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The Infinite Loop of Finger Pointing: Chemotherapy, Congress, CMS, & the CBO
posted by Eric Dishman on November 13, 2009 at Policy@Intel
“Janice” is dreading her 65th birthday next month, and not for the reasons you might imagine. She is actually proud to be turning 65, especially because doctors told her ten years ago that she only had a year to live....
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Winning the War for Independence: The Independence at Home Act
posted by Eric Dishman on November 03, 2009 at Policy@Intel
What will it take to get our nation to prepare for the Age Wave and the chronic disease epidemic that is already here? What do we have to do to make home-based care a fundamental priority for government, healthcare,...
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TED MED conclusion: Juxtaposition & Systemic Thinking at the Dinner Party
posted by Eric Dishman on October 30, 2009 at Policy@Intel
Okay, TED MED 2009, after a 5-year hiatus for this conference series, is now over….and I, for one, am glad the conference is back. I’m mentally exhausted as I force myself to pound out these thoughts on the flight back...
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Questioning the Public and the Options: Balancing Big Government & Big Business
posted by Eric Dishman on October 27, 2009 at Policy@Intel
I am sitting on a plane on the way to the TEDMED conference (which I plan to blog about here later in the week), scanning the USA Today, trying not to catch the flu from the woman who is clearly...
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What Healthcare Reform Should Learn From Long Term Care
posted by Eric Dishman on October 16, 2009 at Policy@Intel
Anyone working on healthcare reform should spend some time observing how a great long term care provider does their job. Long term care providers already think and act in ways that the rest of the healthcare system needs to adopt...
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On Hype and Healthcare Reform: This Too Shall Pass
posted by Eric Dishman on October 12, 2009 at Policy@Intel
Ah, here we go again: more lobbing of scary statistics into the healthcare debate and more lobbying of the American people through sensationalizing headlines. We’ve got all the makings of another high political drama in front of us: Republicans Versus...
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Women, Boomers, and Growing a Careforce Through Healthcare Reform
posted by Eric Dishman on October 08, 2009 at Policy@Intel
I’m beginning to believe that the best way to achieve true and lasting healthcare reform is to just get out of the way and let Baby Boomer women revolutionize healthcare. Baby Boomers as a cohort have been change agents for...
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Perspectives on Healthcare Reform from A Mountain Top
posted by Eric Dishman on October 06, 2009 at Policy@Intel
Sometimes (okay, most of the time) mountains help me see things from a different perspective. I just got back from a week in the beautiful Wallowa mountains in eastern Oregon—an awe inspiring place if there ever was one. The small...
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Nation’s Chief Technology Officer: Telemedicine Key to Healthcare Reform
posted by Eric Dishman on September 16, 2009 at Policy@Intel
I get a lot of electronic newsletters and emails that go right into the virtual trash, but today's Communications Daily (Volume 29, Number 178) had a headline that made me literally jump for joy: "TELEMEDICINE KEY to meeting president's goals...
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A Moratorium on Waiting Rooms, Parking Lots, and Hospitals?
posted by Eric Dishman on September 15, 2009 at Policy@Intel
I’ve had lightning strike me twice. Okay, metaphorically speaking. The first time was about 15 years ago in Utah when I was invited to be the “patient representative” on a hospital committee who had won a huge grant from...
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September 11th Perspectives on Fear and Healthcare Reform
posted by Eric Dishman on September 11, 2009 at Policy@Intel
My fingers are disintegrating as I type, as if the words leaving me are taking me with them. Oh. It's just dry skin. My hands are raw, dry, almost bloody. With the threat of H1N1 all around (there are signs...
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Things I’d Love To Hear From the President’s Healthcare Speech
posted by Eric Dishman on September 08, 2009 at Policy@Intel
I just got back from a brisk walk (after yesterday’s blog, I at least tried to exhibit some Personal Social Responsibility by getting some exercise!) by the Capitol, the White House, and the National Mall all lit up at night....
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Ending the Era of Entitlement Part 1: Patients
posted by Eric Dishman on September 07, 2009 at Policy@Intel
This Labor Day, I am on a plane headed back to Washington, D.C., either a glutton for punishment or an eternal optimist about healthcare reform. It’s another week of 40 or 50 meetings on Capitol Hill to try to be...
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Healthcare Reform Should Launch Our Next Global “Space Race”
posted by Eric Dishman on September 03, 2009 at Policy@Intel
I wasn't even born until 11 years afterwards, but I grew up fully aware of the launch of Sputnik I in 1957, the dog "Laika" sent up by the USSR the next year, and the whole "space race" between...
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A Serious, Perhaps Dangerous Case of Reform Fatigue
posted by Eric Dishman on August 27, 2009 at Policy@Intel
I have avoided writing here about my new healthcare problem because I thought it would be too self-serving, but I don’t feel I can hold this in any longer. I am just really, really tired, overwhelmed, a little scared, sometimes...
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Doctors (and Nurses) Without Borders: Rethinking Licensure
posted by Eric Dishman on August 25, 2009 at Policy@Intel
Sometimes emergencies teach us things about how the world should be even in normal times. On August 28th, 2005, a dear friend called me in a panic. He had been rushed to Mississippi as part of an advance team to...
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Healthcare Reform Is Personal For Me
posted by Eric Dishman on August 18, 2009 at Policy@Intel
I recently had the chief of staff of a Member of Congress from my own state deny my request to meet with him: “We can’t meet with you because you’re a vendor; you’ve got too many special interests.” Wow, to...
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Quick Thoughts on Random Things from a Tired Brain
posted by Eric Dishman on August 14, 2009 at Policy@Intel
I’ve started about 15 pages of blog comments this week, but can’t seem to finish any of them—or even a thought. So here are a few blurbs and links. Have a great weekend! Read the Bills For Yourself Many folks...
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Mr. President, Time to Put Forth Your Vision (Video)
posted by Eric Dishman on August 14, 2009 at Policy@Intel
Dear President Obama: As fear mongering and health reform distortions have stolen the headlines this week, it is clear that very few of us understand what healthcare reform will look and feel like when it is done. In the absence...
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Debates Lead to Provocative Thoughts on Healthcare
posted by Eric Dishman on August 12, 2009 at Policy@Intel
I tried really hard not to write this blog entry, to swallow my outrage and stifle my word processor. I chose something pleasant and calming the past few days…picking plums and blackberries on our farm…to try to talk myself...
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