, Lisa Suennen, and Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, long-standing trusted counselors to the patient community, wrote about the recent acquisition of PatientsLikeMe by UnitedHealthGroup, talking about the deal…

I was recently part of a trinity of folks debating the idea of paying people for the data they contribute to the digital economy, in healthcare and in all other sectors. Here’s the full version of the conversation on YouTube, with yours truly taking the “yes” side, Brookings Institution non-resident…

Since the Weinstein-ing of the public discourse about gender, sex, and harassment kicked off in October, I’ve felt a little like an early-adopter (early-discloser?) of #MeToo. See this for why I say that. I am beyond thrilled that what TIME calls the Silence Breakers were named that magazine’s Person(s) of…

If I had a dollar for every notification I got on the recent articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Atlantic, Gizmodo, and the Washington Post about a 70-year-old dude with a complex medical history and a ginoromous DNR tattoo on his chest … well, I’d have at…

I was a good little Catholic schoolgirl when I headed off to college in August of 1970. Sure, I’d spent a couple of years in “swinging London” — the first two years of high school (1966 to 1968), to be exact — and then spent the second half of high…

I recently witnessed a dust-up on Twitter (I am not going to name names here) where one party (hereafter referred to as Party A) took the POV that “healthcare is NOT A RIGHT!” …

Part two of a [some number larger than one]-part series. Remember when American taxpayers spent over $25B (that’s billion) on digitizing medical records? If you don’t … well, we did. The last time you went to the doctor, how easy was it for you to see your aftercare instructions online…

If you spend any time at all using a smartphone, and/or surfing the web with a tablet or a computer, you’re generating wads of data on your activities. That data is a gold mine for marketers and business intel factories around the world. If you doubt me, just go plug…