Draft of Speech for United Nations Rio + 20 Pre-Conference Stanford University Campus, 2/3/2012 By Eric Dishman I am very honored to be here today on behalf of Intel Corporation and our joint venture with GE, Care Innovations, to help celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Rio conference and to help plan for the next [...] Read more >

Draft of Speech for United Nations Rio + 20 Pre-Conference Stanford University Campus, 2/3/2012 By Eric Dishman I am very honored to be here today on behalf of Intel Corporation and our joint venture with GE, Care Innovations, to help … Continue reading → Read more >

To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of the demise of healthcare innovation at Intel are greatly exaggerated. Given that many of the world’s healthcare information systems run on Intel technologies, I would go so far as to say that it would be almost impossible for a company as large and as global as Intel not to be working on [...] Read more >

A year ago, I blogged a new year’s resolution that I would blog more in 2011 about what was happening in healthcare reform, innovation, and information technology efforts that Intel is involved in around the world. I knew then that I should have stuck to my prior decade-long resolution not to make new year’s resolutions [...] Read more >

Last week I had the honor of speaking to the American Academy of Home Care Physicians at their annual scientific meeting. I think of these clinicians as both the history and future of healthcare in the United States. They continue to make “house calls” to some of the sickest of the sick in our society–to [...] Read more >

Hear ye, hear ye, read all about it! For those of you who have been waiting with bated breath (you know who you are!), the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has just published the proposed rules and guidelines for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and the Medicare Shared Savings Program (SSP). You can download [...] Read more >

Last week I had the honor of speaking to the City Club of Portland, an organization founded in 1916 to highlight the diverse opinions, issues, and talents of local leaders and organizations. I often hear their Friday Forums on Oregon Public Broadcasting radio while I am driving home from work, so it was a real [...] Read more >

I am on a plane returning from the annual HIMSS conference on health information technologies. As I watch the borderless states go by far below, I can see the lines and circles of our interstates and highways, which previous generations had the vision and audacity to create for us. Even with the depressing news headlines [...] Read more >

I rushed home in crazy, foggy traffic Tuesday evening to see the President’s State of the Union address. I had left work hours earlier to head to a doctor’s appointment that had taken me four months of delay to get. I showed up fifteen minutes early, knowing that I would have to do the “New [...] Read more >

If, while reading this blog, you have a medical emergency, please stop reading and dial 911 or go to a nearby emergency room. Because sometimes you just need help from a doctor or other medical professional. But what about all of those other times–that aren’t emergencies–where you aren’t sure you really need to see someone, [...] Read more >