• BarCamp wiki / HealthCampDc - For people who want to look at other ways of convening, in an area that interests all of us (Health 2.0), this is worth checking out.

• No Schedules, No Meetings—Enter Best Buy’s ROWE - Part 2 - Sludge is not our best friend - "productive" is better than "busy" - lessons from BestBuy.

• An Exploration of Technology Diffusion — HBS Working Knowledge -
• The New Math of Customer Relationships - Which comes first though, customer (patient), or employee (provider) satisfaction in this equation?
• Endless Meetings Speed Up the Pace of Change on the Gemba - Sometimes spending more time to achieve consensus is worth it. I am now wary of the excessively timed meeting.
• Tumblog in WordPress - my own personal Twitter? - D’Arcy Norman dot net - Grand unification for wordpress and Twitter? Interesting to think about…
• What is the World Café? - An interesting conversational process. Could it replace traditional CME? I think something should…
• Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision - The eternal issue of diffusion

I have been intrigued by EMC’s work in managing an employee personal health record - it seems above and beyond (in a good way) how an human resources function and grow and support talent. Also, time to upgrade Office for Mac. It went OK. I’ll update “my own CIO” tools list in the near future.

• Employers Find Benefits with PHRs - More info about EMC and its employee PHR
• News - - Gainesville.com: Dean admits student without backing - It’s interesting that this is posted in the entertainment section. That aside, this looks concerning. I don’t understand how a student is admitted to medical school on a personal recommendation, and without taking the MCAT. How will we have a diverse medi
• Event Calendar - A way to put upcoming events on a wordpress blog
• TimeDriver - Coming Soon! A revolutionary online personal appointment scheduler - A very high potential meeting scheduling package. Given that Timebridge only allows 5 slots to be determined, this looks very interesting.
• GE Healthcare-Press Release-NCHL and GE’s Institute for Transformational Leadership - I didn’t know about GE’s work in this area. It looks like they are doing work in LEAN as well as Six-Sigma, which they are known for.
• Report cites UA med school crisis | www.azstarnet.com ® - Sad news from my alma mater, related to the difficulties medical schools are having balancing revenue and their mission.
• D.C. Not-for-Profit Offers Model for IT Adoption - iHealthBeat - More progress in DCPCA’s EHR adoption efforts
• Burlington Free Press.com | Fletcher Allen’s new EHR - Fletcher Allen in Vermont gets approval to go ahead. I believe this is an Epic Systems install, bringing with it the possibility for excellent patient engagement with their health system as a result.
• Database Problem with Office 2008 for Mac - Office 2008 Install problems, just in case

The one thing that I haven’t quite been able to do well is scheduling meetings with people not on the same computer network. Come to think of it, I never figured out how to do it on the same network either. I looked at some tools below that are emerging that let you do that. I think the most promising looking one is Timebridge. They are also part of the iCal consortium, which supports calendaring standards.

• Talaria Publications - Bibliography for messaging using devices (cell phone, beeper, etc) in promoting medication adherence
• Free Scheduling Software | Integrate Outlook, Google Calendar & Exchange Availability - TimeBridge - I think this one is my favorite.
• Online Invitation service from MeetingWizard.com -
• Find a time, schedule group meetings, conference calls, virtual meetings, events -
• Meetings: Take Detailed Notes to Earn Bonus Points (and Prevent Boredom) - Fascinating. No one suggests making meetings more productive. Each one of these strategies is a measure of wasted time.