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Health Care Law Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Last year Paul Levy , Matthew Holt and Alexandra Drane asked me to participate in the Engage With Grace Thanksgiving Blog Rally. My post last year describes the Engage with Grace project and tells my personal story of why end of life care is important for all of us to discuss with our family and loved ones. Along with my friends and health blogging colleagues, Paul, Matthew, Alexandra, Adam Bosworth...
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I enjoyed Adam Bosworth's Talking to DC. But don't his points apply to most software/interface specifications, without being doctrinaire? What is the difference between his Standards work best when they are focused and, say, Agile's YAGNI?...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--One message that remains consistent throughout the debate on health care reform is the government's "ultimate vision" that "all patients are fully engaged in their health care."* A key arena in which this is being addressed is on the Web with health-focused services for consumers. At the opening keynote talk for the World Healthcare Innovation and...
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Joel on Software (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Adam Bosworth : “All successful standards are as simple as possible, not as hard as possible.” Required reading. Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board : Great software jobs, great people.
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Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Adam Bosworth has some really smart things to say about standards: Keep the standard as simple and stupid as possible. The odds of failure are at least the square of the degrees of complexity of the standard. It may also be the square of the size of the committee writing the standard. Successful standards are generally simple and focused and easy to read His example involves health care standards...
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The 5th Annual World Health Care Congress will feature Newt Gingrich, David Brailer, first national health IT coordinator, Adam Bosworth, founder and CEO, Keas, Inc, and more than 100 senior leaders from health technology for 3-day forum on latest trends and news in delivery of health care IT.
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Disease Management Care Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
The Disease Management Care Blog is guilty of not paying that much attention to the flow of news about information internet techie killer ap stuff. It’s hard to keep it all straight, much of it seems either impermanent or futuristic, plus the 2.0 jargon is opaque. But when the New York Times Business Section and the Wall Street Journal Health Blog both mention a new healthcare computer thingy,...
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BoomTown (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
The former head of Google Health, Adam Bosworth, officially unveiled his much anticipated health-care start-up today at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, showing off a site that will offer step-by-step and personalized "care plans," as well as many kinds of online tools to better understand the data and tips on how to stay healthy. It's perfect timing, given the health-care debate...
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All Things Video (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Kara Swisher interviews Adam Bosworth, the former Google and Microsoft exec, who has launched a new health care start-up called Keas.
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johnon.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Another variant of Health Vault, and another bad domain name. This time it’s keas.com, an online medical records play from Adam Bosworth, who left his position as head of the Google Health team. Of Bosworth’s choice of domain name, The New York Times says: “The name “kea” refers to a species of alpine parrot, which [...]
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Adam Bosworth returns to the spotlight as founder and CEO of Keas The long-term answer to improving the health of the nation’s population and curbing costs, experts agree, is to help people make smarter decisions day in and day out about their own health. And the most powerful potential tool in the march toward intelligent consumerism in health care may be the Web. That is why on Tuesday, a...
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Scripting News (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
Interesting sequence of events. Marc Canter writes a blog post asking if we should trust Marc Andreessen, after the hole Netscape left its users in when they sold out to AOL. He makes some good points about the browser, esp the part about how they blamed Microsoft for their demise. I think they could have survived it, if they had gotten their software act together. Instead we had five or six years...
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Web News Site (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
Interesting sequence of events. Marc Canter writes a blog post asking if we should trust Marc Andreessen, after the hole Netscape left its users in when they sold out to AOL. He makes some good points about the browser, esp the part about how they blamed Microsoft for their demise. I think they could have survived it, if they had gotten their software act together. Instead we had five or six years...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
Interesting sequence of events. Marc Canter writes a blog post asking if we should trust Marc Andreessen, after the hole Netscape left its users in when they sold out to AOL. He makes some good points about the browser, esp the part about how they blamed Microsoft for their demise. I think they could have survived it, if they had gotten their software act together. Instead we had five or six years...
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Improving Health Care -- Adam Bosworth's speech to the Aspen Health Forum. It starts strong and just gets better: There is a lot of talk about improving health care. And there is a lot to improve. Inadequate Evidence: We don’t know enough about what works. We should require sharing of population statistics across practices and hospitals in order to...