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 'enterprise'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:02:00 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5125721&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F0bjiCY6NxMA%2F By Jim HarperSomething as simple as the concept of tradeoffs can cause cognitive dissonance to good-hearted people who want too hard to drive the society toward their perception of the good. A nice illustration of that is the cost in lives of making cars that use less gasoline. How can doing good for the environment possibly be harmful? Oh, it can be deadly. Nicely illustrated by CEI’s Sam Kazman on John Stossel’s show. 2,000 Deaths per Year … for the Environment is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5125721 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:49:08 +0100 5125721 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5069474&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fimgs.xkcd.com%2Fcomics%2Fstandards.png Many people ask why the United States, unlike other countries, has no national system of electronic medical records. Here’s why: Insert the number 576 instead of 14, by the way. Each of which (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Musings of a Dinosaur* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5069474 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:00:36 +0100 5069474 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028138&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FyZZPNvIJeBs%2F By Mark A. CalabriaIt’s probably never wise to inject oneself into the middle of a food fight, but since I think both sides actually have something right and something wrong, its been a worthwhile debate to follow.  That is the ongoing debate between Peter Wallison at the American Enterprise Institute and David Min at the Center for American Progress (at least we can all agree we love America) on the role of Fannie Mae (and Freddie Mae) in the financial crisis.  If you can’t guess, Peter says Fannie/Freddie caused the crisis, David says they didn’t. David makes an interesting point, one I’ve actually argued, in his latest retort.  That is, this wasn’t exclusively a housing crisis/bubble.  Other sectors, like commercial real estate, boomed and then went bus... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028138 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:40:43 +0100 5028138 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008365&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FbrEuvSpFHdM%2F I think it’s quite easy to predict that 3-5 years from now, one of the top topics on this blog and in the EHR world as a whole is going to be around EHR data extraction or if you prefer EMR data conversion. I’ve previously predicted that by the end of the EHR stimulus money we’re be lucky to achieve 50% EHR adoption. So, you’d think that in 3-5 years we’d still be talking about EHR selection and implementation. Certainly, that will still be a topic of discussion. Not to mention, which EHR vendor they should go to for their second EHR. However, I am certain that 3-5 years from now we’re going to see a mass of doctors switching EHR vendors. As part of my EHR blog week challenge (if you’re a blogger, you should participate too), today I’m going ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008365 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:31:57 +0100 5008365 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952805&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F1rQIWfTFO8c%2F By Gene HealyAs David Boaz notes below, a few blocks away at 17th and M, the foreign policy and defense analysts at the American Enterprise Institute have discovered a threat that’s even more disturbing than the possibility of a Chinese “Space Force” armed with particle-beam weapons [.pdf].  It seems there’s a spectre haunting America–the spectre of “isolationism.” It’s such a threat that AEI, one of our leading conservative think tanks, is calling on President Obama to man the bully pulpit and use his magic rhetorical skills to raise awareness. I did a double-take on Tuesday when I saw a post at AEI’s blog titled, “With Growing Isolationism, We Need Obama to Lead Now More Than Ever.” And yet, when I got up the next day, I ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952805 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:55:18 +0100 4952805 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4789381&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2011%2F04%2F29%2Finterview-with-allscripts-president-and-xerox-executive-vp-about-500-million-hosting-services-contract%2F Many of you probably already saw the announcement of the $500 million contract that was signed between Allscripts Healthcare Solutions and ACS, A Xerox Company, to provide hosted IT service for the Allscripts’ Sunrise Enterprise Suite. Considering the size of the contract, I thought it would be interesting to do an interview to learn more about the Allscripts and ACS (Xerox) relationship. The following is an email interview with Lee Shapiro, President, Allscripts and Chad Harris, Executive Vice President and Group President, ACS Healthcare Provider and IT Applications Solutions. They duck a few of the questions, but provide some information about their relationship that I think’s useful and interesting. Lee Shapiro, president, Allscripts What percentage of Allscripts Sunrise E... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4789381 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:39:47 +0100 4789381 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4723786&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FNFg2b0upjHA%2F By Walter OlsonAs Iain Murray points out at National Review‘s “Corner,” there’s no date on the calendar each year that reminds us, the way income tax filing day does, of the huge share of our economic labors that the government commands in the name of regulation. In part this is because the costs of regulation are even better disguised than those of taxation: while paycheck withholding may lull us into complacency about our income tax burden, it is downright transparent compared with the costs of regulation, which the ordinary citizen may never recognize when passed along in the form of higher utility bills or sluggish performance by some sector of the economy. Iain notes the good work done by his colleagues at the Competitive Enterprise Institute: Regulations cost... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4723786 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:19:45 +0100 4723786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4549802&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2Fif4wLMHT2oE%2F I recently read an article (which I can’t find now) that said, We don’t log in to check our health data as much as we do our financial data. This was a pretty interesting statement considering a few days back I posted this tweet about PHR and being an active patient: #bbpBox_41380840890048512 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0084B4 !important; } #bbpBox_41380840890048512 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; } I want to spend some time thinking about the motivation for a healthy individual to become an active patient. #PHR #ePatient February 26, 2011 6:15 am via HootSuite @techguy John Lynn Figuring out the right motivation for someone to use a PHR has been something that’s been on my mind for quite a while. You may remember my post about requ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4549802 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:24:24 +0100 4549802 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4544947&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FRmhvzKbuPbs%2F By Ilya ShapiroRecently, activist and filmmaker Annie Leonard released a video titled "The Story of Citizens United v. FEC," an eight-and-a-half-minute criticism of last year’s Supreme Court case of the same name. Well, sort of. Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Lee Doren made his own video critique in response to Ms. Leonard’s offering, and points out quite clearly that Ms. Leonard doesn’t really deal with any actual constitutional problems in her position—essentially ignoring the decision and its rationale—and instead spends most of her time corporation bashing. Lee was kind enough to cite, inter alia, a blogpost I wrote last year about what “corporate personhood” does and does not mean. If Ms. Leonard was going to ignore the decision, it may have at least served her wel... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4544947 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:40:11 +0100 4544947 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4501649&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FhHPAaFVwK7E%2F Today I have a special shirt made just for HIMSS, thanks to the great people at Enterprise Software Deployment. If you see me at HIMSS, check out my shirt. It has the top 10 real reasons I’m at HIMSS listed on the back of the shirt. My favorite is #4 Booth babes. I’ll post the full top 10 later tonight. Also, be sure to check out Enterprise Software Deployment at HIMSS if you need a great EMR consultant or if you’re looking for a position doing EMR consulting. You can find them at Booth #2777. Here’s their HIMSS exhibitor description: At ESD, our goal is to ensure successful implementation of a new EHR system or upgrade from start to finish in healthcare organizations around the globe. Our services include Clinical Transformation, Legacy System Support, Training, Su... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4501649 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:13:22 +0100 4501649 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4433080&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FLxPM9_27Jk4%2F By Jerry TaylorThe other day, The Wall Street Journal provided a public service by lambasting Newt Gingrich for his absurd speech to the ethanol lobby in Des Moines last month (money line:  "Obviously big urban newspapers want to kill it because it's working, and you wonder, 'What are their values?'").  Today, Gingrich and fellow ethanol-maven James Woolsey struck back in those very same pages.  In doing so, Gingrich provided yet more evidence that he's intellectually unfit for office. "It is in this country's long-term best interest," he said, "to stop the flow of $1 billion a day overseas."  Really?  So money sent overseas is gone forever.  News to me.  The only thing you can buy with dollars earned from oil sales to the U.S. is to buy things denominated in dollars or to exc... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4433080 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:32:14 +0100 4433080 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4318314&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F6wmy9RSy5n8%2F By Christopher PrebleI hadn’t planned to comment on the matter of Captain Owen Honors, the commanding officer of the USS Enterprise relieved of command following the release of some off-color videos that he recorded as the Enterprise’s executive officer (XO) in 2006 and 2007. But then Chris Kennedy in our media department twisted my arm, and the next thing I knew I had written 900 words for CNN. Before I delivered the essay for publication, I solicited feedback from a number of former officers, and one still serving, including several of my classmates at the George Washington University NROTC unit. Not all agreed with my take — I faulted Honors for his poor judgment, and concluded that the punishment fit the offense — but all appreciated the even-handed approach th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4318314 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:35:29 +0100 4318314 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4300549&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fneed-an-ultrasound-there%25e2%2580%2599s-an-app-for-that%2F2010.12.30 Imagine walking into the room of a patient with ascites and pulling out your iPad (which you were just using to put in orders on another patient), pulling an ultrasound probe out of your pocket, connecting the two, and finding a fluid pocket from which to drain the abdominal fluid. We’ve already shown how iPad’s can be useful in the OR. Now they, along with other tablets and smartphones, can be applied to bedside diagnostics and therapeutics to enhance patient safety while reducing costs. It’s a pretty exciting prospect being put forth by an mHealth startup called Mobisante. And having won awards at an MIT Enterprise Forum as well as the Mobile Health Expo, others certainly seem to buying in as well. Mobisante, an mHealth company based in Redmond, WA, has recently been showing a new ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4300549 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:00:02 +0100 4300549 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4155263&cid=t_115166_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F11%2Fits-not-filter-failure-its-discovery.html Great Lessig styl'ish presentation @Cameron."Don’t think about filtering.Don’t think about control.Enable discovery."I simply agree, and we need more "need alignment" discussions and sufficient resources for making this possible! Aka, I consider a discovery deficit as a lack of enabling true network building and network maintenance scenarios.It's not filter failure. It's a discovery deficit.View more presentations from Cameron Neylon.For related posts see alsoFOAF - a decentralized solution for knowledge=people+informationSocial media and science personalities, let us align our needs and ensure building relationshipsInnovation 2.0, especially in drug designInformation overload is a challenge we have to work on in science, e.g. via Enterprise 2.0 strategiesOnly, if we work on all of tho... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4155263 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:01:00 +0100 4155263 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4119200&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Fmeasuring-clinical-quality-cardiovascular-practices With cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in the United States, cardiovascular specialists have long used clinical quality guidelines to optimize care and enhance the quality of life for patients. Today, registry data is commonly used to help researchers evaluate the efficacy of standard care protocols across the country. Now, however, legislative incentives are lending additional impetus to these efforts.  As a solution, electronic health records (EHRs) become the logical answer to provide the foundation for measuring quality in a practice. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4119200 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:59:46 +0100 4119200 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4086269&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmedical-ethics-and-the-amish-bus-driver-rule%2F2010.10.20 Rachel Maddow, in a discussion related to the provision of abortion services, once proposed that we (society) should invoke the Amish Bus Driver Rule (ABDR) whenever medical professionals invoke their personal convictions in refusing to provide legal medical services. The ABDR goes like this: If you’re Amish, and therefore have religious convictions against internal combustion engines, then you have disqualified yourself for employment as a bus driver. (Presumably Ms. Maddow would not apply the ABDR to everyone, since it would disqualify, for instance, Al Gore from utilizing horseless carriages and other fossil-fueled contrivances.) The ABDR would do far more than merely render it okay for doctors to perform abortions and other ethically controversial (but legal) medical services. The... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4086269 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:00:58 +0100 4086269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4082074&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FdLUGN4XrWDA%2F By Christopher PrebleThere has been an on-going discussion recently about the Tea Party’s foreign policy views and how this might influence the upcoming election and new members of Congress.  In an essay at the Daily Caller last week, the Heritage Foundation’s Jim Carafano addressed this question and the claim that the new “Defending Defense” initiative— led by Heritiage, AEI, and the Foreign Policy Initiative—is aimed at co-opting the Tea Party movement (for more on the substance, or lack thereof, of “Defending Defense,” see Justin Logan’s response here). Over at The Skeptics blog, I take issue with Carafano’s assessment of the Tea Party’s foreign policy views: With respect to Carafano’s assessment of the Tea Partiers’s views on foreign policy and milita... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4082074 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:40:32 +0100 4082074 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4074024&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F5v9OuZ4Vkyw%2F By Justin LoganBill Kristol has a plan to help the US military George F. Will has called neoconservatism “a spectacularly misnamed radicalism” whose adherents are “the most radical people in this town.”  (It is a shame that the Heritage Foundation has fallen so far from its sensible opposition to the neoconservative vision and evidently bought into the neoconservative program in toto.) Like other radicals, however, they are pretty good at politics, which is clear from reading their latest offering, a talking points document [.pdf] produced by the “Defending Defense” initiative intended to demonstrate that U.S. military spending is not that large and should not be cut. I have several things to say about the document, but all of the internet sniping and providing adversa... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4074024 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:06:10 +0100 4074024 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3938401&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2010%2F09%2F03%2Femr-consulting-business-model%2F I’ve been thinking about the EMR consulting business model for a long time (check out my first post on EMR consulting back on October 27, 2006). My personal career path has taken me a different direction. I do some occasional consulting for people, but it’s not really my core business. Unfortunately, I don’t scale very well. With that said, I think there’s definitely a business model for a company that does EMR consulting. In fact, today I learned that one of my advertisers and also an EMR consulting company, Enterprise Software Development, was ranked #561 out of the 5000 fastest growing companies in America (see press release). That’s right. I guess EMR consulting is a good enough business that they can use an EMR consulting business to become one of the fas... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3938401 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:30:02 +0100 3938401 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3862001&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTymTSt3LUaY%2F By David BoazPeter Wallsten of the Wall Street Journal writes, “Libertarianism is enjoying a recent renaissance in the Republican Party.” He cites Ron Paul’s winning the presidential straw poll earlier this year at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Rand Paul’s upset victory in the Kentucky senatorial primary, and former governor Gary Johnson’s evident interest in a libertarian-leaning presidential campaign. Johnson tells Wallsten in an interview that he’ll campaign on spending cuts — including military spending, on entitlements reform, and on a rational approach to drug policy. Meanwhile, on the same day, Rand Paul had a major op-ed in USA Today discussing whether he’s a libertarian. Not quite, he says. But sort of: In my mind, th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3862001 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:53:11 +0100 3862001 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3635744&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fnutrition-and-the-government-donuts-for-freedom%2F2010.06.07 An interesting press release from the Competitive Enterprise Institute recently came across our desk and is reproduced in full below. I’m curious what our readers think of it, and of the government’s role in nutritional issues, given the link between nutrition and health: Institute Calls for Civil Disobedience on National Donut Day As Government Meddling in Nutritional Issues Mounts, CEI Advises, “Eat Two Donuts Today—One for Yourself, and One for Your Freedom” Washington, D.C., June 4, 2010 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute today urged Americans to turn National Donut Day into a day of protest against growing government intrusion into nutritional issues. CEI urged people to eat two donuts — “one for yourself, and one as an act of patriotic civil disobedience.�... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3635744 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0100 3635744 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3607481&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FM_yxevurwek%2F By Michael F. CannonAs explained in an excellent letter to the editor of The Washington Post: Capitalism’s friends never had to cede moral ground to its enemies, but they will have to replace the current power structure to make room for a revival. President Obama summarized his understanding of free enterprise in his 2009 commencement speech at Arizona State University: “ruthless competition pursued only on your own behalf…” That markets are built on voluntary transactions — mutual exchange for mutual benefit — is an alien concept in the academic environment that produced Mr. Obama and many of his staffers. That one accumulates wealth in a free market by providing value to willing buyers — the exact opposite of acting “only on your own behalf... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3607481 Thu, 27 May 2010 16:56:01 +0100 3607481 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3560203&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FHFo3Fa8c0Ek%2F By Neal McCluskeyMark Schneider, a former National Center for Education Statistics commissioner and current American Enterprise Institute scholar, has put together a very insightful — and disturbing — four-part blog series on the oft-cited Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and its creator, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Basically, Schneider writes, the much-hyped PISA figures very prominently in the “international benchmarking” of coming national curriculum standards — which the Obama Administration is coercing states to adopt — despite the paucity of meaningful evidence that doing well on PISA actually translates into desirable educational outcomes. Now, Schneider throws out some debatable stuff him... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3560203 Thu, 13 May 2010 15:23:52 +0100 3560203 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3538075&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FZqxmoUScElE%2F By Walter OlsonI’m usually in enthusiastic accord with our friends over at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, but it seems to me they’ve made a mistake by petitioning the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to crack down on GM’s ridiculous “we repaid our federal loan” ad. Some zealous enforcers would love for the FTC to do more to regulate speech by American business on matters of public concern, and it seems to me the last thing we should do is encourage such a trend. For those who came in late, General Motors and its CEO Ed Whitmire were widely and rightly assailed here and elsewhere for asserting (in a column whose message was repeated in much-played TV ads) that the company had repaid its bailout loan “in full, with interest, years ahead of schedule.&#... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3538075 Wed, 05 May 2010 19:11:47 +0100 3538075 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3533815&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FKZIcSuUSPIE%2F By Roger PilonI’m pleased to report that Walter Olson, known to many Cato@Liberty readers for his Overlawyered website, has joined the Cato Institute. Wally led the Manhattan Institute’s litigation reform program for more than a quarter of a century. He’ll be a senior fellow in our Center for Constitutional Studies, with a wide-ranging portfolio. A Yale graduate, Wally began his career at Regulation magazine, back when it was published by the American Enterprise Institute. He has authored three books, 1991’s The Litigation Explosion, 1997’s The Excuse Factory, and 2003’s The Rule of Lawyers, and countless articles. And another book will be out in the fall on bad ideas coming from the legal academy, Schools for Misrule. At PointofLaw.com, Jim Copland, director of Man... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3533815 Tue, 04 May 2010 22:51:10 +0100 3533815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3533782&cid=t_115166_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F05%2Fquality-in-primary-care-2010-vol-18-no-1%2F Quality in Primary Care 2010 Volume 18(1) Contents Page Fade Fave: Improving primary and community health services through nurse-led social enterprise Fade Skinny: Social Enterprises are businesses which pursue social objectives rather than financial gain. Social enterprises trade for the ‘social good’ and receive their funding through contracts like any other business however profits are used to create a social rather than financial return. Within the NHS, social enterprise is being strongly promoted by policy makers as a way of providing new forms of services in primary and community care in England. Nurses have been identified as a key group to lead or contribute to change using social enterprise in six key health areas: health and wellbeing, children and families, people wi... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3533782 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:19:21 +0100 3533782 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3437657&cid=t_115166_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F05%2Fquality-in-primary-care-2010-vol-18-no-1%2F Quality in Primary Care 2010 Volume 18(1) Contents Page Fade Fave: Improving primary and community health services through nurse-led social enterprise Fade Skinny: Social Enterprises are businesses which pursue social objectives rather than financial gain. Social enterprises trade for the ’social good’ and receive their funding through contracts like any other business however profits are used to create a social rather than financial return. Within the NHS, social enterprise is being strongly promoted by policy makers as a way of providing new forms of services in primary and community care in England. Nurses have been identified as a key group to lead or contribute to change using social enterprise in six key health areas: health and wellbeing, children and families, people wi... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3437657 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:19:21 +0100 3437657 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3429160&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FNAy9l6EF2gI%2F By Daniel GriswoldAlex Nowrasteh and Ryan Young of the Competitive Enterprise Institute make the case for immigration reform in an especially appealing way in a fresh op-ed this week in the Detroit News. In a commentary article titled, “Fix immigration rules to crush black market,” they dissect a well-meaning but flawed Obama administration effort to fix the dysfunctional H-2A visa program for temporary farm workers. Instead of fine tuning an unworkable law, Nowrasteh and Young advocate liberalization: That means making H-2A visas inexpensive, easy to obtain, and keeping the related paperwork and regulations to a minimum. That means no minimum wage hike. No costly background check requirements. People rarely break laws that are reasonable and easy to obey. When legal channels cost too ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3429160 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:42:49 +0100 3429160 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3420579&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=34631&url=http%3A%2F%2Fehealth.johnwsharp.com%2F2010%2F03%2F29%2Fupcoming-conferencesspeaking%2F I will be speaking at the TAHSN Education Day for Healthcare Communicators – April 30, 2010 (Toronto Academic Health Science Network). Looking forward to visiting Toronto again and having time to learn more about the Innovation Cell as well. There is a nice video on a conference I am presenting at in May in Philadelphia. The J. Boye Conference – see the embedded  video. Some great keynoters, Eric Karjaluoto, Mary Jo Foley and Peter Kim and the promise of a pitch-free presentations. (Source: eHealth) eHealth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3420579 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:21:07 +0100 3420579 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3243773&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FHiods2JjYpo%2F By Daniel J. MitchellThe new budget from the White House contains all sorts of land mines for taxpayers, which is not surprising considering the President wants to extract another $1.3 trillion over the next ten years. While that’s a discouragingly big number, the details are even more frightening. Higher tax rates on investors and entrepreneurs will dampen incentives for productive behavior. Reinstating the death tax is both economically foolish and immoral. And higher taxes on companies almost surely is a recipe for fewer jobs and reduced competitiveness. The White House is specifically going after companies that compete in foreign markets. Under current law, the “foreign-source” income of multinationals is subject to tax by the IRS even though it already is subject to ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3243773 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:41:39 +0100 3243773 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3193701&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FayJwHR5nDX4%2F By Chris Moody David Boaz on Obama’s first year: “From this libertarian, Obama’s first year looks grim. …He may well end up like Lyndon Johnson, with an ambitious domestic agenda eventually bogged down by endless war. But I don’t think his wished-for FDR model — a transformative agenda that is both popular and long-lasting — is in the cards.” The message from Massachusetts: “There can be no denying that this election was a clear cut rejection of the Democratic health care bills.” Attacks from all sides: See what happens when the Right takes on free enterprise. A new dictator in Iraq? Podcast: Daniel Ikenson discusses Obama’s trade policy. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3193701 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:43:27 +0100 3193701 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3142837&cid=t_115166_150_f&fid=38374&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FePharmaSummit%2F%7E3%2Ff673JMAYh0s%2Fpharma-enterprise-20-in-2010.html (Source: ePharma Summit) ePharma Summit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3142837 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:24:00 +0100 3142837 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3106766&cid=t_115166_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fsocial-media-needs-to-support-different.html Derek started an interesting discussion about social media in chemistry based on a nature commentary.Here my commentPlease let us not forget that there are different 'scientific personalities' [1] as there exist different 'information management personalities' [2]. I think we should appreciate the diversity and never even try to force all scientists behaving the same. Nonetheless, would I like to see more scientists contributing to social media. Especially supporting various personalities for various reasons in multiple ways !Now, if scientists do not contribute to social media then for me the question is rather what are we doing wrong in supporting their needs for learning/contributing [3]? Chemistry always was and still is a very (article) reading intense area and I am still wondering if... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3106766 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:21:00 +0100 3106766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3089294&cid=t_115166_88_f&fid=38961&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsymtym.net%2F2009%2F12%2Flos-googeles%2F Los Angeles doing it right! Not specifically with regards to Google, but rather cloud–sourcing the enterprise. (Source: quanta vie) quanta vie blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3089294 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:36:32 +0100 3089294 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3067016&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FxnBC6u3J_3c%2F By Ilya ShapiroThis morning at the Supreme Court, the federal government argued for the continued existence of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB, pronounced peek-a-boo) — and by extension the nefarious financial regulatory scheme known as Sarbanes-Oxley.  Cato filed a brief supporting a free market advocacy group and an accounting firm, who sued PCAOB for violating both the Appointments Clause and general constitutional separation-of-powers principles. Passed with scant deliberation in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 established PCAOB to oversee the accounting practices of the nation’s public companies.  As my piece with Cato legal associate Travis Cushman details today, PCAOB enjoys the rare authority to mak... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3067016 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:36:24 +0100 3067016 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3123423&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=34631&url=http%3A%2F%2Fehealth.johnwsharp.com%2F2009%2F11%2F13%2Fenterprise-2-0-limits-of-social-media-in-the-organization%2F Earlier this week I presented on a social media panel at the NEOSA CIO Symposium in Cleveland. Slides below and bookmarks here. I was surprised at how many companies block social media from their employees (about 50% from an informal poll).  After the panel, I think many were going to take a second look at social media as both a customer engagement tactic and/or a internal tool set for employee collaboration and communication. Some related blog posts on this topic include: The Über-Connected Organization: A Mandate for 2010 from Harvard Business Review Let’s Move Away From Social Media and Get Down to Business – from ReadWriteWeb which argues for a pragmatic Enterprise 2.0 which will: Address key business concerns Demonstrate business value Acquire social computing competen... eHealth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3123423 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:10:00 +0100 3123423 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2943766&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FeqxSRn-xIZQ%2F In an exchange I had with Charles Murray earlier this month, he complained that there was no bulletproof scientific research documenting miraculous improvement in student achievement attributable to great schools like those of Ben Chavis. At the time, that objection was beside my point, which is that there is copious evidence that competitive market education systems yield very substantial (if not “miraculuous”) improvements over the status quo government monopoly. We don’t need miracles to prove that there is a much better way of organizing and funding schools. But that wasn’t enough for Ben Chavis. He called yesterday to pass along a proposition to Charles: come perform the research yourself. In fact, Ben offered to put Charles up in his own house. I don’t k... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2943766 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:51:54 +0100 2943766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2862469&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fm7V6xSpz6FU%2F Last week, I posted a chart on this blog showing the percent change in federal education spending and student achievement since 1970 (achievement has been flat while federal education spending has nearly tripled). After laughing out loud when he saw it, IQ expert and Bell Curve author Charles Murray mused that “such a huge proportion of a child’s educational prospects are determined by things other than school (genes and the non-school environment) that reforms of the schools can never do more than produce score improvements at the margin.” But consider the accomplishments of Ben Chavis, who spoke at Cato last Friday. When he took over the American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland in 2001, it was the worst school in the district. Under his leadership (imagine a hybrid... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2862469 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:40:48 +0100 2862469 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796405&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fl-3CV8BIRXA%2F Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has a helpful column on the WaPo’s “Answer Sheet” blog. In it, he notes that DC Public Schools advises its employees to teach to students’ ”diverse learning styles” (e.g. “auditory learners,” “visual learners,” etc.) despite the fact that research shows these categories are pedagogically meaningless. But what really grabbed my attention was this comment: “a misunderstanding of a pretty basic issue of cognition is a mistake that one does not expect from a major school system. It indicates that the people running the show at DCPS are getting bad advice about the science on which to base policy.” As cognitive scientists have been collecting and analyzing evidence on “learning styl... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796405 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:39:10 +0100 2796405 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2761843&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fwpp_v2BpBXk%2F The Houston District Attorney’s office has apparently sent out this notice: Schools: If you have any information on someone who is attending a Houston County public school who either resides out of Houston County or out of their zone, please give us as much information as possible. Your contact information is not required; but, we will contact you if you desire. You may call 478.—.—- and leave a message or use our form below. All information provided is confidential. Apple wants to sell more iPods. Facebook wants to sign up more members. In the free enterprise system, the incentives are aligned so that what’s good for consumers (access to things they want) is also good for producers. Not so in public schooling. Good public schools can’t get paid for serving k... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2761843 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:22:49 +0100 2761843 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2670774&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FrDOfY7S-O3M%2F Passed with scant deliberation amid a stock market panic, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 vastly expanded the federal government’s role in regulating corporate governance and the accounting industry. As part of that effort, Congress created a new agency to “audit the auditors.” Known as the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the agency has broad rulemaking and enforcement powers to set accounting standards, investigate accounting firms, punish criminal violations, and make whatever rules “may be necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors.” Remarkably, the PCAOB (pronounced “peek-a-boo”) also has the power to fund its own budget by levying taxes on publicly traded companies. Despite giving the PCAOB all this po... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2670774 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:48:05 +0100 2670774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2610892&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FersmG340Lew%2F In an IBD op-ed today, I point out that we’re spending twice as much per pupil as we did in 1970, despite no improvement in achievement at the end of high school and a decline in the graduation rate over that same period. What difference does that make? If public schools had just managed not to get any less efficient over the past 40 years, we’d be saving $300 billion annually. Our education monopoly is a luxury we can no longer afford. When the economy was booming, it didn’t matter that it cost us more and more every year for the same or even inferior results. These days, it’s becoming imperative that we find ways for our education system to enjoy the same relentless increases in efficiency that we take for granted in every other field. This, for instance, would ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2610892 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:59:19 +0100 2610892 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2570378&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FejIX0lMC530%2F It seems U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan and British schools secretary Ed Balls disagree on the merits of national standards. While Duncan has said that homogenizing educational standards nationwide is his single most important goal while in office, Balls has just pulled the plug on the U.K.’s 10 year experiment with national reading and math strategies. He told the media: I think the right thing for us to do now is to move away from what has historically been a rather central view of school improvement through national strategies to something which is essentially being commissioned not from the centre but by schools themselves. The problem with saying that every 5th grader in the nation should learn the same things at the same time is that all 5th graders are not created equal.... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2570378 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:08:00 +0100 2570378 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473208&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F-Md6dwleiBM%2F In a previous post, I noted the irony of taking advice from Karl Rove on how to fight big government. It appears that Rove is not alone in having a battlefield conversion. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Chamber of Commerce is planning to spend $100 million as part of a “Campaign for Free Enterprise.” This sounds great, and I hope it helps, but is it rude of me to point out that this is the same organization that endorsed the bailout last year and the so-called stimulus this year? (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473208 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:37:27 +0100 2473208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2417140&cid=t_115166_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fgreen-capitalists-step-by-step-guide.html How to make paper flower pots from newspaper and then further exploit the enterprise.This idea was originally from my chum "DJ Kirkby" on her post over "here" but I decided to steal it from her to provide her with the opportunity to sue me for copyright infringement. They're a litigious lot those Brits.1. You will need a PVC pipe of the right diameter [small, medium, large] a cutting tool and some newspaper.2. Chop the pipe to the desired height that you want your pot to be.3. Turn the newspaper diagonally and fold in half for extra strength.4. Fold over again to the same height as the pipe.5. turn over the paper and roll the length of the strip around the pipe.6. several time until you have a couple of inches of tail left.7. fold upwards.8. Tuck in the other end, squish it, to form the bo... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2417140 Tue, 19 May 2009 06:59:00 +0100 2417140 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405045&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FbqgkbVpa0MA%2F    Photo by Peter Holden Photography for AEI I was a panelist at an American Enterprise Institute forum today discussing the proliferation of federal tax credits, particularly for low-income families. AEI scholars Kevin Hassett, Larry Lindsey, and Aparna Mathur have a draft paper that looks at the idea of consolidating current individual credits into one supercredit. The idea would be to simplify the system and reduce the economic distortions created by these credits, which are valued at about $170 billion in 2009. My observations included: Obama’s Make Work Pay credit is valued at about $60 billion per year, much of which is ”refundable.” (That means it is partly a spending increase not a tax cut). Coincidentally, Obama’s proposed tax hikes for higher-... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405045 Tue, 12 May 2009 20:16:34 +0100 2405045 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2389849&cid=t_115166_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fdrug-design-and-thinking-unthinkable.html "The problem pharma industry faces isn’t that they didn’t see generics coming. They not only saw it miles off, they figured out early on that they needed a plan to deal with it. ... In drug design the unthinkable scenario unfolded something like this: The ability to share data and intellectual properties wouldn’t shrink, it would grow. Walled data silos would prove unpopular and inefficient. ... No one experiment is going to replace what we are now losing with designed drugs, but over time, the collection of new experiments that do work might give us the cure we need." [adapted from Clay Shirky]We need legal support, intellectual property protection, and social legal systems, we need them more than ever ! Sure, we want to work 'openly' together, but not without payment. I think ther... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2389849 Wed, 06 May 2009 18:32:00 +0100 2389849 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2389667&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F_BxbhtPro0g%2F Fordham Foundation president Checker Finn notes today that recent upticks on the National Assessment of Educational Progress cannot be reasonably credited to the No Child Left Behind act (hat tip to Bill Evers). The NCLB, President Bush’s signature education initiative, was supposed to improve student achievement through bureaucratic accountability measures. But after noting that NCLB’s proponents can’t back up their claims that the law is working, Finn suggests that we need an “education-achievement ‘audit agency’ to sort out the claims and counterclaims about student performance.” Maybe. But Amazon.com didn’t have to be told by a federal product quality audit czar to allow its customers to rate the products it sells. They’ve done it... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2389667 Tue, 05 May 2009 12:37:44 +0100 2389667 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2382260&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FO8bpbvn-iSY%2F …support market solutions in education, but apparently it helps. Keith Yost, a grad student in MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division, has a great piece in his school’s newspaper. He explains that public schools have enjoyed a dramatic increase in per-pupil resources over the past 40 years, but ultimately failed to improve student achievement. He also explains why: resources are misallocated because of a lack of systemic incentives for their proper allocation — incentives that are inherent in the free enterprise system. Unfortunately, Yost’s rationalist, systems approach is very different from that of most policymakers — perhaps because so few policymakers were trained as engineers. So maybe one way to a... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2382260 Fri, 01 May 2009 15:37:23 +0100 2382260 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2256018&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36069&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrankiespeakingfrankly.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fhealthcare-in-need-of-global-solution.html I have this maybe childlike notion that the solutions to many of the World's problems will become apparent when pieces of knowledge from across the globe, from all walks of life, are pieced together. No more so than in the field of health care and medicine.The Internet provides us, for the first time in history, the ability to start putting those pieces together. Making new connections, different people with different beliefs, but with shared purposes, uniting like never before behind common objectives. It is unity, the sharing of information and the willingness to work openly and together that will see major steps forward in science and medicine for the common good like never before.To say that I am excited about the role MedWorm can play in this facilitation of shared knowledge and commu... Frankie Speaking Frankly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2256018 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:33:00 +0100 2256018 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2249699&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FRZ0qanrTr0w%2F When President Obama opened today’s summit on health care  reform at the White House, he said: In this effort, every voice has to be heard. Every idea must be considered. Of course, he spoke those words to a room that contained not a single advocate of free-market health care reform. No one from the American Enterprise Institute (ranked the #5 think tank in the world for health policy) No one from the Cato Institute (ranked #7) No one from the National Center for Policy Analysis (ranked #10) No one from the Manhattan Institute No one from the Pacific Research Institute No one from the Galen Institute No one from the Heritage Foundation The list goes on… Obama did, however, invite people from left-wing think tanks, including avowed advocates of socialized medicine.  That mak... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2249699 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:07:16 +0100 2249699 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2200394&cid=t_115166_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F20%2Ftransactions-manual%2F The Transactions Manual is a system management tool introduced in the 2008/9 Operating Framework aimed at SHAs, PCTs, NHS Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts and independent sector organisations where they are involved or considering involvement in a transaction and where one of the parties to the transaction is an NHS Trust or PCT. Covered in the Manual are acquisitions divestments or disposals demergers joint ventures franchises and statutory mergers It guides parties through a best practice approach via guidance  to the transaction process and provides technical detail to the various areas of law, policy and practice that may be needed to complete the transaction successfully. The Manual also incorporates mandatory practice required by law or by policy that may change from time to tim... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2200394 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:25:10 +0100 2200394 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2005691&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=34631&url=http%3A%2F%2Fehealth.johnwsharp.com%2F2008%2F12%2F02%2Fimmersive-internet.aspx%3Fref%3Drss ThinkBalm is a blog focusing on the concept of immersive internet. Virtual worlds and other tools provide "A combination of these technologies and an emerging culture with roots in gaming is opening up new dimensions in collaboration, engagement, and context." In a work context, they propose the following value propositions:Minimizing costsgoing greenRecruiting and retaining employeesCreating a culture of bottom-up innovationAre they overpromising? Maybe, but the exploration of these technologies including in health care workplaces, need further exploration.Also, check out the new post on the appropriateness of anonymity in the work place.Technorati: Enterprise 2.0 (Source: eHealth) eHealth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2005691 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:20:40 +0100 2005691 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1981236&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=36069&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrankiespeakingfrankly.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fgetting-excited-about-global-enterprise.html I never imagined I might feel some kind of connection with a speech given by Gordon Brown, but then I also never thought I would get excited about the president of the United States. Hey, just goes to show that even politics can turn up pleasant surprises!Here Gordon states that:- the principals of social action and enterprise should be linked;- 'free markets' should not mean 'value free markets';- markets should be underpinned by social purpose;- due to emerging markets the global economy will inevitably double over the next 20 years;- there will be massive oppotunities for enterprise and social action due to communication through the Internet, email and other such technologies.I couldn't agree more. In a time full of 'doom and gloom' I have my eyes completely focused on the future. Yes i... Frankie Speaking Frankly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1981236 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:38:00 +0100 1981236 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1980526&cid=t_115166_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F21%2Fsocial-enterprise-making-a-difference-a-guide-to-the-right-to-request%2F (summary leaflet) is part of a bigger vision for the future of the NHS as set out in High Quality Care For All: NHS Next Stage Review Final Report published in June 2008. This recognised that frontline NHS staff  need to be given the freedom to use their talents to find innovative ways to improve quality of care for patients, and the need to enable NHS services everywhere to best respond to the needs of their local communities to develop a new accountability. This guide aims to support NHS staff who are thinking of taking up the ‘right to request’ and setting up a social enterprise to deliver healthcare services to NHS patients, free at the point of delivery, answering some the questions about setting up a social enterprise, the benefits, and the risks and challenges involved.  It g... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1980526 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:16:18 +0100 1980526 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1883572&cid=t_115166_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F421525708%2F A US recession could cut AIDS funding and impede the drive to find a vaccine for the disease, according to a senior official with Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise. The US is the center of AIDS vaccine research and contributed $659 million, or 69 percent of the funds earmarked for research in 2007, according to data released at a global AIDS vaccine conference in Cape Town, South Africa. But a credit crunch has raised fears that the US government and the private sector will cut funding to a broad range of programs, including AIDS research. “If there is a downturn in the economy it’s going to potentially have a negative impact on funding for science in general and HIV vaccine research in particular,” Alan Bernstein, executive director of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, told... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1883572 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:39:51 +0100 1883572 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1837120&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=34631&url=http%3A%2F%2Fehealth.johnwsharp.com%2F2008%2F09%2F29%2Fweb-20-strategies-for-cios.aspx%3Fref%3Drss Came across this blog post from Social Computing Magazine, "Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know'. He asks "how to make the transition from 1.0 to 2.0 safely and non-disruptively with your business largely intact, perhaps even with a superior competitive position."  My opinion has always been that Web 2.0 is disruptive, however, there may be strategies to minimize the disruption and win on competitive strategies. There is a helpful diagram about a transformation model. Some of the 10 points are:It's not about technology, it's about the changes it enablesExisting management methods and conventional wisdom are a hard barrier to 2.0 strategy and transformationIncubators and pilots projects can help create initial environments for success with 2.0 effortsThe ... eHealth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1837120 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:55:15 +0100 1837120 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811493&cid=t_115166_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F397159932%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? Taconic hired Hilton Klein as vp, quality systems and regulatory affairs; US Pharmacopeial Convention hired Matt Van Hook as assistant general counsel; Pulmatrix hired John Hanrahan as senior vp and chief medical officer; David Mott, former MedImmune ceo, joined New Enterprise Associates venture capital; Eli Lilly named John Lechleiter, ceo and president, as chairman of the... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811493 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:16:28 +0100 1811493 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1794312&cid=t_115166_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F09%2F16%2Fwhat-role-for-community-enterprises-in-tackling-poverty%2F is a Viewpoint from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on the impact community groups can have in tackling poverty in their neighbourhood?  It suggests that community-led enterprise organisations including development trusts can act as a driver for positive change, creating a self-help and problem-solving culture, and helping individuals move out of poverty. Key points: A new generation of more confident and aspirational community organisations is emerging. These are characterised by the use of social enterprise methods, community asset ownership, and a ‘can do’ attitude that seeks to unlock potential in people and places: in short, ’community enterprise’. The DTA has reviewed the wide range of actions that its member development trusts are undertaking, which they feel make a contri... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1794312 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:38:45 +0100 1794312 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1775521&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=34631&url=http%3A%2F%2Fehealth.johnwsharp.com%2F2008%2F09%2F08%2Fbusinesses-cant-hide-from-20.aspx%3Fref%3Drss If you want to see a great summary of new Web 2.0 tools, check out this post on ReadWriteWeb. The complete title is "Businesses Can't Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0's Impact Across Industries". It covers document collaboration suites, wikis including WetPaint which was recommended by several at the Medicine 2.0 conference, Office 2.0, accounting and more. There is also a whole section on Health 2.0. HR and Marketing wrap up the listing. While companies may not be able to hide from all of Web 2.0, they can still block social networking and YouTube. The business case for these tools needs to be made as both an innovation and the need to allow failures on the road to success and value creation. Will healthcare be dragged along or be a leader?Technorati: Enterprise 2.0 (Source: eHealth) eHealth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1775521 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:18:31 +0100 1775521 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1640209&cid=t_115166_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F20%2F3-is-a-magic-number%2F Third Sector Investment Programme: Strategic Partners 2009-10 - information pack for third sector organisations provides third sector organisations with information about the Department of Health Third Sector Investment Programme’s Strategic Partner Programme. Organisations should read the information carefully as there are changes to the funding streams available from 2009-10 following the Strategic Review of Department of Health funding of third sector organisations. The document will provide third sector organisations with information to help them decide if the Strategic Partner Programme is applicable to their organisation. It details the outcomes and activities that the Department of Health is seeking to invest in through more strategic relationships with third sector organisations ... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1640209 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:43:33 +0100 1640209 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1385454&cid=t_115166_113_f&fid=35744&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fe-CareManagement%2F%7E3%2F273582224%2F David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA and Vince Kuraitis Drs. Mandl and Kohane begin their recent article in NEJM with the statement that “large corporations are seeking an integral and transformative role in the management of health care information,” and then warn that this “will profoundly affect the biomedical research enterprise.”    At issue for the authors is who controls the information about you and me, our health and healthcare data. Without coming right out and saying it directly, they worry that data in the hands of consumers and patients made possible through PCHR service providers like Google and Microsoft could be dangerous to the nation’s health because of  “commercial interests”.   So, they are warning us, too. But, let’s examine the... e-CareManagement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1385454 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:10:33 +0100 1385454 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1098755&cid=t_115166_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F12%2F17%2Fstrategic-review-of-department-of-health-funding-of-third-sector-organisations-consultation-document%2F To develop a strategic framework for its investment in the third sector to transform the current piecemeal arrangements into a strategic portfolio of investment that more explicitly supports delivery of the Department’s objectives and priorities the Department is undertaking a review. Responses from third sector organisations to the consultation document are due by 20 March 2008.<!– (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1098755 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:11:33 +0100 1098755 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1057456&cid=t_115166_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F191929001%2Fnew_web_search_mapped_to_your.html A Canadian graduate student is mapping brainpower to computer image searches. It’s expected to be a novel way to empower search engines for visual images … and should be available this summer.According to the  University of Ottawa graduate student,  Kris Woodbeck,  Canadian government officials at Technology Transfer and Business Enterprise (TTBE)  will help him secure a patent on his innovative computer search approach.The invention earned Woodbeck the university’s Innovator of the Year award last week. His search engine copies the brain’s approaches to process visual information.  How does it work? “The brain is very parallel. There’s lots of things going on at once,” he said. “Graphics pro... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1057456 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:58:26 +0100 1057456 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1049833&cid=t_115166_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F26%2Fsocial-enterprise-in-the-nhs%2F This report from Durham University commissioned looks into the impact of social enterprises in primary care, and the results provide a timely analysis of the wide variety of organisations characterised as social enterprises, and their approaches to involving staff, public and patients. (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1049833 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:50:30 +0100 1049833 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=569556&cid=t_115166_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F25%2Fthought-for-the-day-shielding-astronauts-from-cancer%2F Filed under: All Cancers, Research, Environment, Products, Daily news, Thought for the DayThose venturing into space face a very serious occupational hazard -- cancer. The disease can be caused by radiation from the cosmic rays and solar flares astronauts encounter when they travel beyond the Earth's protective magnetic layer or magnetosphere.British scientists are working on rectifying this problem by creating a Star Trek-style deflector shield to protect astronauts from radiation.Think about this:Scientists wish to mimic the magnetic field that protects the Earth with shields deployed around spacecraft and on the surfaces of planets to deflect harmful energetic particles. Details, presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, UK, include the followi... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=569556 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 569556 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=520618&cid=t_115166_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Flines-of-communication.html I can admit it now. It was one of my more stupid brilliant ideas, but what’s the point in having children unless you can exploit them occasionally? I mean to say, what useful purpose do children have on this planet anyway? Bring back the days of chimney sweeps I say. It’s not as if I was asking that much, in the great scheme of things. Simple enough, I thought. Here we are, in Jolly old San Jose as the temperatures start to soar into the 80’s, ready to bake my garden to a crisp. In America, many homeowners have the benefits of a sprinkler system, as a precautionary measure. We do too, but it doesn’t work. It has not worked for approximately 3 years. I determine that a fact finding commission should commence. Where exactly is the system broken? The control panel is in the farthest b... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=520618 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:05:00 +0100 520618