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Bill Gales was the curator this year for the Long Beach Convention and when it was his turn to talk he addressed budgets and the need for better education. Bill Gates Serving as “Guest” Curator for the Annual TED Conference In March 2011 Also one of my favorites is returning Juan Enriquez who speaks...
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It’s probably doing the blog that created that title above because yes it is repetitions and not a bad thing but it’s just one more program and collaboration in the wall. There’s not that much difference in the goal but everyone has their own content direction, etc. The website won’t be the...
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I don’t have to do too much explaining as to why this new agency exists. Transparency and not fooling the consumer with complicated small print and “algorithms” of computation that also take advantage are the name of the game here. The web site is brand new and just getting started. ...
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Tue, Feb 8 2011
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Cuba allows about 20,000 people a year to immigrate to the US annually but not doctors usually. Cuban doctors can get asylum from embassies anywhere in the world. The American CMPP program has turned into a big influx of doctors coming in to the US and most work as nurses and physician assistants...
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Yes this means he’s the one inviting all the speakers! Also one of my favorites is returning Juan Enriquez who speaks about regenerative medicine. His talks are always at the top of my list. Educators and Healthcare are the main themes this year with focus on kids. This should...
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There’s a lot in the news about Kinect today and I wrote about the possibility of one last week and well it’s not quite there yet but in principle, it’s close with tracking and receiving information. Below is the post about World of Warcraft and it’s got a pretty neat video with a hack from USC...
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Mon, Jan 3 2011
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Back in September I wrote a post about the small number of individuals using personal health records and efforts of those who are trying to make setting up a PHR fun, and until now there was no way to make it fun as hard as software folks worked at it. The consumer still knows the difference between...
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Thu, Dec 30 2010
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Have you enough marketing yet? Orbitz Travel service and Walgreens are going to work together to give Walgreen customers discounts and Walgreens is going to help those Orbitz traveler, travel healthy. This could be helpful if traveling outside the US to find inoculation information as shots...
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In a prior interview Bill Gates said we are spending money insanely and you almost have to agree with this as with this blog I see money being thrown so many different directions. He delivered the key not at the International Healthcare Wireless convention. The needs of the poor are not being...
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Fri, Nov 12 2010
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The last couple of days the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been in the news quite a bit and the recent 60 Minutes expose on their efforts was great as they have not had a lot of press and somewhat wanted it that way. Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation - The Work Across the World–60 Minutes...
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Thu, Oct 7 2010
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It is education in the schools, yes important for the future of the children, but we need to get involved too , as so much of what is happening all around us involves learning. I beat that drum pretty steady here at the Medical Quack in just trying to encourage folks to learn about what is happening...
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Tue, Sep 21 2010
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What does STEM and Change the Equation stand for : Science, Technology, Engineering and Math , that’s STEM and working with Algorithms (there’s that word again). Of course readers around the Medical Quack here the technology end of this all the time and enough about the non participants we have...
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Fri, Sep 17 2010
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Sapphire Energy is one of Bill Gate’s investments, algae that he speaks about as well as elaborating on a software predicting models allowing for cures to become reality. Bill Gates talks about reading and even touches on “toilet” technology and thinks one should be do-able, “Water and Sanitation...
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Mon, Aug 30 2010
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This is a help and you can pick and choose which alerts you want to receive by email and perhaps in time we could see some of the announcements on Twitter? That’s on the “wish list” here and is my comment. As we are all getting so much busier in life the data overload just keeps on rolling...
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Thu, Jul 29 2010
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Maybe we should get the folks over at Extormity to rap about EHRS (grin). The folks over at InVivo Blog came up with this one. Watch for the outtakes at the end of the filming. BD The IN VIVO Blog: And Now, It's Time for a Rap About Stem Cells Technorati Tags: Stem cells , rapping...
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