MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'ashoka'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:37:53 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4245395&cid=t_118560_113_f&fid=38494&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcuretogether.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F12%2F09%2Fand-the-winner-is%2F We’re excited to announce that CureTogether is a winner of the Amgen/Ashoka Changemakers Patient Empowerment Competition! The winners were announced here yesterday. The $10,000 prize will help us to improve CureTogether for our members, and spread it to more people who can be helped. Everyone who is reading this – do something extra nice for yourself to help us celebrate! ! (Source: The Collective Well) The Collective Well blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4245395 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:12:39 +0100 4245395 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4179381&cid=t_118560_113_f&fid=38494&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcuretogether.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F11%2F18%2Fplease-vote-and-help-curetogether-win-10000-in-the-amgen-changemakers-contest%2F Hi everyone, Just a quick note to let you all know that CureTogether is a finalist in the Amgen/Changemakers Empowering Patients Competition!! Thank you for being part of this. Please vote today – we have a good shot at winning the $10,000 grand prize if we get enough votes in the next 13 days. It can be your good deed for the day! Please take half a minute to cast your vote. THANK YOU so much!! Wishing you all a wonderful day, Alex (Source: The Collective Well) The Collective Well blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4179381 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:58:46 +0100 4179381 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4077371&cid=t_118560_113_f&fid=38494&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcuretogether.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F10%2F18%2Fcuretogethers-impact-and-strategy%2F For our recent entry into the Ashhoka Changemakers competition for Empowering Patients, I had to answer some great questions about where CureTogether is today and where we’re going. Just wanted to share them here too, for full transparency and to see if any of you have ideas for how to help going forward! . What impact have you had? 1. Global Reach. CureTogether has 15,000 members in 112 countries, who have contributed 1.3 million data points across 625 conditions. 2. Changed Lives. The real impact of CureTogether can be seen in individual patient stories. One of our members is bed-ridden 22 hours a day with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder. She has a computer screen mounted over her bed and an assistive keyboard to help her function online. Being an active membe... The Collective Well blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4077371 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:41:22 +0100 4077371 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3972983&cid=t_118560_113_f&fid=38494&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcuretogether.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F09%2F15%2Fcrowdsourced-patient-experience%2F This is for you. As part of our entry for the Ashoka Changemakers’/Amgen Foundation Patients| Choices| Empowerment competition, we put together this video with stories from some of our members. It’s to thank you and show you how people are being helped and how we’re moving forward. I hope you enjoy it! Please also feel free to enter a comment at the Ashoka site to show your support for CureTogether winning the competition. Thanks!! (Source: The Collective Well) The Collective Well blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3972983 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:27:42 +0100 3972983 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3935855&cid=t_118560_113_f&fid=38494&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcuretogether.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F09%2F06%2Fcuretogether-honored-with-amgenashoka-changemakers-award%2F We are so excited! CureTogether’s entry into the Ashoka Changemakers patient empowerment competition won the Early Entry Prize for best idea entered by the early deadline! From the competition website: The Amgen Foundation is supporting the Patients| Choices| Empowerment competition with Ashoka’s Changemakers to answer the question of how we can elevate patients’ voices to improve health outcomes globally. Submit your solutions, or nominate a project, in this challenge that empowers patients to make decisions with confidence and clarity, in concert with people who care and can help. Congratulations to the Early Entry Prize winner: CureTogether – Crowdsourced Patient Experience. Learn how they are working to empower patients HERE. Prizes: Enter before the competition dea... The Collective Well blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3935855 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:31:12 +0100 3935855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2846422&cid=t_118560_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F09%2F30%2Frobert-wood-johnson-rethinking-mental-health%2F This is an interesting contest I thought I’d pass along… For far too long, mental illness has been stigmatized and those stigmas have served as a barrier to innovation. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has joined forces with Ashoka’s Changemakers to launch “Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing”, a competition for new ideas and practices that challenge the status quo in terms of how we think about and address mental health care needs. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Rethinking Mental Health” competition offers an opportunity for new ideas outside the traditional structures to emerge. To participate, please go to http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/mentalhealth to: Comment on entries from others like you who are deeply con... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2846422 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:30:18 +0100 2846422 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2353955&cid=t_118560_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2Fz-myvW1TxG4%2F My wife and I just came back from an inspiring Goldman Prize Award ceremony, where seven grassroots environmental changemakers were recognized for their work and resiliency, and shared their passion and purpose with everyone attending the event. We did hear too from Al Gore, Tracy Chapman, Robert Redford, and the founder of the awards 20 years ago, Richard Goldman.  The BBC recently published an Op-Ed by Mr. Goldman on the story behind the Awards themselves: article Here. He explains how... - "One morning in 1989, as I sat with my daily breakfast and newspaper, I read about the most recent Nobel laureates and wondered if there was a comparable award for environmental work." - "We asked a staff member at our foundation to do some research and he found that nothing yet e... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2353955 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:27:08 +0100 2353955 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1180098&cid=t_118560_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2008%2F1%2F27%2Fsaving-the-world-volunteerism-vs-social-entrepreneurism.html There are two interesting articles in the Sunday NY Times (Jan. 27, 2008).  One is about the failure of President Bush's Volunteerism Initiative, the other is about the rise of social entrepreneurs.  Volunteerism is usually about helping people.  Social entrepreneurism is about helping people help themselves.  I won't dwell on why the President's Volunterism Initiative is "sputtering," because the story about social entrepreneurs is so much more interesting and inspiring.  Nicholas Kristof introduced us to social entrepreneurship in a NY Times op-ed when he wrote about Kiva, an online site where you can make microloans to entrepreneurs across the world.  In his most recent Times editorial, "The Age of Ambition," Kristof describes a number o... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1180098 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:51:20 +0100 1180098 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1072585&cid=t_118560_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F195556995%2F This study shows that chimps can memorize at a glance the numerals presented on the screen, and that they can do so just as well - and even better - than humans can. Note that the superior performance came from a young chimp, and that the performance of older chimps on the same task was more similar to that of humans." - Watch video Impressive, isn't yet? Yet, a clear indication that memory is not all that matters. Please compare the "intelligence" (in any way you want to define it), the quality of thinking, displayed by those apes, with the one displayed in this recent interview with Bill Drayton at Good Magazine, founder of Ashoka and one of the parents of the social entrepreneurship movement. Quotes: - "Ashoka (and all of us in the GOOD community) are serving the mos... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1072585 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:53:38 +0100 1072585 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=611523&cid=t_118560_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F5%2F16%2Fnew-competition-disruptive-innovations-in-health-care.html Disruptive innovations are new technologies, processes, or business models that blow status quo products out of the water and, eventually, replace them entirely. Here are some examples: • Automobiles replaced horses • Semiconductors replaced vacuum tubes • Digital cameras are in the process of replacing film cameras  Lord knows we could use a big dose of disruptive innovation in health care. Most of us are still getting care in a delivery model that is more than 50 years old. And many of us would say it no longer works well.  "Minute Clinics" are often cited as an example of a disruptive innovation in health care, although these retail-based, nurse practitioner run urgent care clinics still have a long way to go before they replace the more tradition... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=611523 Wed, 16 May 2007 20:56:27 +0100 611523