Comments on: Aspen Health forum

By: Rena Hines

Rena Hines — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:18:59 +0000

Thank you for this information. One of the most important things people can learn in preventing chronic diseases is to understand the function capillaries play in this prevention process through diet and exercise.

The most important natural treatment for alzheimers is diet and exercise. Diet provides the importants nutrients for the brain to have energy and function properly and exercise assures that the blood flow properly to carry these nutrients to the neurons. I am a cytologist. Very few people know that I wrote the orginal hypothesis to show the mechanism of how exercise regenerate neurons and was the basis of the numerous research studies on alzheimers prevention and reversal in the last decade.

Please see http://www.alzheimprevent.com I will make an effort to educate the public on understanding the role of capillaries in preventing alzhiemers and many natural every day low or no cost things you can do to keep this disease under control with your love one.

By: voyance

voyance — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:53:36 +0000

i really wanted tell you that your forum is stuning

thank you

By: Stephen Kangas

Stephen Kangas — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:58:51 +0000

Yep, that’s more like it. Certainly, I see merit in helping people understand where they’ll get the best for their time & money…that concept supports capitalism via healthy competition of choice. Speaking of competitive choice, it’s not looking good at the moment in the Senate re cranking up competition among insurance companies…beginning to look like consumers will continue to not have a choice of insurance providers in most instances. Of course, it’s no over ’till…

By: adambosworth

adambosworth — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:12:07 +0000

Good point. I was too flip. We should try to fix those institutions which are under-performing. But since real people are at risk of getting treated badly, we also need to tie universal insurance to the concept that those who pay steer people away from bad treatment, no?

By: Stephen Kangas

Stephen Kangas — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:08:40 +0000

Hi Adam:
First, let me say that I really admire what you’re doing here, and it’s getting me excited.
But, there is a comment you made in your text of the Aspen speech that lept out at me:
“We should reward practices and hospitals that are delivering the best most cost-effective long-term outcomes and penalize those that deliver the worst.”
Penalizing under-performing institutions is a concept pushed hard by the recent Republican administration in the area of education, where under-performing schools would NOT get the same federal funds they need to improve…yet those schools don’t go away because they are often the only option for the areas they serve. Giving more resources to institutions that perform well but have been doing well without those extra resources, while denying under-performing instituions the very resources they need to improve simply exacerbates the problem. Instead, there needs to be policies and assistance put in place to replicate the best practices used at the more successful institution at those under-performing institutions, inc the $$ assistance needed for that. Just as you mention in your blog about how what the Republican resistance to system change is making you personally angry, I feel a bit like that on this concept of penalizing under-performing schools (and other necessary institutions) due to the negative affect that has had on the opportunities for some of my relatives’ kids. And, that anger also fueled by the horror stories I hear from my PhD nurse wife who deals with under-served hospitals across WA state who desperately need help, not penalties. So, I urge you to consider ways in your healthcare plans that fix the severe problems we’re experiencing to enable the critically needed Rural Critical Access Hospitals, Public Hospital Districts, and associated public and private clinics and physicians to improve without whacking them into a position where they fail to do so.
Anyway, I’m rootin’ for ya…keep up this great work!!

ps: I still remember the great talk you did on that PNW MIT Enterprise Forum SOA panel while you were at BEA…defintely one of the better speakers there!

By: Jessica Wolfe

Jessica Wolfe — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:36:35 +0000

Adam: I like what you say a lot, both as a consumer and provider. What I’d like to see added to the movement is the the voice, energy, and ideas of people who design and build the non-virtual environments where people live, work and play. As obvious as this seems, few architects, master planners or mixed use developers have thought about (or been invited to the table to think about) how to creatively structure or retrofit the mixed use built environments where healthy communities for life can be fostered and maintained. This is critical: People are intrinsically social beings, and much of what you propose speaks directly to enhanced interaction and decreased isolation on a larger level. Let’s break down those silos, including the concrete ones!

By: adambosworth

adambosworth — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:50:43 +0000

Quick comment – We discussed this when drafting the agreement and the agreement is just supposed to govern what you can do with your copy of your health data – It is interesting to think about your question, but it is was explicitly not intended to be covered by the draft.

By: Brad Tritle

Brad Tritle — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:20:57 +0000

Quick question here – is the last item “Have the right to share our health data with others as we see fit ” – meant to apply to health information exchange, as well as personal health platforms? Meaning, “only as we see fit”? Thanks!

By: OpenEHR advocate

OpenEHR advocate — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:33:15 +0000

A good place to start looking

http://www.openehr.org/knowledge/