The Readmore 2014

We spent yesterday at FestivALL and Rick Lee captured some great shots on Capitol Street. More fun today!Thanks to Rick for capturing a shot of me and my daughter during Drew the Dramatic Fool.This morning we made a second trip over to see Julian Beever's Charleston artwork to get...

Roni Zeiger, MD, Product Manager at Google and part of Adam Bosworth's health team at Google has this recent post on the difficulty of patients getting the information they need.I can related to his post, Is there a Doctor in the Family? and his discussion of having "better access" to health information. There is incredible value in having a family...

Rick Lee beat me to the punchpost. Last week I read where Julian Beever, 3-D pavement/chalk artist from Belgium will be coming to FestiVALL 2007 in Charleston.Last Thursday's Charleston Gazz featured photos of some of his work. I'm excited to see what he comes up with while working...

The West Virginia Health Care Authority has issued new proposed Certificate of Need Standards for Bone Marrow Transplantation Services. For more information go to the "Notice of Public Comment Period".The proposed CON standards are out for public comment. Public comments can be submitted to the WVHCA no later than July 6, 2007. Notice of the proposed...

Just noticed a new global ranking service for health care related blogs inspired by Todd Andlik's Power 150. It's called healhtcare100.com. My Health Care Law Blog comes in at 41 out of top 100.The list includes many of the top health blogs and is well worth scanning if you are interested in what is happening in the world of health and medical blogs....

Business Week features a new survey by the Commonwealth Fund that ranks the health-systems performance of all 50 states and DC in "The Sorry States of Health Care." The full report detail can be found here at the Commonwealth Fund website.The survey statistics on the need to increase preventative care and high levels of avoidable hospital admissions...

Nick gives us all a little education about what impact baby boomers will have on the health care system. Always great insight (and writing) from Nick.Add to this what I haved called the Pig in a Python health care effect and it is going to make the delivery of what Nick and his generation expect very difficult. By the time I roll through the system...

Scoble has a good round up of the ongoing discussion about Google's ranking in the recent Privacy International Report titled, A Race to the Bottom: Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies and Privacy International's Open Letter to Googl...

Scott Shreeve, MD one of my favorite Health 2.0 thinkers skeptically examines Sermo's business model of incentive pay for physician opinions and gives us non-physicians a glimpse (with screen shots) of how Sermo works in his post, "Change Agents: Knowledge Prostitution."I've followed...

Final arrangements for the Health 2.0 - User Generated Healthcare Conference in San Francisco are now available from co-organizer, Matthew Holt of The Health Care Blog. The conference will be held at the Hilton San Francisco on September 20, 2007.I had the pleasure of participating on a panel discussion with Matthew at the Healthcare Blogging Summit...

Blawg Review #111 is up at Bill Gratsch's Blawg, a listing of legal blogs, podcasts and newsfeeds. Bill's edition of Blawg Review takes you on a tour of blawgs -- from there, to here, to wher...