Blawg Review #88: Tickling The Ivories

Blawg Review #88 is up at David Harlow's HealthBlawg with a mention and link to the Healthcare Blogging Summit.David, very nicely composed. In keeping with the theme -- you know the "key" to good health care isn't "black and white." Although the Healthcare Blogging Summit was a small but diverse group I was encouraged by the words of Richard G. Petty,...

Time's Person of the Year: The Power of the Information Age Public

Time Magazine's recognizes the power of those who now create, control and collaborate with content online and the incredible influence that it is having around the world. This year's Time Magazine's person of the year is "you."Over the last couple of years since beginning my Health Care Law Blog in 2004 I've gained a good understanding of the "online...

Healthcare Blogging Summit 2006

Washington DC is the place to be for health care bloggers. Tomorrow the first Healthcare Blogging Summit is being held in conjunction with the Consumer Health World expo. I'll be participating as a panel member on the "Facts and Issues" session. I'm looking forward to meeting in person a number of health care bloggers that I regularly follow though...

Swiss Army Knife: Lost and Found

A simple example of today's live web from fellow Charleston blogger and friend, Rick Lee.This would not and could not have happened a few years ago. Change is happening as the web becomes the way we create content, share information, communicate, collaborate, network, learn, buy...

End of Life Care - Science and Religion

Running A Hospital has an interesting look at the legal and ethical issues faced by health care providers these days. The post, When is Death? points to a story from the Boston Globe involving a current case at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.As medical science and genetic issues continue to progress our society will have to address more of these...