innovation

My Rage Against the Machine (and What Healthcare can Learn from Steve Jobs)

neil · Jul 2, 2010 · 08:56

My Rage against the Machine (and what Healthcare can Learn from Steve Jobs)

By Neil Seeman

“If your computer’s noise level is still unbearable after you’ve re-installed a new fan, then it’s a freak of nature.” The gentle-voiced technician, a rare live voice from 24/7 customer service (on a Sunday!), told me “it would then be a one in a million machine” if the fan replacement failed. His name was Julius; he gave me his phone number. If he proved correct, I promised I would call to thank him. He said no one ever thanks him.

I didn’t call Julius back – mine was that one in a million machine.

Bring your ideas to HealthCamp

carlos · Sep 10, 2009 · 19:06

HealthCamp Toronto

carlos · Sep 8, 2009 · 09:22

Join us at HealthCamp Toronto on Sept. 16, 2009!

HealthCamp Toronto will use the “unconference” format to create a safe place for contrarians, free thinkers, change agents and idea entrepreneurs. It is the first healthcamp in Canada, modeled after the globally renowned healthcamp movement begun in San Francisco, Boston, and Philadelphia.

Isle of Kos and the Idea of Hippocrates’ Four Humours

JaneLaMdeP · Aug 17, 2009 · 11:32

By Jane La Mantia de Pencier

My friends have been sailing off the island of Kos. I think that’s pretty wonderful and ponder what their days are like. Surely they awaken early, with the water lapping the edge of the boat, the sun shining into the portholes and streaming in a narrow beam down the slightly opened hatch. They hear the fishermen coming back with the catch, whistling and shouting as the day’s take is heaved, up, onto the stone docks. They’ll emerge, with hair still wound by the previous day’s wind, and look positively Ancient Greek.

Groupthink vs. Groupthank

JaneLaMdeP · Sep 18, 2009 · 07:30

By Jane La Mantia de Pencier

Biting the hand that feeds you is considered an unwise act, unless you work with the Health Strategy Innovation Cell. I think us “Cellies” like it, at least we like a little nibbling, and so I want to roll over a few thoughts on the topic of Healthcamp Toronto. If I disappear like Deng Xiaoping you’ll know why.

Jane's Voice: Healthcare and the Salons of France

JaneLaMdeP · Jul 6, 2009 · 07:22

By Jane La Mantia de Pencier

Sitting in my garden watching a squirrel flow over and under fences with no acknowledgement of a barrier, other than the navigational one, I’m thinking of that critter’s open source attitude. He seems to be of the mind that all’s available to him and it’s available for his use and sustenance. Looking at Simon Schama’s Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, I’m thinking about how the salons of Paris in the late 1700s compare to the birth of the internet and even to the Innovation Cell of which I’m a part.

Jane's Voice: Innovation, Bounce and the Messy House

JaneLaMdeP · Jun 29, 2009 · 09:42

By Jane La Mantia de Pencier

Ok, what is this faddish word “innovation” all about? Is it something different from “change”? Change can happen by accident. Can innovation happen by accident? Mutations are accidents and some of them have been monumental. Is there negative innovation? I don’t think so.

Use What Works for Web 2.0 for Health 2.0: People Freely Innovating Without Gov Burdens

Hoss at Big Guv (not verified) · Apr 23, 2009 · 09:43

The government made a rule of not interfering with the fledgling internet/web with sales taxes, not setting a bunch of rules that would be outdated by the time they hit the books, nor trying to pick winners and losers with laws favorable to some & penalizing others.

Where is nutrition in the health innovation discussions?

epistemocrat · Apr 5, 2009 · 18:43

One of my ancestors, Dr. Francis Pottenger, studied ancestral diets because he suspected that much of the health problems modern humans were experiencing resulted from improper nutrition.

On the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation Web site (http://www.ppnf.org), you will find the following statement: