Ted Eytan, MD

e-Health. Patient empowerment. Washington, DC.

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Lululemon's Next Workout

  • Lululemon’s Next Workout - Profile of a company who's CEO wants to be close to her customer. A great true north - "elevate the world through health and fitness." My own experience finding their expansion strategy - the showroom concept - could be useful to health care organizations

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I learned about this at the CCR workshop. The CCR accomodates elements of this, but CMS has not endorsed it yet as a standard.

AMCP.org - Comments on Standard SIG - The NCPDP was working on the standard for Med Sigs - a little background

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I walked past this sign, welcoming people to Pomona College, in Claremont, California. As our profession thinks about broadening consumer health informatics to help more people (from diverse backgrounds and parts of our society), we should remember to share the added riches of our learning, experience, and ideas for improving health care in trust for mankind. More innovation happens when more is shared, not less. This includes what we did well with, and what mistakes we made.

Pomona College Pomona College Pomona College

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March 28th through March 29th:

  • WordPress ? Search and Replace « WordPress Plugins - Wordpress 2.5 is out. I have a feeling this plugin will be useful to have handy
  • JAMA — Preserving Confidentiality in the Peer Review Process, March 24, 2008, DeAngelis and Thornton 0 (2008): 299.16.jed80000 - With tremendous respect for Catherine DeAngelis’ leadership during a tough situation. I am left wondering if the best place to hide is out in the open - if peer review became more Web2.0 like. What would happen in a situation like this?
  • Findings From the 2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Survey - EBRI - About 2 percent of the population is enrolled in a consumer directed health plans. Significant points for me: (1) almost half of the population with a chronic condition reports not filling medications or skipping doses or delaying care due to cost. Sobering reminder that patients can and do choose to do what we doctors prescribe. (2) “There have been no significant gains int he provision of information on provider cost and quality by any health plan type over the three years of the survey. There has been no increase in the share of CDHP or HDHP enrollees who say their health plans provide them with quality and cost information about their providers, and they remain no more likely to receive such information than enrollees in more comprehensive plans.” Okay, one more point - they did not ask about the impact of involvement in care in choosing a health plan - no mention of medical records access or involvement in information sharing at the level of the encounter.
  • My Starbucks Idea - How about doing this for a health care org?
  • Bronson Beta - Mail.appetizer - Nice Mail notification tool, Leopard

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Thoughts from the iPhone Developers Summit

While in New York City this week, I happened to attend the (first?) iPhone Developer Summit, thanks to a free pass and a little wiggle room in my schedule.

I didn’t go because I am planning to learn Objective C and develop for the iPhone. I went because I wanted to see what the developer community is thinking, and I have to say I was impressed with what I saw. I sat in on a session about the new iPhone SDK and the audience looked almost to me like a group of doctors that are sitting in a room to learn about electronic health records and realizing that their lives are going to change.

There was discussion of the iPhone platform, which has far more computing power and graphics capability than any other handheld that has preceded it, coupled with the fact that Apple, Inc., has made it easier than ever for developers to distribute their applications quickly and efficiently through iTunes. Nothing like this has ever existed on other mobile platforms.

I sensed a tone of quiet resignation coupled with excitement that this will be the next revolution in computing. At the same time, the teaching was about the very basics of developing for the iPhone so it’s very early in the journey. I learned a few things, like the fact that the iPhone you use to develop on will need to be disconnected from the AT&T cellular network, so basically you will need to purchase a phone specifically for development. The SDK requires that you have a Mac running Leopard - you cannot develop on a Windows box. And an interesting revelation that was not well covered previously - the iPod Touch is also a platform for this SDK. This means that an enterprise developer could create internal applications that run off of Wi-Fi, decoupled from phone service. That’s a big deal.

After taking in this scene, I wandered with a colleague over to the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, which provided more evidence of a transformation coming. The store was packed beyond all recognition. There was a long feeder line of customers waiting to buy things. And yet the store made all of the products available to customers and potential customers to enjoy at their leisure.

There’s something going on here. Click on any of the pictures to see them full size, and the video below to get a sense yourself.

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