http://www.integrativestream.com Disrupting Innovation since 2002 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:45:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, quite on the blog lately. We just finished up PCHRI 2007, which was a not inconsiderable part. An update on Windows Vista - last weekend I gave up and reinstalled Windows XP on my new home machine. I installed Google Desktop and TaskSwitch XP, and am essentially back to ... http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/11/28/more-windows-vista.html Want to work on Personally Controlled Health Records? We're hiring at CHIP for the IndivoHealth team. The first open position is for a top-notch Java QA Engineer, who will be responsible for building an automated testing infrastructure for the Indivo API. We'll be opening a few more positions over the ... http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/09/07/were-hiring.html A few months ago my mother's computer died. She got a new one, with Windows Vista on it. Since she'd been running Windows 2000 before, any new machine was going to have a new interface, and I suggested that she just go all the way to the "state of the ... http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/09/01/there-just-has-to-be-a-pony-in-here-somewhere.html Dr. Daniel S. Bernstein passed away earlier this week, at 80. Dr. Bernstein was an early and vocal supporter of fluoridation initiatives, an vocal peace activist, and an incredibly influential educator in the local medical community. I knew almost none of this. Dr. Bernstein was also my primary care provider ... http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/08/11/in-memoriam.html I've been thinking a bit about what I want to continue writing about here (I've also been largely on the road for the past six weeks, including my move back to Boston from Washington). Still undecided. Here's a link about the challenge of incorporating cost into decisions about healthcare coverage. HealthAffairs: ... http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/07/10/cost-and-quality.html More on the role of blogging in business. I've been thinking a lot over the last few weeks about the evolving transformation of consumer mentalities. Tools are changing. Will younger consumers expect a more transparent business environment? http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/06/06/transparency-in-senior-leadership.html Jason Shafrin looks at the story. http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/06/04/smokers-denied-surgery.html West on the Verge of a Medical Crisis - Daily Telegraph http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/05/31/links.html I have a roughly half-hour interview for this article: InformationWeek: Doctors Debate Giving Patients' Online Access To Health Data It got sliced down to one quote. There was some really good stuff there, too. The whole feature is a nice layman's overview of current progress in health information exchange and electronic health ... http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/05/29/the-content-concentration-process.html A disruptive technology. http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/05/13/technology-review-on-next-gen-sequencing.html As part of my return to full time blogging (after my stint in the Federal government), it is my distinct pleasure to host this week's edition of The Carnival of the Capitalists. For those who aren't familiar, the Carnival is a roaming weekly roundup of some of the week's ... http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/04/29/the-carnival-of-the-capitalists-2.html A few days ago I wrote a post on Healthcare CEO Blogs, in which I expressed my disappointment in Steve Case's Revolution Manifesto blog at Revolution Health. My main complaint was that it simply wasn't all that interesting, particularly compared to two of the other (arguably) most prominent CEO ... http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/04/27/healthcare-ceo-blogs-revisited.html CEO blogs are arriving in the healthcare space. One of the best is by Paul Levy, at Running a Hospital. Levy is the CEO of the Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center here in Boston. The blog is informative, candid, well written, almost obsesively frequently updated, and has caused quite a stir ... http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/04/23/good-healthcare-ceo-blogs-bad-healthcare-ceo-blogs.html Friday was my final day as an employee of the Federal Government. I never did hear back from the ethics department about what I could blog on - and not blog on - without approval, so I played it conservative over the last ten months and ended up blogging very ... http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/04/23/and-im-back.html Research indicates that cultural context is the key to reading facial expressions. Anybody who has tried to do business abroad has encountered this. What I didn't realize is the extent to which this tendency extends to the Internet. Specifically, emoticons. The American "Happy" emoticon is (extra space to keep the ... http://www.integrativestream.com/2007/04/06/cultural-context.html