• Telehealth - Health Delivery Feature not a Market
    Plan ahead for when the time comes

    Telehealth will become a feature of healthcare delivery, not a market. Analyst firms have to pick a date for ending forecast sizing models. So let’s right away toss out as totally unconvincing any forecasts that specify 2015. Why? For one thing, that it is only three years away and we know that this year is a year of experimentation. This is a year of grants, pilot projects, more startups, more demos, free mobile apps, but very little broad-based commitment within non-vertically integrated health delivery processes that span hospital-rehab-home-family clinician and back.

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  • Introduction
    The license plate on the car in front of me read, "B GR8FUL"

    In a last-minute attempt to stop the U.S. from defaulting for the first time ever on its loan obligations, Congress voted this week to increase the country's debt ceiling by at least $2.1 trillion. The deal includes $917 billion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, and the establishment of a congressional committee to reduce the deficit further by $1.5 trillion. Questions remain, however, about what is at stake: Where will these cuts come from? How will social safety nets such as Medicare be affected?

  • Introduction
    Why Can't I Determine Value on the Internet?

    I write this as my week of shiva begins to wind down. Shiva is the week of hard mourning that follows the burial. In Jewish tradition it is a week where one refrains from just about everything and allows community and family to slowly accompany a mourner through the first stages of what we now call "grief work". This shiva is being observed for my mom who died on July 25 and was buried on the 26th.

    It has been 20 years since I last did this, that time for my dad. Things are different.

  • It’s Better to Be Safe Than Sorry
    You know you are in trouble when...
    by Julie Hall
    Mom gave me some scrap gold to sell. I have several items I no longer wanted, but some of the pieces are very nice. So I went looking for a little advice: Should I sell now, or hold onto it for "a while?"
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